MIT's Bitcoin Project Will Distribute $100 in Bitcoin to Each Undergraduate Student
MIT is getting serious about bitcoin. Or at least two students at the prestigious school are. Jeremy Rubin (who studies computer science) and Dan Elitzer (President of the MIT bitcoin club) have managed to raise a whopping half-million dollars in order to distribute bitcoins to every undergraduate student at the school. In all, each student will get about $100 worth of bitcoin - a significant amount - in what is being called an "ambitious project aimed at creating an ecosystem for digital currencies at MIT", "Giving students access to cryptocurrencies is analogous to providing them with....
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The MIT Bitcoin Project, aimed at stimulation knowledge and use of the cryptocurrency in the MIT student community, is live. All the MIT undergraduates who complete the initial survey before Sunday, November 2nd at 11:59pm will receive $100 in Bitcoin. The project was established by MIT students Jeremy Rubin and Dan Elitzer, who raised half a million US dollars in a plan to distribute Bitcoin to every undergraduate at MIT. Also read: MIT Students Raise Money to Distribute Bitcoin Among Undergraduates. Moving MIT to the Forefront of Bitcoin Research. Alex Morcos, an MIT graduate with a....
MIT Students Raise Money to Distribute Bitcoin Among Undergraduates. Jeremy Rubin and Dan Elitzer, two MIT students, have raised half a million US dollars in a plan to distribute $100 worth of Bitcoin to every undergraduate at MIT in the Fall. With the eventual goal of establishing a Bitcoin ecosystem at MIT, this will purportedly be achieved through the utilization of the MIT Bitcoin Project. The pair wants to work with the existing MIT academic institution to study how students decide to use their allotted Bitcoin and encourage entrepreneurial activity with the resource and the....
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In November MIT undergraduates who signed up for the MIT Bitcoin Project each received the equivalent of $100 in the cryptocurrency. Now that they have it, they are beginning to develop innovative ways to use it, MIT Spectrum reports. The MIT Bitcoin Project has partnered with Institute researchers and professors to study how students use their bitcoins and measure growth in the bitcoin ecosystem at MIT. The MIT Club provides a forum within and beyond the MIT community, where Bitcoin-related ideas, projects, programs, events, and businesses can be studied, discussed, and developed. The....
A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found that, contrary to popular belief, bitcoin is not the payment of choice for students. In 2014, two MIT students, Jeremy Rubin and Dan Elitzer, raised $500,000 and started the MIT Bitcoin Project. For every undergraduate student that signed up to the project they were provided with $100 worth of bitcoin. The goal of the project was to establish an ‘ecosystem for digital currencies at MIT.’ When the project started bitcoin was one of the most popular topics, attracting a positive number of students to take part. Throughout....