Austin and Beccy Craig, the Utah based newlyweds are going around the world with the film team on bitcoin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMsHpaHP9f0

Let us know if you have any questions.

Thanks to all who have offered support of every kind for the project. There is a big thank you in the video description. The bitcoin community is awe-inspiring.

Cheers,

Theron H.
LifeOnBitcoin.com

The Life On Bitcoin documentary project is pleased to announce a new sponsor in http://www.SimplyTravelOnline.com. Simply Travel performed the heavy lifting, and helped us with airline tickets and hotel reservations for the Crypto-Currency Conference coming up in Atlanta on October 5th.

Here is our blog post about this: http://lifeonbitcoin.com/300000-hotels-worldwide-available-for-reservation-with-bitcoin/

This is a soft beta launch, and they are still working on improving it, but this looks like it is going to be a great service with more than 10 plus years experience in the travel industry.

Let me know if there are any questions.

Thanks,
Theron H
LifeOnBitcoin.com

Hi All,

We are making a documentary film Life On Bitcoin. about a couple living on bitcoin for the first 90 days of their marriage. You can learn more on our website at http://www.lifeonbitcoin.com.

Austin and Beccy, the newlywed couple are making a cross country trip with members of the film crew. We are renting a van, and the car dealership is renting it for bitcoin! The trip starts on October 12th from Provo, Utah. We need help getting food, gas and lodging along the way. We have bitcoin to pay for these things, but we need businesses and people who will accept it.

There are two possible routes we can take, and we need to find bitcoiners in Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York City area. We will only be spending bitcoin. We are prepared to camp or sleep in the car if we have to, but we would prefer to sleep in beds in small motels or hotels. Our goal is to get businesses to accept bitcoin directly, but if we have to use intermediaries to survive we will, as that falls within our rules. It is a last resort.

We are about halfway through our 90 day challenge, and we have been able to get almost 30 businesses to accept our bitcoin directly here locally and online. It would be really neat to meet and interview some cool bitcoin enthusiasts on our journey.

Please message me if you can help!

Thanks,
Theron H.
LifeOnBitcoin.com

A lot of you on bitcointalk.org love the Bees Brothers. They have been accepting bitcoin for almost two years.

Given our team lives about two hours away, we decided to go meet them. They are stand-up, quality people. We purchased a lot of honey products for bitcoin, and they said that we were there first in-person bitcoin customers. Pretty cool. Their products, particularly the honey caramels, are awesome! But then again, a lot of you already know that.

This is our latest video about the experience. It is a lot of fun.
http://youtu.be/B67mOTlGYwQ

Austin and Beccy Craig are newlyweds living the first 90 days of our marriage using bitcoin. Their experiences will be featured in an upcoming documentary film: Life On Bitcoin. http://www.lifeonbitcoin.com

You can follow the whole adventure:

http://www.facebook.com/lifeonbitcoin
http://www.twitter.com/lifeonbitcoin
http://www.instagram.com/lifeonbitcoin
http://www.lifeonbitcoin.com/blog

Also be sure to check out the video description of the Bees Brothers video.

If you have any questions about our project, just ask me in the thread.

Theron H.
LifeOnBitcoin.com

Austin wrote a nice blog post/essay today about 'trust,' and how it relates to evangelizing or spreading bitcoin. You can read it here: http://lifeonbitcoin.com/lifeonbitcoin-day-34-on-the-subject-of-trust/

Austin and his new wife Beccy are in the thick of living three months only on bitcoin, and they are learning a tremendous amount about bitcoin and how it is perceived and spread in the wider business community.

Please let me know if you have any questions about our project.

Theron H.
LifeOnBitcoin.com

So I was cruising around over at Blockchain.info, and I see that the daily transaction volume is at 68586 which puts today 8-16-13 in the top 5 or 6 days in the history of bitcoin for transaction volume. It is approaching the same levels as in April and mid-May. However, when I correlate this data with three of the top ranked exchanges: Mt Gox, Bitstamp and BTC-E, I see that they all have tepid or even low volume in the last 24 hours. What is happening? Are grassroots payments by BTC spreading like crazy, or is it the automatic updates to overcome the Android security flaw?

The volume has been rising significantly for about two weeks.

Thoughts?

Theron H.
LifeOnBitcoin.com

Great news! The Ridley's grocery store chain, Lolo's Fresh Food Warehouse and an Ace Hardware owned by Ridley's are going to accept bitcoin payment from Beccy and Austin, the Life On Bitcoin documentary movie couple. This is a trial run, and Mark (an executive at Ridley's corporate) said Ridley's would be interested in expanding their acceptance of bitcoin and looking for options to integrate it, so they can offer it to more of their customers at the point of sale if this goes well. We will see. You can read about it in more detail on our blog here http://lifeonbitcoin.com/lifeonbitcoin-day-22-progress-report-breakthrough/

We'll keep the updates coming here and on our Facebook and Twitter.

Cheers,

Theron H.
LifeOnBitcoin.com

KnCMiner is one of the official sponsors of the Life On Bitcoin film. They are sending us a Jupiter Mining rig from their first production run (we anticipate receiving it sometime in September), and Austin and Beccy will share the setup process of the machine via our blog, Youtube channel and other social media. We will provide updates on our website and social media to show how much the machine has mined.

The places to follow updates for the Life On Bitcoin film project is via Facebook and Twitter.

http://www.facebook.com/lifeonbitcoin
http://www.twitter.com/lifeonbitcoin

Thanks, Theron H.
LifeOnBitcoin.com

Very cool stuff happening here in Provo. This morning Austin had a phone call with one of the executives at the corporate offices of a local large format grocery store. They want to help us with our project, and they are going to let us pay in bitcoin! Not only that, this company has about two dozen stores in four different states.

We can't tell you the name of the store yet, because we haven't worked out all the details. We also don't know when they are going to make bitcoin purchasing available to everyone, but step-by-step we are making progress. Another cool fact about this development is the same company owns a local hardware store and a gas station, and they are going to let us pay in bitcoin at all of these locations.

Theron H.
LifeOnBitcoin.com

[current information]

I'm involved with the Life On Bitcoin film project. (You can learn about it on our website at lifeonbitcoin.com.) I was a little concerned the other day when Austin and Beccy decided to make an order from bitmunchies.com to help stock their pantry, as they have not yet persuaded a full line local grocer to accept bitcoin. I had found scant current information out there about BitMunchies, and some of what I was reading made me concerned that it might be a scam to collect free BTC on the part of the site owner.

I'm happy to report that Austin and Beccy started receiving their order yesterday. It is in a couple of separate boxes, so it did not all deliver at once, but I thought it might be useful to put out there that the service seems fully legitimate. I just felt it would be useful for folks to know that the storied BitMunchies is once again a real business, and is actively operating.

BitMunchies would certainly do themselves a favor if they updated their contact page with more confidence building information such as the owner's name or a phone number. More reviews would be helpful too.

We will update if we have any problems down the road with it. Austin and Beccy are still working to bring a local grocer onboard. We really want that to happen!

Theron H.
LifeOnBitcoin.com

[However, right now, I have a bit of an emergency need.]

Hello All,

This is Theron (real name) with the Life On Bitcoin documentary film project. It is a documentary about bitcoin and about a couple who have agreed to live for 90 days on BTC. Our film just funded on Kickstarter late last week on July 12th, and we raised almost $73,000 in fiat currency. We've also raised about 30 BTC, and we are continuing to accept bitcoin contributions on our website, as the documentary film makers whom we have retained are going to cost more than $115,000 to get the movie we want. You can search "life on bitcoin" on Google or Kickstarter and find out a lot more about it if you want. We have been in some major press outlets.

I'm going to be getting more active in the forums to answer people's questions, and raise awareness about our project.

However, right now, I have a bit of an emergency need. Austin and Beccy, the couple which stars in the documentary are currently on their honeymoon. They fly back in less than 10 days, and I need to get some Casascius Coins for the opening scene. When they fly back, all of their cash, credit cards, etc are going to be confiscated at the airport, and we want them to use Casascius Coins to get home. Basically, they are going to need to find someone or a taxi service who will accept the coin or coins and give them a ride.

I need to purchase 2 Casascius Coins in the 1 BTC denomination and 2 in the 1/2 BTC denomination. These need to be in new condition pre-loaded with the holograms unpeeled.

I have tried to contact Mike Caldwell with Casascius directly, but he must be on vacation or something as he is not returning emails or facebook messages. I actually met him at the Salt Lake City Bitcoin Meetup a couple of weeks ago, but I did not get a chance to talk to him about this before he left. 

I would like to buy these from someone in the United States, and ship them FedEx. I have the FedEx account. I'm willing to pay a good premium for the coins. Alternately, if you want to donate them to the film. I'm sure I can arrange an interview on our vlog or some way to compensate and promote your business. If you have the coins to sell, I want to use a trusted escrow to make the deal. I also want to buy them from a trusted bitcointalk forum member. Any recommendations would be great!

I need this to happen fast. Time is of the essence. Please reply or message me if you can help.