Family to Travel Across the US, Spending Only Bitcoin
John Bush and Catherine Bleish began a road trip across the US with their family of four this week, during which they will only spend bitcoin. Beginning in San Marcos, Texas, they drove into Washington on Friday, the first stop on their 'Uncoinventional Living Tour', for the Bitcoin in the Beltway conference. The self-dubbed 'Blush' family will drive for four weeks and 4,400 miles, also stopping in Lancaster, New Hampshire for the 11th annual Porcupine Freedom Festival and then to Kansas City, Missouri - Bleish's hometown - over the Independence Day holiday, before finally returning back....
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JUNE 20, 2014 -- NEW YORK, NY --Catherine Bleish and John Bush, well-known activists and personalities in the Bitcoin community, are taking their family of four on an "uncoinventional" journey, using only Bitcoin. Named the Uncoinventional Living Tour, the family has been on the road for nearly one week and has used only bitcoin to purchase everything from gas and food, to lodging and other necessities, making it a whole week without spending any fiat currency. They have spent the last week traveling from San Marcos, Texas to Washington D. C. to attend Bitcoin in the Beltway. After this....
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