Topic: Just Sold $1k worth of Bitcoins to... a Black Guy (gasp) - page 5. (Read 8133 times)

"A new poll has found the most likely ethnic group to have heard about Bitcoin is (*drumroll*) Hispanic Americans.

When asked how much they had heard about Bitcoin, just 8 % of self-identifying white respondents to the survey by digital media company Morning Consult answered “a lot.” African-American respondents were similarly unfamiliar, with 7% saying they’d heard a lot about the cryptocurrency.

A staggering 21% of Hispanic-Americans , meanwhile, gave this answer, along with 22% of “other” respondents, many of whom are likely Asian.

Hispanic-Americans were by far the ethnic group most likely to say they would consider using Bitcoin themselves: 23% answered they were “very likely,” compared to 9% from African-Americans and “others” and just 5% from whites."

http://cointelegraph.com/news/112135/the-ethnic-group-that-knows-the-most-about-bitcoin-is-not-who-you-think-it-is

Check out the racism there - anti-people from below the equator!

You "fkn white people" lot are just ignorant to our ignorance.

I made friends with one of my co-workers last year, was friendlier with him than anyone else - really comfortable. Worked in the same place 10 hours a day, 6-7 days a week, and we went out to a bar together, even. One day after around two months of knowing each other, he pulled out a picture of himself ~5 years ago, and I was looking at it really confused-like. I didn't even know who he was showing me a picture of, and I was doing this kind of preoccupied smile-and-nod motion because here was this clearly black guy with an afro. How was this guy relevant to me? All of the sudden, it dawned on me. "Hoooo-ly shit. You're black?!"

I mean, there were only four black people I knew of on our shift of 400, there were only two in our high school of five-hundred (none I recall in elementary or middle school), and I'd never worked with "one of them" before, so... not a lot of opportunities to really understand, and it's drilled into our heads that we can't judge everyone by a few, but with Black History, BET, HBCUs - it seems they must be some kind of completely different people who eat water, wear shoes on their hands, and shit through their belly buttons, and I just can't treat someone truly normally unless I don't know that they're black, or old, or young, or gay, or female, or whatever else. Once I know it, then it's "oh, what's relevant to THEM?" -And I remember, that co-worker told me this before, and I didn't get it at the time - he was annoyed because people kept asking him what kind of rap music he liked.

Regardless of race at least you know this guy came through and you got the cash for the bitcoins. It's great to hear that your deal went through smoothly. This guy definitely had hit wits about him to snap up such a deal like that.

Congratulations.

You guys realize the story is most likely either a comedians attempt to be funny or a black man attempting to troll bait white people for a laugh.
Look at his sig,his post history, his username, the absurdity of his story and the images.

It was completely outside his comfort zone though, he just needed to share it.

I have traded coin with black folks several times before
Hardly the groundbreaking news you are making this out to be...

I will admit that I feel a hundred times safer walking around downtown Nairobi at night than I do in most large U.S. cities at night.

Congrats to OP for fulfilling the deal despite his trepidation about it.

Fantastic story, the slightly racist overtone aside
Underscores how btc can transcend all boundaries though

Race has never been the issue, its always been socio economics.

Whatever his race, this is a smart dude who is investing in the future
great story though I could have done without the stereotyping

Replace the word white with black in these sentences and I believe right now you would be getting attacked by hundred of people for being racist!!!!

Heard there's a bitch fest going on here with blackies and white people.

Mostly I hear black bitching.

Funny because rest of the world regard 1st world white vs. black bitching the same way they look at two gay boys fighting over who gets to wear the dress.


Grow a fucking spine.

To be fair... White or black, sounds like this is exactly what he was doing!!!!

smh, white people   

You're surprised that black people use money and can conduct business without committing a crime. Yeah, ok.

Are you from the deep south by any chance? Lol!

I'm a little bit surprised you didn't say that you thought he was buying the Bitcoin to use to buy some Crack on the secret dark interweb! It's about the only racist implication you left out!

Congrats on a successful sale. I don't blame you for being a wee bit nervous about meeting somebody completely random this way, whether he's black or not. That's why I like to do most of my business online. The other person might steal my money or my work, but at least he can't beat me up. And the other thing I like about the Internet is that, unless you're posting a bunch of selfies or that video of you getting drunk and doing something you wouldn't do while sober, nobody can tell what color your skin is. I could be Asian for all you know. And I was just talking to somebody who wasn't a native English speaker and he was fluent enough that I couldn't tell until he told me. So you never know.

This is why I recommend doing the transaction in a public place, and with someone who has previous positive feedback from whatever system you're using.  Then, it really wouldn't matter what they looked like, I'd be comfortable doing it.

Let me see, the races I sold to were...

humans

Oh, and one ET.