Bitcoin Forum

My wife... is not a fan. Suffice to say debating on bitcoin's value as an investment has not gone over well with her. She's convinced the whole thing is a scam. I think the fact that no one knows who created bitcoin rubs her the wrong way, as well as bitcoins legal gray area...

Anyway, she told me not to buy bitcoins, but I dun did it anyway  :P

Months elapse, and long ago bitcoin became a subject I did not bring up around her.

Recently she was bored and googled me. She found one of my forum posts talking about how I bought bitcoins.

oops.

She got over it  ;)

My girlfriend knows about my reputation as a troll on the forums (that I spent a great majority of my past here fighting and arguing with people), that there is a stalker on Something Awful (the buttcoin.org guy) who wants to have sex with me, and that I am the owner of several bitcoin companies. She knows how much money I make from it all and she knows that I produce a magazine. I gave her the magazine for the first time last night.

I didn't get any sleep.

'Nuff said.

She was away on a 4 month work contract when I got started and thought it was adorable.
Then she moved back and wasn't too thrilled with the "heat chamber".
Now she's jealous of all my bitcoins.

 ???

>Don't have significant other
>Buy all the rigs I want
>Invest in Bitcoin
>feelsgoodman.jpg

I don't have a significant other either,thank god.They can certainly get annoying.
No significant other=absolute liberty for me :)
So no one cares about my love of bitcoin (woo hoo,no one to tell me how to live my life.)
Also agree with mufa23 :)

The evening usually goes something like this:

"God, why is it so hot in your room?"  

*blab blab blab*  

"Bit-what?  You mean it's imaginary?"  

*blab blab blab*

"You're such a dork*

*shows her gold and silver purchased with BTC*

*her jaw drops...and stays that way for the next 10-15 minutes*

 :D

She deals with it. As long as the noise and heat are not in her areas of the apartment, I'm good. She knows its legit and makes us some nice coin.

Is it wrong to ask your significant other to call you Satoshi in the sack?

"naka....Naka...NAKA-AIYEEEEEEEEE!"

lol

She rolled her eyes when I bought a mug with a bitcoin logo on it.

My wife thought it was just another one of my libertarian/ anti-establishment/ End the Fed- goof ball ideas...until the orders rolled in... and the kids got all into the concept by investing, trading, and earning their own btc.  Now she thinks its pretty neat and is in to it also.  She's the one that painted the bitcoin symbol on our bee hive.

She does think I'm a bit weird for checking exchange rates at 4:00am. ::)

After telling her about this thread she said

"If you want to play your real life "Oregon Trail" video game, just make sure you pay off the house.  Just like the miners in the California Gold Rush, bitcoin miners need to eat too."

you mean re-marry?

I'm in the middle of a split, so I guess it isn't the best question for me, but she hated it.  It was something she didn't understand, and still doesn't.  Although I paid off our bills more than a few times with bitcoin funds, she still doesn't have faith in me investing into hardware.

At least there's a good chance that you'll have the sweet revenge of becoming filthy rich   :D

It would certainly be interesting to see how a court rules in the distribution of assets such as Bitcoin... It would be very easy to send coins to another wallet and slowly re-introduce the gains back into your lifestyle.

Bitcoins could be the perfect safe-haven for someone going through a divorce, looking to stash away some funds.

Well then spending all them bitcoins on hookers and jergens is a bit of a waste :P

She dosen't care either direction. but she'll start to use it once she hears one of her friends mention it I'm sure of it.

I didn't know you shared the same feelings MNW  :-*

A while back my girlfriend and I met Roger Ver and his girlfriend at the time, here in Seoul for dinner. While Roger was teaching me some things about economics, both my girlfriend and Roger's were talking about how they didn't understand how we could spend all of dinner talking about Bitcoin. In their defense, they love bitcoin too, just don't have a passion for the technical parts of it. Surprise, surprise. Girls don't want to talk about nerdy stuff.  ;)

She keeps asking what I'm going to buy her with the money I make.

'kin women :/

"It doesn't bother me that much"

(Goes back to her obsessions)

My girlfriend sees bitcoin as one of my cute little nerd hobbies. When we talk about money and the implications she gets all annoyed (if not pissed) and tells me money and capitalism are evil and we should get rid of that shit and that people need to change and love and stuff. Then she goes shopping.

When I told her I transferred most of my bitcoins to a brainwallet, she wondered what would happen when I died.

Well, the wealth goes to the other holders of bitcoin because my death is a deflationary event.

After all: that's just this cute little hobby of mine, so why would she be interested in inheriting that evil nerdy stuff?

Mine keeps asking me when we're actually going to see some funds. I tell her it's all tied up in investments.

So she makes me run the calculations for how much I would get if I cashed it all out. She got pretty excited when we ran through that last night.

My left hand keeps trying to click BUY whereas my right hand keeps clicking SELL.  ;D ;D

My girl was cool with it once I had explained it all to her properly. It bores her a bit, but she's supportive, and used to my weird obsessions by now.

It helps I've bought her some cool stuff with profits  8)

^ same here..... My wife thought me buying all the GPU's and running them at someone elses house ( freepower) was stupid,, Until she got some SWEET ASS knock off goods from Silkroad :)



Sunglasses purses and what nots :) All without our bank account or credits cards being used at all :P

Since I don't have a significant other,I may as well add to the fact that some people who know me,think I'm nuts but very few are supportive of me making money with Bitcoin mining.It's not helpful when people you know think you're just plain nuts like in my case.

Ha!  I suspect this realization may be the secret to long, happy life.

Maybe the ones calling you nuts are crazy themselves :P

Perhaps(they're just as nuts).I don't think Bitcoin's reputation in mainstream circles is helping things though (to be fair most people have a poor impression of BTC in mainstream circles,money laundering this,drug buying that.I mean these publicised uses aren't helping BTC gain a good rep for the average man)

So because you can buy drugs with FIAT and Launder money with FIAT.... Do they have the same opinion of it?


Seems silly..... Doesn't make a difference what kind of currency you're using... They can all buy drugs and boobies:)

Money is just a tool of trade like GBP,BTC,etc.Problem is certain types of people (Govt,politicians,special interest groups possibly) have tried hard to stick an image in the minds of most people that the main uses for BTC are illicit (or shady) rather than just another method of trade (like GBP,USD,etc is today) and I think that such press isn't helping things for the average man who know very little about BTC/haven't really heard of it in the first place.

my SO is sold, she would invest but she considers my investment "our" investment so its not necessary for her to buy any :P
She was of mixed minds about the mining investment (ROI concerns) but after studying the price and chinese forums she has no issues, she doesnt mind the noise and likes sitting in the mining room when she comes home as its the only hot room in the house until the heater goes on ;)

in short, the only problem is I have to share my bitcoins.

...you mean, how do my bitcoins feel about my bitcoin obsession?

Well, they haven't really expressed an opinion.

I get to mine, she gets to watch the Real Housewives of New Jersey.... on the flat screen...... upstairs....... in the bedroom....... by herself.

She doesn't know.
*evil chuckle*