Over 20,000 Students Receive Bitcoin in Coinbase Giveaway
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....
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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....
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 Bitcoinist.net Ledger Wallet giveaway has come to a close, and we have picked three winners to receive a Ledger Wallet! These winners will be able to use their Ledger wallets as a safe and reliable method of hardware Bitcoin storage. To ensure fairness in this giveaway, we used Random.org to arrange a randomized list that we used to pick our three winners. For the sake of privacy, we will not publish the winners’ names, but they will receive notification via email. Ledger operates out of France, and works to provide the Bitcoin industry with innovative hardware wallet technology that....
Our latest Ledger Wallet giveaway is now over, and the winners have been chosen. This time, we gave away a Ledger Nano, a Ledger Starter, and a Ledger OTG. The giveaway started on December 14, 2015, and ended today. Three winners were chosen, and they will be notified via email. People were able to enter this giveaway by signing up for our daily newsletter, which sent them emails regarding the content published on Bitcoinist.net. The email addresses that subscribed to the mailing list after the giveaway started were added to a list. We randomly selected three winners from that list, and....
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,....