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The bitcoin wallet service Coinbase is giving away...

The bitcoin wallet service Coinbase is giving away $10 of bitcoin to college students, said a company blog post (http://bit.ly/RF4oEz) Wednesday. The giveaway is available to students in the “top 500 universities worldwide,” with corresponding .edu domain names, it said.…

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Domain names with the most signups include illinois.edu (496), utexas.edu (290) and berkeley.edu (232), it said. The bitcoin promotion follows a similar strategy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Bitcoin Club, which raised the funds to give $100 of bitcoin to all 4,528 of MIT’s undergraduates, said a press release (http://bit.ly/1mTYSeu) last month.