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March 17, 2013, 08:48:53 AM
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Till today I have taught five persons to install the Bitcoin-qt and give away 1 BTC to them each for free.
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March 17, 2013, 08:53:48 AM
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Till today I have taught five persons to install the Bitcoin-qt and give away 1 BTC to them each for free.

I did that once. The dude deposited it into Bitcoinica to play around a bit, and it's still there. Well, whatever is left of it after the hackers took a part of it and the liquidator taking another lol
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March 17, 2013, 08:59:36 AM
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Till today I have taught five persons to install the Bitcoin-qt and give away 1 BTC to them each for free.
All of them Chinese, including my younger sister, my younger brother & a friend of mine. I also told them the addresses of a local BTC-trading exchange, as well as that of the Bitcoin Charts etc.
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March 17, 2013, 09:53:51 AM
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Till today I have taught five persons to install the Bitcoin-qt and give away 1 BTC to them each for free.
All of them Chinese, including my younger sister, my younger brother & a friend of mine. I also told them the addresses of a local BTC-trading exchange, as well as that of the Bitcoin Charts etc.

You should also teach them the way to protect and backup their private keys. 1 BTC is not a small amount now

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March 17, 2013, 12:23:53 PM
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me too.
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March 17, 2013, 12:41:53 PM
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Till today I have taught five persons to install the Bitcoin-qt and give away 1 BTC to them each for free.
All of them Chinese, including my younger sister, my younger brother & a friend of mine. I also told them the addresses of a local BTC-trading exchange, as well as that of the Bitcoin Charts etc.

You should also teach them the way to protect and backup their private keys. 1 BTC is not a small amount now
Yes, I did that as well. I told them to create a password on their clients and back up their private keys. Thanks for reminding.
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March 17, 2013, 02:26:02 PM
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I think you gave them quite a valuable gift.
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March 17, 2013, 07:28:39 PM
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I've read a lot about people gifting BTC to others/friends to get them started and many
of them only started getting interested when they saw that the USD/BTC was rising...

Now is a good time to remind these people if they haven't touched their BTC in a year. Lets just hope they didn't wipe their computers  Grin
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March 17, 2013, 07:30:40 PM
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This is a great act of friendly generosity. I've distributed small quantities of bitcoin to random friends and family. I mailed my auntie a paper wallet, even. She's not that much of a technophile (apart from mobile phones) but she was really fascinated by Bitcoin and I spent the better part of an hour on the phone discussing it with her.

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March 17, 2013, 11:12:36 PM
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I just gave my nephew a bitcoin for his birthday. He is 17, perfect age for learning about Bitcoin before going into the real world.

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March 17, 2013, 11:51:53 PM
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I love giving Ƀ for births. I don't bother explaining much. Just that I do believe in this and it is intended to be for the kid once it is old enough to deal with it. I tell them that either the kid will know what a bitcoin is on his 18th or what birthday and buy a house or he might just as well throw it away.
Sure I answer all questions asked to more details than might be good and some parents got interested but no big adoption yet Grin. Well, one bought some $300 of bitcoin after that and I had to remind them that the one bitcoin of their daughter is not their bitcoin.

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March 18, 2013, 12:19:09 AM
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I've been giving away Casascius coins left and right to spread bitcoin awareness amongst my friends. I also email them links to setup wallets, check on charts, mt.gox, and of course a link to this forum. I figure the less computer savvy ones will just hang on to the coin for future savings, and the ones that understand right from the beginning will get a wallet and invest themselves. I've given away nine 1BTC coins so far.. well worth the awareness!
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March 18, 2013, 01:20:17 AM
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you are statist interventionists


these people only appreciate it when the look into it themselves


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March 18, 2013, 01:28:09 AM
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I mailed a BTC1 BitBill note to this guy named Luke a few years ago...what a stupid investment...all he ever did was save the block chain...pfff!

Oh, yeah, and start that verifiable mining pool.

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March 18, 2013, 01:35:14 AM
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I  give away 10 BTC to my friend.
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March 18, 2013, 12:37:17 PM
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I wish I had a friend like you when I was learning about it.  My not-very-tech-savvy friend told me about BTC a little over a year ago but he had no idea what he was talking about.  I was upset because I am usually ahead of the curve on anything tech related.  I've got a bit of an ADHD problem, so it took me a little while to understand.

My friend's description of BTC over a year ago
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I guess it's like a paypal atm for your computer, or something like that.....

no wonder I didn't understand it right away.

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March 18, 2013, 12:39:47 PM
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Till today I have taught five persons to install the Bitcoin-qt and give away 1 BTC to them each for free.

I did that once. The dude deposited it into Bitcoinica to play around a bit, and it's still there. Well, whatever is left of it after the hackers took a part of it and the liquidator taking another lol

exactly the same here...
he left bitcoin afterwards ;(
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April 04, 2013, 06:10:52 AM
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When I gave the Bitcoin to my nephew I showed him several locations for places to use it. I also told him he could just keep it for a while since I figured it would reach $100 some time this year.

I hope he has checked it out by now, he will be pleasantly surprised. Smiley

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April 04, 2013, 12:06:57 PM
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1 BTC for free today means 140$ for free

do want!!  Cheesy

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April 04, 2013, 12:42:20 PM
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did it for 5 bitcoin a few month back to my gf.
Only way i had get her attention.
Soon she'll be more following the curves than me Smiley

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