Florida Company Donates Bitcoin to FGCU to Create Scholarship Fund
A Bonita Springs, Florida-based web design company Atilus has announced the creation of an endowed scholarship fund with the first donation of bitcoin made to the Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU). Company Preisdent and CEO Zachary Katkin along with Operations Director Harry Casimir (both alumni at FGCU) have called it the Atilus Bitcoin Scholarship Fund, and have pledged to donate $25,000 - $12,500 of the gift established the endowment. The company paid the initial deposit using the bitcoin digital currency in a move considered the first of its kind at the institution. The scholarship....
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