Chicago Students Get Free BTC For Educational Purposes
The Blockchain Education Network (BEN) has announced a Bitcoin airdrop to four Chicago Universities today. This year BEN’s “Back-to-School Blockchain Initiative” has spread to more cities than ever before to show students the power of cryptocurrency. Chicago College Students Get A Free Taste of Bitcoin. The first bitcoin airdrop experience initiated in....
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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,....
Remember the interesting news item this year that all MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) undergraduate students would received $100 of bitcoin for free? Well, we haven't heard a whole lot about it, but the project has officially gone live. It's spearheaded by the MIT Bitcoin Project and somewhat mysteriously financed, but the 4500+ students at the school are able to easily pick up their bitcoins, which they can then convert to U. S. dollars, or more preferably, spend at bitcoin-accepting locations in the MIT area (which is a growing bitcoin hot spot). In order for students at the....
This fascinating experiment involving free BTC generated concrete results and we’re here to review them. The feel-good story arrives courtesy of CNBC, who interviewed some of the protagonists and got to the bottom of things. It all started with 19-years-old Jeremy Rubin, who developed a program called Tidbit. It allowed “users to mine for Bitcoins on a client’s computer as a replacement for traditional advertising.” The authorities weren’t so keen on his idea, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation remembers: In December 2013, the New Jersey Attorney General’s office issued a....
Over six years ago, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a couple of scholars distributed $100 in bitcoin to 3,100 students. According to testimony from a few participants who held the leading crypto asset since then, the students netted 13,000% in profit. MIT Grad Who Made 13,000%: ‘Most of Us Thought It Was a Bit of a Joke’ For a very long time now, MIT has been experimenting and supporting bitcoin (BTC), the leading crypto asset in terms of market capitalization. In 2014, two computer science students Dan Elitzer and Jeremy Rubin distributed $100 worth of BTC....
The Immersive Education Initiative (a not-for-profit organization) on Monday launched what is said to be the world's first global education scholarship fundable through bitcoin. Dubbed the "Learn to Earn" scholarship, the first grants will allow about 100 teachers and students in need of financial assistance in California to attend IMMERSIVE 2014, a conference taking place in Los Angeles this week. Later in the Fall, the second round of grants will allow students in K-12 institutions earn both credit and virtual currency "by completing intellectually challenging tasks using educational....