Where is Team DeCrypto when we need them? Most of this is for them. What do THEY want? They should be sitting in on these design meetings with their naughty leather whips telling us what to do with our dirty little keyboards.

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Thank you sir!!!

You'll see it show up on the operating expense report at the end of this month.

I merely suggested it, but I think I have created a monster.. you should hear them complain when they have to spend them low and receive them high. Often I (jokingly) threaten to take their Bitcoins away if they don't get As and Bs or something and they start screaming NOOOOoooo lol

Good stuff!

Thank you! I'll make the corrections and suggestions. I threw this flier together very quickly for the teacher when she stated she needed to get parent attendance permission before Friday. I will call upon the Bitcoin hive mind when we do this again for the next class.

Oh, and the only reason I'm doing this for 4th graders is because my kid "gets it" and prefers them over fiat for their allowance. I totally expect this to go over much better with higher grades.

Insta/EasyWallet is an online wallet system. InstaWallet does not actually keep your bitcoins for you, rather, it is a shared pool of Bitcoins. When you deposit Bitcoins, the ones you get back out will almost certainly not be the same Bitcoins you get out. (You have to watch the bitcoin address and wait for them to be removed, then when you withdraw, you get "new" bitcoins.).

My suggestion was to fund a Bitcoin wallet, so your coins automatically get washed and use that wallet to fund your tipping. As good anonymity as you can expect - if you trust InstaWallet to not be the FBI or vomit up log files at the slightest hint of desire for them.

Tip from an instawallet. Minimal trust required for insta/easy wallet. Automatically washes your dough if left there long enough.

Sometimes entertainers don't mind people hanging around and they are just there doing it for fun... but other entertainers might have other use cases. Atleast they have the option.

Reputation and verification. Don't tip until you know it's not a loop.

There are valid use cases for an entertainer to kick/ban (more secret squirrel stuff on this coming later). An entertainer abusing this feature would suffer a bad rep and we all ultimately have the control of our own purse strings.

Totally... I'm probably going to have to save that for the high school edition though

I hope this is inspiring others here to do this with their kids/school.

Network Effect, Gentlemen! 

Did ya'll know InstaWallet is now owned by Paytunia? I had a support question and the return email address from from that domain.

I trust InstaWallet/Paytunia and use them all the time. However, I'm starting to use EasyWallet a lot more now simply because I give noobs free bitcents through them so they can see a dollar value.

Nothing specific for this, but if it's successful in the classroom and I do more, I'll set something else up.

If you want to contribute to my "general fund", there's links in my sig. I do lots of donation worth causes like TOR exit operations, and giveaways through BitcoinWeekly.info and Coin4.me.

Anything would be appreciated.

Given that this is a 4th grade class...

What questions do you think I should suggest to the teacher for an extra credit report after the demo? I'm thinking like a week later so they have some time to play with it and barter with their classmates for crafts and such...

Here's what I got so far:

Do you have more or less Bitcoins now after bartering with your friends, family, and classmates?

What goods or services did you produce to get more Bitcoins?

What goods or services did you buy with your Bitcoins?

Did you barter with anyone who wasn't your classmate? Who?

How do you think Bitcoin can make the world a better place?

What is the most interesting thing you learned about Bitcoin?

What is "the BlockChain" and why is it important to Bitcoin?

4th grade. Depending on how I develop this "intro", I suspect that this particular school will be encouraging me to to this for other higher grades. It is like a charter technology/science themed school and are hungry to be "on the cutting edge". They are asking me to help out with their lego mindstorms club, and get them going with stuff like Scratch from MIT, etc.

My kid told me today that the whole class was abuzz of getting "free money" lol... They are very excited.

My understanding is there are virtual cam devices for windows that let you select inputs like a real webcam or screencast session. I'm trying to find a linux solution for this and didn't really pay attention to the names of the windows ones when I was poking around.

It may end up being a by-product of another necessity and/or use case... In some circumstances, it may be in everyone's interest to kick/ban people at the whim of the broadcaster.

payments dont need to be handled by the cam site.. broadcasters can relay unique payment addresses on screen or via chat. perhaps even PM if that becomes available in the future.

+10000. Great point.

Check link in first Post. But be careful, it's easy to select the "downloader app".

LOL.. I know someone that works there and access to a can of spray paint. Problem is, I don't think it would make it to the pad with the B on it.

So after tipping my kid's teachers with Bitcoin during Teacher Appreciation Week, I have been invited to come to school this Friday and indoctrinate the little skulls full of mush to the wonders of Bitcoin.

Here is the flier I'm handing out during the class.

https://i.imgur.com/3jlX0.png

Prior to the class, I'll be writing in some Coin4.me short URLs to some instawallets with a few bitcents for the kids to play with.

During the class, I'll give them the general idea of Bitcoin, show them how to move bitcoins around from wallet to wallet, and invite them to trade them for crafts (or whatever they can think of) and then I'll give the teacher some ideas for some kind of report in a week or two to discuss what they learned and how they used it.

I whole heartedly agree.. and combine this with various working salary levels of different countries... it may just be the thing that causes the network effect that Bitcoin needs to explode sooner than later.

For example, I absolutely LOVE Vietnamese women and other ethnicities typical of 3rd world countries. I might lose a LOT of Bitcoin to that genre of adult entertainers. Tipping amount that may seem meager to someone in a first world country to someone in a 3rd world country may be very well accepted. Now all of the sudden independant people in these economically challenged situations have a service to provide to the entire world and Bitcoin is extended where it would not have been. Exchange services start showing up in those locations, traditional businesses start wanting a piece of the global currency, etc..

I'm very excited for this.

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