From games to piggy banks: Educating the Bitcoin ‘minors’ of the future

cointelegraph.com:

The crypto winter is here. It’s a trying time as prices grind down, but it’s the best moment to build and learn. For some Bitcoiners, the bear market is a time to plant trees or create memes. For those with kids, it’s a welcome recess used to broaden the minds’ of Bitcoin (BTC) minors. 

Cointelegraph spoke to the creators of popular Bitcoin-related games and educational tools to understand why teaching kids about sound money is critical, and some of the best ways of doing so.

SHAmory, a portmanteau of SHA-256 (the cryptographic function that hashes inputs in Bitcoin) and memory, is among the best-selling Bitcoin games. Targeted at kids aged four and over, creator Scott Sibley shared that he had his “toddler in mind for both the creation of the game and book.”

Sibley and his wife also thought up Goodnight Bitcoin, part of a burgeoning bookshelf of Bitcoin-related books. A passionate educator, Sibley told Cointelegraph that breaking the money taboo and educating kids about finance is critical:

Sibley suggested that kids seeing, interacting with and recognizing something as simple as the “Bitcoin logo” or even “playing our game and then asking how Bitcoin mining works,” is key for long-term adoption. Plus, the Gen-Z — the Zoomer — generation has a headstart understanding intangible digital products: “Transacting in Bitcoin is going to be no different than buying a new skin or level in a video game they are currently playing.”

Will Reeves, co-founder of Fold App — a Bitcoin rewards debit card — co-founded the Bitcoin game Bitopoly. Reeves told Cointelegraph that “the first version of Bitopoly emerged from a conversation around a dinner table in which we were attempting to teach friends and family members about Bitcoin.” He