What is being told to people in High Schools about Bitcoin

[mkmdoc]

It is not a wise decision to teach them in high school about bitcoin because they don't understand the technology first of all. Even though we explain to them very clearly about bitcoin, still it is very hard for them to understand about block chain and how it works, it really confuses a lot.

[noel2123]

This is exactly the same is the case when a person does not understand what it says. I'm sure he had no practice in this area.

Yes exactly, maybe he doesn't know anything about bitcoin, he never know that this business is existing that's why he concluded all that he said, its illegal and everything. Sometimes, its better to be honest to tell not if you don't know something than to say something bad with a thing that you really dont know.

[TastyChillySauce00]

It is not a wise decision to teach them in high school about bitcoin because they don't understand the technology first of all. Even though we explain to them very clearly about bitcoin, still it is very hard for them to understand about block chain and how it works, it really confuses a lot.

If you think that understanding blockchain and anything else regarding crypto world is too hard for high schoolers, then there's something wrong with you. Those students just need to know the basics, and blockchain is part of it. There's no need for teaching those students too far until crypto world's depth. So, they will not be getting confused because of it.
Though I consider bitcoin is pretty important for students who want take or to learn about Technologies and Information categories furthermore, for additional knowledge of course.

[Zadicar]

This is exactly the same is the case when a person does not understand what it says. I'm sure he had no practice in this area.

Yes exactly, maybe he doesn't know anything about bitcoin, he never know that this business is existing that's why he concluded all that he said, its illegal and everything. Sometimes, its better to be honest to tell not if you don't know something than to say something bad with a thing that you really dont know.

Telling things to someone without even knowing the important things would really not be ideal at all because you are saying false informations to someone regarding about bitcoin. If student will find out about the goodness of bitcoin he will surely use it.

[KuromaYoichi]

The teacher definitely has a very little understanding about bitcoin, at least he know what bitcoin is. His opinion proves that he's only hear a little about bitcoin and jump to conclusion based on what he heard without more research. He's an economic teacher so he should study more about things like this.

[ReLieD]

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 : He did not bring many proves here, just saying that since it has not been regulated as a currency, we were in a grey area, and something in a grey area is rarely something that will become totally white from one day to another. He added that the sole purpose of that was to buy all kind of drugs over the Internet.

2. It will crash : He said that he had studied Bitcoin's price evolution throught the time (what I doubt) and said her that being so constantly rising was a sign that it was not a viable project. Its proof : manipulated prices of things like silver or wheat are very stable !

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...

4. Bitcoin at a bigger scale would fail : I couldn't explain you much what he said because what she told me wasn't very clear so I personnally did not understood, as her I presume how confuse her explaination was. To summarize, he said that it's still a little market and that it will fail to scale and will go back to close to nothing in value.

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 !

Well I don't personally think that any schools talk about bitcoin or no.
But as you have told they do , let's go with the flow.
So now , when it comes to illegal , there is not reason for it to be illegal. It's 100% safe and more over the site is secured.
It is an official crypto currency and firms accept bitcoin.

Now the next point. It can not crash now after reaching so high.
If it would have had to crash it would have already in 2009.
But till now it's working perfectly fine and will work in the future.

Coming to the third point. Anyone with clear mind will obviously choose bitcoin.
It is the number one crypto currency and will always be.
And when the world is becoming digital crypto currencies have a better chance to prosper.

Bitcoin at a bigger scale will fail. Like really! I would like to ask now is bitcoin at a small scale?
Large large firms have started accepting bitcoin. It is growing day by day. Many people Trust bitcoin.
There is no chance for it to fail.

[YuginKadoya]

The teacher definitely has a very little understanding about bitcoin, at least he know what bitcoin is. His opinion proves that he's only hear a little about bitcoin and jump to conclusion based on what he heard without more research. He's an economic teacher so he should study more about things like this.

It is not really required to learn some basics about bitcoin because it does not need to be teach in every school but if a teacher would want to teach it to his pupils then I think he must study more about bitcoin that means he needs to undergo in a self teaching about it read more facts about bitcoin, and to know the history of it, if you certainly want to teach it in a much higher level you need to really gain knowledge about it especially when you he/she is a teacher!

[Edraket31]

The teacher definitely has a very little understanding about bitcoin, at least he know what bitcoin is. His opinion proves that he's only hear a little about bitcoin and jump to conclusion based on what he heard without more research. He's an economic teacher so he should study more about things like this.

It is not really required to learn some basics about bitcoin because it does not need to be teach in every school but if a teacher would want to teach it to his pupils then I think he must study more about bitcoin that means he needs to undergo in a self teaching about it read more facts about bitcoin, and to know the history of it, if you certainly want to teach it in a much higher level you need to really gain knowledge about it especially when you he/she is a teacher!

Whatever the teacher was said it is their opinion and understanding regarding bitcoin, let us just respect and maybe he just said that because he doesn't want his student to involve in bitcoin, maybe he knew that a lot of users of bitcoin uses it in gambling and that he is not updated with bitcoin news and what in his mind is that bitcoin is just an illegal thing.

[YuginKadoya]

The teacher definitely has a very little understanding about bitcoin, at least he know what bitcoin is. His opinion proves that he's only hear a little about bitcoin and jump to conclusion based on what he heard without more research. He's an economic teacher so he should study more about things like this.

It is not really required to learn some basics about bitcoin because it does not need to be teach in every school but if a teacher would want to teach it to his pupils then I think he must study more about bitcoin that means he needs to undergo in a self teaching about it read more facts about bitcoin, and to know the history of it, if you certainly want to teach it in a much higher level you need to really gain knowledge about it especially when you he/she is a teacher!

Whatever the teacher was said it is their opinion and understanding regarding bitcoin, let us just respect and maybe he just said that because he doesn't want his student to involve in bitcoin, maybe he knew that a lot of users of bitcoin uses it in gambling and that he is not updated with bitcoin news and what in his mind is that bitcoin is just an illegal thing.

Well maybe you are right! maybe some teacher would really want for their student to stay away from bitcoin regarding the illegal gambling or even the legal once from his/her student, but bitcoin has a dual face even if their would be a bad things about it there is definitely a good side, but as you have said maybe as a teacher he/she is only protecting their student because they are simply not ready about the knowledge in knowing it!

[savioroshan]

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 : He did not bring many proves here, just saying that since it has not been regulated as a currency, we were in a grey area, and something in a grey area is rarely something that will become totally white from one day to another. He added that the sole purpose of that was to buy all kind of drugs over the Internet.

2. It will crash : He said that he had studied Bitcoin's price evolution throught the time (what I doubt) and said her that being so constantly rising was a sign that it was not a viable project. Its proof : manipulated prices of things like silver or wheat are very stable !

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...

4. Bitcoin at a bigger scale would fail : I couldn't explain you much what he said because what she told me wasn't very clear so I personnally did not understood, as her I presume how confuse her explaination was. To summarize, he said that it's still a little market and that it will fail to scale and will go back to close to nothing in value.

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 !

Yes your teacher is right. Using bitcoins in some countries are illegal. But many countries havent regulated bitcoins. Possibilities are there that bitcoins price can drop or crash easily within a day. If any  government bans the usage of bitcoins its price will crash or drop or if any
hacking or illegal things happen then also bicoin's price can drop. But bitcoin has got so many advantages that make people use bitcoin .The main thing is transactions made through bitcoins are anonymous. Thats the main reason why people prefer bitcoins even if they know all these drawbacks about bitcoin.

[youdacapt]

The teacher definitely has a very little understanding about bitcoin, at least he know what bitcoin is. His opinion proves that he's only hear a little about bitcoin and jump to conclusion based on what he heard without more research. He's an economic teacher so he should study more about things like this.

It is not really required to learn some basics about bitcoin because it does not need to be teach in every school but if a teacher would want to teach it to his pupils then I think he must study more about bitcoin that means he needs to undergo in a self teaching about it read more facts about bitcoin, and to know the history of it, if you certainly want to teach it in a much higher level you need to really gain knowledge about it especially when you he/she is a teacher!

Whatever the teacher was said it is their opinion and understanding regarding bitcoin, let us just respect and maybe he just said that because he doesn't want his student to involve in bitcoin, maybe he knew that a lot of users of bitcoin uses it in gambling and that he is not updated with bitcoin news and what in his mind is that bitcoin is just an illegal thing.

Well maybe you are right! maybe some teacher would really want for their student to stay away from bitcoin regarding the illegal gambling or even the legal once from his/her student, but bitcoin has a dual face even if their would be a bad things about it there is definitely a good side, but as you have said maybe as a teacher he/she is only protecting their student because they are simply not ready about the knowledge in knowing it!

Useless if teachers don't understand bitcoin, they just read from a newspaper or news on a small overview about bitcoin. Teacher tasks only wants to give the best to students. They don't want to give too much risk, because bitcoin really can't be controlled if it is comfortable playing in it (involves a lot of money), it's dangerous for students.

But if teacher is bitcoin active users, they should first discuss with the school committee, worthy or not to be taught, because if it isn't approved, it would only be futile.

[Orion25]

The teacher definitely has a very little understanding about bitcoin, at least he know what bitcoin is. His opinion proves that he's only hear a little about bitcoin and jump to conclusion based on what he heard without more research. He's an economic teacher so he should study more about things like this.

It is not really required to learn some basics about bitcoin because it does not need to be teach in every school but if a teacher would want to teach it to his pupils then I think he must study more about bitcoin that means he needs to undergo in a self teaching about it read more facts about bitcoin, and to know the history of it, if you certainly want to teach it in a much higher level you need to really gain knowledge about it especially when you he/she is a teacher!

Whatever the teacher was said it is their opinion and understanding regarding bitcoin, let us just respect and maybe he just said that because he doesn't want his student to involve in bitcoin, maybe he knew that a lot of users of bitcoin uses it in gambling and that he is not updated with bitcoin news and what in his mind is that bitcoin is just an illegal thing.

Well maybe you are right! maybe some teacher would really want for their student to stay away from bitcoin regarding the illegal gambling or even the legal once from his/her student, but bitcoin has a dual face even if their would be a bad things about it there is definitely a good side, but as you have said maybe as a teacher he/she is only protecting their student because they are simply not ready about the knowledge in knowing it!

Useless if teachers don't understand bitcoin, they just read from a newspaper or news on a small overview about bitcoin. Teacher tasks only wants to give the best to students. They don't want to give too much risk, because bitcoin really can't be controlled if it is comfortable playing in it (involves a lot of money), it's dangerous for students.

But if teacher is bitcoin active users, they should first discuss with the school committee, worthy or not to be taught, because if it isn't approved, it would only be futile.

If the state will mean to teach schoolchildren about bitcoin technology, it will also train teachers first.

[farl2web]

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 : He did not bring many proves here, just saying that since it has not been regulated as a currency, we were in a grey area, and something in a grey area is rarely something that will become totally white from one day to another. He added that the sole purpose of that was to buy all kind of drugs over the Internet.

2. It will crash : He said that he had studied Bitcoin's price evolution throught the time (what I doubt) and said her that being so constantly rising was a sign that it was not a viable project. Its proof : manipulated prices of things like silver or wheat are very stable !

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...

4. Bitcoin at a bigger scale would fail : I couldn't explain you much what he said because what she told me wasn't very clear so I personnally did not understood, as her I presume how confuse her explaination was. To summarize, he said that it's still a little market and that it will fail to scale and will go back to close to nothing in value.

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 !

Yes your teacher is right. Using bitcoins in some countries are illegal. But many countries havent regulated bitcoins. Possibilities are there that bitcoins price can drop or crash easily within a day. If any  government bans the usage of bitcoins its price will crash or drop or if any
hacking or illegal things happen then also bicoin's price can drop. But bitcoin has got so many advantages that make people use bitcoin .The main thing is transactions made through bitcoins are anonymous. Thats the main reason why people prefer bitcoins even if they know all these drawbacks about bitcoin.

Why, then, all governments not to do the same or to negotiate. Why one can easily recognize bitcoin as a currency, while others deny it and may even prescribe penalties for transactions with bitcoin.

[seven4smoke]

The teacher definitely has a very little understanding about bitcoin, at least he know what bitcoin is. His opinion proves that he's only hear a little about bitcoin and jump to conclusion based on what he heard without more research. He's an economic teacher so he should study more about things like this.

It is not really required to learn some basics about bitcoin because it does not need to be teach in every school but if a teacher would want to teach it to his pupils then I think he must study more about bitcoin that means he needs to undergo in a self teaching about it read more facts about bitcoin, and to know the history of it, if you certainly want to teach it in a much higher level you need to really gain knowledge about it especially when you he/she is a teacher!

Whatever the teacher was said it is their opinion and understanding regarding bitcoin, let us just respect and maybe he just said that because he doesn't want his student to involve in bitcoin, maybe he knew that a lot of users of bitcoin uses it in gambling and that he is not updated with bitcoin news and what in his mind is that bitcoin is just an illegal thing.

Well maybe you are right! maybe some teacher would really want for their student to stay away from bitcoin regarding the illegal gambling or even the legal once from his/her student, but bitcoin has a dual face even if their would be a bad things about it there is definitely a good side, but as you have said maybe as a teacher he/she is only protecting their student because they are simply not ready about the knowledge in knowing it!

If Bitcoin can result in serious consequences to its use, the children will be contrary to implant in childhood and adolescence by cryptocurrency. And gambling is one of these factors.

[carlerha]

The teacher definitely has a very little understanding about bitcoin, at least he know what bitcoin is. His opinion proves that he's only hear a little about bitcoin and jump to conclusion based on what he heard without more research. He's an economic teacher so he should study more about things like this.

It is not really required to learn some basics about bitcoin because it does not need to be teach in every school but if a teacher would want to teach it to his pupils then I think he must study more about bitcoin that means he needs to undergo in a self teaching about it read more facts about bitcoin, and to know the history of it, if you certainly want to teach it in a much higher level you need to really gain knowledge about it especially when you he/she is a teacher!

in fact we currently do not need for any training for our kids in school about bitcoin because bitcoin is still use as investment and not currency i think when governments will accept bitcoin as legal currency and when bitcoin will be accepted as currency in local shops then we should teach about bitcoin in our local schools. but still we do not need for such kind of action.

[chixka000]

This was also the things that my college professor have told me. When i try to explain to him that bitcoin is an opportunity for good. Sad to say but this is really how they think especially if they only know the theories with regards to this and have not experienced it personally.

Lately there was a huge scandal in the philippines. A video of a girl torturing babies on the internet the source was actually from the dark web.
For every livestream the girl was been paid for 10 BTC on that certain point some bitcoin enthusiast and haters stated a debate.

[Spirit2016]

This was also the things that my college professor have told me. When i try to explain to him that bitcoin is an opportunity for good. Sad to say but this is really how they think especially if they only know the theories with regards to this and have not experienced it personally.

Lately there was a huge scandal in the philippines. A video of a girl torturing babies on the internet the source was actually from the dark web.
For every livestream the girl was been paid for 10 BTC on that certain point some bitcoin enthusiast and haters stated a debate.

If we talk about professors in higher education institutions, their disciples have, in practice, no longer know what they are, and teachers. The professor did not face ever with nothing other than the theory.

[paul gatt]

1. That's illegal : He did not bring many proves here, just saying that since it has not been regulated as a currency, we were in a grey area, and something in a grey area is rarely something that will become totally white from one day to another. He added that the sole purpose of that was to buy all kind of drugs over the Internet.

he was wrong, Bitcoin is not illegal, it just has not been recognized governments. Currently, many countries have accepted this as showing us its legality. As a teacher, but he does not understand what he said. That is not good

2. It will crash : He said that he had studied Bitcoin's price evolution throught the time (what I doubt) and said her that being so constantly rising was a sign that it was not a viable project. Its proof : manipulated prices of things like silver or wheat are very stable !

it did not fall, it is extremely strong development and great achievements. As we see, it is occupying a very important position, the price is extremely large, yet not a match for money. His thoughts it is a mistake

[agamasrori]

My brother is now a high school student. and he is told about bitcoin, but not all of his friends to know and understand about bitcoin. although only few people who already know about it, but their response was very positive about this currency. for those bitcoin is the advancement of technology and can make them get an extra pocket money.

[Doms]

It is not a wise decision to teach them in high school about bitcoin because they don't understand the technology first of all. Even though we explain to them very clearly about bitcoin, still it is very hard for them to understand about block chain and how it works, it really confuses a lot.

If you think that understanding blockchain and anything else regarding crypto world is too hard for high schoolers, then there's something wrong with you. Those students just need to know the basics, and blockchain is part of it. There's no need for teaching those students too far until crypto world's depth. So, they will not be getting confused because of it.
Though I consider bitcoin is pretty important for students who want take or to learn about Technologies and Information categories furthermore, for additional knowledge of course.

I am not really worried about the kids, but more on the educators / teachers who will have to get the message across. today’s youth are more digitally-inclined compared to those who are say in their 40’s. Based on personal experience, my teachers didn’t do a pretty good job in making me understand about the real world economics back in my high school days. So I guess if bitcoin is to be introduced in schools, teachers should first undergo a more thorough and careful understanding of the subject matter in order for them to teach it properly.