The people who really have my respect are those like Gavin and Garzik who gave away Bitcoin as a means of jump-starting things.
Faucets and charity (esp. the FOSS coding) are all well and good, but what about us chimp chumps who spent our early BTC on goods and services?
IMO, increasing velocity/distribution by rewarding actual use cases did more to bootstrap the crypto-economy than sprinkling about proof-of-concepts. With only philanthropists and hoarders participating, we'd have never gotten this moon rocket off the ground!
Seriously? Theres a website selling ramen noodles for btc?
Sigh, I guess spending $5 coins pretty much counts as giving them away.
