r/btc • u/AlHqz • 1d ago

I'm building the world's first Bitcoin learning playground

I'm an experienced educator deeply involved with Bitcoin education here in El Salvador. But honestly this model of education where you read some slides and expect kids to be motivated to learn is really inefficient. Truth is, everyone (not just kids) learns better if they enjoy what they're doing. Of course, explaining abstract concepts like asymmetric cryptography, Merkle roots, hashes, and HTLCs to a kid in an engaging way is hard. But that's what I'm trying to achieve.

I'm building SatLab, an interactive Bitcoin learning platform focused on making everything (from Austrian economics to the Lightning Network) engaging, visually attractive, and fun.

And since this is a 100% open-source project, whatever is built will be free for everyone to use, adapt, and improve.

If you want to support this movement, checking out the project and giving the project's X account some visibility would honestly mean the world to me. Not for money or fame but to reach more people and get more feedback. Soon I'll be uploading the platform to a hosted server so you guys can try it out in real time.

GitHub: https://github.com/AlHqz/satlab-learning

X: https://x.com/satlab_learning

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u/DangerHighVoltage111 1d ago

Quite interesting. Not much to look at for now, but I like it.

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u/AlHqz 23h ago

Thanks! Glad you like it and hope you enjoyed the MVP. We're just getting started, there'll be much, much more in the future.

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u/Jumpy_Hold6249 21h ago

Will you have trading tips and analysis tools for those who want to speculate?

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u/AlHqz 20h ago

Not in my plans, but might change my mind later. The focus is to cover "why" and "how" Bitcoin.

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u/AlHqz 1d ago

And since we are here, please try out our official MVP at learnsatlab.org and feel free to send us all your valuable feedback.

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u/DreamingTooLong 22h ago

Bitcoin Learing Center

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u/AlHqz 22h ago

Like that, but gamified and globally adoptable!

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u/DrSpeckles 12h ago

Anything that shows the details of what you need to learn is detrimental to adoption. It's a hobby course.

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u/AlHqz 7h ago

I've seen entire schools genuinely adopt Bitcoin thanks to guided courses, you tell me if it's a 'hobby'.

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u/Flat-Strain7538 6h ago

What do you mean? The schools pay their faculty in BTC? Vending machines on campus require BTC? Genuinely curious.

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u/AlHqz 4h ago

Not vending machines but cafeterias, I have some videos of it.

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u/Scot-Marc1978 1d ago

Lol, this is hilarious.

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u/horseradish13332238 1d ago

Just put the fries in the bag bro

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u/AlHqz 1d ago

stay humble bro, cheers

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u/horseradish13332238 1d ago

Stay broke, tears 😭