Learning is for everyone. 🧡 Boone: "Do I have to know everything about Bitcoin before I ask a question?" Knight: "Nope! Questions are how we start learning." Try it with your grown-up: each pick one Bitcoin word you're curious about. Take turns asking what it means. It's OK to say, "I don't know yet." No wallet or purchase needed. Keep asking big questions! Learning idea from Orange Pill T-shirts:

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What is mining? 🧡 Boone: "Does Bitcoin mining need a shovel?" Knight: "No! Bitcoin miners use computers to compete to add new blocks. Full nodes check that those blocks follow Bitcoin's rules. Building a block and checking it are different jobs." Try it with your grown-up: make a pretend block with three paper tiles. One person builds it; another checks that it follows your three-tile rule. Swap jobs! Our paper game shows different roles, not how real mining works. Real mining uses computing work and electricity. No wallet, equipment or purchase needed. Keep asking big questions! #BitcoinEducation #OrangePillKids

What is a full node? 🧡 Boone: "Who checks that Bitcoin follows its rules?" Knight: "A full node is a computer running Bitcoin software. It checks transactions and blocks against the rules, instead of just trusting someone else's answer." Try it with your grown-up: make a pretend rule that each group must have exactly three paper tiles. Take turns checking the groups. Checking a rule is different from guessing! Our classroom tiles are pretend props, not bitcoins or computer equipment. No wallet or purchase needed. Keep asking big questions! #BitcoinEducation #OrangePillKids

Keep private keys private. 🧡 Boone: "Is a bitcoin private key like a house key?" Knight: "It's a secret number, not a metal key. A wallet uses it to approve spending bitcoin. Don't share it." Try it with your grown-up: make a pretend paper key and talk about why some things stay private. The orange tiles in our picture are classroom props, not real bitcoin or private keys. No wallet, real secret or purchase needed. If someone asks for a private key, stop and ask a trusted grown-up. Keep asking big questions! #BitcoinEducation #OrangePillKids

Episode 1: What is money? Bitcoin with Knight & Boone starts with a pretend shop, an apple and a sock. Listen together, then try the pretend-shop activity in our free parent guide.

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Tomorrow morning, Knight & Boone's first adventure begins. 🧡 Episode 1: "What is money?" Saturday, October 10 at 8:00am MST, right here on Orange Pill Kids Primal. Listen together. Keep asking big questions! #OrangePillKids #BitcoinEducation

Check before you send. 🧡 Boone: "Can I press undo if I send bitcoin to the wrong person?" Knight: "A bitcoin payment has no undo button. Getting it back means the person who received it sends it back." Try it with your grown-up: write a pretend note, then check the name before handing it over. Paper counters and notes are only classroom props, not real bitcoin. No wallet or purchase needed. Pause. Check. Ask a grown-up. Keep learning! #BitcoinEducation #OrangePillKids

What is a confirmation? 🧱 Boone: "I sent it. Is it in the record yet?" Knight: "A bitcoin payment gets its first confirmation when it is included in a block. Later blocks add more confirmations." Try it with your grown-up: write a pretend payment on a paper card, then put it into a box marked "block." The card is our classroom example, not real bitcoin. Keep asking big questions! 🧡 #Bitcoin #BitcoinForKids #OrangePillKids

From our friends at Orange Pill T-shirts: a wallet backup can help recover after a lost or broken device. Learn the backup process, keep recovery information private, and understand recovery before relying on a wallet. A useful topic for families to learn together. 🧡

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What is a blockchain? 🧱 A blockchain is a shared record of bitcoin transactions. New blocks link to earlier blocks, like pages added to a class record book. Keep asking big questions! 🧡 #Bitcoin #BitcoinForKids #OrangePillKids

What is a block? 🧱 A block is like a box that holds a batch of new bitcoin records. About every 10 minutes, a new block gets added to the chain. Link by link, that's how the chain grows. Keep asking big questions! 🧡 #Bitcoin #BitcoinForKids #OrangePillKids

What is a satoshi? Boone: "Does bitcoin come in smaller units?" Knight: "Yep! A tiny unit is called a satoshi, or a sat. One bitcoin (1 BTC) is 100,000,000 sats." Boone: "That's a LOT of tiny units!" Bitcoin is digital money. The tiles in our picture are just for pretend counting, not real bitcoins. Try it with your grown-up: put ten counters in a group, then split them into two smaller groups. The number of counters stays the same. Big amounts can be counted in smaller units! #OrangePillKids #BitcoinEducation