Conversation I had with my girlfriend the other night

ribuck

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Quote from: tomcollins on May 12, 2011, 11:34:19 AM

If you really think that, why are you not selling all of your possessions, getting cash advances on credit cards, and putting everything on the line for this and buying as many as you can?

I ask myself that question every day, believe me.

It's a bit different when you're married with kids; you can't take so many risks with the family money.

ripper234

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Ron Gross

Believe me, I put plenty of money where my mouth is.
I'm not selling everything because this is my belief, not blind faith.

Suffice to say that I put a nice portion of my total investments into bitcoin ... and after the rally we've seen in the recent month, it's now a much larger portion of my investments

tomcollins

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Quote from: ripper234 on April 28, 2011, 12:55:40 PM

You greedy bastard. I would hate for me to get rich by buying BTC, but seeing all my friends not gain from it because of lack of knowledge.
I'm spreading the word. If they're smart, they'll listen and buy.

Seriously, I think Bitcoin will reach $1000/BTC this year.

If you really think that, why are you not selling all of your possessions, getting cash advances on credit cards, and putting everything on the line for this and buying as many as you can?

A lot of people say this, but don't put their money where their mouth is.

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Quote from: ripper234 on April 28, 2011, 12:55:40 PM

You greedy bastard. I would hate for me to get rich by buying BTC, but seeing all my friends not gain from it because of lack of knowledge.
I'm spreading the word. If they're smart, they'll listen and buy.

Seriously, I think Bitcoin will reach $1000/BTC this year.

Ho Ho Ho! now heres a person I Want to talk to, I've been on the greedy side for awhile, and i never looked at it from the point of "if they're smart enough, They'll listen", Because thats about as true as it gets.
You have sincerly changed my stance about "who should know" about bitcoins.

Xenland

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I'm not just any shaman, I'm a Sha256man

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It just needs to be made clear how to earn them and how they can be spent.

Good luck with that women will never learn how money should be spent.

wumpus

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No Maps for These Territories

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Need to convince some merchant who sells shoes to accept bitcoins, simple! Socks are not good enough!

Also, there need to be more jobs and tasks in Bitcoin. Not only programming and technical-related ones, so other people can feel useful too and earn the coins. I think that's very important, currently the focus is still too much on mining and other stuff that scares the shit out of non-technical (and non-finance) people.

To put it differently: in my experience women *love* all kinds of weird point systems, coins and incentives. It just needs to be made clear how to earn them and how they can be spent.

phelix

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Quote from: deadlizard on April 28, 2011, 02:31:19 PM

Quote from: Nefario on April 28, 2011, 01:50:59 PM

Wife tells me as soon as I buy something nice for her with it she'll take it seriously.

http://www.bitcoinsextoys.com/ Cheesy

this site silenced all my doubts about bitcoin at once. I guess sex still sells. Wink

mimarob

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Like every other new technology, we will know it has caught on for real when women start using it. cars, fast-food, disposable diapers, cellphones, computers, internet, bitcoins...

orcy

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I have installed the bitcoin client on my girlfriend's computer and sent her 0.02 BTC saying that she don't have to worry about her pension anymore.

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TiagoTiago

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Firstbits.com/1fg4i :)

*cough*sexual innuendo*cough*

gigabytecoin

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Quote from: RodeoX on May 05, 2011, 08:40:56 AM

Not to be sexist or anything, but of all the people I have told about bitcoin only guys have thought it was cool. I might as well be talking about a FPS video game. Do we have any female traders here?

My girlfriend is actually quite interested in it. She's not tech savvy at all either, but when I mentioned that it is "increasing in value", she wanted to learn more Tongue

TheShoura

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Testing

I'm keeping hush until I've made a decent amount of money (to payoff small investment) so that I can say its at least worth it for some and not look like an idiot. Also about buying it for use on other stuff, lot of us travel often Wink

RonnieP

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Quote from: RodeoX on May 05, 2011, 08:40:56 AM

Not to be sexist or anything, but of all the people I have told about bitcoin only guys have thought it was cool. I might as well be talking about a FPS video game. Do we have any female traders here?

I'm a woman..... I'm not a trader/speculator though if that was what you meant by trader. FPS games do suck though. They are just too scarey IMO.

bitdragon

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Quote from: RodeoX on May 05, 2011, 11:42:17 AM

My lady friend now interrupts most of my sentences to ask; "is this going to be about bitcoins?".
The answer is usually yes. Undecided

Maybe if we had a way to make bitcoin more generally compelling for a female audience we could grow even stronger.

Ship her a pink tank top for only 5 bitcoins:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.106218

RodeoX

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The revolution will be monetized!

My lady friend now interrupts most of my sentences to ask; "is this going to be about bitcoins?".
The answer is usually yes. Undecided

Maybe if we had a way to make bitcoin more generally compelling for a female audience we could grow even stronger.

chickenado

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Quote from: RodeoX on May 05, 2011, 08:40:56 AM

Not to be sexist or anything, but of all the people I have told about bitcoin only guys have thought it was cool. I might as well be talking about a FPS video game. Do we have any female traders here?

Not that I know of.

Most women hate money, you know?

carbonpenguin

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So far we've only sold one small t-shirt (compared to multiple XXLs), so I'm gonna go out on a limb and say interest in btc skews a *wee* bit male Grin

wumpus

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No Maps for These Territories

RodeoX: Well, AFAIK in the stock market there aren't that many female traders either. Men, on average, are more likely to take on risk.

RodeoX

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The revolution will be monetized!

Not to be sexist or anything, but of all the people I have told about bitcoin only guys have thought it was cool. I might as well be talking about a FPS video game. Do we have any female traders here?

stic.man

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my GF recently discovered angry birds and has become obsessed so she thinks it's fine that I obsess over this.

She thinks I should sell some to get back my initial investment and let the rest roll, can't say that's a bad idea.

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