Following MIT's lead! Lets distribute bitcoins to Indian universities.

[cuddaloreappu]

The MIT project was an awesome one to take bitcoin to mainstream and motivate some of the talented brains  on this planet to develop blockchain related apps, contribute to bitcoin code at github and other places.

Why can't we follow a similar thing here and organize a project and distribute bitcoin to IIT or other tech institutes and tell them about bitcoins and motivate them to participate in those coding projects...

common guys I need your opinion.

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[cuddaloreappu]

100 dollars would be 6000 rs, may be  we can reduce that.

[sambiohazard]

I think we should collect bitcoins through a fundraiser and distribute those coins equally between studens. We can start small with say a particular department of a college/university. We can also distribute these through some kind of contest where people have take a test or research about cryptocurrencies to claim there coins. This will fulfill the aim of educating people about crypto.

[devansh1991]

I can hold an IT quiz competition in NIT Jamshedpur & give BTC as prize money. Let me know if this will be possible.

[cuddaloreappu]

1)The first thing we must decide which university or college by vote..

2)Then plan up the strategy to distribute the coins which will also be a good learning experience and motivating to participate in the blockchain related projects.

3) Then we must contact the college students and  concerned faculty and let them know about the project.

4) fix up  expo at a date, get some media attention, conduct the expo and distribute bitcoins.



One of the key difference is this kind of project was started by MIT natively buy when we want to do the same here, we are introducing it to college so if any student from any college, may be on the forum approaches us or starts a similar thing we must support that irrespective of the college or place where the student comes from..

any suggestions...

[upal]

The MIT project was an awesome one to take bitcoin to mainstream and motivate some of the talented brains  on this planet to develop blockchain related apps, contribute to bitcoin code at github and other places.

Why can't we follow a similar thing here and organize a project and distribute bitcoin to IIT or other tech institutes and tell them about bitcoins and motivate them to participate in those coding projects...

common guys I need your opinion.

In the last Kolkata meetup we had some talk similar to this and moved forward with our plan. There were guys from ISI and I came to know they have Cryptology Research Group. Then came the Mt. Gox fall and people in general started to show inhibition regarding anything about Bitcoin. The plans are now in cold storage. Lets see, if those can be revived.

[highkart]

The MIT project was an awesome one to take bitcoin to mainstream and motivate some of the talented brains  on this planet to develop blockchain related apps, contribute to bitcoin code at github and other places.

Why can't we follow a similar thing here and organize a project and distribute bitcoin to IIT or other tech institutes and tell them about bitcoins and motivate them to participate in those coding projects...

common guys I need your opinion.

In the last Kolkata meetup we had some talk similar to this and moved forward with our plan. There were guys from ISI and I came to know they have Cryptology Research Group. Then came the Mt. Gox fall and people in general started to show inhibition regarding anything about Bitcoin. The plans are now in cold storage. Lets see, if those can be revived.

Hi,

If anybody is taking the lead do let us know, we will sponsor the events and will add our share for distribution.

You can PM us or mail us at admin@highkart.com

Regards,
Amit Kumar
Team HighKart

[Benson Samuel]

Coinsecure can hold Escrow and contribute some satoshis as well.

[cuddaloreappu]

great to watch a good suggestions taking shape into reality...

one thing i want to point out is  students from the department of sociology also received bitcoins at MIT, that was given to them to support them to do some sociological experiments with bitcoin,

So i think our project should also cover a wide range of students from arts, science and other humanities and not just engineering or IT departments.

[TrailingComet]

Great idea, how would you propose conceptualising this?

[nandubatchu]

Thank you for implementing this GIVEAWAY JUST NEED .EDU EMAIL ADDRESS- http://blog.coinbase.com/post/87144103922/update-on-edu-giveaway-over-20-000-college-students

[Benson Samuel]

Thank you for implementing this GIVEAWAY JUST NEED .EDU EMAIL ADDRESS- http://blog.coinbase.com/post/87144103922/update-on-edu-giveaway-over-20-000-college-students

Stop spamming with old posts.

[nandubatchu]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I AM SPAMMING, I AM JUST REFERRING TO A GATEWAY FOR FREE BITCOINS FOR STUDENTS THROUGH THE ARTICLE.

[Benson Samuel]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN I AM SPAMMING, I AM JUST REFERRING TO A GATEWAY FOR FREE BITCOINS FOR STUDENTS THROUGH THE ARTICLE.

Does not need to be spread everywhere. What you are doing is called spamming.

[BTCIndia]

I've few suggestions!  Lovely Professional University, Guru Ghasidas University, Sharda University, Sikkim Manipal University, Aligarh Muslim University and my favorite IIPM which is ranked for Global Exposure Intellectual Impact worldwide.