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Title: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: Elwar on February 15, 2013, 04:09:45 AM Ok, it is not all that spectacular since I am selling my truck to my mother but...
I told her that if she is going to buy it she has to pay me in bitcoins. This is mainly to help her learn how to convert her dollars to bitcoins to help her get her feet wet. Plus the usefulness of Bitcoin comes into play here. I will be out of the country with no access to a bank. She cannot send me a check. She would have to either go to my bank and deposit into my account or attempt some sort of wire transfer or come up with some other difficult way to pay me (or expensive using PayPal). Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: Gestas on February 15, 2013, 04:19:02 AM Have fun explaining this to your mom when MtGox gets "hacked" and her passport and personal information are all over the internet.
P.S. a Bank deposit would be much simpler but I guess you need to teach your poor mom a lesson instead of being grateful that she is doing you a favor. Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: Elwar on February 15, 2013, 04:22:32 AM Have fun explaining this to your mom when MtGox gets "hacked" and her passport and personal information are all over the internet. P.S. a Bank deposit would be much simpler but I guess you need to teach your poor mom a lesson instead of being grateful that she is doing you a favor. Not when the closest branch for my bank is hundreds of miles away from where she lives. Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: Gestas on February 15, 2013, 04:23:42 AM Have fun explaining this to your mom when MtGox gets "hacked" and her passport and personal information are all over the internet. P.S. a Bank deposit would be much simpler but I guess you need to teach your poor mom a lesson instead of being grateful that she is doing you a favor. Not when the closest branch for my bank is hundreds of miles away from where she lives. Oh well though, maybe I could interest your mother in my investment fund? 15% interest per week!! Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: Nesetalis on February 15, 2013, 04:29:49 AM much anger there, eh Gestas? :P
As for OP, good on you, hope your mother takes to it! Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: mccorvic on February 15, 2013, 05:07:42 PM Your mother spent money and time raising you and you made her buy your truck :( What a terrible son you must be! :P
Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: Elwar on February 15, 2013, 05:19:42 PM Your mother spent money and time raising you and you made her buy your truck :( What a terrible son you must be! :P Well, actually I was just going to drop it off at CarMax and get a check but she wanted it. I told her she could just have it but she insists on paying for it. Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: Matthew N. Wright on February 15, 2013, 05:21:49 PM Have fun explaining this to your mom when MtGox gets "hacked" and her passport and personal information are all over the internet. If you're having trouble with Bitcoin's Paypal, try Bitstamp.net Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: adamstgBit on February 15, 2013, 05:31:33 PM Ok, it is not all that spectacular since I am selling my truck to my mother but... I told her that if she is going to buy it she has to pay me in bitcoins. This is mainly to help her learn how to convert her dollars to bitcoins to help her get her feet wet. Plus the usefulness of Bitcoin comes into play here. I will be out of the country with no access to a bank. She cannot send me a check. She would have to either go to my bank and deposit into my account or attempt some sort of wire transfer or come up with some other difficult way to pay me (or expensive using PayPal). Are you making her buy the coins off mtgox and then she can buy your car with it this is your MOM, why! why, would you do this to her ??? Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: Elwar on February 15, 2013, 06:32:08 PM Ok, it is not all that spectacular since I am selling my truck to my mother but... I told her that if she is going to buy it she has to pay me in bitcoins. This is mainly to help her learn how to convert her dollars to bitcoins to help her get her feet wet. Plus the usefulness of Bitcoin comes into play here. I will be out of the country with no access to a bank. She cannot send me a check. She would have to either go to my bank and deposit into my account or attempt some sort of wire transfer or come up with some other difficult way to pay me (or expensive using PayPal). Are you making her buy the coins off mtgox and then she can buy your car with it this is your MOM, why! why, would you do this to her ??? I could care less if other people use Bitcoin. They will eventually, it is just a matter of when will the technology make it as simple as paypal to switch over. Until then, I am content in buying Bitcoin cheap while it still takes a bit of effort to get set up initially. But I care about my family and want them to benefit as well. If I can show my mom how to get Bitcoin so that after that initial transaction she knows how to easily transfer money from her bank account, then she will be able to do so at her leisure from then on and enjoy the benefits that come along with it. She used to not understand text messaging on her cell phone (she called it a "tex mex"). Now she is on her iPhone almost constantly. Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: adamstgBit on February 15, 2013, 07:10:48 PM Ok, it is not all that spectacular since I am selling my truck to my mother but... I told her that if she is going to buy it she has to pay me in bitcoins. This is mainly to help her learn how to convert her dollars to bitcoins to help her get her feet wet. Plus the usefulness of Bitcoin comes into play here. I will be out of the country with no access to a bank. She cannot send me a check. She would have to either go to my bank and deposit into my account or attempt some sort of wire transfer or come up with some other difficult way to pay me (or expensive using PayPal). Are you making her buy the coins off mtgox and then she can buy your car with it this is your MOM, why! why, would you do this to her ??? I could care less if other people use Bitcoin. They will eventually, it is just a matter of when will the technology make it as simple as paypal to switch over. Until then, I am content in buying Bitcoin cheap while it still takes a bit of effort to get set up initially. But I care about my family and want them to benefit as well. If I can show my mom how to get Bitcoin so that after that initial transaction she knows how to easily transfer money from her bank account, then she will be able to do so at her leisure from then on and enjoy the benefits that come along with it. She used to not understand text messaging on her cell phone (she called it a "tex mex"). Now she is on her iPhone almost constantly. if you want your family to benefit as well, give them a COIN (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=126834.0)or two... OR buy their car with bitcoin! don't make then spend their bitcoin :P I'd take her dollars and convert them to bitcoin myself if it was my mom... Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: Tomatocage on February 15, 2013, 09:34:29 PM Dude you should totally have her send first, then once you get the coins, disappear and never talk to her again.
No, just kidding. But use Escrow just in case. Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: bg002h on February 15, 2013, 09:55:35 PM I think the partly told backstory of why using the established channels is horrendously inconvenient was underplayed. This is precisely the application of Bitcoin that's gonna change the world.
Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: MoonShadow on February 15, 2013, 09:58:21 PM Wire transfer is still incredibly easy compared to having to bathe in the blood of a virgin and give all your personal info to use MtGox. Why on Earth would you do that? There are other ways to get bitcoins, they might just take more effort. Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: MoonShadow on February 15, 2013, 10:02:47 PM Coinbase uses the exact same bank account funding methods that Paypal does, and it's about as annoying to "verify". Mt. Gox can't do it the same way because they're out of country. Once set up, however, Coinbase seems easier to me.
Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: mccorvic on February 15, 2013, 10:08:32 PM Dude you should totally have her send first, then once you get the coins, disappear and never talk to her again. No, just kidding. But use Escrow just in case. I lol'd Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: Elwar on February 15, 2013, 10:12:10 PM Coinbase uses the exact same bank account funding methods that Paypal does, and it's about as annoying to "verify". Mt. Gox can't do it the same way because they're out of country. Once set up, however, Coinbase seems easier to me. Nice. I will try first before showing her. Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: Gestas on February 16, 2013, 12:05:27 AM Ok, it is not all that spectacular since I am selling my truck to my mother but... I told her that if she is going to buy it she has to pay me in bitcoins. This is mainly to help her learn how to convert her dollars to bitcoins to help her get her feet wet. Plus the usefulness of Bitcoin comes into play here. I will be out of the country with no access to a bank. She cannot send me a check. She would have to either go to my bank and deposit into my account or attempt some sort of wire transfer or come up with some other difficult way to pay me (or expensive using PayPal). Are you making her buy the coins off mtgox and then she can buy your car with it this is your MOM, why! why, would you do this to her ??? I could care less if other people use Bitcoin. They will eventually, it is just a matter of when will the technology make it as simple as paypal to switch over. Until then, I am content in buying Bitcoin cheap while it still takes a bit of effort to get set up initially. But I care about my family and want them to benefit as well. If I can show my mom how to get Bitcoin so that after that initial transaction she knows how to easily transfer money from her bank account, then she will be able to do so at her leisure from then on and enjoy the benefits that come along with it. She used to not understand text messaging on her cell phone (she called it a "tex mex"). Now she is on her iPhone almost constantly. 1) Losing money to obvious ponzi schemes 2) Bitcoin bank "hacks" 3) Paying ridiculous fees for the privilege to use bitcoins 4) Having her internet fun money lose over half its value over night! Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: MoonShadow on February 16, 2013, 01:18:44 AM Yeah, hopefully she too will one day be able to experience the wonderful benefits of: 1) Losing money to obvious ponzi schemes 2) Bitcoin bank "hacks" 3) Paying ridiculous fees for the privilege to use bitcoins 4) Having her internet fun money lose over half its value over night! Dude, you've had some seriously poor luck. Of the set, I've only experienced #2, for a personal cost of about $7 due to one of the early online wallet websites being hacked. Of course, since most of my coins I bought for under a dime, the trade value of bitcoin would have to lose half it value over night, every night for a week straight before I actually lost anything at all! Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: mccorvic on February 16, 2013, 02:12:07 AM Yeah, hopefully she too will one day be able to experience the wonderful benefits of:
1) Losing money to obvious ponzi schemes 2) Bitcoin bank "hacks" 3) Paying ridiculous fees for the privilege to use bitcoins 4) Having her internet fun money lose over half its value over night! [/quote] Oh, baby troll tryin' so hard. Just precious. Been using bitcoin since March 11 and have never had any trouble. Please let me know if you need help using bitcoin. Seriously, I will help explain how to use it correctly. Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: tvbcof on February 16, 2013, 03:30:45 AM Yeah, hopefully she too will one day be able to experience the wonderful benefits of: 1) Losing money to obvious ponzi schemes 2) Bitcoin bank "hacks" 3) Paying ridiculous fees for the privilege to use bitcoins 4) Having her internet fun money lose over half its value over night! Chuckle. Not bad. Throw in some mining accidents and ASIC pre-order scammery to make things more complete. Dunno of you are SA or not. I've not looked at their material much lately, but I expect that they are either apoplectic about the price rise over the last month, or to embarrassed to say squat about it since they threw away a nice pay-out even though they were among the few who actually understood the solution. --- I've paid for some things with BTC to people who were interested in the solution. In the primary case, the person turned around and traded them for Litecoin. I explained it to my mother who understood it but was not interested. And I actually advised against her getting involved even if she wished to. Same with other family and most of my friends. It probably is a legitimate consideration that involvement with Bitcoin will result in a flag in certain warehoused data unless one is extremely careful in how it is done. This is not the reason I've discouraged anyone about Bitcoin however. Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: TheButterZone on February 16, 2013, 03:30:51 AM Ok, it is not all that spectacular since I am selling my truck to my mother but... I told her that if she is going to buy it she has to pay me in bitcoins. This is mainly to help her learn how to convert her dollars to bitcoins to help her get her feet wet. Plus the usefulness of Bitcoin comes into play here. I will be out of the country with no access to a bank. She cannot send me a check. She would have to either go to my bank and deposit into my account or attempt some sort of wire transfer or come up with some other difficult way to pay me (or expensive using PayPal). Are you making her buy the coins off mtgox and then she can buy your car with it this is your MOM, why! why, would you do this to her ??? I could care less if other people use Bitcoin. They will eventually, it is just a matter of when will the technology make it as simple as paypal to switch over. Until then, I am content in buying Bitcoin cheap while it still takes a bit of effort to get set up initially. But I care about my family and want them to benefit as well. If I can show my mom how to get Bitcoin so that after that initial transaction she knows how to easily transfer money from her bank account, then she will be able to do so at her leisure from then on and enjoy the benefits that come along with it. She used to not understand text messaging on her cell phone (she called it a "tex mex"). Now she is on her iPhone almost constantly. http://th404.photobucket.com/albums/pp129/seanxombie/whambulance.jpg Fixed ^ Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: thefiniteidea on February 16, 2013, 03:50:26 AM Dude you should totally have her send first, then once you get the coins, disappear and never talk to her again. No, just kidding. But use Escrow just in case. :D Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: bbit on February 16, 2013, 03:51:25 AM much anger there, eh Gestas? :P As for OP, good on you, hope your mother takes to it! lol Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: adamstgBit on February 16, 2013, 04:05:52 AM well if you can get your mom to buy bitcoin, and buys your car,
and then she asks you on skype or facebook or some other IM chat MOM: " ok so i put the address you gave to me, and i push send... And thats it! ??? " YOU: " Ya " MOM: " ok i did it" YOU: " Ok here is the tx on the block chain http://blockchain.info/tx/8221930c43c1e2c7351e29debb855a8c5e54e870be6688d873baa7fa7b3dd842" YOU Think: "Thanks Enjoy the car, ill go enjoy your bitcoin . BLOW AND BEER ALL NIGHT!!!!!!!!! THANKS MOM! FOR USING BITCOIN!@_@!!!!!!!!!" .... MOM Thinks.: " :o :o :o... I GET IT! BITCOIN! i need more... :-\" MOM:"cool" LOL ...anyway... how much you selling it for? :D Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: DoomDumas on February 16, 2013, 05:00:33 AM HEY ! There alot of other way to buy BTC than using MtGox... Please take a look arround, Gox is'nt the only option folks !
Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: westkybitcoins on February 16, 2013, 06:51:35 AM HEY ! There alot of other way to buy BTC than using MtGox... Please take a look arround, Gox is'nt the only option folks ! This, this, this. Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: Bit_Happy on February 16, 2013, 06:57:42 AM ...Now she is on her iPhone almost constantly. Are you saying that is a good thing? :D Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: xxjs on February 16, 2013, 06:45:41 PM "My son is really smart... I hope. At least we still have the car in the family."
Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: Realpra on February 16, 2013, 11:03:00 PM She used to not understand text messaging on her cell phone (she called it a "tex mex"). Now she is on her iPhone almost constantly. I approve. I don't get why everyone is so offended on behalf of your mother.I gave some 2.15 btc as a small present almost a year ago and now the first has come asking how to cash out again ;) Title: Re: Sold my truck for bitcoins Post by: Nesetalis on February 17, 2013, 03:59:48 AM ...Now she is on her iPhone almost constantly. Are you saying that is a good thing? :D -sobs- I remember when I purchased my mother a collection of solitare computer games in the late 90s for her birthday.... I created a monster. Every day after work, solitare, every chance she got, solitare, dinner? nope, solitare, clean the cat pan? nope, solitare... She was evenly matched in gamer addict with my brother at the time :P And she STILL plays solitare to death... 15+ years later. |
