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Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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Has 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.

McGill University doesn't use an .edu domain, I tried signing up in case they included it anyway but got nothing.

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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post #11
post #7

Has 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.

McGill University doesn't use an .edu domain, I tried signing up in case they included it anyway but got nothing.

That's interesting... (and a little too bad for you, since a lot of systems will give you student discounts and all just for the .edu email address), how come it is that way? Is that a thing with a lot of Canadian universities, or?

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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I wonder if it works for my alumni.virginia.edu email? though i already have a coinbase account.

It 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! :)

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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This 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

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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This 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.

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

McGill University doesn't use an .edu domain, I tried signing up in case they included it anyway but got nothing.

That's interesting... (and a little too bad for you, since a lot of systems will give you student discounts and all just for the .edu email address), how come it is that way? Is that a thing with a lot of Canadian universities, or?

I’m not aware of a Canadian university with a .edu. Most use .ca.

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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> 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…

When 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.

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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> 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…

In New Zealand it's .ac.nz. We're screwed whenever there's .edu sales/offers.
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