Topic: Have Bitcoins helped to improve your life? (Read 4587 times)

it helped me in two ways:
1) i do save more money and i'm more conscious about saving
2) bitcoin introduced me to new field of studies such as cryptography and finance

Yes. Other than simplicity of use for purchasing everything I need, I learned how to trade (forex too and make some decent enough money) and many other things security related, a bit of programming and so on.

Same for me actually.


Not yet, but my hope is for that in the future they will. I plan on saving/acquiring as many as I can for a long term investment. Would love to buy a house or something with them in the future.

yes, i am. i got money from here, bitcoins. signature campaign, giveaway, betting etc.
its help me to buy something usefull like pay my rent.

Aside from the learning side, I've mainly used Bitcoin for remittance. Helped me a lot.

There are very few fiat currencies with fixed exchange rates. Exchange rates for these currencies can also be very volatile. For example, the Ukrainian Hryvnia was trading against the USD at 1 USD = 7.9 UAH one year ago. Right now, the exchange rate is like 1 USD = 24 UAH. So the volatile exchange rates are a problem for most of the currencies, not just BTC.

Yes bitcoins helped me a lot in my life I am getting some income from bitcoins to my needs

When under 18, yes.

And when you have your money in your pocket you are not in the control? I know that you probably are referring that money are government ensued property etc. But for now you don't have much control over bitcoin at all, one day bitcoin price is $300 and the next $200. I would not call that control.

It did, alot, I like being in control of my money.

I also found it exciting when i first found Bitcoin, then i kind of got hooked on it like an addiction and started spending more time online not doing as much in the real world as i did before Bitcoin. I have calmed that down now and i am thankful that i could spend that amount of time, because i did learn a lot within that time, mainly economic and a few skills such as trading. So yes it has improved my life in the end and also financially which is good

Yes, Bitcoin really helped my life. I am a student and with bitcoin I got the money to pay my school needs, with bitcoin I got a lot of friends, etc

Bitcoins have helped me learn a lot about technology, pretty much. If I wasn't interested in Bitcoin, then I wouldn't be interested in custom PCs, which means I wouldn't have experience with building them. Luckily, I was interested. Also, Bitcoin has helped me know a lot more about cryptocurrencies (obviously). So now, I can buy things without giving out too much detail about myself. I'm learning a lot, and will continue to learn about it. Bitcoins have improved my life.

Thanks to Bitcoin I learn some new thinks on crypto technology. Made same good experience with SW and Asics HW - configuration and setup.
Then I discovered completely new world of business, games ... etc. All based on Bitcoin.
I wonder what will come tomorrow

No news to anyone, most things in the internet can only be bought or even donated only in USD.
The problem is, without a international CC, you can make nothing. Recieving USD in a bank account in my contry is even more pain, there's taxes everywhere that drain your money a lot.

So it helped me with those internet things, like Humble Bundle and other donations, where I could finally do something without being taxed a lot only because the government don't want me to use other country fiat.

I would like to be able to life off BTC one day. I know its only a dream ATM but I think it might be possible in a couple of years.

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my honest answer. Bitcoin was an outlet that had me gamble. I lost over 7 BTC awhile back. It was my own fault, I wasn't meaning to bet it all. What happened was I accidentally pressed the wrong key on the keyboard. I ended up max betting when I meant to press the button for minimum bet. The only reason I had all my btc there was CEX.IO was crashing and I panicked and needed a quick place to send everything to that was not on my local machine. I sent it all there and while I was waiting for it to arrive i was messing around with min bets and doing 100,000 satoshi every now and then. It arrived and after 30 mins of messing around i accidentally did that and lost it. Could have easily done the same thing with us dollars online if they allowed it.

Bitcoin has lost me the most amount of money I have ever lost in my 28 years of being alive. Haven't had any other losses besides like losing a gameboy that was 100 bucks or something when i was smaller.

Bitcoin sucked me in with the frenzy of everyone. It still is a good model as far as I can see. But it is not very practical for anything I do. I won't use it as a payment system unless i absolutely have to, because of the tax implications that will arise from it and the hassle. I am a busy person and anything that gives me more hassle is eliminated from my life. I used bitcoins for buying an online game and buying a serial key for Office.

Credit cards offer 5% discounts on everyday items bought from stores, 5% off gas, grocery stores, malls, movie tickets, special discounts for 20% off special events, ability to order  exclusive tickets for concerts in advance with certain higher end cards(no interest if you make a min payment of 25 bucks a month and no yearly fee also). Bitcoin has a little way to go before it gets this good, although i am sure it will be incorporated into something that can be as beneficial as this.

I haven't really posted on here anymore because 1. Nothing has changed 2. It is a waste of my time when I could be building my youtube channel larger(12,000 subscribers 850,000 views I gained in 4 months) 3. Most of the people here post the same thing on a different day 4. There isn't anything else to be said about bitcoin right now.

I am honestly surprised this forum still exists. There is nothing to post about in my humble opinion.

Bitcoin made me some money which is never a bad thing. It made me fat but provided priceless entertainment. Back in 2010 and prior I used to take long walks on the panhandle of Golden Gate Park, cruse up and down the haight window shopping, walk embarcadero from pier 1 to 29, bike the marina district all the way to fort point, bike around the presidio. Now I'm a fat lazy piece of crap that spends all of his time looking at this forum. A friend asked me to do Bay to Breakers with him this year and I told him I couldn't because I thought I might pass out from the hills. I can barely walk to the kitchen for a beer anymore.

The upside has been the entertainment value of this forum. I laughed for a week when I found out Bitcoinica was operated by a 16 year old scammer from Guangzhou and another week when Karpeles lost an Empire State Building sized pile of Bitcoin's. LOL  Another 16 year old kid, Atlas, used to crack me up every week with his stupidity. Matthew Wright used to attack people over the weirdest shit and start throwing around some of the most interesting banter I've ever witnessed. Bruno would get into debates over the value of being a furry with Rassah. The My little Pony gang was all here pulling some pretty interesting shit. Their leader PinkiePie got everyone to believe she was an abused teen but it was all an elaborate troll. LOL Most recently, Bruno just posted all of his ID cards, social security, drivers license number everything! ROFL

Due to bitcoin gambling became more easily accessible for me.