Living on bitcoin is a real challenge for newlywed couple
Call Austin and Beccy Bingham Craig's 90-day bitcoin challenge a publicity stunt, or call it an earnest effort to bring the cryptocurrency to a mainstream audience. It's hard to pull off either one without a phone. When CoinDesk tried to connect with the Craigs for an interview about their documentary-in-progress, Life on Bitcoin, telecommunications were a challenge. The Provo, Utah, couple's goal of spending nothing but bitcoins during the first 90 days of their marriage (they tied the knot July 12) led Austin to drop the voice and data service for his iPhone. So we tried communicating....
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They call the Documentary Project - Life on Bitcoin. Every newly wed couple usually have a dream of how to spend their early days easing into married life. As with every generalisation, there is always an exception. A newly wed intrepid couple dream of putting themselves through the quest to live entirely using Bitcoin, for more than 100 days. Life on Bitcoin: Documentary. The teaser video for the documentary on Life on Bitcoin shows this young couple talking enthusiastically about this adventure. Just two weeks into their marriage and just off their honeymoon, Austin and Beccy Craig....
Forbes' own Kashmir Hill, who has written extensively about bitcoin, has published an e-book titled Secret Money: Living on Bitcoin in the Real World. Hill has the credentials to write about living on bitcoin, too. Last year, she lived strictly on bitcoin for a week - a challenge, but one that she managed just fine. You can read all about the book here, but what we would like to make a note of is that Kashmir Hill required that the book be sold for bitcoin in addition to legal tender. Not so surprising, is it? The electronic can be had for 0.0048279 BTC (at the time of this writing), or....
Austin and Beccy Craig, the Utah-based couple living on bitcoin for 90 days, have overcome yet another hurdle and paid for a hotel and flights in bitcoin. The couple, whose experiences are being filmed for a documentary titled Life on Bitcoin, managed to pay for flights to and from Atlanta plus a hotel room in the city via Bulgaria-based company Simply Travel. "Travel is challenging, but the biggest challenge was connecting with the right travel agency. Since we started speaking with Gregor Amon, the CEO at Simply Travel, it's all logistics," explained Austin. Currently, the website only....
Here are some travel tips from a couple who traveled around El Salvador for 45 days using only Bitcoin. El Salvador adopted Bitcoin (BTC) as legal tender over four months ago on Sept. 7, 2021. Bitcoiners around the world have been watching with intent as the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, attempts to “orange-pill” an entire nation.The president regularly buys the dip, has promised a low-tax Bitcoin “Citadel” in the form of Bitcoin City, and is exploring renewable energy BTC mining using volcanoes.But what is it like for those living day to day in the smallest Central American....
A peek at Catherine Bleish and John Bush’s resume and you might wonder when the sustainable living activists ever find time to sleep. The couple raises their two young children and 100 chickens on a farm in Southeast Austin and are diligent advocates of agorism and crypto-currency. Between the two of them, the couple have launched the Sovereign Bitcoin consulting firm (complete with podcast), write for multiple blogs, run TheBitMom.com, operate the daily radio news service The Liberty Beat, star in an education docu-reality show, give speeches around the country, and so on. They sell....