๐๐ฒ ๐
๐ข๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ญ๐๐จ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ฑ๐ฉ๐๐ง๐๐ฌ ๐๐๐ฒ๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐๐๐ซ๐ฌ: ๐
๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐๐จ๐๐๐ฅ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐๐๐ฅ ๐
After four years of building, My First Bitcoin is proud to announce its next chapter: a transition from leading Bitcoin education locally to empowering communities worldwide with support and tools. A transition from being teachers in one country, to providing tools and resources to educators everywhere
๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐บ ๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฅ๐ผ๐ผ๐๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐น๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต
Founded in 2021, we began as a pioneering project in independent education in El Salvador. Since then, we have taught more than 27,000 students in person, the vast majority in El Salvador.
Now, after months of preparation, we are ready to go beyond borders, as founder John Dennehy explains:
โ๐๐ถ๐ณ ๐ข๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ธ๐ข๐ด ๐ข๐ญ๐ธ๐ข๐บ๐ด ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ฐ๐ณ๐ญ๐ฅ, ๐ฃ๐ถ๐ต ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ฉ๐ข๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต ๐ธ๐ช๐ต๐ฉ ๐ข ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ต๐ถ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ช๐ต๐บ, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ข ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ณ๐ข๐ช๐ด๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต๐ช๐ข๐ญ ๐ช๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ข๐ค๐ต ๐ง๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฎ 6 ๐ฎ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฑ๐ฆ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ 8 ๐ฃ๐ช๐ญ๐ญ๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ. ๐๐ตโ๐ด ๐ข ๐ฉ๐ถ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ซ๐ถ๐ฎ๐ฑ, ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ต'๐ด ๐ธ๐ฉ๐บ ๐ธ๐ฆ ๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ค๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฐ๐ฏ ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ถ๐ค๐ข๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ฐ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ค๐ต๐ด ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ธ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ฆ, ๐ณ๐ข๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ ๐ต๐ณ๐บ๐ช๐ฏ๐จ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฅ๐ฐ ๐ช๐ต ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ๐ด๐ฆ๐ญ๐ท๐ฆ๐ด. ๐๐ฆ ๐ธ๐ข๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฑ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ณ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ฃ๐ฆ ๐ด๐ถ๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด๐ง๐ถ๐ญ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ช๐ณ ๐ฐ๐ธ๐ฏ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐ช๐ฆ๐ด, ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ฏ ๐ญ๐ช๐ฏ๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ณ๐บ๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฐ๐จ๐ฆ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ค๐ณ๐ฆ๐ข๐ต๐ฆ ๐ข ๐จ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฃ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ท๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต.โ
๐ ๐ถ๐๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฐ๐๐
While we go global, we will stay grounded in our bold mission: to work towards a free society in which individuals have agency in their lives, achieved through independent Bitcoin education. With Bitcoin being the ultimate tool for prosperity and freedom, we aim to empower humanity.
When people have more control over their own life, it allows them to look farther into the future, and that has profoundly positive second order effects for the individual. Bitcoin brings this control over your finances.
๐ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐ผ๐ป
With full transparency and gratitude to our community, we want to share a few key updates that mark this new phase:
โ Rebranding: The organization will move forward globally as My First Bitcoin, retiring the local name Mi Primer Bitcoin.
โ New Roles, New Leadership: The team has been restructured with new roles and directors to reflect this global mission. While some members shift their focus to the global scene, new members are added to double down on our mission: Open Source Bitcoin Education for the World.
โ Empowering Others: Our new focus is teaching the teachers; creating the tools, systems, and guidance for everyone that wants to start their own Bitcoin education initiatives: circular economies, meetups and community builders. Empowering those who empower others.
โ Node Network Expansion: Weโre focusing even more on the Node Network, a self-governing network of independent educators and community builders worldwide that are already using our open source resources. As of today, this network consists of over 70 projects from 38 countries.
โ Focus on Curricula: As we transition into a more facilitating role, we will double down on building and improving new and existing curricula, for all audiences.
โ Social Layer: We focus more and more on creating spaces for educators to come together, connect and share best practices, such as Unconferences (for the public) and General Assemblies (for the Node Network). This is not only resembled in physical spaces to meet, but also the creation of new digital tools, platforms and spaces.
โ Remote-First: As part of this shift, weโll be closing our physical office in El Salvador and moving to a fully remote, globally distributed structure.
โ Community Handover: Our weekly and monthly meetups in San Salvador will now be owned and run by a collective of local projects, My First Bitcoin steps back, and empowers others to take initiative. Weโve also created an open-source blueprint for meetups and Unconferences for anyone to replicate these events anywhere in the world.
โ End of Public School Program: As of spring 2025, My First Bitcoin is no longer operating within El Salvadorโs public schools. After running dozens of cohorts, and training hundreds of teachers, our collaboration with the Ministry of Education has ended.
๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ
Weโre deeply grateful for the years spent in El Salvador and where we learned many lessons on how to grow a grassroots, independent, and impartial educational movement.
We invite the global Bitcoin community, educators, meetup organizers, builders, and circular economies, to join us in writing the next chapter. Reach out if you want to join the network, are in need of certain resources or would benefit from curricula, structures, frameworks or tools.
Together, weโll make My First Bitcoin not just a program, but a movement.
Onwards.
For questions and media enquiries: arnold@myfirstbitcoin.io
Every strong Bitcoin community starts with conversation. โก
Leo shares how BitDevs meetups turn simple gatherings into spaces of curiosity, collaboration, and grassroots growth, no sponsors, just dialogue and people learning together.
๐ฅ Watch the talk ๐
