Crypto can help teach children about personal finance

cointelegraph.com:

Being financially literate means understanding how skills like money management, budgeting, and investing can be used to make effective financial decisions. The sooner these skills are adopted in life, the greater the number of opportunities for accruing wealth. Unfortunately, the education system severely lacks teaching the financial literacy and application skills we need to succeed, and we are still learning how this affects economics on a larger scale.

Changing service providers and deciding on the best mortgage rates – these are the kind of decisions that most people will come across. But not fully understanding how it all works can cost a significant amount of money, according to recent research. The National Financial Educators Council (NFEC) found that, on average, American adults estimated they lost $1,634 in 2020 due to a lack of money management skills. Extrapolating these figures, the lack of knowledge cost United States’ citizens approximately $415 billion in 2020.

Given that in 2018 the respondents estimated an average loss of $1,230 for that calendar year, this suggests that an increasing number of people are potentially missing out on building a financially stable future. With Web3 and crypto becoming more and more popular with the upcoming  generations, teaching children proper finance and financial application skills becomes even more important.

Many hope that the rise of digital currencies may eventually help to solve the growing problem of money mismanagement on both an individual and an institutional scale. Thanks to the flexibility blockchain technology offers, many different use-cases can be adopted to achieve this. One of those use-cases is teaching kids about finance and taking on financial