Help me design a high-school level course work

TheDashGuy

TheDashGuy

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I plan on going back to a few college, high school & middle school teachers I know personally and having them host me as a guest speaker for crypto-currencies. I am fortunate enough to be in Seattle, Washington where most of us know we thrive on Technology. Everyone is always talking about Silicon Valley and such but Seattle has one of the biggest and brightest tech markets out there.


So why don't we tap into this? I feel like hosting get togethers, meet-ups, library talks and then going into some old tech classes would be prime spaces for finding people who would absolutely love to learn about cryptos.

Here is my issue; do I JUST teach cryptos altogether, with a heavy Dash/Bitcoin leaning prejudice or do I jus go out and teach people about Dash by itself and let them figure out what cryptos actually are later on?

I want to consolidate as much important information into a 20-35 minute session so I have room for questions after and most places wouldn't want me hanging out for more than an hour or so at a time.

I will be creating collateral for this such as PowerPoints aimed at certain age groups and free stickers and such obviously, but how do I best make the message hit home with varying groups of people without ending up sounding like a "anarchist" or something?

Thanks for the advice everyone!
 
Good question. I would think you could introduce them to crypto talking about Bitcoin, what it did, then talk about it's shortcomings. Next, introduce Dash and talk about how it solves those issue and finally, talk about how Dash takes it to the next level with ease of use and paypal type of services, making it completely integrating into what people already know and do.
 
TheDashGuy said:
r, with a heavy Dash/Bitcoin leaning prejudice or do I jus go out and teach people about Dash by itself and let them figure out what cryptos actually are later on?
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Check out our great "What is Dash" introductory video. Better yet, check the discussion thread that led to its production, if it's still here. Many intelligent people here put their heads together on the exact issue you're trying to tackle -- how to introduce Dash to newcomers. I think the conclusion was that you have to introduce Bitcoin somewhat first, and then graduate to Dash as a superior form of Bitcoin. It crams enough in there that you could spend 20 minutes using just the content of that video and expanding a bit on each point so that the audience gets it.

You might have a hard time if you come out swinging with no-nonsense austrian economic principles and the advantages/disadvantages of using gold as money before getting into crypto. Big gov is who signs those teachers' paychecks (and with the Dollars you will be damning in your presentation) so you probably need to tread lightly--especially in ultra-liberal Seattle, of all places!
 
Also Evan's video series is excellent to help organize your lectures. In fact, you might think of using the What is Dash video. But the other series is a little dense. It'd be good to organize your notes on though :)
 
Yer I would start with bitcoins strengths and weaknesses, such as wide adoption and many merchants, then mention the 7 tps limit and blockchain bloating problem with 1 meg blocks almost full,lack of fungability and seed nodes diminishing due to no incentive resulting in slow updates and poor nodes.Also when the memory pool is overwelmed there can be a 10 hr wait for 1 confirmation.
Then move onto Dash, with instantX transaction locking, paid nodes incentives and potential use of the hard drive space on the masternodes in order to solve the scalability problem with larger blocks...

http://blog.genesis-mining.com/an-overview-of-the-blockchain-size-debate
http://blog.genesis-mining.com/bitcoin-bah
 
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