Salvadoran Teen’s Bitcoin Journey

A Salvadoran adolescent describes his experience completing El Salvador’s Bitcoin diploma program, My First Bitcoin (Mi Primer Bitcoin). Now, he has returned to his old high school to educate the faculty about Bitcoin.

In a series of tweets published on July 8, 18-year-old Gerardo Moran disclosed that El Salvador’s Bitcoin diploma program, Mi Primer Bitcoin, which is backed by El Salvador’s Ministry of Education, allowed him to leave behind a life “earning $6 per day” in construction.

Moran disclosed that he has worked since he was “11 years old,” primarily in the construction and tourism industries, and that he could never comprehend why Salvadoran citizens worked so hard for so little pay.

“I’ve tried to comprehend why people in my country worked so hard for so little pay,” Moran wrote on Twitter, adding that he worked for a pittance.

“Earning 6 dollars a day doing construction wasn’t feasible for me anymore, so I quit without knowing there was an opportunity ahead”.

Moran explained that his school “one day” put out a call for pupils interested in enrolling in the Bitcoin diploma course, to which he “applied and excelled.”

Moran disclosed that he is now “leading Bitcoin education” in his homeland, training and instructing the Bitcoin Diploma to “a group of eight senior professors” at his former high school, Antonio J. Alfaro.

This follows news on May 4 that Mi Primer Bitcoin has raised over 1 Bitcoin in donations from Bitcoin education advocates around the globe.

People from Poland to Canada sent satoshis over the Lightning Network to support the expansion of the Bitcoin diploma program in El Salvador.

“If we could reach every 16-year-old or 17-year-old in the country, we will effectively teach the entire country in one year because that demographic is really strategic. They go home, and they’ll talk to their parents, their aunts, their uncles, their little brothers and sisters.”

El Salvador’s director of education, Gilberto Motto, Said in August 2022 that the government’s primary concentration is on educating its citizens about Bitcoin, particularly adolescents.