With the non-stop inflation and geopolitical tensions here in Iran, everyone is scrambling to find a safe way to preserve their life savings. Unfortunately, because real Bitcoin awareness is extremely low or basic, many people fall into scams or choose the wrong assets.
I have been privately educating my close network, friends, and family about Bitcoin. Seeing how much people lose to inflation makes me want to scale this into a proper educational media project to reach a wider audience.
I can manage the initial low-cost expenses and setups with my own limited personal budget. However, my biggest challenge isn't the minor setup costs—it's the strategy and the execution under unique local constraints. I want to build something that bypasses traditional platform censorship and teaches people actual peer-to-peer tools, not just trading.
I would love to get some strategic advice from experienced stackers here:
- What are the most effective, censorship-resistant formats or lightweight platforms to host a localized Bitcoin education hub?
- How do you effectively break down complex self-custody concepts and Lightning mechanics for absolute beginners who are in a state of financial panic?
If anyone has experience bootstrapping a localized educational movement in a high-risk or hyperinflationary country, I’d love to read your insights in the comments
Can you just host it out of ~bitcoin_beginners?
They'll have access to lots of stackers who have immense bitcoin knowledge and get some practice using small amounts of bitcoin. That's basically how I started.
Selfishly, it would be nice to see more discussion of the basics around here again.
That's actually a great point I hadn't fully considered. I was so focused on building something standalone that I overlooked what's already here.
Honestly my main concern was whether beginners from my local context would even find their way to SN in the first place — but maybe the better approach is to start creating the content here first and figure out the distribution later.
I'll give ~bitcoin_beginners a shot. Thanks for the nudge
Just let me know if you need any help from me. Are you thinking you need a Persian language site, or is English OK?
Thank you! Persian is essential for my target audience. Could you tell me more about how you could help? I want to make sure I understand what you have in mind
I don't actually have anything in mind. You are free to post in the territory in Persian. However, it would probably be useful to do a search of existing Persian language bitcoin resources and create an index. You are free to do that here, but it would probably be more effective to spread it in Persian language social media sites, chat groups, etc. I don't want to discourage you from posting here, I just don't know how many people are fluent in Persian on SN. Maybe there are more than I imagine!
I know people are using browser translators for Stacker News content. Maybe it doesn't have to be an either/or situation wrt language.
Good point
Thank you for the honest feedback, really appreciate it. I'll look into Persian language communities and focus my efforts there،، But for the people that I can give advice on investing in Bitcoin, I will justify it as much as I can, and if there is a need to learn more, I will refer them here so that they can learn more and have a safe investment.
I hope it works. Let @siggy47 know if there are particular things that would make it easier for your audience.
Thank you again, and for sure, the more help I get, the better this work will be
I am also Iranian and I am happy that there is another Iranian here besides myself,,, but you posted this post yesterday and I commented to you and you didn't reply and deleted your post, so I am asking you again, I hope you don't delete and reply this time,, what is your reason for doing this, why do you want to teach others how to invest in Bitcoin on a large scale??