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I Tried to Get People to Give Away Bitcoin – And They Did
Some of bitcoin's earliest adopters have made a fortune holding onto the coins, and Connie Gallippi wanted to give them a way to help other people. Turns out bitcoiners are quite the philanthropists too.

Bailey Reutzel
Bailey Reutzel is a long-time crypto and tech journalist, having started writing about Bitcoin in 2012. Since then her work has appeared in CNBC, The Atlantic, CoinDesk and many more. She has worked with some of the biggest tech companies on content strategy and creation, and helped them program and produce their events. In her free time, she writes poetry and mints NFTs.
