Building a Welcoming Environment for Crypto Learners at CoinMinutes
The cryptocurrency learning curve is steep. At CoinMinutes, we've rebuilt our educational approach from the ground up to change that reality. Here's how we're working to make crypto education actually accessible and why our approach differs from the typical "dive into the deep end" method that's common in the industry.
Understanding Our Diverse Audience
Good crypto education should begin with the question: who are we teaching?
By reader surveys, user interviews, and the first six months of feedback from frustrated users (which was really painful for us), we have recognized that there are three major groups of learners with different needs. These groups are:
The Complete Beginner is a person who has no idea about cryptocurrency but is still curious. Such readers require a source of learning that explains the basics without assuming that they have any prior understanding. They ask questions like "What is a blockchain?" and "How do I set up my first wallet safely?" They are the toughest group to serve well, and thus, it was the group that we most failed with our jargon-filled "Intro to Crypto" course, which we have since discarded.
The Cautiously Curious have heard the advantages and disadvantages of cryptocurrency. They need to get balanced information only to be able to make up their minds whether to participate and how to do it if they decide to. Their doubt is positive, and we respond to it instead of ignoring it. After the FTX collapse, this group increased by 43% on our platform.
The Advancing Intermediate has mastered basics but struggles to connect concepts into a cohesive understanding. These readers need clear pathways to progress beyond isolated knowledge points toward real expertise.
Building Trust Through Honest Education
The crypto world is full of hype and promotional content disguised as education. We build reader trust by being upfront about things, which hasn't always been easy - especially when potential sponsors have offered big money to feature their projects more prominently in our materials.
Balanced Perspective: We look at the positive and negative sides of every project or technology that we cover. Our "Challenges" sections highlight the difficulties in accepting the innovations, security problems, and questions that have not yet been answered. Initially, we had these sections very small and hidden, but after user feedback, we have made them more visible.
Clear Sources: When making technical claims, the references are always from the very first sources - whitepapers, code repositories, academic research rather than news articles. After the market chaos of October 2024 and the regulatory changes that followed, we have added an emergency "Market Downturns" module that had more than 12,000 visits in its first week, and every market claim is linked to the real data.
Editorial Independence: Our content is driven by what readers need and not by market trends or promotional opportunities. When we are writing about certain projects, we let you know if any business relationships might be the reason for our perspective.
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The CoinMinutes Approach to Encouraging Active Learning in Crypto
We haven't always gotten things right. Our attempt at gamified learning through the "Crypto Detective" story approach was popular but didn't work. While users enjoyed the storylines, our tracking showed they remembered the characters but forgot the concepts.
While many platforms use learning tokens and rewards to keep people engaged, we've avoided that approach despite its popularity. This remains a hot topic within our team - our marketing department still brings it up at least monthly.
Our content team is still divided on whether and how to discuss market speculation. Some argue that we should not mention the price at all whereas others feel that we have to clarify what really attracts most people to crypto in the first place.
It is acknowledged that learning is best done in communities that support each other where making mistakes is not only tolerated but also expected. What we publish is only a part of our approach, we actually create places for people to interact and learn from one another, however, handling these places has been more difficult than we had anticipated.
The major issue that we are still facing is the user completion of intermediate-level content. Even though there is a high level of engagement with beginners’ content materials, we are experimenting with different ways to tackle this drop-off.
The CoinMinutes Education Commitment
Our method of teaching is based on one basic principle: knowledge of crypto should be available to everyone and not only to people with technical backgrounds or those who have insider connections.
This promise is not merely a marketing phrase - it affects our decisions on a daily basis and the way we allocate our funds. After receiving feedback that our content is still too text-based for various learning styles, we decided to invest heavily in video and interactive content. We brought two former educational video producers and a UX designer who specializes in how people learn online on board.
The crypto universe can only be as great as it is meant to be if it is not only early adopters and tech-savvy people who can take part in it. By genuinely making education accessible, Coinminutes Cryptocurrency is facilitating the creation of that more inclusive future. We are not always successful, but we are continuously learning.