Gallery: Melbourne Celebrates Chinese New Year With Bitcoin Giveaway
The Melbourne Bitcoin Technology Centre (MBTC) has partnered with the Bitcoin Group to give away the digital currency in Melbourne's Chinatown precinct. The "lucky money" envelopes containing a bitcoin paper wallet were handed out to passers by and merchants to mark the Chinese New Year. Pantelis Roussakis, communications manager at MBTC, said: "During the Chinese New Year celebrations people wear red clothes, exchange decorative poems on red paper and give out 'lucky money' in red envelopes. Today amidst the New Year festivities in Melbourne's bustling Chinatown, we hit the streets,....
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