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$10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students
- derekja 13y agoworked from my uvic.ca address. 0.02229 BTC. thanks!
- johnwalker 13y agoHmm. I signed up a few minutes ago with my university email, but didn't get anything. Does it take a while? Edit: Aha. It doesn't work for everyone, even within the top 500.
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- seangarita 13y agoThis is a great initiative on Coinbase's part. Will definitely get a lot of adopters because the free money will incentivize the use and then the experience of using Bitcoin should hold on to the new users.
- catmanjan 13y agoANU student here, can confirm it works with .edu.au emails How do they stop people taking advantage of the ability to create an arbitrary amount of email accounts?
- iancarroll 13y agoIf they see a lot from an insecure uni I'd assume they would take action.
- jefftchan 13y agoIt seems like they're detecting browser user agent (and possibly IP)
- krilnon 13y agoI'm not going to abuse this myself, but at MIT you can create seemingly-unlimited @mit.edu email addresses using Moira. Getting a bunch of fresh IPs might be trickier, but you could probably wander around different WiFi access points, use the CSAIL OpenStack installation, or maybe just renew a DHCP lease a bunch. User-agents a easy to find and change with a browser extension (or scripting).
- cynix 13y agoDoes not work with uts.edu.au address.
- opcon 13y agoDoes not work with utas.edu.au either.
- NamTaf 13y agoFailed, it seems, to work on .uqconnect.edu.au addresses. I don't know if you have to use .uq.edu.au or if that wouldn't also work. Sucks, I was looking forward to this.
- brimtown 13y agoHas Coinbase posted a list of the "top 500" colleges that are supported, or are we left to guess? I signed up a few minutes ago and haven't seen anything yet. Edit: Still not showing up. Kinda scummy to advertise this to college students and not follow through, especially in the heat of finals week.
- manacit 13y agoSame here, with an @uw.edu e-mail address.
- kandalf 13y ago@seas.upenn.edu didn't seem to work.
- rawsyntax1 13y ago@umail.ucsb.edu didn't work either but I already have a Coinbase account that I registered from this IP address, maybe it is something to do with that? Anyone from Coinbase confirm this?
- jhenkens 13y ago@cs.ucsb.edu doesn't work either. I've never used Coinbase before in my life.
- ycmike 13y agoYep same for @sas.upenn.edu
- asselinpaul 13y agoSame, sent them an email though.
- andrewmunsell 13y agoSame thing with my @uw.edu email address.
- brianbreslin 13y agoI wonder if it works for my alumni.virginia.edu email? though i already have a coinbase account.
- privong 13y agoIt doesn't appear to work with a regular viginia.edu email (at least not if the BTC are supposed to be deposited immediately upon account confirmation). But, Wahoowa! :)
- brianbreslin 13y ago@privong wahoowa indeed! you're an astrophysicist?
- privong 13y agoYes, I'm finishing my PhD right now in the astronomy dept at UVa (studying galaxy mergers), then moving on to do a postdoc.
- brianbreslin 13y agoa friend of mine is working in the physics dept patrick hopkins, look him up, nice dude.
- privong 12y agoCool, I'll do that. Btw, coinbase seems to work with UVa addresses.
- Oculus 13y agoThis reminds me of a very similar campaign Paypal did to help jumpstart the online payments market. Paypal offered $20 to anyone for opening an account or referring a new user[1]. This served to help rapidly grow a market of Paypal users before one existed. 1 (I highly recommend watching the full conversation as it's immensely interesting) - http://youtu.be/vDwzmJpI4io?t=11m21s http://youtu.be/vDwzmJpI4io?t=11m21s
- battani 13y agoThe difference being that most of these students will receive the free bitcoin and hold, hoping they appreciate in value, instead of transacting and contributing to the network effect.
- beaner 13y agoIs this myth not dead yet? People spend bitcoin and want to spend it. There is also speculation and hoarding, but no universal law that says you can't do both. $10 isn't even much to hoard. If the price goes up 10x that's still just $100. This is more like, "Oh, you got our drinks, I'll pay you back in btc!" kind of money.
- tron657 13y agoHow and when did hoarding bitcoin become a myth? Last I checked number of transactions per day was decreasing. And the C2C aspect you describe is unlikely to take off given the ease of cash or tools like Venmo, and lack of availability of bitcoin apps on iOS. The myth here is that "people want to spend bitcoin." Just take a look at the bitcoin transaction volume merchants are seeing beyond the first few days.
- baby 13y ago> Last I checked number of transactions per day was decreasing. Are you looking day to day trends? Because if you step back a little you'll see that transactions have done nothing but increase.
- covi 13y agoI signed up with my @berkeley.edu email, and the coins haven't showed up yet.
- fakename 13y agoditto
- amtab 13y agoThis is a great idea, just got mine! It worked for Paypal back in the day to boost signups. Hopefully between this and the MIT program we'll see more interesting transactions in BTC as opposed to people holding it as a lottery ticket.
- eswat 13y ago> This offer is good for select .edu domains only. We have tried to include the top 500 universities worldwide (this is not U.S. focused). I’m not aware of a university outside of the US that uses a .edu TLD…
- nickonline 13y agoWhen I was at university similar comments were made by other organisations and they allowed my .edu.au However upon reading the first thing I considered was "who are the top 500". It might be easier if they provided a list.
- Mandatum 13y agoIn New Zealand it's .ac.nz. We're screwed whenever there's .edu sales/offers.
- adrianmacneil 13y agoFellow kiwi here. Most NZ universities are included.
- adrianmacneil 13y agoI'm an engineer at Coinbase. There are definitely many non-US domains included (e.g. .ac.CCTLD and .edu.CCTLD).
- bendoernberg 13y agoWhy not publish the list? Surely it's not worth frustrating students from hundreds of colleges who try to take advantage of the offer and can't?
- icelancer 13y agoNot publishing the list makes you look like you are harvesting email addresses. Just publish it.
- pugz 13y agohttp://monash.edu http://monash.edu is based in Australia. It also apparently has campuses in Malaysia, South Africa, India, Italy and China. There's also the embarrassingly bad http://australia.edu/ http://australia.edu/, which is not a university and even has public signup for @australia.edu emails. Perhaps that will allow access to this promotion.
- Permit 13y agoIt looks like their list extends beyond .edu domains. I just registered with an @uwaterloo.ca email and received 0.02266 BTC.
- ohblahitsme 13y agoWell, now I have a coin base account but not $10. Looks like UC Davis email doesn't work.
- rdl 13y agoI signed up with a @mit.edu and it doesn't appear to be credited, so I think maybe they've used up all the money in the promotional account.
- ohblahitsme 13y agoI chatted with support and they said to email their support.
- rdl 13y agoSo glad some .edu sites allow creating mailing lists at top level, like @mit.edu :)
- benguild 13y ago@fas.harvard.edu didn't work
- millzlane 13y agoWorks with jhu.edu thanks!
- phrolik 13y agowoohoo works for NYU! I just spread it around a bunch of social media outlets to get the word out :)
- 91edec 13y agoWorks for University of Birmingham (UK) email addresses. @bham.ac.uk
- kwikshot 13y agoThanks, didn't think I'd see another UoB student here!
- misingnoglic 13y agoI'm not sure what qualifies top 500 college for them. So far from Brandeis and UCSB neither have gotten the $10.
- adamevers 13y agoI hope they continue with the running totals for each university. It's interesting to see adoption and adoption rates.
- fakename 13y agothey might be checking ip addresses. i succeeded with the first edu email i tried, nada for the second. both schools are listed on their site.
- unclesaamm 13y agoThis didn't work for my Swarthmore email address. I assume liberal arts colleges weren't included on the list of top "universities"? Edit: And if someone from Coinbase is reading this, can we get added? I have friends who would be interested too.
- arrayjumper 13y agobuffalo.edu works :) TY coinbase.
- peteretep 13y agoNot working for ox.ac.uk addresses (name@kellogg.ox.ac.uk)
- why-el 13y agoAnyone from coinbase here? Are there plans for international universities? Mine does not use a .edu but rather a country specific one. Would love to hit all students with this but I need to know first that they would be accepted.
- DCKing 13y agoDid not work for University of Twente emails (utwente.nl). Please know that all Dutch public universities are firmly within the top 500 of universities worldwide (whichever ranking you pick) but don't have .edu email addresses! It's a shame, because I know a lot of people who would like to experiment with Bitcoins.
- explicate 13y agoWorks for University of Toronto - uses utoronto.ca
- DanAndersen 13y agoI tried this with my purdue.edu email a few days ago and it didn't work at all. I think it was because I used a computer in an on-campus lab to sign up. When emailing Coinbase support I got these responses that, while prompt, were unhelpful in actually fixing the issue: >My apologies for the trouble! In some cases, we may not be able to credit this promotional bonus to new accounts. If we are able to credit it to your account, it will be displayed on the Transactions page immediately after signup. >If another user used the same device to redeem the .edu promotional bonus, we unfortunately would not be able to credit it to your account at this time.
- baby 13y agoWhat about my @etu.u-bordeaux.fr ? I'd gladly tell the other students in my cryptography master.
- matart 13y agoThis sounds great but I can't take advantage in Canada because we don't use .edu emails.
- therobot24 13y ago@andrew.cmu.edu doesn't work
- ToastyMallows 13y agorit.edu email works, thanks Coinbase!