Yelp Director Donates $10k in Bitcoin to Alma Mater
Yelp Director of Public Policy Luther Lowe has donated $10,000 in bitcoin to his high school Alma Mater as part of an effort to create a computer science course on bitcoin for students. Lowe, who graduated from Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts (ASMSA) in 2001 and is currently serving his final year as the school's Board of Visitors chair, indicated that the donation will help the ASMA keep pace educating students on what he feels is a revolutionary technology. Speaking to CoinDesk, Lowe lauded bitcoin and its potential to help boost the educations of students at the....
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Luther Lowe, the Director of Public Policy at Yelp, has made a $10,000 Bitcoin donation to his alma mater, the Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts (ASMSA). The payment was made online through BitPay while Luther Lowe was on stage at ASMSA's commencement ceremony. Sadly, ASMSA didn't keep the Bitcoin as they used Bitpay to cash out the Bitcoin immediately to fiat. In short, Luther Lowe's gift to fund a program for learning about Bitcoin was transacted in a way that didn't benefit Bitcoin. First Bitcoin Donation to High School. ASMSA, the high school for academically....
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