Australian company announces bitcoin scholarship contest
An Australian company has launched a 'bitcoin-based scholarship' with an initial essay competition to answer the question: "Digital currencies and the future: will bitcoin change the world?" Sydney-based Bit Trade Australia, a bitcoin buy and sell business (similar to Coinbase but for Australian users), is sponsoring the contest, billed as "Australia's First Digital Currency Academic Scholarship-Competition". The prizes, while not enough to put anyone through university at November 2013 bitcoin prices, are adequate to spur their winners' further engagement with the bitcoin world: 7 BTC for....
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