Ok, here's what I'm seeing in this thread and in the general community:
1. No don't spend the bitcoin it's revolution, it's the new wave of the future hold on to it!
2. I turned my bitcoin into money and spent most of it.
Seriously, hypocritical much? A lot of the talk on the forum is how bitcoin shouldn't be a get rich quick scheme yet half of the people who let that sentence fall from their lips do the very thing they tell others not to do.
Have you ever been so desperate for food that you had to ask a strange for 20 dollars just so you could buy bread and something to hold you down? Have you ever needed to hold on to that food so desperately, that you make a loaf of bread last a week? Have you ever been in a position where you can't find work and you have mouths to feed and you don't know what else to do so you take a chance on something and fail? I mean a lot of people are talking from experience like they've got money elsewise where as people like myself and I'm sure many others don't and didn't.
To borrow the expression, aside from the money I receive for my sig campaign, I don't have a pot to piss in. I don't have insurance anymore because I'm "out of coverage" for Medicaid (THANKS OBAMA!) and if I paid out of pocket, it would be considered fraud. I don't have food stamps anymore because I'm not where I'm supposed to be, and I was supposed to go renew it but instead I'm helping my 62 year old mother out because she's fighting breast cancer and she needs help around the house. She doesn't shop, or leave the house much because she's having a hard time with the chemo. I don't see her for days at a time until she needs to go see a doctor. I'm disabled and fighting for SSI because the good old government of the USA thinks I'm disabled enough to not work, and don't deserve it. Yet I've been declared disabled by 2 different doctors, which apparently isn't enough. I can't leave the house sometimes for days because my anxiety and panic sets in so bad that all I want to do is sleep. I don't have a doctor because the stigma attached to this stupid disease or disability makes them think all I'm doing is sitting around chewing on the medicines they give me. When in reality I WANT TO WORK, and I WANT TO GET OUT but I can't. And it's not just a matter of, "oh you can do it don't give in to your mind" it's not that simple, it never is.
People have stories, and it seems everyone here's a critic. Don't discount people because they offer up some sob story, stop being so fudging critical. It's really stupid, not everyone has even a small slice of a "pie". If I were to sum up my condition in one word, it's DROWNING, not even below poverty line and yet I have a million other people, and things I have to worry about. I'm 33 years old and I can't make it on my own. That's why I got into bitcoin, because I'd hoped that someday maybe I'd have something to hold on to for the future, but I got into it just when cpu and gpu mining were a thing of the past. And now in 2014 it's entirely too late to do ANYTHING about it but a sig campaign that pays me out about 30 or 40 a week. Not much I can do with that, and until I earn enough I'm stuck.
This pretty much mirrors my situation except the business I spent years of time energy and money on building went bust and my family lost the house and all our savings. So after honouring all creditors we were left with nothing. Hardest day of my life was telling my loyal employees that is there was no longer any work for them.
Sadly there are a few ugly unsavoury arrogant and dismissive characters on here happy to laugh and criticise other peoples choices and savings. But I warn you never judge a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes.
