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Bitcoiners will tell you that education is the greatest impediment to bitcoin adoption. To bitcoin beginners, 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. Its more helpful to think about bitcoin as digital gold, a scarce asset with a marginal cost of production.

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

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 breakdance teacher. He credits his teaching experience with helping him to break down concepts in an easily digestible format. The YouTube channel began as a way to solve his own problems.

I probably tore 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 that features news, and another with open ended bitcoin discussions. He also has hundreds of tutorials for the more technical aspects of using bitcoin and bitcoin hardware. His channel now boasts nearly 200k viewers a month.

Phil Snyder is a digital media professor 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 quipped in an interview with me.

His course features the cypher punk history that eventually led to bitcoins creation. It also covers bitcoins specific and still developing history. Snyder alluded to a desire to add coding to the curricula, but that is not yet in progress. While not teaching, he enjoys educating the public through articles with Bitcoin Magazine.

Guy Swann started his podcast, Bitcoin Audible, after becoming frustrated with the amount of content in audio form. His podcast focuses on reading impactful articles so that people who dont have the time to read no longer have to.

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

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

In an interview. Niemeyer told me that he harps on personal responsibility and producing value. He says that bitcoin has made him more patient, shifting his focus to development and behavioral concerns, rather than day to day minutia of lesson plans.

The autonomy for educators to use their creativity in lesson planning has been removed and replaced with scripted lessons, Niemeyer explained, referencing his new behavioral development focus.

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

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

Im a freelance writer exploring the bitcoin ecosystem. My work has been published by Bitcoin Magazine and Bitcoin News. Im personally invested in bitcoin and am fascinated by the emerging bitcoin economy.

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4 Bitcoin Teachers Offering Online Education And Free Resources - Forbes