An airdrop, in the context of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, is a distribution of free tokens or coins to a specific group of people or addresses within a blockchain network. This distribution is typically done by a project or organization as a marketing or promotional strategy, as a way to incentivize user participation, or to achieve other strategic goals within the crypto ecosystem. Airdrops can vary in terms of their size, purpose, and execution, but they generally follow a similar process. Let's dive into the details of a coin airdrop. 1. Purpose and Goals: A coin airdrop serves several purposes, which may include: Promotion: To create awareness about a new cryptocurrency project or platform. User Adoption: To encourage people to start using a particular blockchain or platform. Rewarding Holders: To reward existing token holders of a specific cryptocurrency. Community Building: To build a supportive and engaged user community around a project. Network Securit
Luck at the football stadium? Bitcoin 26 million won Airdrop?
Every year, December 31 is the biggest day of ESPN University's College game day, on which the majority of schools have regular matches with their biggest rivals.
It's the finale of the college football season, so the heat is so hot that ESPN often shoots cheering messages or pamphlets produced by students before the game begins. On December 31, 2012, an interesting scene was captured during a game day broadcast, in which a college student wrote down the phrase "Himom send Bitcoin" along with a QR code with a Bitcoin address on his pamphlet. Peripheral phrases suggest that he is probably a fan of Urban University who came on an away trip to the Iron Bowl, a rival match between the University of Alabama and Urban University.
When someone captured the scene, which passed quickly during the live broadcast, and uploaded it to the online community Reddit, and another user re-implemented the captured picture more clearly, users began to send Bitcoin with the QR code. There are more and more Bitcoin that people started sending little by little, and a few days later, nearly 26 million won worth of Bitcoin (about 22BTC), will be collected.
It is an incident in which a student's prank turned into great luck thanks to Bitcoin's characteristic that free remittances are possible around the world.
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Rhonda Campert was an early adopter. He bought six Bitcoin (BTC) in 2013. At that time, the price of a bitcoin was 80 dollars, which was just being talked about in the Internet niche market.
"I became interested when I heard about cryptocurrency and Bitcoin on the radio," he said. "At that time, it was very complicated to buy Bitcoin, but I succeeded in buying a coin as I followed the process."
Campert, who lives in Illinois in the U.S., used some of the bitcoin for the next year, and forgot the rest.
Campert was excited to see the news that the value of Bitcoin rose to USD 13,000 (about KRW 15.56 million) in 2017. He turned on the computer to cash the rest of the coin.
But there was a problem. I forgot some information to access my Bitcoin wallet. Bitcoin Wallet is an account for keeping and managing a series of passwords (private keys). "I realized that I had forgotten the last few numbers of wallet identifiers," he said. "I wrote down my password on the paper, but I didn't know my wallet ID."
"It was terrible. I tried everything for months, but I didn't stand a chance. I was practically giving up."
Last spring, the price of Bitcoin exceeded $50,000 (about 59.85 million won).
The price is more than 600 times higher than when Campert bought the coin eight years ago.
Campert searched the Internet again, vowing to find Bitcoin, and then learned that Chris Brooks and his son Charlie Brooks were working as cryptocurrency "Treasure Hunters." "After talking to them online, I decided it would be okay to hand over all the information I remember," Campert said. "And I waited for the results."
"I watched all the procedures through a video call. Chris opened his wallet, and the coin stayed the same. I'm so relieved."
3.5 bitcoins remained in his wallet, and the value at the time reached $175,000 (about 2948 million won).
"I gave Chris and Charlie 20% (of the coins they had). The first thing I did was cash in $100,000 worth of coins to add to my daughter Megan's college tuition."
Campert said he kept the remaining coins in his hardware wallet. This wallet is a USB-shaped security device that stores access information offline. He kept his password firmly in mind for accessing the new hardware device.
Campert hopes that the price of Bitcoin, which is 43,000 dollars (about 51.47 million won) per unit, will rise further as of the 8th. He explained that Bitcoin is a retirement fund in case you want to quit your daily trading job in stocks and cryptocurrencies.
There are a lot of people who need help like campert.
According to cryptocurrency analysis company Chain Analyses, out of 18.9 million Bitcoin in circulation on the market, 3.7 million have been lost by holders. There are not many places to ask if you lose your e-wallet information because there is no person in charge in the decentralized cryptocurrency world.
