El Salvador’s Bitcoiners teach 12-year-olds how to send sats
Over 25,000 students in El Salvador have learned about Bitcoin in the classroom. El Salvadorian school kids as young as 12 years old are being orange-pilled — taught to send their first Bitcoin (BTC) transaction by visiting members of El Salvador’s Bitcoin Beach. Bitcoin Beach community leader Roman Martínez told Cointelegraph that he believes early-age education on Bitcoin, money and the economy may lay out a framework for many of the underprivileged kids he teach es to have a better shot at life. Martínez explained Bitcoin Beach runs after-school programs to help set kids up to use Bitcoin. “Every Friday we visit schools for Bitcoin education where we talk about money and dreams, we teach them to set up a Bitcoin wallet, we help them receive their first satoshi and make transactions.” A satoshi, or sat, is the smallest denomination of Bitcoin, with 100 million sats making up one BTC. Martínez visting a school to show students how to use a Bitcoin wallet. Source: X Martínez noted th...