1. HISTORY OF MONEY 💰🔄 An interactive game-based workshop, exploring the history and functions of money through trading activities that illustrate barter, commodity money, and inflation, using visual aids and trade objects to understand key concepts like medium of exchange,

2. HASHING 🧩🔐 A deep dive to learn about SHA256 hashing, blockchain basics, and mining through physical and digital demonstrations using Rubik's cubes, text files, and a blockchain demo tool, while exploring key concepts like consensus and the immutability of data.

3. PROOF OF WORK 🚴‍♂️💻 Simulate Bitcoin mining using exercise bikes and a blockchain demo to understand concepts like proof of work, hashing, nonce, block rewards, and difficulty adjustment, with rewards distributed based on mining success and collaborative pooling.

4. BYZANTINE GENERALS ⚔️🛡️ In this 20-minute cooperative game workshop, participants simulate the Byzantine Generals problem using attack and retreat scenarios to understand how consensus is achieved in decentralized systems without a trusted third party, highlighting the role of

5. TRANSACTIONS - SEND & RECEIVE 📤📥 A role-playing workshop where participants simulate a Bitcoin transaction process by taking on the roles of peers, a miner, and a node, demonstrating how to create, sign, and broadcast a PSBT (Partially Signed Bitcoin Transaction), while

6. TRANSACTION FEES & UTXOs 📦⚖️ Act as shippers and miners to learn about Bitcoin transaction fees and UTXOs by simulating a postal system, where they bid with cards to have their "packages" (transactions) accepted into blocks based on size, weight, and urgency, and explore the

7. COLD STORAGE ❄️🔒 Expert demonstration of the importance of cold storage for securing Bitcoin, using hardware wallets, seed phrases, and offline transaction signing.

8. FUD WRESTLING 🐍🪜 This workshop uses a Snakes and Ladders-style board game to teach participants how to identify and combat FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) with hard facts.

Really excited for this lineup of hands-on workshops at the upcoming Learning #Bitcoin event. Perfect way to get friends and family started in the world of #Bitcoin, learning not only how to send and receive transactions but also core concepts such as Proof of Work and more.

Which ones are you planning to attend? 👀

Canadian Bitcoiners, check this out! 🇨🇦 Send your precoiner friends to this event in Victoria and introduce them to bitcoin through these amazing workshops. ⛓👩‍💻

Tonight at 4pm PST - organizer daniela is live with Canadian Bitcoiners Podcast CBP Media Network