Sold my truck for bitcoins

[tvbcof]

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.

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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.

[TheButterZone]

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).

why how does your mom have bitcoin?
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.

Fixed ^

[thefiniteidea]

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.

 

[bbit]

much anger there, eh Gestas?

As for OP, good on you, hope your mother takes to it!

lol

[adamstgBit]

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.: " ... I GET IT! BITCOIN! i need more...  "
MOM:"cool"

LOL  ...anyway...

how much you selling it for?

[DoomDumas]

HEY !  There alot of other way to buy BTC than using MtGox... Please take a look arround, Gox is'nt the only option folks !

[westkybitcoins]

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.

[Bit_Happy]

...Now she is on her iPhone almost constantly.

Are you saying that is a good thing?   

[xxjs]

"My son is really smart... I hope. At least we still have the car in the family."

[Realpra]

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

[Nesetalis]

...Now she is on her iPhone almost constantly.

Are you saying that is a good thing?   

-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

And she STILL plays solitare to death... 15+ years later.