What would you do if...

Someone gave you 100,000 Bitcoin?

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That was the question that sprang to my mind at 3 am on Tuesday night.

I have a small health issue at the moment. I'm suffering with a frozen shoulder and it's painful in most positions and wakes me up frequently during the night so I'm not sleeping well at the best of times.

I had physio on Tuesday (again) and it seems to be improving, but it wipes me out for the rest of the day.

So, as well as being in pain and waking up numerous times during the night, I also have my brain being an obnoxious git by asking these questions.

So I'm going to make the most of it. I finally fell asleep after almost 2 hours mulling the problem over in my mind.

The solution must have been satisfactory to my brain because I was allowed to sleep.

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My solution:

If someone gave me 100,000 bitcoin - of course I would have to contact a lot of other bitcoin holders and demand payment for NOT dumping them all onto the market, causing the price to plummet.

Oh, ok... the Dr Evil school of economics rejected, I'll go for what I really thought up.

With the proceeds of renting out those Bitcoin, I would build a school.

Yep. That's what I thought up.

Not just any school, however. It would be a school specifically for children of working parents - and parents who wanted to work but couldn't because of child-care issues.

The school would open from 7am to serve breakfast and take the children in so parents could go off to work. Breakfast would be free for the children and at a subsidised rate for adults. In that way, everyone would get more sleep because they would only have to get up, washed and dressed and go on to breakfast together and then on to their day.

People with children at the school would be preferred employees, giving them opportunity to work in the kitchens and other staff positions - including teaching staff where applicable.

The school day would finish at 6pm to give parents chance to get back from work to pick up their children.

The children would be fed throughout the day (snacks and full lunch and another snack, then another meal at around 4pm) and then possibly similar arrangements to breakfast for the evening meal.

Breaks and play-times would be longer, giving the feeling of relaxation rather than indoctrinating them into the rush-rush-rush mode we seem to have now.

Lessons would include curriclum and non-curriculum learning:

gardening - planting edible crops as well as plant care

reading - for pleasure, not just for classes and lessons

physical education - every day but in a 'play' environment, not mandatory (basically, what the kids enjoy, rather than curriculum-based)

home-crafts - washing, housework, mending (button-sewing etc)

crafts - sewing, knitting, crochet, card-making etc

The most revolutionary part of this school, however, would be the term-times (semesters).

Rather than terms or semesters as we know them now, the school would not close for extended times at the end of a term or semester. I always found it hard to go back to school after a long break and I bet I wasn't alone in that dread.

If we have regular school, every day, then not only is learning a regular thing, but also, parents won't need to find child-care during those times. PLUS, mealtimes together as a family are important.

I did think that this kind of school would also help with holidays (vacations) because having set holiday times means parents are held to ransom by holiday companies, but if you have 28 days in which to take your children on holiday from school, it makes the whole year flexible.

Of course, my fatigued brain didn't come up with any of the logistics of such a plan.

So, what would you do with 100,000 Bitcoin? For this, you're not allowed to employ Dr Evil's Ruin the Economy by dumping it on the market strategy.

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