RE: Everyone's a Critic ... #ZapFic
Looking forward to seeing your entry when I get to checking the last of them later today.
Don't think we've met either. Have seen you comment on a few posts where I also commented, but don't think we've had the opportunity to interact. Looking forward to getting to know you.
Your timing was great! That was when I wanted to buy, but my hot water heater started leaking. Have had a string of real life issues stop my from adding to my holdings and that hot water heater happened to be the last one right as I had rebuilt up some cash. At least it happened before I bought the STEEM as it's not exactly easy to pull $1000 out to cover an expense like that. Couldn't be without hot water...15 hours was bad enough from the time I had to shut the water off to the house to having hot water again. Naturally it happened at night when there was no way to get it fixed right away.
Agreed—hot water! I don’t have quite the extravaganza, I’m just the luckiest guy I know. Right, Quill? Which, by the way, @quillfire, you sure are being rude just letting us do all of the talking on your page. 👍🏿
We picked up and moved out of the country in January 10th, thedarkhorse, I sold our car on the 6th. Dude paid me in USD + Bitcoin but I had him send the Bitcoin through blocktrades to both my wallet, and my wife’s wallet (6th and 9th).
You know?? All that car ever did for me is good things.
So you sold a car and bought some steem...nice! I actually sold a car for STEEM about six months ago. My timing wasn't the greatest as the price was about 85c then I think, but have had the extra voting power that whole time and confident that the price will go back above $2 so not worried about it.
I've talked to my Wife about just selling everything and moving out of the country. Think it would be fun to go live in different places for 3-6 months each and then move on. She really has no interest. So another thought is to move somewhere with less expensive housing (we live outside of Chicago) and at the same time downsize saving even more. Then travel for a couple months a year. Trying to win her over on this idea...think I'm getting close after this brutal winter in Chicago.
Oh, man! I grew up in LA. I’m 41, my wife is 34, we just left Long Beach, Ca back in January and have been in Costa Rica ever since, we’re Air B&B’ing a different location every 30 days—God is great!
In case I didn’t say it earlier, pleasure to be met, @thedarkhorse. I just entered the competition! 👍🏿
@thedarkhorse,
I'm a Canadian ... that lives in Florida. :-)
@dandays,
You are the luckiest guy in the world ... you should see Dan's wife!!! :-)
You sold a car for crypto ... and so it begins. It may sound crazy, but it's all these seemingly isolated and insignificant transactions (in the grand scheme of things) that will one day "magically metatisize into meaning." A few cryptos (most will go under) will simply "become currencies" by virtue of the fact that people are using them as such. What's the "critical mass" ... I don't know but I suspect it's not as far off as many might think.
Quill
You know what, Quill? On that subject, hear me out right quick, I’ll try to keep this conversation in the field of play.
I’m sure I’m not the only one, but I have several wallets.
Fact:
blockchain.info, cex.io, bittrex.com and kraken.com, all at around the same time, wanted me to update my profile settings to adjust for newly implemented KYC laws. And each of them guaranteed easier, faster transactions and now they’re implementing credit cards again (I have yet to comply).
Fact:
Coinbase’s partner, Shift Card, which is the visa debit card directly attached to my coin base account cancelled their services last week, not update, cancelled—the cards are all void now. I forget the day but around last Monday. BitPay cancelled cash withdrawals from their debit card that’s directly tied to BTC and/or BCH today. Said it’s a “service upgrade” and they apologize for any inconvenience.
I see two things happening:
• For many, myself included, trading back and forth between fiat and crypto just got a little challenging. That means more of us are going to hold which, in return, supply goes down and the value goes up.
• It will force tech companies to familiarize themselves with merchants and swap to an updated technology where Visa debit cards and trading between fiat and crypto isn’t necessary.
What do you think @quillfire?