Module 4 of 4

Bitcoin in Your Community

4.1Watch: Bitcoin Is Generational Wealth

Activity TypeDiscussion
Description

Participants watch “Bitcoin Is Generational Wealth,” a short film by Matt Hornick and Tomer Strolight. The viewing provides a prompt for participants to identify the film’s perspective on money, saving, and intergenerational thinking, and to distinguish those perspectives from financial advice.

Objectives
  • Participants reflect on the film’s perspective on Bitcoin, saving, and intergenerational thinking.
Materials
  • Internet access and video playback.

Procedure

Step 1

Open the video.

Step 2

Watch the video.

Notes

Examine the perspective; do not treat it as financial advice

A film can make claims about saving, value, or the future. Learners should identify the evidence, assumptions, trade-offs, and uncertainty rather than treat those claims as a reason to acquire bitcoin.

Additional Resources

4.2Additional Socratic Questions

Activity TypeDiscussion
Description

Participants use Socratic questions to examine education, self-directed learning, centralized power, decentralization, and Bitcoin. The discussion asks participants to consider whether an informed public can evaluate the money system and why decentralized systems may be difficult for those in power to control.

Objectives
  • Participants examine how critical thinking and decentralization can shape their understanding of money systems.

Procedure

Step 1

Discuss whether people in power under fiat money favor an educated citizenry that understands the money system.

Step 2

Discuss self-education, learning how to learn, and critical thinking.

Step 3

Ask whether those in power can stop the use of decentralized money such as Bitcoin, and discuss why decentralization matters.

Key Points

The desired teaching ideas are the value of educating yourself and why decentralization matters.

Discussion Questions

Can those in power stop anyone from using decentralized money?

4.3Final Class Discussion: How Did Your Perspective Change?

Activity TypeDiscussion
ParticipationIndividualWhole class
Description

Participants revisit the questions they answered in the first Chapter 1 activity, compare their original ideas with their current views, and discuss what changed. The final reflection asks participants to identify a next step and consider how they can use their new knowledge about money and Bitcoin to empower themselves.

Objectives
  • Participants reflect on how their understanding of money has changed and identify a next step for continued learning.
Materials
  • Participants’ responses from the first Chapter 1 activity.

Setup

Ask participants to answer again: Why do we need money? What is money? Who controls money? What gives money value?

Procedure

Step 1

Return to the first Chapter 1 activity and compare new answers with old answers.

Step 2

Compare and discuss the original answers and questions. Ask whether something changed.

Step 3

Ask: What is my next step, and how can I use this new knowledge to empower myself?

Discussion Questions

How did your perspective change? What is your next step?

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