Cryptocurrency Camp Teaching Kids Blockchain Technology

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Capturing the excitement of Christmas morning, 11-year-old Moises de la Rosa excitedly opens a new box full of pieces to make a mining rig.

“Oh I remember with the little lights I used to take this stuff off like this,” said Moises.

In class, Moises is learning to build a skyminer mining rig. The rig was created to eventually eliminate the need for Internet service providers to offer a new, free, decentralized internet.

It works by connecting the skyminer to the current internet, but through wireless or radio. Users can connect it to an antenna on their roof and broadcast extra bandwidth to their neighbors.

The hardware runs the platform of its cryptocurrency, the skycoin. Skycoins are earned by providing the extra bandwidth.

This technology is more advanced than what can be found in a STEAM program, but camp creator Najah Roberts says this generation should know it.

“If our children do not understand, what is happening right now and what is to come,…