Coinbase for referring a friend was a big deal back then! What a great time to be alive.
Coinbase has been around since 2012, and it used to give away 0.1 BTC for every person you referred to the site. If you happened to grab some of that free BTC back then, you would have been sitting on a goldmine. That 0.1 BTC would be worth around $26,000 today.
I’m sure some of you were lucky enough to take advantage of this offer. Can you imagine how much you would have if you managed to refer 10 people? It would have been around $260,000! Unfortunately, I spent all of my BTC when it was still worth a few dollars.
It’s amazing to look back and see how far cryptocurrency has come. Back then, Coinbase used to send out emails with the full email addresses of the people you referred – data privacy wasn’t really a thing.
I remember how excited I was to get $15 from Coinbase for referring a friend. Little did I know that it was just a drop in the bucket compared to what could have been. Still, it was a great time to be alive.
If you managed to take advantage of Coinbase’s offer back in 2012, kudos to you. You must have had some serious convincing power to get people to buy Bitcoin, especially when it was still so new. Most people probably would have sold that free BTC for a 5x or 10x return.
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In conclusion, if you had referred a few people to Coinbase back in 2012, you could be sitting on a fortune today. You never know, so it’s always a good idea to take advantage of offers when you can. Who knows, the next one could be your lucky break.