RE: Sabrina's birthday weekend: a party with the free & the not so free
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Thanks for sharing your experiences and observations, Sam! Interesting stuff and good to hear your thoughts on it. I agree with you as usual.
Glad you had fun! That's a cute last photo : )
I agree with you about crypto, which is why I'm so sad and frustrated I can't figure it out. I've been helping others get involved since 2011 (6 years before most of the world first heard of it) but myself can't do it. So much of crypto now requires smart devices and/or bank accounts, something I've decided to never touch. I've been trying for years to use crypto without those things, in a private and decentralized way, as crypto was always supposed to be. But I haven't found a good way to make it happen. For example, I recently decided to get myself some Ivermectin. It's all over the place, cheap, being produced by the ton, etc. And you can buy heroin on the internet. So I figured Ivermectin, which isn't illegal, should be no problem. And I've got crypto as well as fiat payment options. But still, can't find anyone to accept crypto for Ivermectin. Shouldn't be so hard, but here I am, with money in hand, and no pills that could potentially save my life.
Anyway just wanted to say your first paragraph was perfect. Great summary. Thank you for posting.
I sympathise with your situation because I couldn't survive the way I am currently surviving without the Revolut account I set up for Sabrina, which by the way really wasn't complicated at all. You can also hold a few cryptos on Revolut and convert to fiat easily. The catch however is that they don't let you remove the crypto from their platform. And obviously, someone has to give away their personal details.
As for smart devices I begrudgingly bought one recently, exclusively for crypto related posting & activities. As you say, we can't get around it at the moment. Crazy to hear your Ivermectin story. In the end I suppose it boils down not to what you know but who. So, if you have a friend who is willing to buy them and they are interested to get into crypto, there's your exchange. Tomorrow morning I am meeting with a lady in the village for exactly this purpose. She wants bitcoin and I want her home grown green! The exchange is simple and as time goes on more and more people are interested to get into crypto. And of course, it doesn't hurt to give them a little nudge from time to time. Pretty much everyone wants crypto deep down but they have fears which we must first help them eliminate. It helps also to explain to them how the exchange rate will be much better if they buy from you. And it will be way less complicated! Back in Bali it was the same way. If I needed cash I would offer the people in the community the chance to buy bitcoin and almost always someone would bite. I even paid my rent in crypto for two years. But this was only possible because I put a fair bit of time into educating & getting people excited. A lot easier while the price is going up I will concede! But where there is a will there is a way...