Exactly two years after establishing Bitcoin as legal tender, El Salvador’s Ministry of Education began its pilot program on Thursday to bring Bitcoin education to the nation’s public schools.

The program, launched in partnership with native Bitcoin projects Bitcoin Beach and My First Bitcoin, will teach 150 public school teachers about Bitcoin, before the educators return to their own classrooms in their local schools.

As early as 2018, crypto had already penetrated the world of higher education. A Coinbase report that year found that 42 of the world’s top 50 universities had at least one course on crypto and blockchain.

“Our teachers are ready—they’ve been training, teaching, even themselves improving our own Bitcoin diploma for over a year,” said John Dennehy, founder of My First Bitcoin, to Decrypt via DM. “The public school teachers are—literally right now—being trained.”

El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as an official currency two years ago, garnering major attention for being the first country to run the experiment on a national scale. It has had some technical issues along the way, and on-the-ground adoption has been limited—but tourism in the country has Go to Source to See Full Article
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