Research begins

I have agreed to give a 5-week, 10-hour class to a group of retirees this spring on Bitcoin. I figured I would start with the, or “a,” definition of “money.” We still have a bound dictionary on the shelf. You?

The 5-session outline will turn out to be
1. “Money”: Definitions; “types” of money; a brief history
2. Cash, digital transactions and tracing transfers
3. Transaction security in an online world
4. Bitcoin and “blockchains”: Motivations, design, & problems
5. Wallets, decentralization; wrap-up; Q and hopefully-A?

Looking back (Apparently a rough date for photos!)
  1 year ago: No post
 2 years ago: No post
 3 years ago: No post
 4 years ago: No post
 5 years ago: No post
 6 years ago: “Tree down…”
 7 years ago: “Sigh.” (No photo)
 8 years ago: “The long and winding road”
 9 years ago: “Maybe if I face *away* from the ‘big box’…”
10 years ago: “Shadows”
11 years ago: “‘Looking’ but not shopping”

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[Mags]

Interesting!

[Jane Pittenger]

Absolutely

[Jesika]

Of course. An American one from about 1970 and an English from 1992 when I decided to go to Uni. Plus a Latin/English one, not that I speak Latin other than Labor ipse voluptas - school motto!
I’m not sure what Bitcoin is either…

[Thom Mitchell]

@jgpittenger I'm doing something to old posts and saw this comment — I guess I'm not surprised you and Charlie have a bound dictionary!