Who remembers this Savvy College Student getting over $24,000.00 USD in Bitcoin in 2013?

in education •  8 years ago 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2516708/Savvy-student-gets-24-000-strangers-holding-sign.html

Student who held up 'send Bitcoin' sign during College Game Day TV show gets $24,000 in donations from strangers

  • Unidentified college student holds a banner to an ESPN camera on Saturday pleading for money from his mother
  • The sign was embedded with a code that linked to an account at Bitcoin, an online payment network
  • As pictures on the sign made it to different websites, people started donating money
  • The total amount received was $24,361.50

By Daily Mail ReporterPUBLISHED: 01:25 EDT, 2 December 2013 | UPDATED: 04:01 EDT, 2 December 2013


I got to hand it to the kid for this Genius Idea, "HI MOM SEND BITCOIN" QR Code.  Why didn't I think of that in 2013.  Oh I know why...


That's how I first heard of BITCOIN!  


From watching ESPN and reading about it in the news the very next day.


http://www.businessinsider.com/someone-holding-bitcoin-sign-on-college-gameday-receives-over-22-bitcoins-2013-12

I guess that will be my story when I am asked HOW and WHEN I got into BITCOIN...


http://www.coindesk.com/sports-fan-gets-over-20000-donations-bitcoin-address-sign/


Please share your story on HOW and WHEN you got into BITCOIN in the comments below.



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      ·  8 years ago 

    I first heard about it on some website, can't remember which.

    Almost bought some at the time. Had the page loaded, had entered my credit card info for $100.00, hovered over the OK button but thought better of it and moved on to more surfing.

    Bitcoin was $0.74 at the time, so that $100 would have gotten me 135 BTC, now worth $175,000.

    Meh. I would have probably lost it all on Mt. Gox anyway. 😅

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      Wow...

      $0.74 cents!!!

      You are most likely right about probably losing it all on Mt. Gox since not many Bitcoin Exchanges were around during those early days.

      Thanks @preparedwombat for sharing. :)

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