{"id":9164,"date":"2013-12-01T22:34:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T06:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9164"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:12:54","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:12:54","slug":"a-college-kid-made-over-24000-yesterday-just-by-waving-this-sign-on-espn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/a-college-kid-made-over-24000-yesterday-just-by-waving-this-sign-on-espn","title":{"rendered":"A College Kid Made Over $24,000 Yesterday Just By Waving This Sign On ESPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>A college student quickly made over $24,000 just by waving this sign on TV.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the deal: Yesterday on ESPN\u2019s \u201cCollege GameDay\u201d (an ESPN college football show that\u2019s filmed at a different college campus each week) some student held the above sign that has both the Bitcoin logo and a QR code.<\/p>\n<p>A QR code is a visual representation of any kind of information (frequently a URL for a website). In this case, the code represented a Bitcoin wallet.<\/p>\n<p>On Reddit, Bitcoin fans managed to enhance the QR code from the screen in order to identify his wallet, so that people could donate money to him.<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; ; background-; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/someone-holding-bitcoin-sign-on-college-gameday-receives-over-22-bitcoins-2013-12\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A college student quickly made over $24,000 just by waving this sign on TV. Here\u2019s the deal: Yesterday on ESPN\u2019s \u201cCollege GameDay\u201d (an ESPN college football show that\u2019s filmed at a different college campus each week) some student held the above sign that has both the Bitcoin logo and a QR code. A QR code [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1318],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitcoin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65111,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9164\/revisions\/65111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}