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EDIT: Free Money Day was yesterday but I'm always here to help a newbie out if I can. Let me know.


Today is Free Money Day (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/14/free-money-day-lehman-brothers_n_1884264.html). Yay! So I'm giving some away too.

To qualify, your account needs to be less than 4 hours old but more than a few minutes old. I'll peruse your history to attempt to ensure that you're not a sock puppet. You also need to demonstrate some form of rationality and non-trollishness, a difficult task for some it would appear.

You also need to learn how to import a private key into your wallet as I'll be sending you a link with a private key in it. I'll send the link when I've satisfied myself that you're for real.

Though not a condition, it would be in the spirit if you choose to pass a little onto someone else too. I won't be giving away a bunch, so please don't get your hopes up too high.

This is open-ended and could end at any moment.

While I'm a newbie my account is too old as I've been trying to learn as much about Bitcoin as I can.  I also don't know about the private key importing.  Still thank you for doing this!  I hope you get a lot of good responses, the faucets are great but limited and the more people who start using BTC the more valuable it will become.  Good luck!

This is a good point and one I should have mentioned. Thanks for bringing it up.

As soon as you import the key and btc, send the btc to an address that you know is yours. You can delete my imported private key when you're done.

So it's free money day, but for new forum members geeks. Can we register new account to get your money? How much money? :D

Educate yourself about PK importing and get back to me. I'm easy.  :)

This is an exercise in teaching newbies how to use bitcoin. Being an old fart, I'm pretty good at detecting fakers, though certainly not perfect.


"If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master."

-Bacon 

 ;)

gimme gimme :)



Just kidding.. :D .... This looks good on you :)

You sound like my kids. :)

LOL.... Well my son is in his "MINE" stage..... everything is MINE.... :)

I know some adults that have never left that stage.

LOL...



How many coins are you planning on giving away?

Not sure yet. It'll depend on interest. I just want newbs to learn this amazing little protocol.

Hi, Im newbie. Im very interested in this protocol.
I like the coins. Thanks  ;)
wuala

so 1 btc each ? :D

Check your PMs.

Nosy, ain't ya?   :D

id like to hop on board for some free bitcents!

ill pay it forward to whomever posts next that follows the rules ahead

EDIT: scratch that...im not a newby - just a poor college student :(

I am new here and just learning about bitcoin.  Thanks for the offer.  I'll use your help to learn further.  Thanks!

Hi
I am new here, heard about bitcoins a while ago, but never got into it.

Free Money Day is so cool! Thanks for posting the link.

I would like to take you up on your offer,
I am totally into learning how it works!

Thanks so much!

Where were you a week ago!?!?!?! LOL...

At any rate, it's cool that you're doing this for newbies and at the very least I've learned about private keys and their associated danger, thanks!!!

Newbies: SERIOUSLY appreciate what is being done here for you. I've been here about a week and haven't made my first full bitcoin yet, it's NOT easy...

It's easy.... It just cost money to make money....

Hello I'm here for the free money.

Check PMs.

Hola :D

These past 2 months have been my only experience with BTC, and I've successfully passed through some coins. I've also used PGP keys, which is why I think I'll understand BTC private keys.
I've only used ewallets to do my one time storing and tumbling. Seems to work well. Any other suggestions for security?

How exactly do BTC private keys work, is it the same fundamentals as pgp public keying?

Anyways, Id love to take your offer on the free btc :D

Thank you for the BTC!   :)

Thank you also for:
a. Using your gift to motivate me to further explore Bitcoin.
b. Pointing out blockchain.info which really made things simple.
c. Giving me a chance to make some legitimate posts to escape "newbie" land.
d. Educating me about Free Money Day.  Consistent with the premise of the holiday, I'll be sure to pass along at least half of what you sent me.  Probably as a donation to one of the faucets since that seems to be the first place all of us newbies go to get familiar with BTC!

See SRG's post below yours.


Give me a shout when you understand the concepts. It won't take you long.

Thank you for taking the time to learn. Now pass that knowledge on. :)

The Eternal Truth of the Material Realm.

I guess I already knew the answer to my question. blockchain.info is the shit

also just learned about blockexplorer and the ability to see anyone's balance

Help a Brother out! ;D

Thank you for the BTC and for showing me an easy way to import the privkey, all that command line crap was driving me nuts and I couldn't get it to work...

Anyone else who gets BTC from this thread, I HIGHLY recommend just getting a wallet at blockchain.info importing the key there and then sending the BTC to your normal address from the blockchain wallet. It is MUCH easier than trying to import via command line...

Thank you again Sev!!!

You don't qualify, brah.

Aw you showed him how to import keys and not meh  :'(

Actually he didn't show me. I tried to learn the command line method myself from the BitCoin Wiki. Really all Sev did was suggest getting a wallet at blockchain.info and from there it was simple to figure out the rest on my own...

I`m showing up for this! xD

@OP: PM me ~ how much you are giving away to people who qualify and I'll try to donate. :)

Okay,

I am up for the game. :D

PM me when you feel comfortable with the concept of importing a private key.

 
And you are just the bomb. Many thanks for the offer.

Sounds good! I've been lurking for a bit so what better time to sign up hhaha.  Although I read about bit coins, I don't actually have any. I found some items that I want where the seller only accepts them so I'm finally getting started.  Dare ya to hook me up!  :D

This thread is cool.

I shall officially approve it.

http://s8.postimage.org/edxqd6uqt/666stamp.jpg (http://postimage.org/)

I using the bitcoin almost 3 weeks and I already got some bitmills from the free faucets.
But this offer was incentive to join this forum 8) so I hope I qualify to your offer !

I only look this old because I left a browser open to this forum one day?  ;D

See OP.

spam.