I did it! Traveling with Bitcoin and $100 only

[BigBall]

Wow you saved so much on those credit card fees.That is really good amount of money.This post will help to newbies so they can see what bitcoin is really,they will not be scared anymore of new online coins.

[shamzblueworld]

My journey started on Sep 21, from Boston to NYC, flight to Egypt then Turkey, back to Boston! Carrying $100 just in case and 3 bitcoins in my wallet!

Fuck If I will ever carry credit card, or cash any more:

1- I used Localbitcoins for cash! Search for best local currency rate!
2- How much I save from credit card fees and Fiat exchanges: $305.
3- Is it save to deal with Localbitcoins in person overseas? Yes, so amazing nice guys, you are making friends


You should try it! & $100 stayed with me! and I spent less than 1.9 btc in both countries!!!

But the amazing thing would be when you don't have to use localbitcoins for all your payments, uses and bills.
Gotta ask, how many vendors throughout your journey actually accepted bitcoin? Any tickets, bookings, restaurants or anything?

[South Park]

what you say can not everyone do, i better keep it ,. probably because you already have a lot of bitcoin or money. but for me bitcoin is very valuable until I collect it piece by piece.

Not everyone can do it but it is nice to know that it can be done in case it is needed besides you do not need to have that bitcoin you could have fiat and before your travel you buy bitcoin and then you take your flight, however I will say that only taking bitcoin to a travel is kind of risky so if you can keep fiat as well.

[shield132]

That's very good but bitcoin is very changeable so sometimes when price is high and you decide to exchange, you can lose some $ like there was fall couple weeks ago. If I understand correctly you where meeting persons face to face to exchange btc? This would help you to save atm withdraw fees? Am I right? On another hand what about XAPO card in such situation? As I know you can usw their card worldwide and atm withdraw has fixed fee.

[Mike Mayor]

That is so cool. You should have recorded it and put it into a blog to track your while journey so we can all see and maybe you can make some or all of the money back with ads and stuff. It would be really nice to travel and make money that way. Also open a steem account and post there.

This shows the practical use if Bitcoin. I'm glad people are starting to use it and realize it's full potential.

[Mobshady24]

That is so cool. You should have recorded it and put it into a blog to track your while journey so we can all see and maybe you can make some or all of the money back with ads and stuff. It would be really nice to travel and make money that way. Also open a steem account and post there.

This shows the practical use if Bitcoin. I'm glad people are starting to use it and realize it's full potential.

nice idea, he/she could have attract readers or viewers if he/she uploaded or posted it on youtube or social medias.
what you did topic starter is quite inspiring for us newcomers to bitcoin, i would love to go on a vacation using my earned bitcoin. It is hard to spend bitcoins though since the potential to earn from it will lost.

[jimrome]

It was a risky trip in my opinion,i would get a bitcoin based debit card rather than trusting local bitcoins when i am on a trip,either way hope you have a wonderful experience with just hundred dollars in your pocket and the rest being in bitcoin ,the volatility is high and you cannot predict the price and if i am in that situation i would not take that risk.

[8270thNinja]

My journey started on Sep 21, from Boston to NYC, flight to Egypt then Turkey, back to Boston! Carrying $100 just in case and 3 bitcoins in my wallet!

Fuck If I will ever carry credit card, or cash any more:

1- I used Localbitcoins for cash! Search for best local currency rate!
2- How much I save from credit card fees and Fiat exchanges: $305.
3- Is it save to deal with Localbitcoins in person overseas? Yes, so amazing nice guys, you are making friends


You should try it! & $100 stayed with me! and I spent less than 1.9 btc in both countries!!!

Wow congratulations to you!, this is an awesome news for the travelers here in bitcointalk forum. but does 1.9 btc is too much for your expenses? can you post the equivalent of btc (in usd)  that time that you used it for you travelling expenses?

[UsernameBitcoin]

That's great that you did that but you might regret that in the not too distant future when you see BTC start reaching it's full potential in price which will be inordinate amounts higher than what it currently is now.

[rachelia13]

It's sounds great, traveling with bitcoin and $ 100 only, maybe someday I can follow your trail, traveling to Japan where there are many places that receive payment with bitcoin, if for now I have not been able to do it because my bitcoin amount in my wallet not much and in my country only one city that receive payment with bitcoin, and even then only for hotel, whereas for other purposes still have to use fiat or card, so for now on i only develop bitcoin that i have by trading so later i have enough bitcoin to realize my dream to travelling with bitcoin to Japan

[nocturnalsheet]

great stuff! planning to do that as well but have to choose a bullish month so my bitcoin will keep going up even if I keep spending haha

[koralan]

Congratulations, this is very fucking awesome! Next time take the camera and shoot about this blog, I was interested to see it on YouTube. How about trying a round-the-world trip with more bitcoins?

[ethereumhunter]

Congratulations, this is very fucking awesome! Next time take the camera and shoot about this blog, I was interested to see it on YouTube. How about trying a round-the-world trip with more bitcoins?

soon we can use bitcoin for replacing our fiat to travel round the world trip and we only need to exchange our bitcoin to fiat and we can buy ticket, food, drink, pay the hotel, pay the accommodation for our holiday. someday i will be travel in one place too and i will carrying my bitcoin to feel how it like and i hope that place have ATM machine too so i can try it later.

[Edrian]

Wow, I wish I could do the same thing soon.  

My journey started on Sep 21, from Boston to NYC, flight to Egypt then Turkey, back to Boston! Carrying $100 just in case and 3 bitcoins in my wallet!

Fuck If I will ever carry credit card, or cash any more:

1- I used Localbitcoins for cash! Search for best local currency rate!
2- How much I save from credit card fees and Fiat exchanges: $305.
3- Is it save to deal with Localbitcoins in person overseas? Yes, so amazing nice guys, you are making friends


You should try it! & $100 stayed with me! and I spent less than 1.9 btc in both countries!!!

I have always heard people here saying they will spend money on travels or buying for routine life, but I feel your story shall be an inspiration for many of us, who would like to use Bitcoin over cash, just out of curiosity, the prices were preety much fluctuating, did you had a contingency plan, Incase the price went to low. I am sure many will take your story as a example, but not all are lucky to have 3 Bitcoins to spare.

Hahaha I think the backup plan is the $dollar. But that is a bit scary when something like a huge dumping happen and you are in the last stop away from home and needs a lot of money to go back.

This story of yours prove that bitcoin can be use as a substitute from fiat but also proves the the volatile price of bitcoin is really a huge disadvantage. Maybe someday there will be a software that can  freeze the bitcoin value that you want and unfreeze it whenever you want.

[Loni]

To travel the world is an ideal. I'm going to do it in summer)

[iloveass2]

Wow that's awesome dude. This will make me work hard for bitcoin more because i love travelling all over the world. But more interesting is to travel with the digital currency which cost you less than the actual traditional currency. Great to hear this from you !

[dylanc]

My journey started on Sep 21, from Boston to NYC, flight to Egypt then Turkey, back to Boston! Carrying $100 just in case and 3 bitcoins in my wallet!

Fuck If I will ever carry credit card, or cash any more:

1- I used Localbitcoins for cash! Search for best local currency rate!
2- How much I save from credit card fees and Fiat exchanges: $305.
3- Is it save to deal with Localbitcoins in person overseas? Yes, so amazing nice guys, you are making friends


You should try it! & $100 stayed with me! and I spent less than 1.9 btc in both countries!!!

Awesome! Very interesting 'experiment'. Hope you had fun and maybe you should do it again in the future

[CryptoScorpio]

Bitcoin helps us a lot while we travel between countries.I think it is the main benefit of bitcoin that I'm interested in.It is good to travel with bitcoin with out having hassles of exchanging currency and carrying a bunch of credit cards.In the future I expect bitcoin everywhere  so that it will be more easy for us to travel abroad and buy things there with having to convert into their currency.

[shimbark123]

My journey started on Sep 21, from Boston to NYC, flight to Egypt then Turkey, back to Boston! Carrying $100 just in case and 3 bitcoins in my wallet!

Fuck If I will ever carry credit card, or cash any more:

1- I used Localbitcoins for cash! Search for best local currency rate!
2- How much I save from credit card fees and Fiat exchanges: $305.
3- Is it save to deal with Localbitcoins in person overseas? Yes, so amazing nice guys, you are making friends


You should try it! & $100 stayed with me! and I spent less than 1.9 btc in both countries!!!

Wow I don't even know that many shops have now interest in getting bitcoin as their mode of payment. By that it says that we don't need fiat money anymore  And I believe that it is great.

[spov]

At the current price it is safe to travel with BTC. It would be a real adventure if you had tried it a year or two earlier!