Topic: Community research: To drink or to buy coins? - page 3. (Read 638 times)

My favourite drink:

Last time, it was discounted for €5.99. That means I can get 4446 bottles for 1BTC. I may be able to get a bulk discount, but I'd also need to get a truck, and since I buy them in Germany and alcohol imports aren't taxed as long as it is for your own consumption, I may have some explaining to do too

Let's face it: this is never going to save me a whole Bitcoin! I will never be able to finish 4446 bottles of 38% 0.7l Ouzo in my life. It would kill me long before I finish the last one, but at least I'd be able to say it's enough to give me a terrible headache for the rest of my life.

Come to think of it: when Bitcoin was worth €59.000, my Ouzo was even cheaper! I could have bought 10746 bottles back then, and resell them for 2.4BTC now. I've been going at this all wrong

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I'm starting to think Jet Cash is on to something:

Funny research.

"To drink or to buy coins?" - Why is everyone drawn to different extremes? After all, you can combine both options, right.

Whiskey Johnnie Walker Red label 0.5L    ~11,25$/Bottle = 2608 bottles + 1/2 bottle for 1BTC.

I suppose this is not a small batch for which you can still demand a discount.


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There are certain things that you cannot sacrifice in life and that is some kind of liquid that feeds the body and soul. So, I will much rather go with less food, than drinking less of that substance that makes life more fun.

It is part of my life to come back from a hard day of work and to pour a glass of wine or open a Beer and then to relax in front of the TV or computer to watch my favorite Movie or Series and to gamble. 

So I will rather eat less vegetables to safe some money for my next Bitcoin. 

I was about to do this but it seems you got to it first, my choice of poison is 500 ml Red Horse though which would make me give up 25,587 since it's around 68 PHP here and at the time that I calculated this, bitcoin's price is around 29,353 USD. When you look at this number, you always think back of the time that you've bought yourself or contributed to the money pool that you're mates created to buy more alcoholic beverages and make yourself regret doing that instead of investing those alcohol money even though it's a nonsensical thing to do.


I'm not as fond of the alcohol as @Darker45 is, so if I were given the same choice, I would probably choose to give up that 25k bottles of Red Horse to get my hands on 1 bitcoin. I wouldn't agree with non-alcohol life is a tragic life thouugh, maybe a bit unbearable but not a tragic one imo.

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I don't think the problem here is on any particular drink, but simply to limit some wasteful habits to invest in, as in a topic that has appeared before the problem is to give up smoking to buy bitcoin
I quit smoking and buy Bitcoin every week there are some ideas that I've come across that are also very interesting, for someone who regularly uses beer as a daily beverage it's hard to warn them that it's dangerous to their own lives, only when health problems or morale decrease can people become aware of bad behaviors in life that bring waste.

What is real savings? There are many different concepts about them, but I find the problem is that as long as we use things usefully for ourselves as well as for the people around us, so there is no need to be too strict about privacy. That makes us uncomfortable, other people can't save yet, it won't affect our saving.

Other than water, I usually only drink beer. I also drink the ever-popular Coke, of course, but I drink beer a lot more often. Nothing fancy, just the smaller, cheaper, and less strong San Miguel Pale Pilsen. It comes with 5% alcohol only. It tastes great. I used to hate it, but as I age it seems it slowly becomes the best choice.


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I usually buys it at $1.27. So, with Bitcoin's price at $29,371.83, it means I have to give up 23,127 bottles. If I do it, I will die without drinking it ever again. That would be such a tragic life. If that's what it takes, to hell with Bitcoin!

I have multiple drinks I choose from, but on average I spend about €1 every few days on drinks I buy often. That’s 26,600 drinks I’d have to give up if I wanted to save for BTC.

It’s worse if I calculate how much time it’d take me. I buy a drink about every 3 days. That’s.. say 120 drinks on average per year (the number is much lower imo). If Bitcoin’s price froze, I’d need about 221 years to buy a Bitcoin.

Deleted my first reply since I don't want to fill the topic with my posts so I'm going to put them all in one:


I've mentioned it's not just about alcohol, you can have it in sips of black tea.
As for investing, some like to have fun in their life more than look at the ROI after the doc has to prescribe blue pills.


I've put both options in the table, and yeah, just drop everything so you can hoard coins and end up in your sixty with no friends no social life poor health but with a few money it's kind of sad, so enjoy your life people, because it might be over before you know it.


The minimum wage is my other topic and although I agree on the bread the moment I start that one I will find out half of the forum doesn't eat bread at all and the others only pita or tortillas so it will turn just like this


You do realize your is one of the most interesting post here, so how many (how do we even measure this), let's say joints for 1 BTC?


Hmm, what kind of beer do you drink at more than $12 a bottle?


Hmm, and a question back to you, does one really have to "sacrifice" things in order to invest=buy btc?
Rhetorical of course!

Btw guys I'm still on holiday and still enjoying a beer now and then  I'm going to update the table into a better format and give some more merit to the contributors once I'm all set in the next hotel and I'm done with planes and airports for a week.
Keep it coming as it has proven quite interesting, far more than I was expecting, especially on the habits and take on this, more than the prices themselves! 

This is an interesting concept, it makes you realise how you could prioritise what you
spend your money on, and what to eliminate or cut back on in order to reallocate that
money to buying Bitcoin.

I spend about €18 per month on beer, thats a crate of 12 bottles. At Bitcoins current market
value of €26,600 thats 1477
months.

or, each bottle is €1.50 so in order to buy Bitcoin now I would have to not drink 17,733 bottles.


Not really a deal breaker - but we should start asking the question - What else can I sacrifice
in order to buy Bitcoin?

Welp. Never been much of a drinker myself but when my friends and I used to go drinking in our old bootcamp days, we'd buy this specific type of brandy which if I'm not mistaken is around $3.50  per bottle:



We only ever drink once or twice a month, sometimes we don't even go drinking unless there's an occasion like a birthday or anniversary. As for other drinks, I usually go for Starbucks coffee on a daily basis which is more or less around 2 dollars from where I live. and with the current state of bitcoin this all adds up to:

Coffee: 14,658.5 cups
Brandy: 9,772.3 bottles

That's basically how much of these I'd need to collect to come up with 1 BTC's worth of bottles of brandy and cups of coffee,

There is no one who can entirely refrain from drinking, whether it is alcoholic, non-alcoholic, or soft drinks, but there are those who drink excessively to the point of immoderate consumption; the abuse of alcoholic beverages can cause addiction, which the alcoholic cannot stop drinking even if it causes him health problems, and he can sell at a loss his investments in Bitcoin in order to buy and drink it.

Me, I do not prefer any drinks that make me addicted to them, and I prefer to buy and drink green tea, but in moderation throughout the day to improve and stimulate brain activity and memory and provide me with the vigilance I need in my trading. I can consume +5,000 packages of 20 bags (one package can let me drink more than 16 cups for more than a week) In order for me to reach the price of 1 BTC.

We can moderately drink healthy drinks that do not harm our health and buy our coins and invest in bitcoins with money in excess of our needs and our drinking, and if we can reduce the amount of our drinking, here comes the savings through which we can invest this money in Bitcoin.

Ah .... I also think it at first.
So it's not only about buying alcohol but several types of drinks outside.
Actually, I should and ideally prefer to raise money to invest in Bitcoin. But in fact, I often buy bottled drinks or some cold sweet drinks with various flavors. Usually, it costs $1 in my country for a drink and I do about 2 times a week. It's not alcohol but drinking is really refreshing haha
I certainly don't want to compare drinking to buying Bitcoin. So, I must have good money management for this and other things to spend.
However, I think it's not a problem to spend a little money to buy this drink, it's just that maybe the intensity should be reduced, at least once a week the maximum. Because after all, this type of drink is not only a waste of my money but also actually not very good for health and body condition, because of the high sugar content in it.

It is not only alcoholics that have a habit that takes money that can be used for buying bitcoins away, other people without a drinking habit still have other habits that they spend money on and need to correct. If you are an individual that has any of these money consuming habits, calculate how much you spend on your habit and how much you can actually be investing if you had a better habit. Having an estimate of the money that you will waste on habits can help you to make better decision for the money you have to avoid spending up to what you have estimated your habit to consume.

counting how many drinks you won't buy to get 1 BTC would be overwhelming for you. so just look at the bigger picture. whatever you will save from buying the drinks, will go to your btc portfolio. in time, you will thank yourself for having some satoshis, and maybe your health is much better without those alcohol, right? because if you will think of those thousands of bottles you will save just to buy 1BTC, you may never stop buying drinks.

This is interesting; let me try and make a rough calculation. I usually take two bottles of Bear Minimium in a week, but I realized Tommy was changing shape and appeared to be older than that of my age mates since I'm also too lazy to take some exercise, so I swapped out some energy drinks called "Fearless," which I don't lack in my refrigerator right now; I have it by the side of my PC, dragging space with my mouse.

Each park contains 12 pairs, and the Park price is usually about 4.4 dollars if it's being converted from my local currency, and I usually consume about 2 park minimums in a month, which is a total of 24 bottles of it every month, each of which will cost me 0.36 dollars. which means I will have to give up 81,400 bottles in order to save up money worth 1 bitcoin at the price of $29,300 as of the time of this post. How long will it take me to gather up the amount that I spent on this drink in order to buy 1 bitcoin? I have already lost count.

I drink non-alcoholic drinks more especially coca cola products but not all the time, and if I can accumulate the amount of drinks I drink a week times a month it will not be suitable for an investment because 1 bottle of a coca cola is $0.31, I don't drink the whole week but multiple $0.31 time seven (7) is $2.17 and it will not be suitable for investment because the minimum amount of Bitcoin you can buy in Nigeria in some platforms is $6.47 but that's amount of investment will not be okay for me to invest with, so I will stop drinking for six (6) months so I can save up money for investment, am not trying to say that you have to quit drinking for investment or anything, but the only thing you have to do is to have a enthusiasm for it, you can be drinking your beers and still invest in Bitcoin, hope am right, but if you think saving beer money to invest in Bitcoin is good then, do it.
Although is not easy for an acholic adict to save beer money to invest in Bitcoin because is somehow tempting, hope am correct?

Interesting... in my country I grill a steak almost every day with my flatmate after work and have a bottle of the local Darget beer. It would be interesting to calculate how much I spend on this per month or even a year, given the fact that my wife tells me every day: - "again wtf " stop drinking beer and eating steaks - it would be better if I bought a new apartment. I even understand deep down that this is much more than the cost of one bitcoin, which i potentially throwing money every day. And perhaps it was necessary to buy crypto and make x10. But every time I return home from work, I understand that I cannot live without it, without that very beer and juicy steak, as this is part of my philosophy, or, if I may say so, this is my fetish that allows me not to burn out from my work.
So my feelings....fu** the crypt, give more beer )
Btw this is Armenia, we are full stack devs, haha

Darget Stout, 600 drams, aprox 1.5 buck, local steak 4 buck  

Its been over 2 years since I last buy a soft drink and I have to ask a friend about whats the price of coca cola these days. 500 ml is fine if you are alone or have one or two friend with you. 1.5 litre is economical if you have large number of people to drink.

I just find out that online grocery stores are selling 6 bottles of Coke/Pepsi at price of 2.5 to 2.75 dollars. May be you can find more discount if you visit super mart in person. https://grocerapp.pk/products/coca-cola-1-5lx6-236636/

Better stay away from these drinks and invest in Bitcoin instead.



Mango milk shake is best when made at home and without sugar

I hope you will recover your health soon. And now i think diabetics have also motivated you to give up the usage of soft drinks. Which in case a good thing though. But when i said i drink Mango juice i didn't meant some artificial flavour instead i was talking about Milkshake made of Mangoes. Which is totally natural. We make it at home.

The fact that people drink as a way to socialize,   celebrate, forget about something or whatever the reason is,  at the end of the day its all about living a little as a human being...it cant always be business as usual   Let's allow ourselves to live a little otherwise all that worth you get to leave behind someone else will enjoy your sacrifices and won't give a dame about how much work you did!

But if you are the type that blows the salary after getting paid, then buying some bitcoins should save you from this reckless behavior.

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To join in on the community research...
Am not a fan of carbonated stuff but occasionally I do take my orange/mango juice & a bit of some root beer which costs around ~$1.5, and if am to stop enjoying these beverages, it would mean giving  up about 19,533 bottles to make it to 1BTC..which is a big ask