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What’s the Most Interesting Way You’ve Used Bitcoin?

2110 sats \ 28 comments \ @nym 15 Oct bitcoin

Please share the most interesting, unusual, or downright surprising way you've used Bitcoin.

A few years back, I was traveling through a remote area in Eastern Europe, where cash still ruled and card payments were pretty uncommon. One evening, I found myself in a small village, needing a place to stay, but I had completely run out of local currency, and the nearest ATM was a day’s walk away. I ended up chatting with the innkeeper, and to my surprise, he’d actually heard of Bitcoin! Since I’m a proud Bitcoiner, I offered to pay for the room with Bitcoin. He was curious but agreed—as long as I could show him how to set up a wallet. So that night, not only did I find a cozy place to stay, but I also helped introduce someone to Bitcoin for the very first time.

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28 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 15 Oct

Donation to Canadian truckers protest.

6 sats \ 1 reply \ @AJ1992 15 Oct

Fuck their protest.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 15 Oct

12 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave 15 Oct

Paid for piano lessons. I hope he held.

8 sats \ 0 replies \ @B_rian 16 Oct

Bought a book of occult magic for 0.51 BTC

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 15 Oct

I think one of the best to ask about this would be @Darthcoin.

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @rebel_nomad 15 Oct

I've used it to multiply myself online ;-)

No way the freaks running the Beast Machine will be able to ban me forever, nor figure out who the fuck is the real me!

Hell, they even nuked my dogs Linkedin account!

So now I've got a nice array of "people" to play on. Sometimes I actually need to do things like get a cheap, long term room, and for that many countries Face****book is the only way. That does not mean that the lizard people get any of my real data, what they get is an anonymous rented phone number, an account created in Vietnam, and a bunch of "friends" from all over the world, all bought from entrepreneurial Russians ;-)

This way I won't be blocked from accessing things when I totally need, but if things get real bad I'd be able to quite rapidly reach into networks too. Hell, I even spent some days gaming Oman, ending up with a contact about to start up a local BNI branch, I could have hopped on a plane & been smack in the middle of a brand new network to build!

The AI taking over the antfarm that Linkedin put a stop to that, and since it was not really important I did not take it past that blockage. The risk was not worth the return, so far on this weird globe I've actually never faked any official documents...

Each and every day I can wreck their Digital Gulags is a great day ;-)

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic 15 Oct

What's this about using Bitcoin? I have never used any bitcoin. I have only used sats here for zaps. Like I said, I'm a nooby.

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @AJ1992 15 Oct

Paying for coffee with lightning in person at a local coffee shop in my city. I do this pretty regularly, and I always get a little giddy each time. Also, I think being able to gamble completely anonymously, KYC free, at some Bitcoin/crypto casinos is really neat too. I gamble with sats all the time and there are tons of totally anonymous casinos where you can use on chain BTC and simply deposit, play, and withdraw when finished, all instantly and kyc free.

6 sats \ 5 replies \ @Satosora 15 Oct

That is interesting. Where in Europe?

20 sats \ 4 replies \ @nym OP 15 Oct

Bulgaria

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @AJ1992 15 Oct

You probably got bit up by bed bugs. Just an FYI.

6 sats \ 2 replies \ @Satosora 15 Oct

Is that where the Tates are?

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @nym OP 15 Oct

lol yea. I didn't know that at the time though.

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satosora 15 Oct

You might not have been there when they were there. Just something curious. Is corruption really as bad as they say there?

6 sats \ 2 replies \ @TheWildHustle 15 Oct

Feeding goats

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @AJ1992 15 Oct

Yessass I forgot about this but it's cool! You used to be able to order dominoes, or you might still be able to, with sats too.

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @Recongraves 15 Oct

Yea I was feeling cats on a live stream that had a robot feeder for a week. It was so fun.

6 sats \ 2 replies \ @Cje95 15 Oct

I was an idiot that fell for the Cloud Mining disasters in what 2017 or so.... Since then I have been HODLing whenever I have been able to buy BTC! Not really too interesting but it summarizes my story lol!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nym OP 15 Oct

Oh man, I've definitely wasted some sats on that also, before I realized they would just mine themselves

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @Cje95 15 Oct

At least it wasnt something I ya know threw all my money at and I am still trying to climb out of the hole. It was something I threw some money I made over the summer into while I was in college. I ended up not losing to much but looking back at the amount of BTC I could buy for $100 or $200 I laugh and shake my head!

I also did the whole buy and sell BTC on Robinhood when it first rolled out and I know people will give me crap for it but it was 2017 and why not.... I have .005 BTC in the account and through buying and selling that is the free BTC I have... DCA is just 14.8k USD

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @DesertDave 15 Oct

It was interesting how much Bitcoin I was able to use up when leverage trading.

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 15 Oct

I paid somebody else electricity bill and a coffee directly with my sats, from thousands of km away, in matter of seconds, without even knowing that person. Read more here, this old post: #258853

In the past I've done many of these "experiments", onboarding people into Bitcoin, people that have no idea that this is possible. Show them the power of Bitcoin!

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 15 Oct

that's dope -- bitcoin, the saviour in a pinch

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @thecommoner 15 Oct

I have bought some items with Bitcoin - and am working towards trying to buy more on a regular basis - I ask pretty much everywhere I go if they accept Bitcoin but that isn't a high probability of success.

The best for me is that I accept Bitcoin from my tenants (and offer them a 50/50 split in the FIAT price appreciation of their paid Bitcoin for upto 6 months after they pay it) back to them as a rent credit :)

I haven't heard of anyone else doing anything like that so I guess that answers this question pretty well :)

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @398ja 15 Oct

Stack it? 🤷

6 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitcoiner1 15 Oct

Sending some SATs to a South Africa kid from the Bitcoin Ekasi Community.

From my wallet to his wallet, no one in between!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @c222ecdcb4 16 Oct freebie

I bought gas with my coinbase card at a truck stop. it put a 150$ hold on my card which triggered a 150$ BTC sale. This happened while the price was dropping a few thousand usd over the course of a few frames. By the time I was done pumping the price had fallen almost 10%. When the total came out to $47 I was then refunded $103 but it ended up being more BTC then i started with.

I bought gas with my dip.