Bitcoin and Education

[ene1980]

For bitcoin to be included in the school course curriculum, it needs to be first made legal by the countries. How can you include anything in the course which is not legal in most of the countries.  In my country, some people are offering courses on blockchain or crypto trading but that is being done at a personal or private level. There is no official course launched by our government.

Including bitcoin in a school curriculum, i doubt that would happen, but we might see blockchain been a topic and there might be university offering courses. In the future we might see more university opening up courses for blockchain.

Especially in countries where there is a lack of employment, training should be provided on various aspects of making money online, one of which is cryptocurrency. They will be interested in learning about Bitcoin and may be a means of earning money in the future.

The problem here that look at bitcoin as a way to make money online, then you are understanding it the wrong way, majority landed in bitcoin thinking that it is an easy way to make money, but making money is not easy.

[Wenbing]

Addressing the future, cryptocurrency such as bitcoin should be taught in schools. This is why I did innovate a basic strategy as my research to used base numbers in cryptographic algorithm.

However, the computer is there to compute the numbers. But still, learners should be able to know the manual computation and how it increase and decrease according to its equivalent value.

In addition, this will make the new evolution of numbers of Mathematics.

This is a very good issue you raised. The bitcoin and blockchain are new innovations that'll sharpen the world in many ways.

I believe we should start teaching the basics in primary schools, high schools and colleges. The training should be on the technology and financial sides of the evolutions.

Knowledge is power but the application of knowledge is powerful....

[finaleshot2016]

For bitcoin to be included in the school course curriculum, it needs to be first made legal by the countries. How can you include anything in the course which is not legal in most of the countries.  In my country, some people are offering courses on blockchain or crypto trading but that is being done at a personal or private level. There is no official course launched by our government.

Including bitcoin in a school curriculum, i doubt that would happen, but we might see blockchain been a topic and there might be university offering courses. In the future we might see more university opening up courses for blockchain

It could be a topic only, agree to it, but not a full subject. It's not necessary to be taught since you just need the basics if you want to learn about using cryptocurrency. Bitcoin is already an application in programming so definitely, it should be taught under courses with programming.

Bitcoin is very complex especially the blockchain but you will understand the system if you have a background and foundation on how to create it.

Look what I did in here --- Trying a little experiment using a programming language.
The only background that I have is basic programming.

[verita1]

I agree.
Bitcoin should already be part of the curriculum at all educational levels.

Here it has been mentioned that France is studying to incorporate Bitcoin into the study curriculum of high school students.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/cointelegraph.com/news/french-high-school-students-will-learn-about-bitcoin-and-crypto/amp


I once heard that Cornell University also taught Blockchain.

https://cornellblockchain.org/

Free online courses from the Best Universities in the world are also teaching bitcoin on Coursera.

https://www.coursera.org/learn/cryptocurrency

There will be significant progress in countries where bitcoin is accepted thanks to learning.

[nasipadang]

Educating students about cryptocurrency can be divided into various fields, economics with material fluctuations, mathematics and physics on blockchain algorithms. I am of the view that the material on cryptocurrency and blockchain is somewhat complex, we can take the basics and become material that is easy, simple and useful especially if accompanied by good visualization of animation. Then the delivery method is chosen so that it can adjust the audience for the education. Education would be better to choose the name cryptocurrency or digital currency because it is general and I'm sure it's easier to understand.

[LogitechMouse]

Teaching crypto in general to the students is a good move but isn't necessary or worse they will not put it in the curriculum.

First of all, most of the teachers aren't teaching about financial literacy (or maybe its just here in our country) so I think that the teachers will have a hard time teaching Bitcoin to the students. I see this very helpful but I doubt that they will put it in the curriculum or at least the students will be interested about this. Maybe there are some who are but most will not. There are some schools who are teaching blockchain or crypto already and that is a good move. I'm not expecting too much with this but if this will be added then good .

[GDragon]

Teaching crypto in general to the students is a good move but isn't necessary or worse they will not put it in the curriculum.

First of all, most of the teachers aren't teaching about financial literacy (or maybe its just here in our country) so I think that the teachers will have a hard time teaching Bitcoin to the students. I see this very helpful but I doubt that they will put it in the curriculum or at least the students will be interested about this. Maybe there are some who are but most will not. There are some schools who are teaching blockchain or crypto already and that is a good move. I'm not expecting too much with this but if this will be added then good .

It might be impossible to include it in the curriculum right now, however I still believe some school may conduct workshops and seminars about the blockchain technology, and of course bitcoin will be a talk about it too. I think in my country it will be possible, and some schools are even conducting it even before the pandemic. It will be helpful especially to the courses that talks about computers, technology, and etc.

Also agree with you about financial literacy, it will be good to have it as a subject in schools.

[Nhor1011]

I think bitcoin must have a proper education curriculum in order to spread to the students about it for better understanding. If not,even a full subject included in different business courses which are related in financial aspect and calculation. Although in other country they already included it on their subjects but much better if all school all over the world will have this course or subjects. It will help for the awareness of students in digital currency and on how to use blockchain technology.

[Axelseseclevz]

I thought it was already introduced into the school curriculum and universities...

Selected school only in other country but in my country i didn't heard that there is already a curriculum regarding cryptocurrency in general. I agree that schools and universities must include the cryptocurrency subjects or open a courses related to this,so that students will become aware about digital currency and blockchain technology.

[Asuspawer09]

Addressing the future, cryptocurrency such as bitcoin should be taught in schools. This is why I did innovate a basic strategy as my research to used base numbers in cryptographic algorithm.

However, the computer is there to compute the numbers. But still, learners should be able to know the manual computation and how it increase and decrease according to its equivalent value.

In addition, this will make the new evolution of numbers of Mathematics.

I guess there is no need to understand the deep or advanced bitcoin things, I believed that bitcoin is really needed to be taught in schools since it is a great technology and in the future, this has so much potential of becoming a part of our society.

Learning some kind of mathematics about bitcoin is I think too advanced unless your planning to be kind of analyst, you just need basic knowledge about bitcoin and teach it in schools so that a lot of people could potentially use bitcoin and at the same time expose to it.

[lumeire]

I thought it was already introduced into the school curriculum and universities...

Selected school only in other country but in my country i didn't heard that there is already a curriculum regarding cryptocurrency in general. I agree that schools and universities must include the cryptocurrency subjects or open a courses related to this,so that students will become aware about digital currency and blockchain technology.

I never heard of a block-chain course being included in the school curriculum, but many universities around the globe does provide free and paid block-chain certification courses. Many people now understand that block-chain is a feasible long term career option along with becoming a block-chain developer.
Moreover knowing about bitcoin is going to be actually good thing for the coming generation as young minds learn quickly and they are the ones that would be shaping the future.

[Review Master]

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If blockchain education is included in schools and university curriculum, not only will it help the students understand the blockchain technology, but at the same time it will also help in creating awareness about bitcoin around the country.

Agree with this , but all countries need to adopt bitcoin first as well as crypto-currency along with open blockchain technology not the private blockchain technology . And there are no doubt that people will be more aware about bitcoin , as a result, none will get trapped into scammers which will help the community from bad impacts because newbies always get trapped into scammers and get bad ideas about it. Also all student will be finicially educated from this, IMO. 

[jhayemcue08]

I think bitcoin must have a proper education curriculum in order to spread to the students about it for better understanding. If not,even a full subject included in different business courses which are related in financial aspect and calculation. Although in other country they already included it on their subjects but much better if all school all over the world will have this course or subjects. It will help for the awareness of students in digital currency and on how to use blockchain technology.

Indeed my friend. Tangible things such as paper money, coins, golds, etc. are might be infected with the virus issue as of today. For the safety of all, online currency are most needed. Online transactions are needed to be secured. Not only for business purposes, but even a student should really be aware of this system.

https://www.kidsnews.com.au/money/what-is-cryptocurrency-and-how-does-it-work-in-the-digital-world/news-story/7f8105dbed5eb13916b379fab8b6c437

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If blockchain education is included in schools and university curriculum, not only will it help the students understand the blockchain technology, but at the same time it will also help in creating awareness about bitcoin around the country.

Agree with this , but all countries need to adopt bitcoin first as well as crypto-currency along with open blockchain technology not the private blockchain technology . And there are no doubt that people will be more aware about bitcoin , as a result, none will get trapped into scammers which will help the community from bad impacts because newbies always get trapped into scammers and get bad ideas about it. Also all student will be finicially educated from this, IMO. 

We can't make bitcoin as education without adopt and legal as using currency payment, just several country have allowed using bitcoin as payment transaction and look possibility to make bitcoin as education, when bitcoin still illegal payment transaction will get trouble with government how to make bitcoin as education.

[wilkine]

There's one university in Europe convers master degree in blockchain subject

[witcher_sense]

We can't make bitcoin as education without adopt and legal as using currency payment, just several country have allowed using bitcoin as payment transaction and look possibility to make bitcoin as education, when bitcoin still illegal payment transaction will get trouble with government how to make bitcoin as education.

For something to be suitable for educational purposes, it should not necessarily be adopted or legal. Illegal doesn't mean we can't talk about it. In case of bitcoin, not only can we talk about it, we definitely should talk. Bitcoin is a phenomen of our days, it consists of several disciplines and in order to fully comrehend the technology and philosophy behind bitcoin, we should learn all of them. History of money, keynesian and austrian model, history of banking, distributed decentralized systems, cryptography, mathematics, physics, biology and many other diclsciplines should be taught to students in order for them to start understanding the whole picture of what bitcoin brings into the world.

Which of that should become legal to start learning?

[GDragon]

We can't make bitcoin as education without adopt and legal as using currency payment, just several country have allowed using bitcoin as payment transaction and look possibility to make bitcoin as education, when bitcoin still illegal payment transaction will get trouble with government how to make bitcoin as education.

For something to be suitable for educational purposes, it should not necessarily be adopted or legal. Illegal doesn't mean we can't talk about it. In case of bitcoin, not only can we talk about it, we definitely should talk. Bitcoin is a phenomen of our days, it consists of several disciplines and in order to fully comrehend the technology and philosophy behind bitcoin, we should learn all of them. History of money, keynesian and austrian model, history of banking, distributed decentralized systems, cryptography, mathematics, physics, biology and many other diclsciplines should be taught to students in order for them to start understanding the whole picture of what bitcoin brings into the world.

Which of that should become legal to start learning?

Yup,  it doesn't necessarily need that a certain country should adopt btc and blochain tech first before students and other people can learn it. We can learn it through seminars and workshops. I just hope that the seminars will be about the btc, blockchain tech, history, crypto and not about how one will get rich in these industry. It should be about the technology, not something that will look like an unreal seminar.

And for a country to adopt btc, don't we need people to actually use it? and for people to use it, they should learn what is it. We should start by making people know what it is, start by teaching them. Not the other way around. It may not be accepted as a regular subject in school, but there are tons of ways on how it can be taught.

[Ayiranorea]

Already some universities around the globe have come up with courses for blockchain technology. Even third world countries have got institutions conducting blockchain based courses. In Philippines it has turned to be a big business, as more and more vocational institutions promote courses in the name of blockchain technology. There is high demand for blockchain developers this can be understood just by searching blockchain developer vacancy on any of the job search engine.

[FlightyPouch]

Already some universities around the globe have come up with courses for blockchain technology. Even third world countries have got institutions conducting blockchain based courses. In Philippines it has turned to be a big business, as more and more vocational institutions promote courses in the name of blockchain technology. There is high demand for blockchain developers this can be understood just by searching blockchain developer vacancy on any of the job search engine.

I am also from the Philippines but I have no idea that some schools are actually teaching this course. I hope you could share some sites or actual pages of schools posting in their pages that I can read. Some of the friends I know are quite interested in this technology and they mainly based on books and ebooks they can find.

[PeripoGrey]

The cryptographic sequence and algorithms usually equipped to computer related courses. Though a cryptographic course is unavailable. Deterministic and bip32 algorithm are not always calculated like cidr or hashes.