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Leaving Bitcoin

I, Zachary J. Snow, have written this statement on the date of June 5, 2012.  Everything contained within this statement is wholly truthful and accurate.

I have come to realize that I have over extended myself in life.  I recently turned twenty-five (less than a week ago), I have a serious relationship, and my work is now taking me across the country, first to Pittsburgh and later to London.  I can no longer operate in the way that I have.  What this means is that I am leaving bitcoin.  I am going to distribute all of my bitcoin assets to people I feel helped me get to the position I am at.  While this may come at a shock to some, I feel this is the only way forward in my life.  I can't move on until I have tied up the ends which I have left open in this community, and in less than a week, I will be gone on a plane to Washington, D.C. before i go to Pittsburgh.  My humble job in this little city in Idaho allowed me to work what was essentially a second job in bitcoin, but this is no longer practical.  At this point, my way forward has only become clearer, and the way forward, unfortunately, does not involve bitcoin.

At this moment, I have no outstanding debts.  I do have to finalize a few obligations such as my business as part of S²CM and a few private deals I have brokered.  Apart from that, there is nothing else.  Be assured that I will do whatever is in the best interest of those involved in those deals, especially the shareholders of S²CM.

This is not something I have ever wanted to do, but I see no other option at this point in my life.
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later bro

edit: do you want to talk about it?

I tried this once too.  Bitcoin is just too revolutionary to forget about.  When you get rid of all the bitcoins thinking that suddenly the obsession will vanish, you'll find it does not.  Especially when there's volatility in the price, whether it's on its way up or down.  Good luck, see you back soon!

You can send me all of your bitcoins if you want.  I'll hold them for you on a paper wallet, and give them back to you some day in the future, untouched.

Good luck! Although I hope you will still keep some bitcoin savings around, right? You never know what the future may bring.

Sorry to see you go.  It's been real.

Keep fighting the good fight.

+1

Good luck with your career.

Sad to see you leave  :-[


Greetz

You don't leave dollars or euro
Same apply for bitcoin, you don't simply leave bitcoin :D

Good luck dude, it was nice having you around

Good luck with everything, splatster. You were one of the first people that conveyed a sense of security to me regarding bitcoin investments.

While I no longer have any SS shares, I would be interested to hear from smickles on this matter.

As has been said before:

http://i.qkme.me/3p9oba.jpg

Good luck though!

Of course S²CM will continue to fulfill its obligations to its shareholders.

lol, this is gold

Why a serious relationship at 25???  Make money mang!!!

I was about to make this :P

Goodbye, S!

I'd like to take this opportunity to publicly wish splatster well on his new direction in life. We've worked well together and done some good business. I hope he continues to do well in his relationship and career.

Splatster, all the best to you :)

bohooooooo... come back when you are ready,

Was an announcement necessary?  lol

I can quit Bitcoin anytime. I just don't want to right now.

Someone got an ultimatum: ME or the bitmonies. PICK ONE.   :D

I am 40, have a house, a wife, 2 kids, a stunning carrer in IT, and recently moved to the other end of the world.
Am i leaving Bitcoin?
Hell no!

Yeah, considering his involvement in different projects, it was. 

My wife says that i spend too much time on the Bitcoin bitch, and I should spen it on her.

lol I know the feeling  :D

Tell me about it... this is completely golden material, I cannot stop laughing.  :D

Addict

Should we give you a cookie?

Wanna bet he'll be back inside of 6 months?

Nuh uh! I quit Bitcoin several times just today.

Bitcoin is the gateway currency. One hit and you're hooked. Soon you'll be merge mining Namecoin. You'll be trading Litecoin. Before long you'll be jonesing for IXCoin because the high just isn't enough. To the OP: Yes you should definitely go cold turkey before you OD on... SolidCoin!

Don't be a lamer, come to the next Pittsburgh Bitcoin Users meetup.

http://www.meetup.com/Pittsburgh-Bitcoin-Users/

 ;D

No, this decision was made by me and me only.  I was only able to become so involved with bitcoin because my only real work being a part time IT manager and a freelance web developer.  Unfortunately, this is no longer going to be the case, and I felt it best to free myself up to focus on my future.

Keep your bitcoins offline. You know, cold storage, paper wallet, whatever. When you're in London, you can sell it there to someone. By that time, you'd double or triple what it was worth.

Or send it to everyone who posted here, divided as you see fit. I'm a nobody, but if you're leaving bitcoin, help a newbie out? (This is how I got twinked in an online game a long time ago, someone was leaving, and I was the lucky Level 1 character in the same area that inherited Level 50 equipment.)

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Thanks.

P.S. I can sign a contract that says "Don't touch my bitcoins until 10 years from now, but we'll split it then when I get back."

Then I will destroy every computer that has the private key after printing it on paper, engrave it on stone or something, then hiding it in a hole. I live in Asia, in a third world country, with a battalion of armed guards/soldiers. I have a wife and a kid, so I'm not going anywhere. Your bitcoins are safe with me.

Holy Shit. I've had that ultimatum. The wife hates bitcoin...

I'm like 007 up in this place all the time

I remember back when I quit IRC.. It was the hardest thing to do. But I'm glad I did it

Cordially yours,
rg @ freenode

Bitcoin is the future. If you want to build a great future, dont quit Bitcoin it will be a misstake.
Take a break and come back with new energy in a couple of months when price has doubled.

Yes, it was.  I owe it to the parties involved in the deals I have partaken in and to the shareholders of the GLBSE asset which I co-operate with Smickles.  I can't just get up and leave without letting people know what's happening, why it is, and how I plan to deal with it.

Bye?

Thanks for all the fish?

See you in the next life?

This thread is epic!

I wish you the best, and hope you keep your bitcoins as a tribute to your contributions to the community

Correct me if I'm mistaken, but I think you're leaving Bitcoin as a major participant or programmer or coder or services developer. The actual bitcoins in your wallet that belong to you, you should get to keep it.

If you can't trust that you will retain it when you move (because your computer or laptop can get lost or compromised) and you can't afford to have it on paper, then the best way would be to send the bitcoins to the people here.

My suggestion is to consolidate it into one (or a few) private address, print that out, and keep it with your passport. You're not going to lose that. You could also just email it to yourself, encrypted of course.

If you just let it go, then of course, no one else will ever have access to the bitcoins, and it will be eaten up or absorbed by the bitcoin economy.

I wish i could quit fiat but unfortunately they point guns at me  :)

Yes, whatever I don't donate away to people I will keep in cold storage.
I already have some keepsakes like a 10 BTC Casascius silver coin with the extra gold plating.

I am voluntarily donating the coins I hold as a gesture of kindness.  No one is "forcing" me to give them away, so I am keeping the coins I want to keep.

Quitting is easy... I've done it a thousand times.

Ah, so this isn't the first ponzi you've run? xD

On a more serious note, I do not think pirate is running a ponzi nor a money laundering operation, in case anyone was wondering. ;)

Since you're leaving anyway, no reason to butter me up. :)

Anyway, I wish you luck in your travels.  See you in a few months. :P

Wasn't me buttering up anyone, only stating my opinion on a rather controversial topic.

And I've still not reconfigured my miners yet.  :P
I'm sorry to see another valued member of the community go, and be sure to come back when bitcoins trade above $30 again!  :D
Best of luck to your career and future endeavours! 

Hello,

I am looking to become more involved with the bitcoin community and have already built a small GPU farm and established some good credit here and there.  I am not quitting Bitcoin EVER, in fact I am planning my own BTC venture soon.

If it may help at all, I would like to step up and deal with any matters you are involved in if all parties can agree. Just an offer.

You could PM me with some details, or if surely, I am way out of my league, just ignore me.

Best of luck to you, please don't quit.

You could just be less active, right?  In any case, you would always be welcomed back.  :)

This will just be an overarching statement to those who have posted here and those who have PMed me about taking over my ventures:
No. I will find suitable people who I know and trust and who I feel are competent to continue them in the right direction.  If your name doesn't come to my mind naturally and you have to pitch the idea yourself, then I obviously don't know/trust you well enough to hand over such ventures.

You are still keeping a little stash that you can tuck away "for a rainy day", right?

If you still wanna unload some BTC, the address in my signature line would accept it. No donation is too small or too large!

;D

Sorry I offered.