This is an opinion editorial by Ryan Brisch, Anthony Feliciano, and Mark Maraia, who recently spent a few weeks helping 85 middle school students run a pop-up store running on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network.
On November 18, 2022, approximately 85 students braved a cold and snowy Friday morning at STRIVE Prep – Lake Middle School in Denver, Colorado to participate in a unique program. Although they got a late start due to snowfall the night before, there was eager anticipation in the air.
Ryan Brisch, a Denver Bitcoiner, had often talked to his significant other about problems that Bitcoin could help solve, or a new Bitcoin product he was excited about. His wife, Nicole, is a sixth-grade math teacher at STRIVE Prep and had started responding that he would come and talk to her class about some of the basic mathematical foundations of Bitcoin.
