I've been thinking of ways to use my LTB coin. Here's my idea!
I would be interested in educational content... I was thinking of a show called "Personalities." The content of this show would be interviews with people in the bitcoin space, but not necessarily about about the technical aspects of their involvement in the concurrency world, but more about their personal experiences that they feel contributed to their success.
As a way of getting listener feedback, I was thinking that listeners could pledge LTB coin for different personalities. These pledged LTB coin could be split between the personality (say 80% payout) and the content editor (say 20%), though these percentages could be set wherever LTB thinks works.
Ideally, there could be some sort of assurance contract to hold these pledges. Too bad Lighthouse isn't up and working on counterparty!
This type of listener funded content would have 2 benefits. First, it would allow listeners to directly vote on content they're interested in, in a quasi-monetary form. Our pledges would basically determine which personalities the listeners are most interested in. Second, it would provide some compensation to the personalities, which might allow for higher quality content, perhaps in the form of harder-to-get personalities being willing to spend the time being interviewed if compensated.
As a father, my wife and I want to think entirely out of the box with education. I studied engineering and physics, and have a Masters degree. My wife taught in public schools in both Minneapolis and Manhattan, so she we both have experience with the institutional school system. We're really impressed with the Swann family (as in Ben Swann), who's entire family basically received masters degrees by age 16.
I'd love to hear opinions from people like Peter Todd, Mike Hearn, Gregory Maxwell, etc... Would they choose computer science again? What do they wish they could have changed about their education? How did they learn cryptography? Do they have any ideas about education they would hope to use one day? Would they encourage college, and if not, how would they sidestep the 'expected' educational system?
