萨尔瓦多的比特币教育计划正在培训新一代工程师

一位萨尔瓦多律师最近告诉赫伯特，这个中美洲国家从未经历过和平与繁荣，至少在人们的记忆中没有。

El Salvador made headlines in 2021 when President Nayib Bukele legalized bitcoin (BTC), giving the cryptocurrency equal status to the U.S. dollar, the Central American nation’s official currency.

萨尔瓦多于 2021 年成为头条新闻，总统纳伊布·布克莱 (Nayib Bukele) 将比特币 (BTC) 合法化，赋予这种加密货币与中美洲国家官方货币美元同等的地位。

Since then, El Salvador has set up a bitcoin reserve valued at around $630 million, put in place one of the most advanced crypto regulatory frameworks in the world, promised to issue $1 billion in bitcoin-backed government bonds and even convinced stablecoin giant Tether to move its headquarters to the country.

此后，萨尔瓦多建立了价值约 6.3 亿美元的比特币储备，建立了世界上最先进的加密货币监管框架之一，承诺发行 10 亿美元的比特币支持政府债券，甚至说服稳定币巨头 Tether将其总部迁至该国。

But one of the country’s most rewarding achievements has been its large-scale Bitcoin-centric education program, according to Stacy Herbert, director of El Salvador’s Bitcoin Office.

但萨尔瓦多比特币办公室主任史黛西·赫伯特表示，该国最有价值的成就之一是其大规模的以比特币为中心的教育计划。

“Bitcoin country needs Bitcoin engineers, right? We're making them, and it’s a long manufacturing process, but it's creating a nice positive feedback loop,” Herbert told CoinDesk in an interview. “They graduate, they get jobs, they all become friends. … You can feel a tech vibe emerging in San Salvador.”

“比特币国家需要比特币工程师，对吧？我们正在制造它们，这是一个漫长的制造过程，但它创造了一个很好的积极反馈循环，”赫伯特在接受 CoinDesk 采访时说道。 “他们毕业了，他们找到了工作，他们都成为了朋友。 ......你可以感受到圣萨尔瓦多正在兴起的科技氛围。”

The idea, Herbert said, is that when massive companies like Tether or Bitfinex decide to relocate their headquarters or open offices in El Salvador, they have no problem finding the highly educated workforce needed to run their operations.

赫伯特说，这个想法是，当 Tether 或 Bitfinex 等大型公司决定将总部迁至萨尔瓦多或在萨尔瓦多开设办事处时，他们可以毫无问题地找到运营运营所需的受过高等教育的劳动力。

“A lot of the students are finding ample opportunity to work at these companies because there's huge demand [for them],” Herbert said. The quality of the Salvadorans’ Bitcoin education incites even more firms to consider El Salvador as a jurisdiction in which to set up shop, and that, she continued, motivates more students to study Bitcoin.

“很多学生都找到了在这些公司工作的充足机会，因为[对它们]的需求巨大，”赫伯特说。萨尔瓦多人的比特币教育质量促使更多的公司考虑将萨尔瓦多作为开设商店的司法管辖区，她继续说，这激励了更多的学生学习比特币。

President Bukele has a “vision for a renaissance. Singapore 2.0. Florence 2.0. How do you get there? You need to build a strategy,” Herbert said. “You need the talent pool. You need smart, optimistic, bright people. And that's what we have here in El Salvador.”

布克莱总统有一个“复兴的愿景”。新加坡2.0。佛罗伦萨2.0。你怎么去那里？你需要制定一个策略，”赫伯特说。 “你需要人才库。你需要聪明、乐观、聪明的人。这就是我们在萨尔瓦多所拥有的。”

Bitcoin Education

比特币教育

A longtime bitcoiner — she was among the first to discuss the cryptocurrency on international television back in 2010 – Herbert came to El Salvador in 2021 with her husband Max Keiser soon after bitcoin was made legal tender and almost immediately spun up an educational program, CUBO+, to train Bitcoin developers in the country. Bukele later picked her to run the Bitcoin Office, which was formally established in November 2022.

作为一名长期的比特币爱好者，她是 2010 年最早在国际电视上讨论加密货币的人之一。2021 年，在比特币成为法定货币后不久，赫伯特与丈夫 Max Keizer 来到了萨尔瓦多，并几乎立即启动了一个教育项目 CUBO+，在该国培训比特币开发人员。布克莱后来选择她来管理比特币办公室，该办公室于 2022 年 11 月正式成立。

The Bitcoin Office advises on policy and legislation and markets El Salvador’s bitcoin initiatives. But the first thing Herbert did upon her appointment was to work on bringing Bitcoin education into high schools. The program initially targeted only five institutions but has now been rolled out on a nationwide level.

比特币办公室就政策和立法提供建议，并推销萨尔瓦多的比特币计划。但赫伯特上任后做的第一件事就是致力于将比特币教育引入高中。该计划最初仅针对五家机构，但现已在全国范围内推广。

Students are shown how to set up Bitcoin and Lightning Network nodes, and the technical details behind ASICs — specialized computers exclusively used to mine bitcoin. The ASIC lessons in particular were met with enthusiasm, Herbert said. “They were able to hold something, and that really helped them understand in a deep way.”

学生将了解如何设置比特币和闪电网络节点，以及 ASIC（专门用于挖掘比特币的专用计算机）背后的技术细节。赫伯特说，ASIC 课程尤其受到热烈欢迎。 “他们能够握住一些东西，这确实帮助他们深入理解。”

But Bitcoin lessons aren’t limited to high schoolers only. CUBO+ runs a course that Herbert described as a “very intense bootcamp” that expounds on Bitcoin theory, history and philosophy. Open to roughly 100 to 125 applicants — who get university credits for attending — the program eventually selects 21 students with the best technical skills and pushes their education even further. Some of the students have been flown to Tuscany and Lugano to participate in Bitcoin workshops.

但比特币课程不仅限于高中生。 CUBO+ 开设了一门课程，赫伯特将其描述为“非常激烈的训练营”，阐述了比特币理论、历史和哲学。该项目向大约 100 至 125 名申请者开放，他们通过参加该项目获得大学学分，最终选出 21 名拥有最佳技术技能的学生，并进一步推动他们的教育。一些学生已飞往托斯卡纳和卢加诺参加比特币研讨会。

“100% of the students [in the inaugural year] found a job,” Herbert said. “Some of them are making close to $4,000 a month. You know, the average starting salary for a computer science graduate in El Salvador in 2023 was $600 a month.”

“（第一年）100% 的学生找到了工作，”赫伯特说。 “他们中的一些人每月收入接近 4,000 美元。要知道，2023 年萨尔瓦多计算机科学专业毕业生的平均起薪为每月 600 美元。”

Close to 80,000 civil servants have also taken three-day Bitcoin certification courses. And another program will roll out in schools — from first grade to ninth grade — on the topics of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. “We’re laying the foundation upon which we can build a great economy,” Herbert said. “It’s not just the technical details of Bitcoin. It's a mindset shift, to understand what sovereignty and independence mean.”

近 8 万名公务员还参加了为期三天的比特币认证课程。另一个项目将在学校（从一年级到九年级）推出，主题是人工智能（AI）和机器人技术。 “我们正在为建设伟大的经济奠定基础，”赫伯特说。 “这不仅仅是比特币的技术细节。这是一种思维方式的转变，需要理解主权和独立的含义。”

CUBO+ has already paid off for Herbert on a personal level. Three employees work under her at the Bitcoin Office, all of which graduated from the program before coming to work for the government.

CUBO+ 已经在个人层面上为 Herbert 带来了回报。比特币办公室的三名员工在她手下工作，他们都从该项目毕业后进入政府工作。

Let the good times roll

让美好时光滚滚而来

The Salvadoran government recently agreed to wind down its bitcoin wallet and make bitcoin payments acceptance voluntary in the private sector (instead of mandatory) as part of a new $3.5 billion deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Herbert said that the Bitcoin Office had not been part of the negotiations but that, in her view, the concessions made by El Salvador changed nothing at all. “The priority is always the people, so [let’s do] whatever helps the people the most, while

萨尔瓦多政府最近同意关闭其比特币钱包，并让私营部门自愿（而不是强制）接受比特币支付，作为与国际货币基金组织 (IMF) 达成的 35 亿美元新协议的一部分。赫伯特表示，比特币办公室并未参与谈判，但在她看来，萨尔瓦多做出的让步根本没有改变任何事情。 “人民永远是最重要的，所以[让我们]做任何对人民最有帮助的事情，同时