Interviewing a solo miner who just won a block.
During lesson 7 of My First Bitcoin at BTC Curacao sponsored by Peter Kroll family, @BTCCuracao we play and simulate a whole Bitcoin paper game.
Everybody has a role like sender (who creates a transaction), Receiver (who verifies a transaction), a node (who verifies and validates a transaction) and a miner (who mines a transaction).
A paper game of Don’t Trust, Verify!
With mempool, blocks, hash of previous block, UTXO.
A paper game so students grasp these concepts.
Because Mi Primer Bitcoin, 10 weeks program is a hands on program.
With many interactive exercises, games and discussion next to a book and teacher resources.
I love teaching with exercises.
Thanks to @Huxley my coach of My First Bitcoin.
We are almost done with the Second cohort on Curaçao.
Thanks to @My First Bitcoin .
Thanks to @Arnold Hubach for chairing our monthly General Members Meetings where all the education nodes in the world meet.
And thanks to this student Emmanuel who mined his first paper block.
Runy
BTC Curaçao Institute
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Thank you Runy.
Grateful to be part of the program and learning the fundamentals of Bitcoin in such an interactive way. The paper mining exercise really helped me understand how transactions, nodes and validation work. Looking forward to continuing the journey with the BTC Curaçao community.
That hands-on approach to teaching Bitcoin mechanics is underrated—most people never grasp the full node/validation layer. Reminds me of how ETF flows in 2026 (per TheBoard) showed retail still treating BTC as abstract exposure vs understanding the base layer.


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