After two years of badgering my (politically aware, bank hating and mostly tech savvy) friends about Bitcoin with limited success I finally bit the bullet and did a bitcoin school. 25 friends signed up and 20 made it along. It was a great success. I've been asked to do more.
The sessions went something like this (after doing the sessions I think they are best split into several different groups - investors/business owners-content creators-artists/tech noobs/....)
This is what I posted for the group on Facebook:
3 x One hour sessions.
15:00 to 16:00 16:15 to 17:15 17:30 to 18:30
Each session costs £10 and every participant will receive £5 in bitcoin and a copy of Satoshi Nakamoto's historic whitepaper. Maximum 10 people per session.
- A brief history of Cryptocurrencies from the 1980's to the present day.
- What is a Blockchain and why is it useful?
- How to get bitcoin
- How to use bitcoin
- How to store and secure your bitcoin
- Q&A 10 mins
Summary I did the presentation pretty much on the fly so it changed slightly each session, first session took an hour and the next two oy 45 mins. I explained a simplified history of cryptocurrencies and gave them all a copy of the Cypherpunks manifesto and Bitcoin whitepaper with a few A4 sheets with info graphics to take home.
In hindsight I would have put people in groups of similar abilities instead of randomly. In future I would create sessions based on their interests (investing/knowledge/content creator/business owner/activist...Etc).
- the mix of people was as follows;
Single parents- Care worker- Professional photographer- Small business owners- Civil servants- Head teacher College - Environmental activist - Self-employed - Computer games magazine writer - Coder - International DJ - Online Record shop owner - Musician
Submitted January 12, 2016 at 07:16PM by apokerplayer123 http://bit.ly/1PUBlWM
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