Living off of nothing but bitcoin for a year... Great publicity stunt? - page 2.

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Strength in numbers

Quote from: Stephen Gornick on September 10, 2012, 09:19:42 PM

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If I recall correctly, a long time ago (in internet time), one of the forum users traveled across the country using only Bitcoins. I don't remember how successful he was, but I do remember seeing pictures of his adventure. I believe his username was Plato.

Imagine a road trip like this:

When the trip started, the cost for gas on the east cost was 4.0 BTC. When he arrived in L.A., gas cost 0.2 BTC.

- http://www.bitcoinmoney.com/post/6501258333

Yeah, but he started with a car worth 4000BTC and ended with a car worth 200BTC :-)

(Numbers completely made up)

Stephen Gornick

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Quote from: ?? on ??

If I recall correctly, a long time ago (in internet time), one of the forum users traveled across the country using only Bitcoins. I don't remember how successful he was, but I do remember seeing pictures of his adventure. I believe his username was Plato.

Imagine a road trip like this:

When the trip started, the cost for gas on the east cost was 4.0 BTC. When he arrived in L.A., gas cost 0.2 BTC.

- http://www.bitcoinmoney.com/post/6501258333

benjamindees

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Plato drove across the US last year, but I think he did a lot of exchanging Bitcoins with people along the way.

At this point, someone could probably live for a year by solely purchasing products with Bitcoins. But it would require a massive amount of travel in order to not be boring. One idea would be to find someone with one of those unlimited airline passes to do it.

oldschool

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I bet a company like bitinstant would go for the publicity, however that might not work with there move towards the debitcard.

If you could link to the thread or pictures of "plato" or whoever that did this I'd be interested, I'd never do it but it seems like something I'd love to get some popcorn out for and watch

acoindr

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I like the idea, but I don't think it would raise awareness.

Most people haven't heard of Bitcoin. Groupon grew so fast many people heard about it, and the company was making money, so they could afford the marketing ploy.

Someone living off Bitcoin would be a great confidence booster for people judging the currency, though. They could blog at LivingOnBitcoin.com, for example, showing their Bitcoin buying experience each day.

hashman

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I like the enthusiasm, but I would say don't bother.

1) We need oxygen too
2) good ideas sell themselves
3) do you want bitcoin to look like groupon?

oldschool

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Awhile back, Groupon had a contest and customer who lived off of nothing but Groupon for an entire year. He went around the country using different groupons and when he couldn't use them he relied on the groupon fans for help.

I think if the bitcoin community did something like this it would bring much needed good publicity and public awareness to bitcoins. I also think we'd see a rise in bitcoin worth, and with more people hopefully more stability?

Do you think the community is established enough for one person to succesfully live off of only spending bitcoins? Either staying in one place or traveling across the country/world using only things purchased with actual bitcoins?

What are everyones thoughts on this?

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