In 2014, Selected MIT Students Got $100 Of Free BTC. What Did They Do With It?
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....
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Many students who participated in the 2014 MIT Bitcoin Project lament quickly selling their free BTC for textbooks, sushi, and beer. In October 2014, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) launched the MIT Bitcoin Project, an initiative that sought to give away $500,000 worth of Bitcoin to its undergraduate students.Students were able to claim $100 worth of BTC in exchange for filling out a survey, equating to roughly 0.3 BTC at the time. The project was spearheaded by students Jeremy Rubin and Dan Elitzer, who raised $500,000 from university alumni and representatives of the....
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....
A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has found that, contrary to popular belief, bitcoin is not the payment of choice for students. In 2014, two MIT students, Jeremy Rubin and Dan Elitzer, raised $500,000 and started the MIT Bitcoin Project. For every undergraduate student that signed up to the project they were provided with $100 worth of bitcoin. The goal of the project was to establish an ‘ecosystem for digital currencies at MIT.’ When the project started bitcoin was one of the most popular topics, attracting a positive number of students to take part. Throughout....