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stevewilhelm on April 29, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Announcing the MIT Bitcoin Project

> a project to distribute $100 in bitcoin to every undergraduate student at MIT this fall.

They probably should have studied how habits are formed. $100 is not enough money to change people's shopping behavior.

It will more likely provide the vast majority of the students a frustrating first impression of digital currencies.

wyager on April 29, 2014 [–]

>$100 is not enough money to change people's shopping behavior.

It's about getting them interested, not necessarily changing their behavior long-term.

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