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My First Bitcoin Pivots to Global Bitcoin Education Initiatives

Friday Nov 7 2025 20:40

2 min

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1. My First Bitcoin: From Local Classrooms to Global Bitcoin Education
1.1 El Salvador and the IMF

My First Bitcoin: From Local Classrooms to Global Bitcoin Education

My First Bitcoin, a Bitcoin education program founded in El Salvador, has concluded its collaboration with the country’s Ministry of Education and will transition from running local classes to supporting global Bitcoin education initiatives. The organization has educated more than 27,000 students in person about Bitcoin (BTC) — primarily in El Salvador — and now plans to support educators and community projects worldwide through open-source materials and training tools. In a statement issued on Friday, My First Bitcoin said the move includes closing its physical office in El Salvador, along with the adoption of a fully remote work model. “Our ambition was always to change the world, but we had to start with a single student, then a single city, then a single nation and now we are ready to raise the potential impact from 6 million people to 8 billion,” said founder John Dennehy. Founded as an independent nonprofit in 2021 by American activist and journalist John Dennehy, My First Bitcoin offered free education on Bitcoin to Salvadorans. In 2023, the organization partnered with El Salvador’s Ministry of Education to integrate its Bitcoin Diploma program into public schools by 2024. The move comes as El Salvador reevaluates its Bitcoin policies following a recent agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

El Salvador and the IMF

El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as legal tender in September 2021 and began accumulating one Bitcoin per day a few months later. In December 2024, the country reached a $1.4 billion financing agreement with the IMF, which included commitments to unwind its Bitcoin initiatives, thereby limiting its BTC accumulation plans. As part of the deal, lawmakers amended the country’s Bitcoin law in January to make BTC acceptance voluntary for businesses. In July, the IMF published a report that said El Salvador had not bought any new Bitcoin since signing the deal with the IMF in December. Despite this, the El Salvador Bitcoin Office’s website continues to display records of the government’s recurring Bitcoin purchases, with holdings amounting to 6,374 BTC, valued at approximately $654.8 million at the time of writing.

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Emma Rose

My First Bitcoin Pivots to Global Bitcoin Education Initiatives

My First Bitcoin: From Local Classrooms to Global Bitcoin Education

El Salvador and the IMF

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