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Is there any Bitcoin website like Italki
1026 sats \ 6 comments \ @Esperanto 28 Jun 2023 tech
I remember that when I started to learn foreign languages (like this)... I used to looking for people online that will teach me the target language.
I found that the mayority of websites like Italki, Hello talk, LingQ, etc.
Use USD credit card payment system to pay for the online classes.
I'm from Venezuela, I am not able to use and open a USD bank account to transfer value on internet.
So, my question is.
Is there any Bitcoin website for learning languages? Similar to Italki but per Bitcoin Lightning network.
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @felipe 31 Oct
@Esperanto
I came here to ask the same question
Did you find any option?
Also, I see you are from Venezuela and I'd like to learn Spanish. Do you teach?
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @felipe 31 Oct
I forgot to mention that vida.live is no more :(
It's vida.io now and it looks like it turned into some AI BS
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @south_korea_ln 28 Jun 2023
I've been looking into that too. My hope is that something like that will be built on Nostr as I've had personal bad anecdotical experience and/or feedback about Italki, Verbling and Preply where teachers are at the mercy of the platform. One teacher I know could not access the contact information of all her old students after her account got deactivated due to a longer break than planned. And all of these platforms take a huge cut anyhow, up to 33% in the case of Preply.
But no, I don't know any such platform at the moment.
I can put you in touch with Korean teachers who would be happy to take Bitcoin for their lessons.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Esperanto OP 28 Jun 2023
Thanks. The question arrive when I Find this website https://vida.live/ But it is like twitch. Centralize platforms have temptation of corruption... And also the money is not totally for the language teacher. There is a Bitcoin website named Emeralize but it is under development, until now you can post/sell books pdf and courses.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 29 Jun 2023
Wow, amazing how far vida.live has come. It looks completely different from when I first heard about it. I think back then it was mostly about letting people pay to contact you.
Is the vida.live developer here on SN? The Italki idea might be a natural fit to Vida.live...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @south_korea_ln 29 Jun 2023
I see 3 (positive) things those platforms provide:
  • trust. This is important when children want to take classes online. Maybe less so for adults. This can probably be achieved with a reputation mechanism.
  • promotion. They spend a lot of money on ads making sure teachers and the platform gain visibility with prospective students. In a decentralized platform, teachers could be given the tools by the platform to get their profile out there by paying the necessary fees.
  • conflict resolution. Mostly in terms of payment. In a decentralized platform, one could probably think of a escrow or multisig approach where the payment for the ongoing lesson only gets released after the class is finished, but without 3d party, it might be tricky... but we're talking 20$ amounts for a class or so, so with a good reputation system, this might not be unsurmountable.
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