I got a sad story for you. My wife was constantly bitching back when I was mining because I turned my garage into a mining room with noisy box fans and shit. She had to go in there to do laundry and always bitched every time she washed clothes.
She needed a new vacuum. I thought I would do something to make her appreciate the bitcoin mining so I went to spendbitcoins and bought an amazon card. I sat her down at my computer with me, had her watch as I traded the bitcoins for the amazon card. Let her go to amazon and choose the vacuum she wanted. We spent 7 btc for it.
One of her favorite jokes now is to tell people about the $140,000 eureka vacuum we used to own. FML
if we always think like that?
my friend and his brother lived every day of there
BTC's every time they ordered food or whatever payed with
BTC directly...., they also always joke about the very expensive durums,pizza's etc
but i guess we all have some VERY expensive shit cause of
BTC The sad part is, I tried to give her something to keep her from bitching about bitcoin only to give her something new to bitch about.
Oh yea, we have some stuff that if we calculate how much that btc would be worth now it's funny. For me, some computer parts and Christmas gifts just off the top of my head. I can also look at it another way too though. Like my car for example, I did the math and it was only $213 of my original investment. That's how I was able to convince myself to pull the trigger
I got a sad story for you.
There used to be this company, Butterfly Labs, they were going to come out with the first ASIC miner and make GPUs obsolete...
I gave them my money for a couple of foot warmers. The day I got them, I had to unplug the Christmas tree lights because a breaker popped when they started up and then the same night one of the PSU's cooked itself while I was at work which woke my wife up with that terrible ozonated burning plastic smell. The next morning I set them up on the kitchen counter where we had a 20A service using an old computer PSU and the paper-clip trick so I could free up the circuit for the Christmas lights. By this time, she was a little upset with my new hobby but she tolerated it because she loves me
I only got one, I was working out of state when it arrived. My lady got it set up, configured and on the pool within 4 hours after it hit the doorstep. We made the USD back finally...the BTC, not so much...
Mine doesn't know how to use/move/find our Bitcoins so she has to stick around and keep me healthy.
edit: now she's hitting me and wont stop til I take her shopping. See you!
I was robbed for some Jalapenos and some of the medium sized ones.. My order came like 9 months late, so I knew not to trust them by the time monarchs came out, which was before I even got my order.
I have a shelf full of Monarchs that I pre-ordered. In an alternate universe where BFL didn't exist I have a 747 with my name on it.
Sorry to hear it, but yea, if Butterfly Labs did what they said they'd do, we'd all be better off. I might own a seastead already lol
When I placed my order, not only did they say that I could get a refund at any point before my order status changed to processing, and then keep my money, but I even had one of the jerks on the phone telling me a specific date mine should arrive, before I sent them the money. Suddenly when I request my refund (before status changed to processing) they changed the policy to no refunds and denied ever saying that. Took 9 or 10 months to get the order. They make me sick..
My GPU rigs I built before I heard about Butterfly labs made more profits. I would have probably 10x more BTC if they would have refunded me when I asked, and 100x or 1000x more if they'd shipped when they said they would.
