Cryptocurrency should be infused to academic systems

[Bruce4]

Cryptocurrency should be adopted as a course of study in academic systems worldwide, from basic classes, through the higher institutions.
Cryptocurrency should be taught to little children at tender age and implemented/approved for basic transactions within academic environments to improve knowledge and usage, spread and utility of cryptocurrency to ensure safer and smarter transactions as well as to enlighten the students as kids and adults on the utility, conservation, spread and improvement of cryptocurrency.
It should also be made known that knowledge of Cryptocurrency is a form of empowerment to the young ones and adults.

Fear of being defrauded or scammed
Stories of people being ripped of their cryptocurrency through false investment links and scam websites
Lies of mining websites.

While Cryptocurrencies/ Bitcoin are being taught in schools, Privacy also shouldn't be over looked at, Children should be taught in every possible way to keep and guard those seed phase.
Childhood should be fund though, most parents wouldn't want to accept this but for the sake of the future, then they need be taught.

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[Vaskiy]

Academic systems are developed in such a way to provide quality education through which students can have stability in life and better career opportunities. More the skills developed thyself will help them open more doors of opportunities. For now it is too early to make cryptocurrency education mandatory. For now crypto have got majority usage as an investment and trading asset than a real currency.

With time the increasing usage of cryptocurrency and acceptance will let the kids learn of their own. Just think of the traditional currency used. No one teach them how it need to be spend and used. Everything they learn out of their parents using it, same way usage of cryptocurrencies will be learnt by them.

[Note3]

Sometimes learning directly on the internet is much more useful than in school.
Including cryptocurrency in academic education in schools will only add to the burden on children because there is more to learn which in the end is not very useful when they enter the world of work.

[Kakmakr]

You cannot educate people on a new technology, if that technology are not clearly defined in the financial system. Some countries define Crypto currencies as a Commodity and some countries define it as a Commodity. Their regulations and laws are not even been finalized yet, so it is difficult to bring that into the education system.

The current education system are based on old school Fiat guidelines and they are not going to accept change, because those old farts are in control of those systems. (The younger generation will bring the change in the future) 

[EdenHazard]

Academic systems are developed in such a way to provide quality education through which students can have stability in life and better career opportunities. More the skills developed thyself will help them open more doors of opportunities. For now it is too early to make cryptocurrency education mandatory. For now crypto have got majority usage as an investment and trading asset than a real currency.

With time the increasing usage of cryptocurrency and acceptance will let the kids learn of their own. Just think of the traditional currency used. No one teach them how it need to be spend and used. Everything they learn out of their parents using it, same way usage of cryptocurrencies will be learnt by them.

Cryptography itself been exist for long time.

But specifically a course regarding the cryptocurrency / bitcoin are not really become a focus in any university .. we have witnessed that a lot high caliber university such as harvard have a blockchain technology course in their computer science curriculum. So it's been there tho.

[Z-tight]

There is another new similar topic about this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5416732.0

Members' on bitcointalk have discussed about this in that topic and i also think in many other topics that i don't know about, some have agreed and others have disagreed with reasons they think is correct, opening another similar topic of discussion is not going to get crypto 'infused' into the academic system, if you think it should be brought into the academic system then you should start making a move in your country, write to the appropriate organizations that are in control of making that kind of change, then you can post about the effort you have made to make crypto a part of academic discipline in your country.

[NotATether]

How about teaching basic financial literacy in public schools instead?

Most countries in the world don't give their kids and students an adequate (if any at all) teaching about money management, saving money, how money works, how to make more money, etc. and the result is that you got a bunch of unemployed broke people angry at the government for failing them, because that's what we taught them in schools (what they call "social studies").

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

Cryptocurrency should be adopted as a course of study in academic systems worldwide, from basic classes, through the higher institutions.

This is good and fine considering that only if government will lay their supportive hands in the process and what us the first step to this is by adopting bitcoin, else countries that can make this included in their schools curriculum have to start with the ones that have adopted bitcoin and El-Savador is a good example, they have launched this related approach and have books to educate people on bitcoin, another way that can boost the inclusion of bitcoin in schools curriculum is through the private sectors, those are the set of individuals and corporate body that make inclusion of bitcoin in their subjects of study at all academic levels.

[pooya87]

Cryptocurrency should be adopted as a course of study in academic systems worldwide, from basic classes, through the higher institutions.

I disagree mainly because the topic doesn't fit in the existing system. Each aspect is either too specialized or doesn't need a course in academia. For example the technical aspects (cryptography, network, database, etc.) are special topics and are already general meaning they can only be taught to programmers and some of them already are. The other aspects are general too like the economical aspect of bitcoin as a currency or altcoins are risky useless version of penny stocks.

[avikz]

I too disagree here! Cryptocurrency is not something very feasible for basic classes to understand. Also it's a very new technology and it is still going through that innovation phase where everything is very dynamic. The entire cryptocurrency market is not very structured yet. So trying to put in into a formal mode of education, may pass wrong information to the future generations.

However, it can be added for the higher studies as an optional subject where the students have attained some financial maturity.

[Yatsan]

We all know things about this technology and industry in general but is it really an enough reason to 'make it a course' or 'subject'? 'coz I would agree more if it will be discussed on invetment and economy related subjects as a sub-topic but nothing much. This technology is still undergoing growth procedures and developments, so I guess things would be 'wasted' a bit when its 'final phase' has been reached, right? And even if it has reached its peak, I still don't understant its relevance to academe or as a profession. Indeed, it is profitable and it has many advantages over FIAT but the mere fact inconsistency occurs and is present in this technology, we would be exposing people to risks.

Yes it could be learned, that's why it is being pushed to the academic systems but if you're aware of 'Monte Carlo Fallacy', 'innate frustrations of an individual', 'drive for revenge' and such, for sure many people would get this point.

[noorman0]

I prefer people to join dedicated forums rather than get lessons in schools which are generally a bit "closed". Bitcoin is a new thing that requires a really competent teacher.
In addition, formal education is usually tied to policies and learning systems cannot deviate from the syllabus distributed by government educational institutions. The concern is, especially in countries where counter cryptocurrencies will only bring negative doctrine to students while teachers don't care.

[lovesmayfamilis]

I think you are in too much of a hurry. Until bitcoin is accepted by official regulators, all innovations will be in vain. In addition, information about bitcoin is becoming more and more popular, and it is possible to get full knowledge about it at any time when there is a desire. Young people can easily learn from available sources, and as you know, we are more responsible for what we have a real interest in and not for what the school curriculum obliges us to study. Allow everyone to choose whether they want to learn about bitcoin. 

[Pokapoka124]

I think cryptocurrency has a long way to go before it can be adopted into academic curriculum. However private institutions have the liberty and flexibility to adopt cryptocurrencies into their course curriculum. Personally I think the best place to learn tech related courses are in bootcamps. It's cheaper than going to regular school to study for four years and also students in bootcamps can learn at their own pace.

[GiftedMAN]

I think the adoption of cryptocurrency will determine if it will be added in the academic systems.
Most countries are yet to welcome the use of cryptocurrency for payment so I believe that until cryptocurrency is generally accepted it will be difficult to be accepted as a study in academics.


I think I will rather encourage teaching basic financial education in public schools as NotATether suggested because it will go a long way in reducing the high rate of unemployment after graduation to students than teaching cryptocurrency in school when the government is yet to see the benefit of financial freedom.

[kamvreto]

Learning cryptocurrency from an early age is important so that young people understand the growing payment technology. Cryptocurrencies are currently still part of other studies and are included in the study of economics and not entirely about cryptocurrencies in detail. It also depends on how the regulations in each government are, whether they allow the use of crypto or not.
but I think, if it has to be inputted into the academic study system, there will be many positive responses that will come and of course make children's knowledge more developed about cryptocurrencies, so that it's not just some news that they know, they will know the good and bad of cryptocurrency.

[BlackHatCoiner]

From this sentence:

Cryptocurrency should be adopted as a course of study in academic systems worldwide, from basic classes, through the higher institutions.

I understand that you imply cryptocurrency, as concept, should be subject for education in an academic field. However, later you name ways one can lose money if involved in buying cryptocurrency:

Fear of being defrauded or scammed
Stories of people being ripped of their cryptocurrency through false investment links and scam websites
Lies of mining websites.

This isn't the kind of education I expected. Sure, technical aspects should be taught, but the academy isn't going to make individuals responsible. "Investing" in scams does not reveal anything other than you're financially irresponsible.


Now as for the topic: In which field should it fit? Informatics? Economy? Finance? Politics? Society? Philosophy? Bitcoin isn't just a currency. 

[Rruchi man]

Cryptocurrency should be adopted as a course of study in academic systems worldwide, from basic classes, through the higher institutions.
Cryptocurrency should be taught to little children at tender age and implemented/approved for basic transactions within academic environments to improve knowledge and usage, spread and utility of cryptocurrency to ensure safer and smarter transactions as well as to enlighten the students as kids and adults on the utility, conservation, spread and improvement of cryptocurrency.
It should also be made known that knowledge of Cryptocurrency is a form of empowerment to the young ones and adults.

While we wait for cryptocurrency to be included in our academic system which may take a while as crypto is still fighting for acceptance on a mainstream, we can first become academics to the young people around us and try to educate them about cryptocurrency just as some members of this forum have been doing for some time now. It takes little resources to arouse interest in people, and knowing that waiting for the people in charge of reviewing educational curriculum to add cryptocurrency to academics may mean waiting for a long time, we can start today to play our part before the government.

[bittraffic]

Now as for the topic: In which field should it fit? Informatics? Economy? Finance? Politics? Society? Philosophy? Bitcoin isn't just a currency. 

Economics I suppose. It's not the most interesting subject for kids but if given the most enthusiastic teacher given then the frame of reference about how BTC becomes a tool in giving people freedom, it will be interesting.

Eshops will introduce them to cryptocurrencies. Kids in the future are going to have access to crypto as it will be used in daily lives in buying stuff, I think it's not such a bad idea to introduce them to BTC.

[hatshepsut93]

Cryptocurrency should be taught to little children at tender age

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Cryptocurrency should be adopted as a course of study in academic systems worldwide, from basic classes, through the higher institutions.

Why should we teach young people about a payment method at best, ponzi scheme at worst? Do we teach kids in school how to use PayPal? How to open a bank account? Why should crypto be treated differently?

Fear of being defrauded or scammed
Stories of people being ripped of their cryptocurrency through false investment links and scam websites
Lies of mining websites.

This is actually not a bad idea, it can be incorporated into some economics lessons or computer science lessons.