From Ghana to the Bronx, Meet the Teen Bitcoiners Building the Future

That's what Toronto-based developer Anish Agnihotri, 16, told CoinDesk keeps him engaged in open-source projects since he first learned about bitcoin in 2015.

Fellow Toronto-native Talha Atta, 17, told CoinDesk he was immediately inspired when he learned about bitcoin from the news in 2017.

Few bitcoiners hustle as hard as the 17-year-old founder of BlockXAfrica.

Minneapolis native Lim bought his first bitcoin in 2016, after hearing about it from friends at school, and quickly became a regular at local bitcoin meetups.

Has contributed code to Trezor's firmware to enhance security, although he's not officially involved with the company, and occasionally submits contributions to open source projects such as Bitcoin Core and zcash.

"You get to meet a lot of interesting people," Sack told CoinDesk, speaking of both the ethereum and bitcoin communities.

One such student even went on to participate in the winning team of the Tel Aviv Bitcoin Embassy's.

2018 hackathon with a project related to the lightning network, a scaling solution for bitcoin.

"The concept of bitcoin giving me control over my own financial assets inspires me a lot."

Nash first learned about bitcoin on Reddit in 2013, when he was still in high school in Atlanta, Georgia.