As the world increasingly embraces the digital revolution, the BSV blockchain is emerging as a transformative force with the potential to reshape industries, economies, and societal structures.
However, as a relatively nascent technology, it is important to educate the wider public about the blockchain and exactly how it works. The BSV Academy is an online education platform focusing on blockchain and Bitcoin which offers academia-quality, university-style courses and learning materials categorised under Bitcoin Theory, Bitcoin Development, Bitcoin Infrastructure and Bitcoin Enterprise, in addition to several short courses covering specific concepts and content in more detail.
Developed and run by the global industry organisation supporting the BSV blockchain, BSV Academy has been created to make learning about the Bitcoin protocol – the way creator Satoshi Nakamoto designed it – accessible, accurate, and understandable.
Taking the lead on blockchain education
Todd Price (Curriculum Specialist at BSV Blockchain) explained that the Academy is responsible for creating a range of educational content to educate people on all aspects of Bitcoin and blockchain.
‘We have courses that are designed for Bitcoin in Law, Bitcoin in Engineering, Bitcoin Primitives etc. These will take students through a bridging course to get them up to speed with some of the fundamental cryptographic techniques which are used in the system’, he said. ‘Then we have advanced courses that document the process of complicated scripting with Bitcoin – and a range of courses between these.’
Price noted that the Academy has also recently expanded beyond developing its materials to providing white-label course content for other educational institutions like national universities and government programmes.
Blockchain to benefit the unbanked the most
While everyone can stand to learn from blockchain and its benefits, Price noted that developing countries stand to benefit the most from the technology. He pointed to countries whose banking and financial systems are currently facing growing pains when it comes to financial technology and data integrity.
‘So (Education) is needed at the high-end with global financial markets and such. But we also really need casual peer-to-peer transactions between users in the unbanked part of the world’, Price said. ‘These markets are just begging for something that comes along to make their life easier and enable them to make payments to one another and participate in this global economy.’
However, Price reiterated that everyone can benefit from staying up to date with blockchain and the surrounding technology.
‘I think people really don’t know what some of these terms are. And when they go and speak to one another, they feel a bit excluded from some of the conversations. So as we move into a greater phase of development, you want more people to be able to participate and speak to one another and understand how the techniques are being used by various enterprises’, he said.