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A Few Trick-or-Treaters in Canada Receive a Surprising Treat: Bitcoin (cointelegraph.com) 37

Posted by EditorDavid from the happy-Halloween dept.
Cointelegraph reports: While many children dressed as ghosts, goblins, and witches last night may have been disappointed to find an inedible thin piece of cardboard left out in a goodie bag, a lucky few recognized the treat as a Bitcoin prize.

According to an October 31 tweet from Brad Mills, the crypto user filled a Halloween candy box with more than just chocolates and sweets — he also added $200 in Bitcoin (BTC) cards. Mills posted a video of him adding the two gift cards, each worth roughly 0.007 BTC following the coin's rise to $14,000, and filmed the reactions of trick or treaters in his Canadian neighborhood.

One boy in a white costume was the first to meticulously dig through the box before saying to his group of friends, "I just got a $100 Bitcoin gift card!"
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  • "I just got Bitcoin!" (Score:3)

    by PPH ( 736903 ) on Sunday November 01, 2020 @07:48PM (#60673344)

    I saw the video of those kids digging through that box. Dude, you just got Coronavirus.

    I did the PVC pipe out the window trick last night. The neighborhood parents appreciated it.

    • And why would they get COVID-19 but the kids picking candy from your PVC pipe wouldn't?

      Were you disinfecting every single piece of candy that went down your PVC pipe?

      • Were you disinfecting every single piece of candy that went down your PVC pipe?

        The candies aren't going to come pre-infected from the grocery store.

        Just use a mitt to drop the candies into the top end of the pipe.

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by PPH ( 736903 )

        Were you disinfecting every single piece of candy that went down your PVC pipe?

        Which came out of a sealed plastic bag. Probably produced and packed under sanitary conditions. And just sitting in that bag for a few weeks probably renders remaining viruses dead. So as long as I'm OK and I've washed my hands, the kids are only exposed to a low probability of catching something from me. The Nth kid digging through a box is exposed to N-1 possible sources.

      • A good soaking in Lysol before sending down the chute will kill everything -- including those that eat the candy afterwards.

    • I saw the video of those kids digging through that box. Dude, you just got Coronavirus.

      If not here, then elsewhere on their neighborhood trip.

      Were no trick-or-treaters at our house last night. IMHO any jurisdiction was derelict if it wasn't citing adults for child abuse if the took their kids, or let them go, trick-or-treating this year.

      • IMHO any jurisdiction was derelict if it wasn't citing adults for child abuse if the took their kids, or let them go, trick-or-treating this year.

        Also reckless endangerment - of any occupants (especially oldsters) of the houses visited. One count per occupant.

      • No worse than sending you kids to school.

    • I did the PVC pipe out the window trick last night. The neighborhood parents appreciated it.

      I used one of those t-shirt cannons that they have at NBA games to shoot candy at the kids. I vaporized a couple of them before figuring out how to turn down the force of the cannon. Who knew that Smarties fired from a t-shirt cannon were basically grapeshot? Next year, I'm adding a reflex sight and maybe a laser.

      Live and learn.

    • We did it too, except we used a cardboard tube.

      It both maintained distance from the little vectors of disease running around, and also was kind of a game to see if they could catch the candy. Which for some of the kids involved, was actually a challenge, cute little tykes.

  • Bitcoin for candy? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by GuB-42 ( 2483988 ) on Sunday November 01, 2020 @07:49PM (#60673346)

    I guess these kids will have to buy their own candy.
    You can buy very interesting candy online with Bitcoin... Or so I heard.

  • Sounds like they're gonna have to update "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown".

    • Re: (Score:2, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      "It's the Great Tulip, Charlie Brown", judging from previous Bitcoin discussions here.
      • Bitcoin is the real deal. The invention that will achieve what Gold never could, separating properly and effectively money from the state.

        The Gold Standard was suspended temporary with WWI. Later, in 1971, the suspension became definitive. Bitcoin fixes all possible money manipulations and corruptions: https://medium.com/@festina_le... [medium.com]

      • Bitcoin is just like tulips.

        If tulips were indestructible and kept increasing in value for decades at a time.

        Hmm... turns out Bitcoin isn't really anything like tulips...

    • Oh yeah. The scene with Lucy explaining how to fill out the tax forms to report $100 in trick-or-treating income and a corresponding $100 loss when Patty and Marcy's shady bitcoin exchange scams him out of his magic Halloween money is going to be fantastic.

      • I now have this picture of Lucy's stand in my head - it still lists the 5-cent consulting fee, but she's added the address of her bitcoin wallet.

  • I'm struggling to see how this story even makes local community news.
    • It's a simple answer. The hype of bitcoin supersedes all known concerns. When bitcoin is involved, headlines ensue. See, simple.
      • Ah, so if

        n = newsworthiness of a bitcoin story, and

        k = bitcoin hype

        nk is a figure of merit that determines whether a news story will appear in my feed.

        Because k = infinity,

        as long as n > 0 , no matter how small, then

        nk = infinity.

        Got it. I hate it, but I get it.
        • Our currencies are at the stage to be printed to infinity. In the meantime the money of internet: Bitcoin is scarce and credible. Bitcoin is a rational choice.

    • Nerds like Bitcoin. I'd imagine many of here first heard about Bitcoin on Slashdot. Why wouldn't this be a story?

  • Oh, wait, I may have also gotten COVID-19?!?!? WTF!!!!

  • We gave a cousin some bitcoin a few years ago for a wedding gift. They were moving across the country into a small apartment and didn't need much in the physical realm. We suggested "open in 2023".

    https://gift.bitcoin.com/ [bitcoin.com] has an easy helper script.

    • That's not Bitcoin. That's Bitcoin Cash. You gave them basically a cash gift that's hard to redeem. If they wait till 2023, they might not have anything left.

  • Poor kids (Score:2, Funny)

    by havill ( 134403 )

    recipients of a "trick" rather than a "treat".

  • You can act like you gave, but give nothing. "Genius!".

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