Dad, mom, me, brother and bitcoin: the story of a real bitcoin family

    Remember the story of a bitcoin traveler who decided to make a trip around the world , paying everywhere only with bitcoins? Get to know the Bitcoin family now:


    when Jamie Redman’s six-year-old son Joshua has a toothache, he finds a QR code under his pillow, which means that coins have been added to his Bitcoin wallet.

    This is just one of the curious features of the amazing life of the Redman family, which closely related to cryptocurrencies, as claimedJamie in an article entitled “We Are a Bitcoin Family.” In this post, he describes in detail how bitcoin permeates the entire living space of their family, consisting of Jamie himself, his wife Lisa and two sons - six-year-old Joshua and two-year-old Franklin, ranging from paying bills to home schooling for children. Jamie, a former builder, and now a bitcoin blogger, bitcoin artist and journalist (who is paid fees in bitcoins), teaches his children himself and tells them about the bizarre world of cryptofinance.

    We live in the world of bitcoin 24 hours a day. It is like a continuous blockchain. For my family, bitcoin really means a lot.



    No matter how strange this may sound, but while most adults can hardly connect a couple of words when answering the question “what is bitcoin?”, Joshua, who, as we recall, is six, answers like this: bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. This is such computer money that you can pay on the Internet. These are the numbers for which someone can buy. " As the saying goes, through the mouth of a child.


    The son of Jamie Joshua holds in his hands a bitcoin wallet.

    According to Jamie, he first heard about bitcoin in 2011, but was not a big fan of this cryptocurrency until 2012.
    I persuaded my wife to buy some coins as an investment, I wanted to try trading on the exchange and started reading literature about cryptocurrencies. But I was so carried away that at first I just said that about Bitcoin, I constantly drew sketches about Bitcoin, it inspired me.



    At first, my wife didn’t share my hobby, she couldn’t explain to my friends what kind of money it was, but now she’s the same fanatic as I, she appreciated the real possibilities of this currency and believed in it. Joshua, too, could not immediately understand me, once we went to a Bitcoin ATM (there are 4 of them in Boston), he was 4 years old, and he expected to see “real bitcoins,” that is, coins, but this did not happen.

    But Joshua was enthusiastic about the appearance of the Trezor wallet in the family - now he knows where his coins are stored.

    When people ask me what I do, I reply like this: “I write about bitcoin every day. The first thing, as a rule, is of interest to everyone - do they pay me for this? ”Says Jamie,“ Yes, I get paid fees in bitcoins. Here you usually have to delve into the explanations, show the wallet on a smartphone and graphics on the Internet. Financial technologies have developed very much, but even the fact that you can pay most of the bills from the wallet in your smartphone still makes a strong impression on many.


    One of Jamie’s paintings: Crypto-graphics.com

    Jamie is often asked what to do if, for example, friends are invited to a restaurant where they don’t accept bitcoins.

    It's not that complicated, we still pay some of our bills in fiat, for this we use the BitPay service . So, I don’t refuse from fiats at all, but I try not to resort to them whenever possible.

    In addition, there are several good restaurants in Boston that accept bitcoins.

    Jamie considers himself an agorist, a supporter of the concept of Samuel Konkin, which has as its ultimate goal the achievement of a free market society in which all relations between people are built on a voluntary exchange. He believes that choosing a currency, we are choosing the model of the world order that we are striving for, and he categorizing the discourse is not in the mood to “vote for dollars”.

    We use bitcoins every day, for everyday and large purchases. If we are going to the vegetable shop, we stock up on Gyft cards , which are accepted at the Whole Foods Market. Gyft cards are a great alternative, sometimes you can get a 10-15% discount for using them,
    ”Jamie writes on his blog.



    I tell children a lot about bitcoin, my son and I sometimes draw pictures dedicated to bitcoin together. There are cryptofinance lessons in their home schooling. We often discuss the stories that I write, I talk about crypto enthusiasts from around the world from whom I had to interview. Sometimes we look at graphs of changes in the value of bitcoin and I have to explain what green and red candles mean. For some reason, these graphs are of great interest to them.

    Jamie believes their lifestyle has a great future:

    So far, we are somewhere in the middle of the way, half of our family budget exists in bitcoins, so we have to follow the courses. At some points, our purchasing power grew, then fell, but my fees are calculated in dollars and paid in bitcoins at the current rate, and the money in a family of four does not stay for a long time, so the general depreciation over the past year has not hit us much . However, I can read and follow the charts as much as I like, but I cannot even predict the future for the coming year. So, in a certain sense, a complete transition to bitcoins is a leap into the unknown. So far, I can only believe that the capabilities of Bitcoin will be appreciated - with time. I constantly meet talented innovators and developers who are also burning crypto ideas like me. I see, what they create and these projects live and change our reality. Until a few years ago, no one could even think that an Internet access point could be worn on one’s belt, but that’s true. Now many do not believe in cryptocurrencies, but every year there will be less such people.

    Bitcoin may well become a way of life. And we at HashFlare are just helping them get it.


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