Coinbase Promotion Attracts Twenty Thousand College Students in Two Weeks
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,....
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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....
Today, Coinbase Co-founder Fred Ehrsam announced on twitter that any student that signs up onCoinbase with a school email account (the domain ending in .edu) will receive $10 worth of Bitcoin in their account for signing up. He then added the offer was for a limited time and that it would only work for select schools, yet he failed to provide a list of schools that would work. At this point, it seems that Coinbase is manually white-listing .edu domains. Many people on the Reddit post have been complaining about the offer not working for their schools, and few have reported success with the....
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....
The San Francisco-based bitcoin wallet provider has successfully given away free bitcoin to more than 20,000 college students. CyptoCoins News reported that any student signing up for Coinbase would receive $10 worth of bitcoin. Students were required to verify enrollment by signing up with an email domain ending in "edu."At the time Coinbase founder, Fred Ehrsam, announced the limited time offer on Twitter, it was only available to a handful of "edus."Now the international digital wallet has posted a list of the top 10 schools with the most signups. The University of Michigan led the way....