Calling all faculty and PhD candidates – if you teach and/or research Bitcoin, we want to hear from you. BEI is proud to announce our First Annual Conference, which will be held at the George Washington University in Washington, DC, on July 31, 2026. The Conference is by academics, for academics. We’re offering honoraria for selected speakers: 💰 $3,000 – Teaching Talk 💰 $1,500 – Research Talk 💰 $500 – Grad Student Poster Session The only rule? The topic must be specific to Bitcoin – nothing that addresses crypto or blockchain in a general sense. We're reviewing applications are on a rolling basis. Apply here: 🔗 Teaching Talk: tinyurl.com/57xxrx6b 🔗 Research Talk: tinyurl.com/e4rh6pws 🔗 Poster Session: tinyurl.com/33crj98c And if you're interested in simply, register for free here: tinyurl.com/h42awjyy See you in DC! ⚡️ #Bitcoin #BEI #HigherEd

“Someone will invent a better Bitcoin.” That argument overlooks the human network that makes money useful. Someone can build an app with better features than X. Getting its users to move is a different challenge. Money needs shared acceptance and earned trust. A Bitcoin competitor must attract more than users. It needs their confidence, capital, and commitment to a shared set of rules. Bitcoin’s network effects make replacing it a much bigger challenge than simply writing better code.

Bitcoin crosses borders. Studying it should cross disciplines. Economics explains the incentives. Computer science explains the system. Law and engineering reveal its implications and constraints. Understanding Bitcoin means bringing those perspectives together.

The most fascinating thing about studying Bitcoin isn't just Bitcoin. It's what you discover about money. Studying a different monetary system gives you a reason to examine the one you already use.

We spend years learning how to earn money. How much time do we spend learning how money works? Bitcoin is a reason to ask better questions.

Students will inherit a financial world shaped by technologies their education must help them understand. Bitcoin belongs in that preparation. Teach how it works, examine what it could change, and give its risks the same serious attention as its potential.

Bitcoin gives students a live case study in how economic incentives shape a computer network. Why spend resources mining? Why follow the rules? A serious Bitcoin lesson connects the engineering to the human decisions that keep the system running.

Bitcoin is no longer a niche technological experiment. Its growing integration into financial markets is challenging long-established assumptions about money, settlement, and ownership. At Bitcoin Education Institute, we believe these changes demand rigorous research, education, and open debate.

Bitcoin challenges how we think about money, ownership, and the future of finance. Dismissing it as pure speculation overlooks the unique properties and network effects driving its adoption. At Bitcoin Education Institute, we believe that Bitcoin's potential demands serious study, curiosity, and open debate.

Bitcoin is a breakthrough in computing, mathematics and economics. Education needs to catch up. Its place in the classroom should reflect the depth of its ideas. A technology that challenges how we secure information, transfer value, and design money deserves serious study.

The purpose of a Bitcoin class is not to create Bitcoin supporters. It is to create capable thinkers who can explain how Bitcoin works, evaluate its tradeoffs and form their own conclusions.

A student should be able to ask “Where could Bitcoin fail?” and receive a serious answer. At Bitcoin Education Institute, exploring limitations belongs alongside explaining breakthroughs. Understanding grows when every question gets a fair hearing.

The strongest Bitcoin classroom has room for both enthusiasm and doubt. Let students challenge an argument, examine the evidence and change their minds. An open mind belongs on both sides of the discussion, including the teacher’s.

Owning bitcoin and controlling it are different things. With a custodian, you rely on someone else to safeguard your bitcoin. With self-custody, you control the keys and take responsibility for protecting them. Bitcoin education should make that choice clear.

How do you send money online without a financial institution approving the payment and prevent that money from being spent twice? Bitcoin solves this through a shared transaction history. Understanding why that matters is where Bitcoin education begins.

Before asking whether Bitcoin is good money, ask what good money should do. Should its supply be predictable? Should ownership be verifiable? Should anyone be able to use it? Better questions create better Bitcoin education.

Try this Bitcoin learning exercise: Follow one transaction from the wallet that signs it, across the peer-to-peer network, into a miner’s block, and through a node’s validation. Bitcoin becomes much easier to understand when you can see the whole journey.

If you could add one Bitcoin lesson to every school’s curriculum, what would it be? How money works, how to protect private keys, or how a network reaches agreement without a central authority?

You don’t have to agree with every argument for Bitcoin to learn from it. Bring your hardest question to the classroom. Good Bitcoin education gives students the tools to examine the answer.

The leaves change every October. 🍂 Bitcoin’s supply rules don’t. 21 million bitcoin. A predictable issuance schedule. Rules enforced by the network. This October, learn what makes Bitcoin scarce. 🎃

itcoin education is an institution-building function. The work is not just to create more content. The work is to build standards, curriculum, research, teacher networks, student programs, and serious spaces for inquiry.