Welcome. The new Bitcoin Diploma keeps the mission that matters—open-source, community-led, Bitcoin-only education—while making it clearer, more practical, and easier to adapt responsibly. You do not need to be a perfect lecturer or know every answer. Your role is to help learners ask good questions, practise safely, and explain what they understand in their own words.

Use this Quick Start to prepare your first route, then use the Educator Guide for complete facilitation, safety, adaptation, and assessment guidance.

The 26.10 curriculum is a framework-first teaching package. Before offering completion certificates, prepare the selected tasks and local variants, observation capacity, accessibility routes, Assessment Grid, and proportionate local privacy, correction, and appeals arrangements. You assess the learner and issue the certificate; My First Bitcoin does not centrally evaluate, issue, verify, or guarantee learner competency.

1. Choose a delivery shape: one full day, four two-hour sessions, eight one-hour sessions, or another schedule that protects the complete learning and assessment experience.
2. Read the relevant Student Guide module and its matching section in the Educator Guide. Choose one main activity and one low-tech backup.
3. Prepare a welcoming room, printed or PDF materials, and a way to record approved assessment evidence. Check local facts, examples, tools, and safety conditions before class.
4. Teach the simple rhythm: explain → ask → practise → debrief → check. Give learners supported practice before any assessment.
5. Close each session with a learner explanation, a next step, and a note about what you will revisit.

The Bitcoin Diploma works offline or online. No learner needs a personal device, connectivity, or prior Bitcoin experience to learn or complete the Bitcoin Diploma.

Teach the sequence as a connected story: money problem → Bitcoin response → personal responsibility → local application. Modules 1–3 are the shared Core. Module 4 is required but Custom: you choose an appropriate local task while preserving its outcomes and evidence standard. Detailed technical, trading, investment, legal, tax, accounting, compliance, and policy content belongs outside the beginner Core.

Keep fixed: the four-module sequence; Core objectives; Bitcoin-only focus; safety boundaries; the two-part assessment; and the minimum completion standard.

Adapt thoughtfully: examples, language, activities, pacing, grouping, accessibility support, local tools, and Module 4 scenarios. Teach open-source wallet software as a qualified preference because inspectable code can improve transparency, while helping learners compare custody, recovery, compatibility, privacy, maintenance, cost, and support. Treat named wallets, exchanges, merchants, maps, and services as dated local examples—not global recommendations. Verify current claims and local rules with authoritative sources; if you do not know, say so and check.

Teach learners how to think, not what to think. Welcome respectful disagreement. A learner does not need to agree with a claim to meet the standard; they need to reason, explain relevant trade-offs, and demonstrate required skills safely.

Protect learners before practical activity begins

Never request, view, photograph, copy, record, or store a real seed phrase, private key, password, or unnecessary financial information. Do not pressure anyone to buy, sell, hold, or use bitcoin. Pause whenever a learner is uncertain, pressured, or exposed to a possible scam.

• Use short explanations, discussion, scenarios, demonstrations, practice, and learner explanation. A useful prompt is: “What do you think happens next, and why?”
• Never request, view, photograph, copy, record, or store a real seed phrase, private key, password, or unnecessary financial information. Use prepared wallets, simulations, printed screens, test environments, or low-stakes practice.
• Check the recipient, network, address or invoice, amount, and transaction status before sending. Pause when a learner is uncertain, pressured, or exposed to a possible scam.
• Do not pressure anyone to buy, sell, hold, or use bitcoin. The Bitcoin Diploma provides education—not financial, investment, legal, tax, accounting, compliance, or trading advice.
• Have a fallback for every digital activity: a printed screen, diagram, physical simulation, spoken walkthrough, or educator demonstration.

Certification requires two non-compensatory components, both evaluated and recorded by an educator:

Attendance, enthusiasm, independent review, or an ordinary discussion alone are not certification evidence. Make the objective, safety boundary, task, and success criteria clear; teach and practise first; then observe, give feedback, record the result, and offer fair reassessment when needed. Modules 3 and 4 require direct practical observation.

• Set a schedule that includes at least eight hours of teaching, practice, assessment, feedback, and recording, with more time whenever learners need it.
• Read the Student Guide, Educator Guide, and relevant objectives.
• Select activities and prepare the assessment framework, approved tasks, rubrics, and records.
• Plan a safe Module 4 task using the Educator Guide’s Custom-module builder; verify current local facts and tools.
• Prepare low-tech materials and a no-funds fallback; protect learner privacy and accessibility.
• Invite questions, keep an Advanced follow-up list, and finish by asking learners what they can now explain or do.

This redesign gives educators more structure where consistency matters and more room where local wisdom matters. Your careful facilitation turns the Bitcoin Diploma from a book into a shared learning experience: one that helps people think clearly about money, Bitcoin, responsibility, and their own community.

For optional further learning beyond the Bitcoin Diploma, explore the Educator Training Program or connect through the Bitcoin Education Network. You can also share feedback, submit corrections or translation improvements, share local learning resources through the official contribution form, or use the open-source curriculum repository to check current editions and participate in improving the work. None of these links is required for Bitcoin Diploma completion.