Homeshool co op?
Bitcoin in Middle School Update: Our first semester of the 'Intro to Bitcoin' elective for 6th-8th graders had a rocky start. Initially, no students enrolled, but just before the deadline, two based kids signed up - game on!
By the end of semester one we learned kids:
• Love CypherPunks and permissionles FOSS everything
• Can create and restore a Green Wallet on iOS
• Can install and configure Bitcoin Core, Umbrel and Start9 types of nodes
• Can open lightning channels between our class nodes, thanks nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8, and hate high fees
• Can absolutely understand "not your keys, not your coins"
• Are getting the "stay humble and stack sats" - middle school humble - baby steps.
Exponential Growth?? - Now in semester two, our class size is blowing up a MASSIVE 100% to 4 students (ok with one returning)! At this growth rate, I'm pretty sure eleventy billion kids will be in that class soon - to the moon yo!
Shout out to nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp and nostr:npub1e0z776cpe0gllgktjk54fuzv8pdfxmq6smsmh8xd7t8s7n474n9smk0txy for donating Testnet bitcoin for the kids to play with - I was going broke trying to demonstrate transactions on main net in a 40 min class - get off my lawn you stinking mempool clogging JPEGS!! 😄
Discussion
We're a Preschool - 8th grade private school (non-profit) in the LA area. I've been the "tech guy" there for a long time and fell down the rabbit hole about 3 years ago. I've been in orange pill mode ever since and this is the first public facing thing they let me do.
Behind the scenes, we're running nodes, trying to aim our Blockstream satellite dish at their satellite (impossible so far ha), have an OpenNode account in case they let me take bitcoin payments and an Unchained vault in case I hook me a whale that wants to be the first to donate a full coin to the school! 😂
I really love the place and want to set up their infrastructure so that when it really hits, they are ready to for it.
Long term, I'd also love to get a school Fedimint going starting with the kids and the snack shack, but maybe branching to the parents. It would be super cool to get all tuition and everything else rolling through that I think no?
I just need a staff to implement this shit now HA