Independent educators are changing the world, one community at a time. Each month they gather in a General Assembly of the Node Network — My First Bitcoin’s initiative to build an ecosystem around “independent, impartial, bitcoin-only and community-led bitcoin education.” The General Assembly held on June 26 drew a record 33 individuals, and this edition gathers progress from 11 countries.
New cohorts and classrooms
The teaching engine is running strong across the network. The Core (Kenya) completed Cohort 7 and launched Cohort 8, while Bitcoin Ubuntu (South Africa) finished Cohort 7 alongside The Core and opened a new one with Bitcoin Boma. Bismarck Bitcoin (USA) is wrapping its first cohort with a small graduation ceremony, and Operation Bitcoin (USA) expanded its VECTR program with a mining-specific curriculum, with 33 participants already enrolled for its mid-July online cohort. In El Salvador, My First Bitcoin reached 125 students through introductory classes and the Bitcoin Diploma program.
Schools, partnerships and reach
The curriculum keeps finding new homes. Bitcoin Policy UK announced four new schools set to teach My First Bitcoin next year — Blundell’s, St John Lawes School, Ysgol David Hughes and Sevenoaks School — and is exploring an LNBits plug-in for Moodle to reward students in sats. Bitcoin Dominicana passed 94 merchants on BTC Map and is launching a Bitcoin Diploma at a youth center training over 200 students. In Bolivia, Bitcoin Research ran a workshop in a rural Aymara-speaking school and is designing a program with the Bolivian Institute for the Blind, while newcomers Dream Grad Academy (South Korea) and Bitcoin Punta (Uruguay) prepare their first cohorts.
Building on decentralized rails
A clear theme this month was sovereignty in both message and method. BTC Curacao is moving toward decentralized communication, urging nodes to maintain control of their own platforms.
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From Kenya’s circular economy pilots to Bolivia’s native-language materials, the network’s growth reflects educators building independently — yet learning, mentoring and scaling together.
Originally published at myfirstbitcoin.org
