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?