4 Bitcoin Educators Offering Online Education and Free Resources

Bitcoiners will tell you that education is the biggest obstacle to bitcoin adoption. For bitcoin newbies, it trades like a tech stock, so it must be similar. But if you dare to dive deeper, the stock correlations, and even the price of bitcoin, become much less interesting. It is more useful to think of bitcoin as digital gold, a scarce resource with a marginal production cost.

That might be enough for someone to start using bitcoin as a portfolio diversification tool. For those seeking a greater understanding, learning about bitcoin on your own can feel daunting. Fortunately, these four teachers are helping to educate the next generation of bitcoiners, often posting free tutorials online for anyone who wants to learn.

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BTC Sessions is a bitcoin educator based out of Canada. He hosts a YouTube channel and podcast dedicated to practical knowledge for bitcoin users.

Sessions found Bitcoin while he was a breakdancing teacher. He credits his teaching experience with helping him break down concepts into an easily digestible format. The YouTube channel began as a way to solve his own problems.

“I’ve probably torn my hair out half a dozen times trying to navigate basic wallets and security,” Sessions told me in an interview, explaining the motivation behind his shows.

Sessions hosts two weekly shows, one featuring news and another featuring open bitcoin discussions. He also has hundreds of tutorials for the more technical aspects of using bitcoin and bitcoin hardware. His channel now has almost 200,000 viewers a month.

The Bitcoin Professor

Phil Snyder is a professor of digital media at the University of Houston, having taught video and animation production for over a decade. He found bitcoin in 2020, which quickly began to dominate his attention. He developed a bitcoin curriculum and began the course in the fall semester of 2021.

“I make it very clear that the Bitcoin protocol is really the only game really worth playing,” Synder joked in an interview with me.

His course contains the cypher-punk story that ultimately led to bitcoin’s creation. It also covers bitcoin’s specific and ever-evolving history. Snyder hinted at a desire to add coding to the curricula, but that is not yet underway. Although he does not teach, he enjoys educating the public through articles with Bitcoin Magazine.

The Bitcoin Reader

Guy Swann started his podcast, Bitcoin Audible, after becoming frustrated with the amount of audio content. His podcast focuses on reading impactful articles so that people who don’t have time to read, no longer have to.

When asked why he continues, Swann told me he felt a moral obligation to educate the public about bitcoin. In our interview, he communicated his displeasure with the crypto community equating bitcoin to just another app on your phone. His goal is to help cut through that narrative. Swann’s podcast receives more than 150,000 downloads per month, which has allowed him to focus on it full-time. He has also narrated 16 bitcoin books on Amazon’s AMZN Audible, with the potential for two more in the near future.

Tim Niemeyer

Tim Niemeyer is an Air Force veteran and elementary school teacher. He began his journey in 2018 and now hosts the Lincolnland Bitcoin Meetup in Springfield, Illinois. While he can’t advocate bitcoin in an official capacity, he has found ways to instill bitcoin principles in the classroom.

In an interview. Niemeyer told me he talks about personal responsibility and producing value. He says bitcoin has made him more patient, shifting his focus to developmental and behavioral concerns, rather than the day-to-day details of lesson plans.

“Autonomy for teachers to use their creativity in lesson planning has been removed and replaced with scripted lessons,” Niemeyer explained, referring to his new focus on behavior development.

While not teaching or spending time with his family, Niemeyer also enjoys contributing to Bitcoin Magazine.

A common thread through all these interviews was a message of hope. All of the above educators and podcasters remain optimistic that through education they can help change the narrative around bitcoin one person at a time.

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