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		elux on May 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: EFF now accepting Bitcoin again I believe the EFF donated their coins to the original "Bitcoin Faucet", a service by Bitcoin lead developer Gavin Andresen that would give away fractions of a coin for free, so the newbies would have some to experiment with. (The Bitcoin Faucet happens to be where I got my first 0.05 BTC, a few years ago.) Source: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=20185.0;wap2

doublec on May 17, 2013 [–]

The faucet funds, presumably including the EFF donations, were used to refund pools that had blocks orphaned in the recent blockchain fork: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=156641.0

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