What is being told to people in High Schools about Bitcoin

[Xester]

I'm certain the teacher has no formal training in Bitcoin and as such what he says is opinion not fact.

Yes that is a fact. The way his professor expresses his opinion on bitcoin is biased, he may be a traditional businessman man who is fixated on the traditional market. The economy is moving the same path with technology, that is the missing item that the professor is not looking at. I dont want to curse the professor or speak bad about him, its that he is outdated about the new financial system and he needs to learn more about cryptocurrency rather speaking about its failure.

[deadsilent]

Wow. Its exaggerated. They said its illegal. Yes, it is. But only the countries that declared bitcoin is illegal and as long your country doesnt prohibits people to use it. Its not illegal. They said it will crash. Yes, its true. But it is a lower chance that crash may happen because its strong now and more stable than before. You know schools are part of government and they are using it  because they cant control bitcoin. Thats why they spread lies to people to stay away from it.

[Jet Cash]

It's point 4 that is the interesting one. I don't think that Bitcoin has the potential to become the Phoenix currency when the current fiat currencies start to fail. The UK is creating the TMG ( Royal Mint Gold ) and Russia and China have been buying gold to back their new currencies. I don't think Bitcoin will fail. As it's benefits become more apparent, and it becomes more accepted in the world, it will take a unique place as a flexible world payment system.

It will need to speed up confirmations though, and the best way to do that is to reduce block generation time imho.

[eternalgloom]

It's just one opinion of one teacher, this doesn't represent what is being told about Bitcoin in High Schools. The title is a bit misleading imo.
I'd also be interested in knowing what an I.T. teacher would say about Bitcoin.

[n0ne]

It's just one opinion of one teacher, this doesn't represent what is being told about Bitcoin in High Schools. The title is a bit misleading imo.
I'd also be interested in knowing what an I.T. teacher would say about Bitcoin.

Everyone have difference of opinion as quoted above. At the same time most of the I.T teachers were unaware of bitcoin existence. Why I strongly describe is that most of the IT people itself not used to bitcoin as well the advancing Blockchain technology.

[deisik]

3. Anyone clear in its head wouldn't use it : First, he doesn't recognise any kind of manipulation of the money and the danger that there is for people keeping all their savings in fiat. I know that because I had him as a teacher too some times ago. So trying to explaining him about the fact that there is a clear war against cash and evident facts, like that that shows our money need to be converted into something viable to be protected from massive surveillance, is useless. Him not understanding that, since its the best argument I have, I couldn't have replied. When she told him about the speed of transactions, he replied "we have PayPal", so I said me that it wasn't worth to ever try explaining anything. As a final point, he said again that the sole real use that is making standing apart is that you can buy drugs on the Internet

It all depends on the purposes of using Bitcoin

If Bitcoin earns you decent profits, then I would rather say that everyone clear in his head should use it, even if for getting this easy money only. Sometimes, well, actually often times, you should be quick on the trigger so as not to lose an opportunity suddenly coming up. It would be interesting to see if he himself would ignore a sure chance of earning some bucks. Otherwise, nothing is perpetual, and how we deal with that is what ultimately matters

[jak3]

your teacher surely does not like this bitcoin. Just because people can buy some drugs and other illigal stuffs they think the whole system is bad and they will do anything to prove it wrong. Its not illigal rbi has verified it

[BingoDog]

I'm not sure that anything is told about the bitcoin to the students in high schools. At least not in my country. I can hardly beleive that some high school teachers have ever even heard of bitcoins. Bitcoins is probably not the part of any official school programme, so it depends on teachers themselves how will they present it and if they will present it at all.

[socks435]

Well they did not know really what is bitcoin since those teachers threaten bitcoin as illegal stuffs online or currency online that use only for buying drugs.. this is what other friends said and my father said maybe this bitcoin is illegal but the reality is not as they thoughts..
If they know bitcoin better i think those answer will be change someday if bitcoin if totally accepting locally by many country they will know the good benefits of bitcoin not only for buying drugs.. that actually many people are using it as legit not in illegal activities..

[Dudeperfect]

I have something for that teacher to read in his free time,

# 1. Digital Bank WB21 is Accepting Bitcoin Deposits.

# 2. Indian Mountain School Accepts Bitcoin Donations.

# 3. SFU is first Canadian university to accept Bitcoin donations.

Best
Dudeperfect

[Bitcoinsummoner]

I think it is a normal that there is illegal activity in bitcoin and i think even in fiat or our money we can say there is still illegal activities happen like here in my country they can be still buy in drugs without using bitcoin.. so for me it is a normal that teacher say about it or they are holding a books with old history about bitcoin..

[crwth]

I have something for that teacher to read in his free time,

# 1. Digital Bank WB21 is Accepting Bitcoin Deposits.

# 2. Indian Mountain School Accepts Bitcoin Donations.

# 3. SFU is first Canadian university to accept Bitcoin donations.

Best
Dudeperfect

Nice reads. I think they just focus on the bad parts. It's like gossip. When you talk about someone or something and it's bad? You know what's going to happen. It will spread like wildfire. But if it's a good thing, it spreads but not so much. "Easy A" is an example of a movie tackling somewhat on that subject. Spreading bad rumors are fast.

[niagrabill]

Kids in High School dont listen to anything. They think they know it all. I wish I was young so I could know everything again!

[20kevin20]

Well, this hasn't been studied or researched by many. It's just things the teachers have heard over the news or the Internet. Bitcoin has a bad reputation and when you're new you don't even know what and who to trust anymore. I've been in this situation a few years ago but now I trust it too. It's all about the lying media.

[Nevis]

I think it depends on the country he is living in.In usa i think they dont give much information about bitcoins in high school.But maybe there is some countries that have topics about it

[inyourear1]

High school people are very smart on there own. They use bitcoin to buy fake ID's. They teach themselves fast. I would not even worry about them. Its the older people that are difficult.

[youdacapt]

Five days ago, a friend of mine studying Economics at High School had a discussion with its teacher, regarding Bitcoin, since I told her about that. Here's what the teacher said :
1. That's illegal :
2. It will crash :
3. Anyone clear in its head wouldn't use it :
4. Bitcoin at a bigger scale would fail :
I'd like to get your feelings on that. Just call the arguments 1, 2, 3 and 4 and tell me what you would have replied back and what it does inspire you !

The positives - the teacher has at least heard of Bitcoin and has a view. There could be a lot of people who say 'Bitcoin what?'
The negatives - the teacher is so mis-informed about what Bitcoin is. The fallacies (I wouldn't call them arguments) that he has about Bitcoin should be cleared up. I hope the teacher actually does some more reading up on Bitcoin.

Whoever said bitcoin is wrong, it means that they are not trying to find out, most of them only know from reading and watching tv. they don't know because it's not part of his interest. Students have been very smart at this time, we just talked about things that are important about bitcoin, they will find themselves on the internet. This generation will make Bitcoin legal and thrive.

During bitcoin is not regarded as a purely financial crimes. Teachers should not be saying it's wrong, it's misleading.

I have something for that teacher to read in his free time,

# 1. Digital Bank WB21 is Accepting Bitcoin Deposits.
# 2. Indian Mountain School Accepts Bitcoin Donations.
# 3. SFU is first Canadian university to accept Bitcoin donations.

there will be a lot of things like this that can make a lot of teachers were stunned, just a matter of time.

[avatar_kiyoshi]

Clearly he's (the teacher) not study first, and directly judge bitcoin network system will be fail back to zero value and exaggerated PayPal is the best payment process.

Well yeah everyone have their opinion, but when they got it wrong, it must be corrected.

[energycr]

Didn't even know that it was even being discussed in high school yet.
But it should be a topic taught in university at the very least. In economics first year. Because to me it is a game changer in the world as we know it.

[talkbitcoin]

..
1. That's illegal : ...
2. It will crash : ...
3. Anyone clear in its head wouldn't use it : ...
4. Bitcoin at a bigger scale would fail : ...

these are all things that we keep hearing from the FUDsters on the forum so maybe their teacher was one of them that your friend happened to meet face to face.

we all know bitcoin is not yet the perfect thing but none of the problems mean bitcoin will crash or not survive in the future. and besides bitcoin is not illegal, it may not be regulated in most countries but apart from 1 or 2 places it is not illegal in any other place.