Brainstorming Session: Bitcoin Course Ideas

[Paleus]

What would you want to see in an 'Economics of Bitcoin' course?

In conjunction with www.diginomics.com, we are putting together a lengthy Economics of Bitcoin course and I thought to reach out to the community here to expand on, and brainstorm some new, ideas to put together for course topics. In order to serve a specific target market, we deliberately excluded anything which was focused deeply on the mining aspect of cryptocurrency and instead am focusing on what an investment manager, economics researcher, entrepreneur in the bitcoin space would be interested in.

Bitcoin mining and cryptocurrency development may come in the form of later courses, but for now we want to be very specific around the investment potential of the bitcoin payment system.

Below, we've listed an array of topics we are considering for the course. If you have any ideas or requests for course topics, reply in this thread. If you are interested in being notified when this course is released, enter your email on this page.

• an internet of money (introductory)
• money velocity
• price stability/volatility
• antifragility
• user adoption rate
• blockchain as a global reserve instrument
• nation state disruption
• algorithmic regulation
• supranational governance
• embedded bitcoin mining
• John Nash's ideal money
• bitcoin is backed by time itself
• source code as law
• tax haven potential
• bitcoin vs gold
• disinflationary money supply
• characteristics of money(and how does bitcoin qualify)
• gresham's law & bitcoin
• byzantine general's problem
• blocksize economics
• blockspace as a new commodity
• gaps in mining profitability
• bitcoin redefining the function of money (access resource)
• bitcoin sidechains & lightning network
• decentralized autonomous corporations
• banking the unbanked
• advantages & disadvantages of using bitcoin
• cashless, transparent society
• money is now an image
• denationalization of money
• bitcoin violates the principle of money fungibility
• bitcoin's revolutionary historical references

That makes up the list we hammered out today. We'd be grateful for some feedback and interested to collaborate with any writers, content creators, or affiliates who are interested in making this course as helpful and accessible to the bitcoin community at large and also people in finance/economics/banking industries who are interested in bitcoin but simply do not know where to turn for solid information.

Thanks for reading and see you on the moon.

[cryptworld]

I think that a basic course should answer the basic questions

What is it?
Who Created it? / Who can use it?
Where can I use it?
How can I use? ( the most important,teaching how to use bitcoin easily)
Why should I use it? ( showing the good points of bitcoin)

[chennan]

I think that it should be important to note the fungibility issue of bitcoin, since that seems to be a pretty popular topic of what's going on today in terms of the cryptocurrency vs. cryptonote aspect of things.  I think it would definitely be an important lesson to teach and important for the people who are taking the class to learn these issues in full.

[Paleus]

I think that it should be important to note the fungibility issue of bitcoin, since that seems to be a pretty popular topic of what's going on today in terms of the cryptocurrency vs. cryptonote aspect of things.  I think it would definitely be an important lesson to teach and important for the people who are taking the class to learn these issues in full.

Good call. Bitcoin violates the principle of money fungibility.

I've added it to the list.

[MicroGuy]

I think that it should be important to note the fungibility issue of bitcoin, since that seems to be a pretty popular topic of what's going on today in terms of the cryptocurrency vs. cryptonote aspect of things.  I think it would definitely be an important lesson to teach and important for the people who are taking the class to learn these issues in full.

Good call. Bitcoin violates the principle of money fungibility.

I've added it to the list.

I'm curious to learn how Bitcoin violates the principle of money fungibility.

[chennan]

There have been good points as to why it does violate fungibility and doesn't violate fungibility by several people in this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1190707.0

I'm sure you've seen it floating on top of the discussions going on today... but it's an interesting topic, nevertheless.

[MicroGuy]

There have been good points as to why it does violate fungibility and doesn't violate fungibility by several people in this thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1190707.0

I'm sure you've seen it floating on top of the discussions going on today... but it's an interesting topic, nevertheless.

Yes. I'm aware of the fungibility issues that are being discussed. But I think the 'principle' of fungibility has not been violated.