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$10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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Post by krilnon »

jefftchan wrote: post #25
catmanjan wrote: post #5

ANU 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?

It seems like they're detecting browser user agent (and possibly IP)

I'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).

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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Post by andrewjkerr »

brimtown wrote: 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.

I just tried my @ufl.edu address and it didn't work. I would assume my university is large enough to be included.

Also, as a side note, they sent me an email asking me to subscribe to their blog before they sent a verification email. Once I subscribed to their blog then I realized it was not the same as user verification, lol.

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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Post by battani »

Oculus wrote: post #14

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

The 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.

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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Post by alain_gilbert »

loarake wrote: post #11
brimtown wrote: 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.

I used my email@ulaval.ca (Laval University in Quebec city, Quebec, Canada) and it worked !

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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Post by bendoernberg »

adrianmacneil wrote: post #28
eswat wrote: post #18

> 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…

I'm an engineer at Coinbase. There are definitely many non-US domains included (e.g. .ac.CCTLD and .edu.CCTLD).

Why 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?

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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Post by spectrum »

eswat wrote: post #18

> 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…

Here in the Netherlands the University of Tilburg has a .edu: http://www.tilburguniversity.edu/

Re: $10 Of Free Bitcoin For College Students

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Post by ohblahitsme »

rdl wrote: post #38
ohblahitsme wrote: post #33

Well, now I have a coin base account but not $10. Looks like UC Davis email doesn't work.

I 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.

I chatted with support and they said to email their support.
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