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

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I think i can explain about blockchain by copy paste from Google Searching  Cheesy
But most of 10 years child in my place only know studying at School and playing with their friends.
And Blockchain is not famous in my place, only 1-2 person know in my Village.
legendary
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I don't think a 10 year old kid will understand blockchain technology because an adult person can't even understand blockchain so how come a kid will understand it?

A 10-year old kid doesn't have enough knowledge about technology and it's advancement (unless he's so genius or gifted for his age). They mostly spend their time playing online games like playing Minecraft. But, they wouldn't be interested in any blockchain-related things.

But if you want to explain it to a kid, give him the lightest explanation. It doesn't have to be that specific or more on technicalities. You can simply say, it's a kind of technological advancement that will be part of our future. It can help a lot of people to makes things easier for them to do. You can example a robot. Robot helps people to do things easily. While blockchain is like a robot who can help in making things easier with the use of this technology.

They're too young to be thinking such complicated things. So it's better to wait for a kid to mature before explaining it further. Or you could just explain it to him from the simplest way and then make sure he will often encounter than word so he can keep it in his mind and wouldn't forget about it.

I remember the time when Minecraft had servers you could earn Bitcoin on by just playing and destroying blocks.

A child growing up WITH the blockchain technology would make it easy-peasy when they are 18+ to use it. I grew up as a child interested in about anything related to tech, and today it's easy to understand most things about it.. and that's the perfect example I can give. I grew up with English video games, movies and forums and today I am a fluent English speaker. It helps a lot.

There's no way you can explain cryptocurrencies to a child without getting him confused with every single sentence you speak. As I said earlier, practice is the best way to do it. Give a kid a Minecraft premium account, a server that integrates a cryptocurrency as the in-game economy and a wallet for the cryptocurrency. I guarantee in max 1 year he will know what cryptocurrencies are and how they work.
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I don't think a 10 year old kid will understand blockchain technology because an adult person can't even understand blockchain so how come a kid will understand it?

A 10-year old kid doesn't have enough knowledge about technology and it's advancement (unless he's so genius or gifted for his age). They mostly spend their time playing online games like playing Minecraft. But, they wouldn't be interested in any blockchain-related things.

But if you want to explain it to a kid, give him the lightest explanation. It doesn't have to be that specific or more on technicalities. You can simply say, it's a kind of technological advancement that will be part of our future. It can help a lot of people to makes things easier for them to do. You can example a robot. Robot helps people to do things easily. While blockchain is like a robot who can help in making things easier with the use of this technology.

They're too young to be thinking such complicated things. So it's better to wait for a kid to mature before explaining it further. Or you could just explain it to him from the simplest way and then make sure he will often encounter than word so he can keep it in his mind and wouldn't forget about it.
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teach him how to program, just like people in india some are so young even microsoft offer them a job, learning programming , will make him understand what blockchain is, at the same time, there are fun ways to teach via blockchain, these are ways to make them enjoy learning , this way they will ask for more, unlike what I see from othere they force them to learn it , and the result is not good unlike if they enjoy it
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Except if the child has an interest in blockchain, but I don't know what the chances are for a child to have such interest when there's so much kid stuff for him or her to get busy and "dirty" with. Other than the child's inquisitive interest, I feel it's wrong to bore a child with something as complex as the blockchain technology.

There's a slight chance that if you introduce a child that early to what blockchain means, before they grow, he or she may with time lose interest in it due to how they perceived or understood it when they were younger, not knowing that our levels of understanding differs as we grow in age.
Exactly, even if they will have interest in blockchain they will still have a very difficult time understanding the concept of blockchain, they probably will not mind it after you have explained it to them because of the depth of blockchain but if you will still eager to explain it to the most simpliest way try to use things that the child is familiar so that he can understand it easily but still i think they will not understand it even if you simplified the explanation.
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The main point OP wants to tell, I think, is being able to explain blockchain in the simplest of terms. He could have used a grandparent as another example here. For noobs to be able to understand blockchain and crypto, we may need to treat them as having the mind of a kid or a grandparent learning the tech for the first time. Being able to teach the basics to those who doesn't have the slightest idea is crucial in any product/service to be widely used.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPMDpb9ho4s Take a look at this blue cat and santa story about Christmas gift.

This can give basic knowledge about blockchain even for a kid.But I don't think it is necessary to know about working of technology to use the applications based on them for example crypto payments.You can simply pay with cryptos when you know the bitcoin address from your wallet for that basic mobile using skills are enough.
legendary
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ABC Book for Bitcoin, Altcoin & Cryptocurrency could be an option.


Source : Amazon

The book focused on the introduction of bitcoin & cryptocurrency-related since kids don't have a huge/experiment about the whole topic & technology this book was really fit for kids. So we can learn them first a few words relating to bitcoin and cryptocurrency instance learn them a whole topic about bitcoin technology and other topics because i believe kids don't have the ability to learning on that age. Also, the book was cover by a cute character, so the kids could be comfortable learning, reading & spelling a cryptocurrency topic

More topic about ABC Book for Bitcoin you can find at here: https://web.facebook.com/watch/?ref=external&v=881488398860236
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It really depends on the child's understanding but If I were you I would compare blockchain to other things to make it easier to understand. Like in a classroom their teacher and classmate are blockchains they are connected to each other, why? Because they exchange data, distribute information, receive or send data by hearing and talking it is like communication. Their teacher records every quizzes and attendance just like blockchain, Every transaction you made is recorded and has transaction history. And all those things are being converted into computer technology at least a little idea will help this kid.
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Except if the child has an interest in blockchain, but I don't know what the chances are for a child to have such interest when there's so much kid stuff for him or her to get busy and "dirty" with. Other than the child's inquisitive interest, I feel it's wrong to bore a child with something as complex as the blockchain technology.

There's a slight chance that if you introduce a child that early to what blockchain means, before they grow, he or she may with time lose interest in it due to how they perceived or understood it when they were younger, not knowing that our levels of understanding differs as we grow in age.
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Kind of with @Lucius here. At that age, I think there is a vast area to really dig into with him: privacy.

I’d spend recurrent time on making him conscious of all the self-aware privacy practices he should consider, the implications behind providing information on their social channels, photographs, comments, and so forth, and how that develops into a digital footprint that stays with you and can be exploited by third parties in multiple ways (and even bite you back in the ass further down the road).

After all, privacy is something that is going to impact them from there on in a much more tangible manner than blockchain at that age. Come to think of it, one’s digital footprint does actually resemble to some degree a blockchain: People "trust" what they read out there with (little) proof of work, and the digital footprint you leave is often non-mutable (just give it a go at trying to delete all your social media, comments of forums of all sorts, google search engine, caches, dashboards, basements, etc.).
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Let no one get me wrong, but a 10-year-old child should have other priorities in life than learning about blockchain. Childhood is a very important period of every human being, a time of carelessness, playing with friends, freedom from the burdens of life. Personally, I would not take that away from any child, I think everything has its time and place.

Therefore, my advice would be to protect your children from unnecessary information until the time is right. Knowing about blockchain will not help them enjoy their childhood, exactly the opposite.
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Most kids nowadays has access to digital gadgets like phones and laptops. I would rather save a short video explaining the basic idea behind blockchain on their device. I am pretty sure that they won't understand it in one sitting so I'll just have them watch it over and over again. Education by repetition is still effective.
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Take it easy with my example.

You are Dad or Mom.
Your kid want to buy a candy.
You give your kid a few cents to buy it.
That kid has to go to a grocery to buy it.

The grocery can tell you (Dad or Mom) that kid buys bought how many candy.
If that grocery staff does not tel the truth to you, you don't know what the kid do with a few cent you give him/ her (buying candy or not, and how many candy was bought).

With blockchain, all of that information will be stored globally, and you (as Dad or Mom) can retrieve it easily, without the words from the grocery staff.
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I'll use his toys to explain, assuming he/she has a building materials related toys like building tools, blocks etc I'll leverage on that but if the kid doesn't have I'll get him one immediately or us any available toy that can be used to build as a practice example because kids do learn faster when things are been thought in practical form then theory. And they hardly forget things they practiced.

I'll tell the kid, in the simplest form, a blockchain is a series of block in a chain form where information are been stored openly in can be easily verified. Then I'll used the toy bricks to build a chain of block and ask him if he can verify how many blocks were used in the demonstration and after we must have confirmed the numbers, I'll than build a wall over the chain of blocks I earlier built than pretend I added more block and ask him if he can guess how many blocks were added.

After the kid must have guessed wrong I'll then review to him/her, that I didn't add any blocks to the already existing chain of blocks but since the chain of blocks were been restricted from public view I could manipulate the situation to suit me and that's how a centralized system like the first currency works (probably call the name of the local currency where the kid reside like Dollars or Naira).
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A small ebook about it here : https://www.amazon.com/Place-Blockchain-Brett-Biery-ebook/dp/B07C9TSMCR (I'm not the author and it's not a ref link)

and i'm also writing a text, please wait Smiley

Edit : I wrote it in like 15mn so of course it's not enough but that's the spirit :

Once upon a time, in the realm of truth..,
The inhabitants created a book to know in real time how much candy each child had.
The wiser the children were and listened at school, the more candy they received.
The children could ask for and eat these candies at any time.
When a piece of candy was eaten, the book was updated accordingly by a bookkeeper: Mr. Banks.

One day Mr. Banks thought he wanted to eat candy, too.
So he took up his pen and changed some values in the book...

When some children went into the room where the book was, they discovered that the numbers were not the same...

Seeing that Mr. Banks had more candy than before, they went to warn the adults.
The adults reading the book saw no mistake... and didn't believe the children...

Saddened by the loss of their precious candy, they went to the sorcerer of the kingdom that no one had ever seen: Mr. Nakamoto...

After explaining the problem, Mr. Nakamoto summoned the King to set up a new version of the book.

This book, called "Blockchain" was a version identical to the previous one.
However, Mr. Nakamoto announced that the numbers would no longer be written with a pen but with an indelible marker.

The days passed and one morning, Mr. Banks had a sudden craving for candy.
He tried to erase the numbers to change them, but because of the indelible marker he couldn't do so.

So he thought he could tear out some of the pages and replace them with others.
But he hadn't seen that Mr. Nakamoto had bound the pages with a thick golden thread.
No matter how hard he tried, not a single page was torn out.

Faced with this problem, Mr. Banks gave up and it is said that since that day, children have been eating their sweets quietly while contemplating the magic book "Blockchain".


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@Oasisman is right this has been discussed before and i have seen this topic all over the internet though this has some word play to  it  Roll Eyes
 
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If I want to simply explain to a 10 years boy. what is blockchain? How should I explain? Please give your answer.

I think a jigsaw puzzle would do fine. Just make a single line of it, and notice how you cannot swap the correct pieces with wrong ones, as the line would fall apart and never connect again (chain is broken).

Also notice that to build a solid line you have to connect the correct piece one after the other, which is what a blockchain does.
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First of, make a promise to him, kids like being rewarded if they do a great job, so I guess buying him a new toy, a PlayStation, or whatever he wanted will suffice for him to a good student. If you are not an expert when it comes to understanding about the whole blockchain thing, you should ready yourself for so many questions, because a kid will surely ask you anything that can't reach by his level of understanding, unless he is a prodigy.

You could also make a lesson plan, like what teachers are doing, the night before they go to school the next day, that is a nice guide for you to teach him the basics to major things about blockchain.
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You don't have to explain that to a 10 year old boy.10 year old still don't know how bank,fiat money and taxes work.Wait for 3-4 years and then try to explain how the blockchain works.
I have a very oversimplified explanation:The blockchain is just a bunch of servers connected to each other,and every time there's a transaction between person A and person B,all those computers have to confirm the transactions using complex math tasks.Yes,it's oversimplified and kinda wrong,but a 10 year old might get it.
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I'd get some paper a pencil and a sharpie. Start writing things like I give you 1 dollar, you give me 50 cents and write these in pencil swapping the dollar back and forth then erase it and take the dollar back. Show that someone else has control and can revert deals, now  write in sharpie the deals, say you want to revert one and show how you can't erase the permanent marker and it can't be undone, to get the dollar back a new deal must be written in marker.

Something like that seems easy and use multiple sheets of paper each sheet representing a block.
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.
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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?
legendary
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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.
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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.  Wink

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.
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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.  Wink
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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.

...
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
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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 Smiley
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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.

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.
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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.
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If I want to simply explain to a 10 years boy. what is blockchain? How should I explain? Please give your answer.

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.
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If I want to simply explain to a 10 years boy. what is blockchain? How should I explain? Please give your answer.
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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I hope you are aware of using the "search" tool, for you to save time waiting for the answers, and for the forum to minimize the spam with the same topic again a d again.

Let me help you ease your searching. Everything related to you question.

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/who-can-explain-blockchain-to-5th-graders-4614455
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/how-do-you-explain-blockchain-to-a-10-year-old-5067522 
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5148194.60 

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