I know, I know. I should have gotten rid of my fiat mindset and did my accounting in sats instead. So, in the two months since then, I earned about 250k sats - mostly from Stacker News. 250,744 sats to be exact. I mean, sometimes I withdraw a hundred sats here and there from Fountain and Yzer - but that’s it. All my other sources of sats have dried up.
Here’s the lowdown on my transactions. I posted earlier about using my March Million Sats Madness earnings to pay for two bills on AXS. I’m glad to diversify my use of sats and not have to rely on Bitrefill only.
Bitcoin Purchases
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16/2/2024 - Decided to strengthen my patience and wait until I accumulate enough sats to buy a $20 worth of food takeout voucher from Bitrefill. Got it today for 28525 sats like a BOSS! ZBD took a 310 sats fee. Received 285 sats to partially fund my next spending yay 🎉 . Used it on 22/2.
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22/2/2024 - Delayed gratification again by waiting until I had enough sats to buy $20 worth of supermarket vouchers from Bitrefill. Voucher was 31262 sats. ZBD took a 320 sat fee. Bitrefill returned me 313 sats as cashback. Eager to go shopping for groceries! Used it on 3 March.
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1/3/2024 - Thanks to Bitcoin’s pump, I just needed 30180 sats to buy a $25 worth of Grab food takeout voucher from Bitrefill. Paid 305 sats as transaction fee and got back 302 sats as cashback. Unfortunately, used it on the very day itself (1 March) because wife had to work overtime.
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8/3/2024 - Spent 16708 sats to buy a $15 GrabFood voucher from Bitrefill. Zebedee charged 171 sats for the transaction. but Bitrefill did give me 167 sats as cashback, so it wasn’t too bad. Used it on McDonald’s takeout.
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12/3/2024 - Used 11,273 sats to buy a $10 NTUC supermarket voucher from Bitrefill. Zebedee charged me 116 sats for the transaction. Bitrefill gave me 113 sats as cashback. Intending to use it tomorrow to buy toothpaste and mouth washer.
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25/3/2024 - Used 24,049 sats to buy a $20 NTUC voucher from Bitrefill. Zebedee charged me 244 sats for the transaction. Bitrefill gave me 240 sats as cashback. Spent the voucher on 31 Mar on Asahi beer & wasabi chips.
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1/4/2024 - Used 35,453 sats to pay for my NTUC Income insurance premium worth $32.50. Zebedee charged me 400 sats for the transaction.
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2/4/2024 - Used 37,992 sats to partially pay for my utilities bill worth $35. Zebedee charged me 384 sats for the transaction.
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2/4/2024 - Used 21,186 sats to buy a GrabFood voucher worth $20. Zebedee charged me 216 sats for the transaction. Bitrefill gave me 212 sats as cashback. Spent it on 5/4 on Mos Burger meals via takeout.
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7/4/2024 - Used 11,536 sats to buy a NTUC supermarket voucher worth $10. Zebedee charged me 118 sats for the honour. Bitrefill gave me 115 sats as cashback. Spent it the same day on puffs for my daughter.
Things I noted
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I should have kept to the same style so that it’s easier for me to analyse my transactions. You noticed that I adopted the same template for the later transactions. I need to learn how to tabulate figures into a chart on Markdown to achieve a clean-cut presentation.
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Spent 250,744 sats, on which 248,164 sats were used to buy gift cards and pay bills. Another 2584 sats were used for transaction fees. Earning about a quarter of a million sats in 2 months is not too shabby!
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Got back 1747 sats from Bitrefill as cashback.
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Thanks to Bitcoin appreciation, I no longer need so many sats to buy a voucher compared to just two months ago. NGU!
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The fiat equivalent is $207.50. Safe to conclude that I’m stacking more sats these days.
I hope this motivates someone out there. It sure encourages me haha.