How to explain bitcoin to teenagers or children

[Topher12]

Hard To explain Easy to complain , Teenagers nowadays .. You need patience to explain With Them because Of what they think now . explain what's good on using Bitcoin .

[moooonu]

Hard To explain Easy to complain , Teenagers nowadays .. You need patience to explain With Them because Of what they think now . explain what's good on using Bitcoin .

I thinking explaining it with examples will be good. Make it simple and clean like how you will explain of usd to your children. Its same as any money what you need is a way to get your information transferred to the next generation.

[duyduc256]

Hard To explain Easy to complain , Teenagers nowadays .. You need patience to explain With Them because Of what they think now . explain what's good on using Bitcoin .

I thinking explaining it with examples will be good. Make it simple and clean like how you will explain of usd to your children. Its same as any money what you need is a way to get your information transferred to the next generation.

I agree with you if they like they will hear the words you say. However, to persuade them you need perseverance and talent to persuade them to listen to you

[Andre_Goldman]

we should have a series "How to explain bitcoin to ..."

children, parents, girl/boyfriend, hooker, ex-wife, lawyer, banker, programmer, cryptologist ...

[BarbieCasino]

its not too hard to explain bitcoin to teenager because teenager want do some new. you just make them interest in bitcoin benefit. they will be learn easily to gain benefit of bitcoin. this is good for teenager to earn money for there daily expenditure school and college fee tuition fee hostel fee and other daily uses and about children they cannot take interest in bitcoin because children just take money from there parent children just want money without any work there for it will be hard to explain bitcoin to children.

[Gorgonio]

Bitcoin can be difficult to explain but so can money and what teenager really knows how that works，Later they will learn about bitcoin by themselves

[mornabo]

In this age and generations kids and teenagers on this stage doesnt need to under go head to head teaching and explanation just tell them the basic and needed things and they are good to go and they will understand it fully

Thats right, just tell them basically. I'm sure they will be interested to learn more. Because teens are very curious about something new from the world of technology. Let alone bitcoin is a new phenomenon
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[Harlot]

Bitcoin can be difficult to explain but so can money and what teenager really knows how that works，Later they will learn about bitcoin by themselves

Bitcoin itself is considered as a kind of money bro. I think the best way for teenagers to get this is first to have a self-actualization on the topic about investing or money in general, kids and teenagers should be thought how to save and invest there money to be use in the future when you invest at an early age you will always find a way about learning other things. That is how I discovered Bitcoin on my own even if I was a teenager back then I tried to understand Bitcoin as a form of investment.

[Lorilikes]

The new generations are practically born with the ability to scroll and swipe on devices, I think they are more likely to catch on to the concept of blockchain technology and the greatness of Bitcoin than us.  They might teach us a thing or two.   

[mustyoshi]

The new generations are practically born with the ability to scroll and swipe on devices, I think they are more likely to catch on to the concept of blockchain technology and the greatness of Bitcoin than us.  They might teach us a thing or two.   

Bitcoin is still a virtual currency, it is not really in contact with everyone, so even though people are exposed so much to information technology, they still can not know bitcoin. They only know it when it is actually accepted by the government.

[Yanisumin]

Well in schools can open a subject about digital money or internet computation whatever you may call it, to explain the advances of tecnology in this matter.

In some prestigious school, especially in the school of arts and sciences, there's a lot of seminars about the internet and cryptocurrencies is one of the seminar there (I know because my friend told me). Well if only all the schools can afford to have a seminar on the trending and new technology then we wouldnt be behind on whats happening to us. School is one of the most trusted by society when in terms to education so i think they won't laugh at btc and might even have an interest on it.

[Xester]

Well in schools can open a subject about digital money or internet computation whatever you may call it, to explain the advances of tecnology in this matter.

In some prestigious school, especially in the school of arts and sciences, there's a lot of seminars about the internet and cryptocurrencies is one of the seminar there (I know because my friend told me). Well if only all the schools can afford to have a seminar on the trending and new technology then we wouldnt be behind on whats happening to us. School is one of the most trusted by society when in terms to education so i think they won't laugh at btc and might even have an interest on it.

Really?  Wow that is cool.  School is thre foundation of everyone's knowledge.  So if the school would discuss about current trends and what is happening now about technology then maybe everyone will know about bitcoin.  I think it is relevant right now to discuss bitcoin because it is a breakthrough in technology, programs, and financial aspect.

[bob123]

I dont think its hard to explain BTC to teenagers.
Of course you shouldnt start explaining how signing a message and generating Blocks with Hash Functions work.
But the general Structure of Bitcoin is not that hard to explain.
Its probably even easier than explaining BTC to older generations who don't even know how a PC really works.

Blockchain as a big Ledger -> Transactions containing Input/Output -> BTC's created as "digitally signed Coins"

The most of it is pretty simple.

[mothergodness]

The new generations are practically born with the ability to scroll and swipe on devices, I think they are more likely to catch on to the concept of blockchain technology and the greatness of Bitcoin than us.  They might teach us a thing or two.   

The new generation thanks to modern technologies has the ability to develop faster in terms of additional earnings and they can even teach us something. They very early begin to navigate the Internet space and they are easier to perceive all this information.

[jhkmjnhamster]

I don't think it's difficult to explain to teenagers.
It's hard to explain to the elders, the first thing they think the cryptocurrency is a scam.  

[finaleshot2016]

i have many experience inexplaining bitcoin to teenagers since im a teenager too. Its not hard to explain to them because we have the same level of knowledge. First i always explain what's the meaning of bitcoin and how did it start. Then, i always say that there are different types of gaining bitcoin is through mining. mining consume a lot of electricity and a need a high specs computer. Therefore, i dont recommend mining to them because we can't have a computer with a high specs in our age. Next one is faucets, previously i always recommend using faucets like clicking captchas and ads but it is hard to earn bitcoin. It consumes 5-6 hrs of your time and yet the btc you earn is small. Faucets always give a small amount of satoshi, 100,000,000 satoshi is equal to btc then how come we can earn high satoshis in a faucet. Third, the investment but we have no money at all to invest so disregard that. the last one i recommend is to join campaign like this because we have a friend that can earn many btc in just 1 week so we are motivated to rank up in this forum.

[finaleshot2016]

Hard To explain Easy to complain , Teenagers nowadays .. You need patience to explain With Them because Of what they think now . explain what's good on using Bitcoin .

I thinking explaining it with examples will be good. Make it simple and clean like how you will explain of usd to your children. Its same as any money what you need is a way to get your information transferred to the next generation.

I agree with you if they like they will hear the words you say. However, to persuade them you need perseverance and talent to persuade them to listen to you

yah, it is not hard to explain to teenagers unless you have a plenty knowledge about bitcoin. Here in philippines, this kind of activity is too interesting to us so it's easier for me to explain them how does it works because in the first place they are interested in earning bitcoin. Some of teenagers need some money for entertainments and other miscellaneous in school because we want to be independent on earning money. I dont like to ask always for money to my parents because especially high amounts of money.

[Rostadom]

Well in schools can open a subject about digital money or internet computation whatever you may call it, to explain the advances of tecnology in this matter.

In some prestigious school, especially in the school of arts and sciences, there's a lot of seminars about the internet and cryptocurrencies is one of the seminar there (I know because my friend told me). Well if only all the schools can afford to have a seminar on the trending and new technology then we wouldnt be behind on whats happening to us. School is one of the most trusted by society when in terms to education so i think they won't laugh at btc and might even have an interest on it.

Your school doesn't have to be prestige in order to have such seminars. After all, a seminar only needs a speaker and maybe a projector for presentation. I don't really know why people associate bitcoins and other computer stuffs to rich people when in fact everyone can learn it and we can all use it. Anyway, you can start changing your situation by being the change yourself. The next time your school has some "computer fair" or some other activities where someone can speak, then be the speaker and talk about cryptocurrencies. We can't really blame people for not having to notice cryptocurrencies because everyone's pre-occupied about something.

[Giebaymax]

Maybe if we explain about what bitcoin, teens will be difficult to understand? The way I explain it is to get them to work on bitcoin pay and after that they will understand about bitcoin 

[fan_of_things_and_stuff]

I think the best way to teach something like bitcoin to a less-experienced person is to try to tie it back to things that they know.

Hash ~= fingerprint
Digital signature ~= signature on paper
Blockchain ~= Whiteboard with no eraser

Things like that make it a little easier to grasp as a whole