Topic: If I want to explain to a 10 years boy.what is blockchain?How should I explain? - page 2. (Read 366 times)

This will be easily understood by any kid who wish to learn about blockchain. The sheets representing the blocks, and the writing on pencil which is erasable as the traditional banking system and the writings with marker as a permanent data added to the ledger as the blockchain technology based data addition.

Blockchain is very wide and broad topic. For a ten year old kid, that's way above his level. But you can used some way like giving him a picture or diagram that showcase blockchain and how it works in a very easy languages but the meaning is same.

But the era now is changing more kids nowadays are fond of using tech such as mobile phones and even browsing internet right? If they can learn that then they can also learn basics of blockchain. Start from scratch and the process wouldn't be too hard for him. More importantly, have patience with him as teaching kids isnt easy at all. Why do you wanna teach your boy now to so he can start mining and trading already?

By practice. I think it's the best way a young one could learn how Bitcoin/blockchain works.

Practicing is simple. You buy a very cheap coin (say DOGE) and you help him create a wallet for himself. From that point on, all you have to do is show him how to do transactions and different things like "look, I can see what you're holding in your address! It's public!".

Teaching a young child how blockchain works by explaining it is hard. I'd rather give him and one of his friends/relatives of his age a wallet each with a few DOGE loaded up and let them experiment themselves.

I've personally learned most of my English through Google translate, writing articles and playing video games. I've learned Bitcoin the hard way, without anybody explaining to me what it is and what it can do. You have to go through the worst stuff to learn - we learn the best from mistakes.

the topic is not about bitcoin
   the topic is not about cryptocurrency

the topic is about blockchain.. blockchains are not just currency stuff.. blockchains is the security framework of data. what data is in a block can be anything. whether its financial, identity, DNS, file name, patent logs, law records.. blockchains can have anything.
so to explain blockchains. its best to just explain blockchains and then as a separate lesson if the kid asks. then talk about more specific examples.

It is actually very easy to explain it to him. You can first tell him how Banks record all transactions on a centralized database and then explain to him that in Bitcoin, there are no Banks to record all transactions that are done by the people using the technology.

Satoshi Nakamoto then created software that can be installed on many users computers all over the world, that will collectively share a copy of all transactions that are done by the people using this technology. This is called the Blockchain, because like in a chain, a group of transactions are grouped together in a Block and then that Block is linked to the previous Block to form a chain of all transactions that were done previously. < This is then called a decentralized technology, because all the data are not stored in one centralized database >

I explained it like this to my kids and they understood the whole concept. 

take a chapter of a book and give it a title
reference that title in the next chapter so that you link the chapters together.

now a block is a chapter. it is just lots of information. and the chain is linking of the chapters
hense block chain... (linking blocks of information)
..
now to get more complex. the chapter title is not randomly chosen. its a math/word puzzle by combining all the information of the chapter to create its title
a very simple example is.
if chapter ones title was 'alice slept well' and the story was 'one night alice had a nice dream and woke up refreshed' .. well if you change the information to bob instead of alice. then the title becomes 'bob slept well'

chapter two would include just the 'alice slept well' reference not the whole chapter story, meaning the story in the second chapter would not work if the second chapter talks about alice but someone changed the first chapter to bob.
so by referencing the first chapter in the second chapter means the second chapter makes it harder to change the first chapter without having to also change the next chapter.

and this repeats for each chapter. the more chapters there are the harder it becomes to change the first chapter without it  breaking the story.

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this then makes it easy to check the story to the chapter titles to make sure its all valid. and also then be able to check friends versions of the book to make sre they have the same edition of the story as you.

making it very quick to know that everyone has read the exact same story

Just explain to him that how would he keep record if he lends money to various friends different amounts? He will reply by keeping a book of records. How will your friends verify every input in book as not made fake by you? He will reply, by taking their signatures/thumbprints on each record. Then simply blockchain is like that public ledger in which transactions are recorded and verified for whole world to see

So is your sister in high school?

Is she in college?

Or is she in middle school?

I would like to think a child should get some education on blockchain by high school.

But teaching the kid in the 6th grade might be a good time to start.

Wow, I experienced this on spot, though not a 10 years old.

I went to a school to attend for my younger sister's meeting. I met her friends and told me that they are doing an explanation of their assignment but she doesn't know what the other one is amd she knows I knew it. I asked and she told it is Blockchain. I am surprised, not because I don't know but because it is being talked about now in a classroom.

A 10-year old boy is probably in his 4th grade already. I suppose a 4th grade pupil can already understand words without the use of colorful drawings and diagrams. Creating a story out of it could probably help in order for him to at least visualize in his imagination what you mean.

So I think I would just compare blockchain to a record book containing millions of pages scattered all over the world in which all transactions are recorded. All these pages are connected because each page contains the content of the other pages. And because of this, nobody can change anything in the book. Nobody can tamper the information in it. Nobody could cheat. Because that would mean roaming all over the world to look for every single page before changing them one by one. That would be impossible.

face to face tutorial will be the better way of teachibg him i mean you should show them what it is and how to use that blockchain , dont make it more difficult teach him step by step until he remember all the things you teach.
BTW what is the reason why you want him to teach about blockchain?

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