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April 11th: 5 free BTC for solving a captcha? Ukraine and Romania both having crypto drama.

By Dahveed | Noncense | 12 Apr 2021


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A reddit user reminded people how Gavin Andresen opened a free Bitcoin faucet back in 2010 to promote adoption, giving away 5 BTC daily just for solving a captcha. You know, if I got the current equivalent of $300k for every captcha, maybe I’d take the time to spot every square with just a tiny piece of the traffic light.

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A Romanian university is about to accept crypto for tuition. This move will definitely in no way cement Romania’s (and Ramnicu Valcea’s specifically) reputation as Hackerville.

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CypherTrace wants to make DEXs compliant with government sanctions. This announcement got all the DEXs to excitedly respond: piss off!

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Ukrainian public officials reported a staggering amount of Bitcoin holdings in their tax declarations. But after the anti-corruption agency started looking into this, they shockingly started backtracking on those declarations. “Oh, sorry, not Bitcoin — beet & corn; that’s what we meant.”

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There are many faucets for non-mainstream crypto active right now. Are you using any of them?

 

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