Neat: CoinJar Launches New Invite-a-Friend Program
Admittedly, yes, it is a slow news day. Let's get that out of the way. But potentially of interest to our readers from the land down under is Australian bitcoin company CoinJar's new invite-a-friend program. It's exactly as it sounds: any CoinJar users who gets a friend signed up and 'identified' (which we assume to be verified), CoinJar will pay out $5 to each of the parties involved. The way it works, according to today's CoinJar blog post, involves the already-joined user heading up to the 'Filler' section of the CoinJar site where they would ordinarily go to buy bitcoin. In the lower....
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