El Salvador recently started a pilot education project in their country
Through this education project, students in El Salvador will learn how to set up, manage and operate Liquidity on Lightning Nodes as well as coding. I think it's amazing to see students learn coding skills and get hands-on experience in setting up, operating, and managing the fluidity of a Lightning node. With these, Bitcoin will probably become more popular in El Salvador and students will get a lot of hands-on experience with Bitcoin.
Their program is expected to roll out to other schools in El Salvador within the next 12 months.
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With this news, Nayib Bukele and government officials in El Salvador are increasingly showing their seriousness in adopting Bitcoin. Because this program really needs to be implemented and studied by the people of El Salvador, especially the younger generation. Because if this is not implemented and taught specifically in El Salvador, perhaps the adoption of bitcoin in El Salvador will be slightly hampered. Because as we know, currently the Bitcoin network often experiences congestion or transaction fees become expensive. So if this is not addressed with the Lightning network, perhaps the use of bitcoin in El Salvador will be hampered by this factor (network congestion). So this learning plan about Lightning nodes is something that must be done in El Salvador.
And the planned implementation time of 12 months may be sufficient. But don't forget, previously the El Salvador government implemented a Lightning node learning system in schools or universities. The government must be able to encourage the younger generation to study at a higher level (beyond elementary school). Because from the news that I know in El Salvador, compulsory education is only in elementary school. However, for secondary schools and universities, there are still many who do not continue.
In El Salvador only elementary school is mandatory. Student enrollment in pre-primary schools, junior high schools and higher education has actually increased. However, the number of students at these three levels is still not comparable to the number of students in elementary schools, which constitute the majority of the student population.
Children who have completed grade 9 can continue to secondary school, but only 33% do. The literacy distribution is 79% male and 73% female.
Source: https://www.sridianti.com/soal/apakah-sekolah-wajib-di-el-salvador.htmlSo, for example, if currently this has not been optimally improved by the government in El Salvador, perhaps the application of learning about Lightning nodes will not be spread optimally to all the young generation there. Because the problem is that there are still many young people who have not or have not continued their education. So at this point, this is an important point that Nayib Bukele must definitely complete very well. Because these factor will certainly be important to realize his dream of adopting bitcoin very well in El Salvador.