Being a member on the partially free hosting site Hostinger, I just got a mail that I can claim a free token on BitDegree due to their partnership.

Usually I don't like these spammy advertisements, but ever since I joined Steem, my enthusiasm regarding the blockchain "industry" is steadily increasing. I actually wondered if I should support an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) by trading some Steem or SBD for Bitcoin and sending that to them. But I was almost always too afraid of taking the risk.

Hence, I'm especially happy I got this free token. It meant no effort or financial investment on my behalf (as I'm quite opposed to the idea of spending my fiat money on cryptos) as well as I could consider it a genuine and kind gift from the site that already provided me a place to run a Youtube crawler project I've been dreaming about since late 2015.

Don't get me wrong, I have no intentions on advertising either Hostinger or BitDegree. I just want to start a discussion on the latter mostly, considering that giving ICO tokens through partnership, as I said, is a really nice way of rewarding its users for using their service, even if they do it for free! That is quite rare nowadays.

So far, @putna is the only one who has posted about BitDegree on Steem and he says:

BitDegree is a smart incentives based education platform, which aims to revolutionise education in the tech sector through gamification and rewarding students for their progress. We believe that what is currently taught at higher education institutions across the world does not prepare tech students with the necessary skills they need to find meaningful employment in their field upon graduation This is where BitDegree comes in.

You can read the rest on the post I linked above, but the matter is that what BitDegree is for MOOCs and education, is almost the same as what LBRY is for video makers, or Steem for social media, or WindingTree for travel agencies, or Augur for prediction markets.

So I'm quite excited about it, I'm already reading its whitepaper but I'd like to hear your opinions!

What do you think about BitDegree?