"I got Bitcoin!" Halloween gifts in digital currencies

A cryptocurrency user gave at least $ 400 bitcoin gift cards to Canadian children during Halloween.

while many of the children who dressed up as ghosts, goblins and witches last night may have been disappointed when they found a thin, inedible piece of cardboard left in a bag. Gifts, the lucky few have listed it as a Bitcoin bonus.

Mills posted a video of him adding two gift cards, each worth around 0.007 Bitcoin after the coin rose to $ 14,000, and filmed the reactions to receiving Halloween gifts on Al-Kindi neighborhood.

a boy in white uniform was the first to carefully dig into the box before telling his group of friends, I just got a $ 100 Bitcoin gift card!

someone else in the group retrieved the other card from the pile of candy, cheering over and over You got Bitcoin! I got bitcoin! One of the two remaining children was left empty handed before asking, What is Bitcoin? The Mills family later gave a few additional Bitcoin cards to a visiting group of girls who had heard of the cryptocurrency gift.

Although minors are not specifically prohibited from holding currencies or trading digital currencies in some countries, many exchanges still require verification to ensure that Its users are over the age of 18.

Since the kids from Video Mills are in Canada, they can access Bitcoin ATMs but most likely not the local regulated exchanges to deposit or trade their Bitcoins for Banknotes.

Although some kids don't understand currencies, feedback from the cryptocurrency community has been positive, with many Twitter users saying it's a good lesson in scarcity.

cryptocurrency statistician Willie Wu said: This is a historical feeling ... When these kids get older, there will only be 0.002 BTC per person.

And last September, Queen Telegraph reported that an anonymous benefactor had distributed more than $ 1,000 in Bitcoin Cash (BCH) around Bakersfield in ...