Girl,Tokyo,72hrs--Bitcoin Survive Challenge - page 2.

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Quote from: deisik on April 09, 2017, 02:25:42 AM

Quote from: Elwar on April 09, 2017, 02:08:38 AM

I'm glad this experience wasn't one of those "no, I must only spend directly from Bitcoin to Bitcoin" types of deals that others have done only to conclude that Bitcoin is difficult to spend.

Living on Bitcoin means having bitcoins and spending them. Even if you need to go through third party services

But what's the purpose of this experiment then?

Many people have been living off Bitcoin for years by now, but they don't post twits and posts telling the public how they converted a few satoshi in the morning and spent the proceeds in the bar at night (where "good morning means goodbye"). Apart from some Tokyo Girl ("you've got the moves to rule the world") aiming at publicity stunt and looking for cheap popularity, I don't see any particular purpose in this "Bitcoin Survival Challenge". You can just order a Bitcoin payment card and get done with that. As simple as it gets, but maybe, it is just me, after all

The point is to demonstrate that someone can live on bitcoins. They can hold 100% bitcoins instead of other currencies and do just fine. I have done this so I know it can be done.

There are many services that are helpful such as gift cards or a third party like purse.io, even BitPay is not direct bitcoin to the merchant. Trying to be all 100% and "pure" is just silly at this stage of Bitcoin. I gladly pay for my web hosting service even if they accept BitPay instead of me directly sending my bitcoin to the merchant's wallet.

This is new to Japan so them getting the word out with stunts like this is just fine.

It's better than the journalist in the US who tried it in the early days and when trying to get a subway ticket he stood outside of the station with a sign that said "will pay bitcoin for a ticket", when he could have gone online, used bitspend (at the time) to buy a subway ticket online. His conclusion: other than one or 2 niche stores, you can't use your bitcoins.

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Quote from: Dorky on April 07, 2017, 11:00:52 PM

Japanese girls have some of the fairest skin in the world, even Caucasian girls can't beat.

I wonder what are they applying to their skin, or the diet they eat.
Their skin is so fair as if the sun never shine on them.

Man this reply of yours isnt to relevant on this topic since you are just describing the japanese girl. Haha.
Back to topic its really nice for a country does accept bitcoin now and im wondering what would be the exchange rate on that place since it already become a part of mainstream of japan.Expected prices would be affected on this adoption.

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Ok no offence but that video sucked. Maybe it was lost in translation but that chick should have been speaking her mother tongue because in English it sucked. The filming sucked too. There was 2 good parts,, the first when they showed the news coverage of Mark's arrest and when the guy in the dress shop tried to hustle the chick for half a bitcoin for a dress rental. LOL.

Frank Lefty Rosenthal Signing out.

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i am happy to see the video and i think it will be the first girl to use bitcoin for survive challenge and i think this will give good impact for other japanese people as bitcoin will be ready to use in japan and there are more store that will accepting bitcoin. i think its a good news too for us in bitcoin industry and its a new thing that we can do in other place which bitcoin is already know.

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Quote from: Elwar on April 09, 2017, 02:08:38 AM

I'm glad this experience wasn't one of those "no, I must only spend directly from Bitcoin to Bitcoin" types of deals that others have done only to conclude that Bitcoin is difficult to spend.

Living on Bitcoin means having bitcoins and spending them. Even if you need to go through third party services

But what's the purpose of this experiment then?

Many people have been living off Bitcoin for years by now, but they don't post twits and posts telling the public how they converted a few satoshi in the morning and spent the proceeds in the bar at night (where "good morning means goodbye"). Apart from some Tokyo Girl ("you've got the moves to rule the world") aiming at publicity stunt and looking for cheap popularity, I don't see any particular purpose in this "Bitcoin Survival Challenge". You can just order a Bitcoin payment card and get done with that. As simple as it gets, but maybe, it is just me, after all

Elwar

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I'm glad this experience wasn't one of those "no, I must only spend directly from Bitcoin to Bitcoin" types of deals that others have done only to conclude that Bitcoin is difficult to spend.

Living on Bitcoin means having bitcoins and spending them. Even if you need to go through third party services.

I imagine if someone were to do an experiment of "I'm only going to spend dollars" and use actual cash they would experience more limited options. Some places in the US do not accept cash anymore.

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Wow, this is just amazing. I know that Japan already accepted BTC in their financial system but I didn't know the scale of it until I saw your post and that video. It appears that they are really serious in using BTC there. Exchange rate will always be a pain the butt when paying for something with BTC but we just have to deal with it. I'm hoping that my country will take this as an example and copy it in our system. This is one of the reasons why Japan's economy is growing fast through the years.

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Quote from: Hydrogen on April 07, 2017, 06:30:24 PM

Its awesome to have a counterpoint to china's crypto involvement(even if its been there for a long time and normie btc users like myself never noticed).

Wonder if japan with its microchip savvy might enter ASIC design & production at some point in time.

AFAIK japan's electronics design and chip lithography are very good. They could have the capacity to produce next generation ASIC chips if they decided to pursue that goal

Mining in its present form is dead already

I mean with all that expensive mining hardware. In fact, it is dead even twice. As I would say, it is dead conceptually, and if something doesn't get changed on its own (in a evolutionary way), it will be changed forcefully (in a revolutionary way). But it is already dead on purely technical grounds as well, there is no more room left to increase hash rates due to technological limits. You can't indefinitely raise CPU frequencies (in a meaningful way), it is basically the same with asics. Further increasing their capacity would require enormous capital but that simply doesn't make sense. In short, asics mining is at a dead end from both sides of the stick

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Japanese girls have some of the fairest skin in the world, even Caucasian girls can't beat.

I wonder what are they applying to their skin, or the diet they eat.
Their skin is so fair as if the sun never shine on them.

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very impressed with the Japanese people, they are very disciplined and hard working. what the beautiful girl was very helpful and strengthen the general public that bitcoin is a good currency for the future, a positive start to buy some bitcoin back.

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man i wish i was her japenese boy right now and we could be a bitcoin couple https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIFWXXaEEjY

no swedish girls like bitcoins so unsexy.....need more bitcoin hentais!!!!!!!

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So you can store your entire bitcoin in an app.
Yup it is indeed a fast way to pay the bills but it may also an disadvantage
What if you got drunk then people may take your phone or money.
So better transfer money that you'll only be needing.

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I'm glad they finally at it,Japan is a technology giant with their full acceptance of Bitcoin I'm sure they will innovate and invite usage of Bitcoin,I think a lot of great things will come out in Japan in terms of bitcoin usage I doubt if they will set up a mining company they would set up applications and products that they are going to sell to bitcoin users.

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A really excellent video how someone can spend his bitcoins in everyday needs. It's good not only for bitcoin but for cryptos in general if so many stores will accept bitcoin as medium of payment next summer as post someone above me. Japan is a technologically developed country so their citizens soon get used paying with bitcoin.

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Quote from: g___ on April 07, 2017, 12:32:13 PM

this is incredibly easy in japan... more than 260,000 stores in japan will accept bitcoin by this summer.
https://futurism.com/by-this-summer-bitcoin-will-be-accepted-at-more-than-260000-stores-in-japan/

Yep! We hope it will getting easier and easier for people to use bitcoin

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Quote from: Kprawn on April 07, 2017, 12:03:00 PM

Yea, we also had a guy who paid $150 for a beer at a local pub when he got a bit tipsy and there will be people who would exploit this. This is no different for any other currency, because you can do the same with cash or credit cards. What you can do, is to use a separate wallet for "social" nights.... Just transfer enough for the night before you go out.
This will prevent scrupulous bar men to clear your Bitcoin balance. Roll Eyes

BitKan App could contain some reference pricings in a database and popup an alert if figures don't fit. That would be the modern way to do. Easy on beer.
But..
I would not tell any App anything about what I am trying to buy or rent (Kimonos are out of question here) and many users might feel similar concerns regarding their privacy.

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Its awesome to have a counterpoint to china's crypto involvement(even if its been there for a long time and normie btc users like myself never noticed).

Wonder if japan with its microchip savvy might enter ASIC design & production at some point in time.

AFAIK japan's electronics design and chip lithography are very good. They could have the capacity to produce next generation ASIC chips if they decided to pursue that goal.

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