A Salvadoran teenager has shared his journey after completing El Salvador’s bitcoin diploma program, Mi Primer Bitcoin – my first bitcoin. Now, Gerardo Moran has returned to his former high school to educate teachers about Bitcoin (BTC).
In a series of tweets on July 8, the 18-year-old revealed that Mi Primer Bitcoin, backed by El Salvador’s Ministry of Education, allowed him to leave his life in construction behind and “earn $6 a day.”
Moran revealed that he has worked mainly in construction and tourism since he was 11 and could never understand how Salvadoran citizens worked so hard for little pay.
“I’ve been trying to explain why people in my country work so much for so little money,” Moran explained on Twitter, adding that he didn’t work for much money at all:
“I was no longer able to make six bucks a day from construction work, so I quit not knowing an opportunity would arise.”
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Moran explained that his school issued a call for students interested in taking a Bitcoin Diploma course. That’s why he applied and quickly achieved excellent results in the course.
Moran announced that he now “leads bitcoin education” in his hometown, training and teaching the bitcoin diploma to a group of eight senior professors at his former high school, Antonio J. Alfaro.
Cointelegraph previously reported that Mi Primer Bitcoin raised over 1 BTC in donations from generous Bitcoin education advocates worldwide.
From Poland to Canada, people around the world sent Satoshis over the Lightning Network to support the growth of El Salvador’s bitcoin diploma program.
In August 2022, El Salvador’s Education Director Gilberto Motto told Cointelegraph that the government was focused on educating its citizens about Bitcoin — particularly teenagers.
“If we could reach every 16 or 17-year-old in the country, we would effectively teach the whole country in one year, because this population is really strategic. They go home and talk to their parents, their aunts, their uncles, their little brothers and sisters.”
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