Students Offered Free Bitcoins in Coinbase Giveaway
Bitcoin digital wallet and payment processor Coinbase has announced a unique bitcoin giveaway aimed at college students. The company says it is handing out $10-worth of bitcoin to students who create a new Coinbase account using approved .edu email addresses. The giveaway kicked off a few days ago and Coinbase says interest is "impressive". The company published a leaderboard on its blog, featuring the most popular university domains so far: University of Illinois is in the lead, with 496 students signing up using illinois.edu email addresses. Bitcoin loving Texans rank second, with 290....
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Coinbase has already handed out free bitcoin to over 20,000 students as part of its college bitcoin giveaway, the company says. The bitcoin wallet and payments provider launched the scheme on 14th May, giving students who sign up the equivalent of $10 in bitcoin. Not all students are eligible, however - only those with .edu addresses can apply and a limited number of universities can participate. CoinBase says it tried to include the top 500 universities worldwide. The promotion was inspired by a similar project launched by two MIT students last month. The MIT giveaway, or 'airdrop', is....
MIT students aren't the only ones who are getting their paws on free bitcoins. Coinbase announced on Wednesday that for a limited time, they'll be giving away $10 worth of bitcoin to college students who create a new Coinbase account with a valid .edu email address. The offer applies to universities around the world (not just in the United States), and Coinbase says they've done well to include the top 500 universities around the globe. "We believe that getting more young scholars thinking about and transacting in bitcoin will help spur the growth of the ecosystem and contribute to the....
If today's news that Coinbase is introducing personal payment pages wasn't enough for you to take in, here's another. The San Francisco-based company today delivered an update on their ongoing educational promotion that they announced about two weeks ago. Just in case you're not up to date, the company announced they would be giving $10 worth of free bitcoin to students with a .edu email address at the top 500 higher education institutions in the world. The company had already started the promotion secretly by the time they announced it, and had already managed to pay quite a few students,....
Question: How do you introduce people to something new and make sure they use it in the future? Answer: Catch them young and give them a reason to use it. Guess who got it right, Coinbase. The leading North American bitcoin wallet company with its base in San Francisco, California did it last year by introducing its wallet to students. Coinbase gave away free bitcoin to over 20,000 college students. All the students got $10 worth of bitcoin in their Coinbase wallet after they signed up on Coinbase platform. In order to avail the offer, students were required to sign up using their .edu....
New York City-based bitcoin exchange Coinsetter today announced a new program that will allow its user base to fund their account via Coinbase. This rebate program is only being offered to customers in the Untied States, and allows these traders to purchase bitcoins on Coinbase via an ACH transfer to fund their Coinsetter account. Coinsetter will then reimburse the trader for fees incurred on Coinbase's service, which has traditionally been 1 percent. The company writes (via their blog): We're excited about this program because it allows users to completely bypass interacting with....