Yelp Director, Luther Lowe, Makes Bitcoin Donation to ASMSA
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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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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Updated with comment from Lynzey Donahue, a U. S. Marshals spokeswoman. UPDATE (18th June 21:30 BST): Yelp's Luther Lowe contacted CoinDesk to clarify that he contacted the USMS regarding its auction of Silk Road bitcoins as a private investor, and not on behalf of the e-commerce company. A list of individuals interested in the auction of the 30,000 bitcoins confiscated from the now-defunct Silk Road black marketplace has been leaked via email by the US Marshals Service (USMS), the US government agency confirmed. In a statement to CoinDesk, Lynzey Donahue, a US Marshals spokeswoman,....
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