Out of Thousands of MIT Students That Got Free Bitcoin in 2014 – 6 Year Holde...

Out of Thousands of MIT Students That Got Free Bitcoin in 2014 – 6 Year Holde...

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....


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