What happens when people are given a real opportunity to build a better future?

Frank Corva has spent years trying to understand that question across very different parts of the world.

Before covering Bitcoin adoption for Forbes and serving as Bitcoin Magazine’s first White House correspondent, Frank lived in a barrio in Venezuela, worked in rural Ghana, taught immigrants in New York City, and spent years exploring how people create change in their own lives and communities.

In this episode of Life with Bitcoin, Ivy Lumi and Frank explore what those experiences taught him about human nature - and why Bitcoin ultimately made him more optimistic about what people can build for themselves and each other.

We talk about the people Frank has met across Africa and Latin America who aren't thinking about Bitcoin simply as an investment. They're saving for their children's education, creating new opportunities, strengthening their communities, and trying to give the next generation a better life.

The conversation also gets personal. Frank reflects on his own evolution through Bitcoin - from anger and wanting to accumulate as much as possible, to thinking more deeply about generosity, responsibility, community, and what it means to have enough.

Some of the most powerful Bitcoin stories aren't really about Bitcoin.

They're about what people make possible with it.

What has Bitcoin made possible in your life?

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What should the next generation actually learn about Bitcoin?

Kristýna Mazánková is helping answer that question in a very practical way.

As Director of the English-language Master in Bitcoin at Hesperides University, Kris is helping build a university curriculum designed around Bitcoin - from economics and monetary history to mining, technology, business, communication, and the wider ecosystem.

Her perspective is also shaped by years of working at the intersection of Bitcoin media and events. Through The Bitcoin Conference, she has watched the ecosystem grow across very different audiences - from institutions and enterprises to developers, first-time attendees, and long-time Bitcoiners.

In this episode of Life with Bitcoin, Ivy Lumi sits down with her former colleague to go behind the scenes of building the Master in Bitcoin program: how do you decide what belongs in a Bitcoin degree? Who should teach it? How do you balance principles, professional skills, and technical understanding? And how do you expose students to different perspectives without simply handing them conclusions?

The conversation also opens into Kris’s personal journey - from growing up with family memories of communist-era, to discovering Bitcoin, becoming a parent, working across generations in the Bitcoin industry, and learning how to stay curious while going deeper into the rabbit hole.

We also explore:

⚡ What the next generation of Bitcoin professionals should actually learn

🎓 Why Bitcoin education needs both principles and real-world professional skills

🧠 How to preserve critical thinking while building conviction

🌍 What years of Bitcoin conferences have taught Kris about people and community

👨‍👩‍👧 Parenting, education, and taking responsibility for what we pass on

₿ Why Kris sees Bitcoin as long-term security amid short-term uncertainty

❤️ Why positive stories may create more lasting change than fear

🌱 What she hopes students from the program will contribute twenty years from now

Because education isn’t only about what we know.

It’s about what that knowledge allows us to do with our lives.

What do you think Bitcoin should teach the next generation?

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What does it actually feel like to help mine a Bitcoin block?

In this episode of Life with Bitcoin, Heather Larson — host of Radio Detox, Nostr advocate, and supporter of Value for Value — shares what it was like to participate in mining a Bitcoin block, and how the experience changed the way she sees Bitcoin.

From there, the conversation opens into a bigger question: what does it mean to move from simply using Bitcoin to actively participating in it?

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Disclaimer: Life with Bitcoin explores the human side of Bitcoin through personal stories, experiences, and ideas. The views shared in this episode are for educational purposes only and should not be interpreted as financial, investment, legal, or tax advice.