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I believe the EFF donated their coins to the original "Bitcoin Faucet", a service by Bitcoin lead developer Gavin Andresen that would give away fractions of a c
by elux 13y ago
I believe the EFF donated their coins to the original "Bitcoin Faucet", a service by Bitcoin lead developer Gavin Andresen that would give away fractions of a coin for free, so the newbies would have some to experiment with. (The Bitcoin Faucet happens to be where I got my first 0.05 BTC, a few years ago.)
Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20185.0;wap2 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20185.0;wap2
- doublec 13y agoThe faucet funds, presumably including the EFF donations, were used to refund pools that had blocks orphaned in the recent blockchain fork: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=156641.0 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=156641.0