2. Thanks again for the offer, but I would rather not have any bitcoins, and I do not intend to help distributing bitcoins to anyone, my students or not. I am sure you will find charities or other worthy projects that will make much better use of the money.
But what about distributing free bitcoins to other people? What is your rationalization for declining that offer? Or are you afraid, that people will get hooked on it, just like if we offered them free heroin? You want to protect them from themselves, because you're convinced you know best what's good for other people? How about letting them form their own opinion?
If I am fairly skeptical (to put it mildly) that bitcoin will succeed, why should I HELP you get other people into it?
To allow them to make up their own minds and form their own opinions about it maybe?
As suspected, you seem to think that just because
you think a certain way about Bitcoin technology, everyone should and eventually will do so as well. May I say this is a fairly typical attitude for a (self-confessed) government apologist. You people just can't stop thinking that there is just one answer for everything, one correct solution for everyone...and that
you have it, know it and are definitely not above forcing it on everyone. For their own good, of course.
Fortunately it is the statists who don't understand how the world works and always bypasses their attempts at controlling everything according to their morals. Your students
will get bitcoins (if they wish - we will not be forcing our opinion on anyone) and there is nothing you can do to stop it