Mainland Chinese students are being taught about Bitcoin

[silpersurfer]

Do we need that to have Bitcoin educational exposure in mainland of China?

It's not a question of whether formal methods are necessary; the question is what they actually teach. As I recall, the Chinese government strictly censors crypto-related digital content, such as on WeChat and TikTok.
Now, imagine being taught the components of a firearm perfectly, but being forbidden from using it for any purpose.

Their generation needs to understand the world of cryptography so it's not the value of the investment but how to make perfect codes like the mechanism that bitcoin brings that's why not all of them are closed, mostly on social media they teach investment and they don't want that, but if they learn directly like that they have another way of educating directly, conceptually it will be easy for children to understand if taught like that.
On the other hand on social media there is a lot of misunderstanding therefore the Chinese government really doesn't like it, in my mind they don't like to make their generation save money in bitcoin but they are not allergic to the technology that bitcoin offers.

[bitterguy28]

In fact when it comes to Bitcoin, we think of China as being vehemently opposed to it because Bitcoin is banned in this country, yet they are in second place in terms of country-based Bitcoin holdings but in a surprising piece of news I noticed recently, students in this Asian country's mainland were being taught about Bitcoin earlier this year.

Surely those who have taken this initiative should be far-sighted because we can make some guesses their initiative may play a big role in spreading the Bitcoin acceptance rate among those young students in China.

Do you think China's initiative with Bitcoin is positive for them or will it lead to Bitcoin becoming widespread in their country?



Bitcoin Education Introduced in Mainland China Schools

how do we know that bitcoin’s being taught positively here? as you said china’s against it and i’m sure they have strict control over what is in their curriculum it might be that they are teaching bitcoin for people to stay away from it.

[moneystery]

I found a little information about this on Google. Is this really legit news? Because from what I saw, there was only one account X that spread this news, namely BitcoinMagazine, and I don't know what this media wanted to do, whether it was just clickbait or if it really happened there.
But if it really happened there, I think it was just a regular lesson uploaded by a teacher, not part of their curriculum, because as far as I know the rules regarding Bitcoin there are quite strict, although ownership is not prohibited, but the CCP does hate things that will interfere with their currency.

[fuguebtc]

It should be noted that China's ban primarily prohibit mining, speculation related to crypto and their use as a mean of payment. They have never issued any ban related to the use and development of blockchain technology

Cryptocurrency speculation and blockchain applications are two different field. They are only banning and cracking down on speculative activitie and decentralized blockchain they cannot control.


Blockchain technology has many practical application, not just in speculation as we are doing today

In October 2019, Chinese president Xi Jinping in his speech in 2019 said that in industry blockchain has vital role to play and he stress the need to expand and improve its applications. There is also increase in price of Bitcoin after this speech of Chinese president. This is also true that crypto is ban in China and as of Feb 2026, China has taken more hard stance on it's crypto ban. Now Chinese authorities are also targeting the tokenization of real-world assets and unauthorized stablecoins linked to national currency.

Blockchain is an underlying technology, while crypto is simply an application that run on the blockchain. It has numerou practical applications in field such as supply chain management, data storage, and identity authentication. It does not exist solely to serve the crypto industry, as many people mistakenly believe

However, we must acknowledge that crypto is the application that has contributed most significantly to the popularity of blockchain.


Once again, China has only banned cryptocurrencies, not blockchain.

[Son Of Blockchain (SOB)]

They did banned it years ago and also the icos that was related to cryptocurrencies. But later, you'll notice them have the biggest holdings globally and many of the crypto billionaires are from China.

It seems that they're pranking the world about the first actions they took for banning. Well, they can always change for the better right?

Or this time, they're only showing some signs of what their stance really is and that means that they're ok for Bitcoin.

I won't see it's a prank cause it's normal to change your idea about something when you find it useful. What's going on with Iran's economy should let anyone know the importance of Bitcoin and how well it could serve as a hedge during inflation, maybe that's why China has to crack down on their crypto bans.
 Surprisingly it's the developed nations that's taking Bitcoin more seriously, I keep wondering why developing countries are still left behind.I'm glad the regulations of crypto by the government of my county now favour citizens unlike before when you'll be scared of having crypto apps in your phone and cause you won't want to be harassed or arrested by the authorities.

[o48o]

This news seems about 15 years too late. Chinese students have already been learning about Bitcoin since 2011. There's even a dedicated subforum for them here.

The news looks like clickbait, especially considering the account that shared it. We see this kind of stuff all the time on social media. Bitcoin could become a topic in classes in China or anywhere else in the world, maybe as part of economics courses. But it's still too early for that. It doesn't even have a 20 year history yet after all.

I am thinking that this is referring to the recent "Bitcoin ban" and news articles about it being floating around for a month or so.

But it's actually just an expansion to old crypto ban, where they are banning among other things also tokenized assets like stablecoins. This time the reasoning isn't risk prevention and protecting their citizens, but fear of sovereign countries threatening their monetary control.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/02/06/china-expands-crypto-crackdown-to-stablecoins-asset-tokenization

[sunsilk]

They did banned it years ago and also the icos that was related to cryptocurrencies. But later, you'll notice them have the biggest holdings globally and many of the crypto billionaires are from China.

It seems that they're pranking the world about the first actions they took for banning. Well, they can always change for the better right?

Or this time, they're only showing some signs of what their stance really is and that means that they're ok for Bitcoin.

I won't see it's a prank cause it's normal to change your idea about something when you find it useful. What's going on with Iran's economy should let anyone know the importance of Bitcoin and how well it could serve as a hedge during inflation, maybe that's why China has to crack down on their crypto bans.
 Surprisingly it's the developed nations that's taking Bitcoin more seriously, I keep wondering why developing countries are still left behind.I'm glad the regulations of crypto by the government of my county now favour citizens unlike before when you'll be scared of having crypto apps in your phone and cause you won't want to be harassed or arrested by the authorities.

It's just a metaphor about pranking but they are not doing that. And for the other developing countries that are being left behind with the massive Bitcoin adoption.

That's because they have other important things to develop rather than investing in Bitcoin. But countries like China, USA and other big ones.

They're well positioned now and they understand that this is a massive industry that they can't let pass.