This father of three put everything into bitcoin. Here’s what happened next.
When I jumped on a WhatsApp call with 41-year old Didi Taihuttu, he was a few days away from joining his family on CoinBank’s annual Mediterranean “Blockchain Cruise” a combination vacation getaway and crypto symposium at which all the movers and shakers in the decentralized finance arena get together to discuss a hypothetical future where government-printed money is rendered obsolete, dropping by Mallorca and Marseille along the way.
According to Taihuttu, invitations to blockchain conferences and seminars have piled up ever since he liquidated almost everything he owned (yes, including his house and his cars) and invested his remaining capital in bitcoin.
It’s a financial pivot that’s both irrational and dangerous to an outsider, but within the crypto nation, it can make you a legend.
Taihuttu was born in the Netherlands, and before going all in on bitcoin, he ran a company that taught tech literacy to people in need.
Today, though, he, his wife, and their three kids are in constant transit.
After the family ditched their house and consolidated all their money, they lived on a campsite in the Netherlands for a few months before moving to Thailand (a country that’s become a haven for anyone looking to live outside of banking institutions).
Now back in the Netherlands, he tells me that he bought the lion’s share of his bitcoin when the prices were hovering around $1,000 and $2,000 in January 2017.
He watched from the sidelines as the exchange rate crested past the $19,000 mark the following December.
Taihuttu, however, has never fully cashed out.
So as the market corrected and bitcoin has embraced a much more modest valuation of $7,000, Taihuttu never divested himself.
Today, he says he’s in it for the long haul.
Taihuttu’s gambit isn’t entirely unique.
As cryptocurrency has shifted from a semi-legal hacker’s bounty into an unavoidable fixture in the financial industry, more and more people have opted to ditch the banks entirely and live a decentralized life.
There’s an entire community of so-called “crypto nomads,” who live port to port, country to country, with little more than their laptops and their coin tickers.
Taihuttu, of course, is an exception; the vast majority of crypto nomads are young, single men, so he’s almost certainly one of the only people who’s wrapped up his wife Romaine and their daughters Joli, Juna, and Jessa in the lifestyle. But that’s a designation he’s learned to embrace.
Taihuttu branded himself as the patriarch of the Bitcoin Family; he runs a website under that name that hosts his blog and his YouTube channel, and he wears a tattoo of the bitcoin logo on his left arm. We talked about the impetus to put all of his money into bitcoin, any lingering regrets he felt after the 2018 crash, and the conversation it took to get his wife to sign on with the plan.
When did you discover bitcoin? When did bitcoin come into your life? I was still running my business.
There was an internship, and a guy came into my company in 2013.
And he said, “Have you ever heard of bitcoin?” He told me everything, and I invested into mining bitcoin.
It was an evolution to disrupt systems because I’ve always been fighting against systems I’m not a normal guy.
because I could become a millionaire.
At that point in my life, I was still very after the money.
Read the full topic at
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/6/20/18691848/bitcoin-family-life-savings-cryptocurrency
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According to Taihuttu, invitations to blockchain conferences and seminars have piled up ever since he liquidated almost everything he owned (yes, including his house and his cars) and invested his remaining capital in bitcoin.
It’s a financial pivot that’s both irrational and dangerous to an outsider, but within the crypto nation, it can make you a legend.
Taihuttu was born in the Netherlands, and before going all in on bitcoin, he ran a company that taught tech literacy to people in need.
Today, though, he, his wife, and their three kids are in constant transit.
After the family ditched their house and consolidated all their money, they lived on a campsite in the Netherlands for a few months before moving to Thailand (a country that’s become a haven for anyone looking to live outside of banking institutions).
Now back in the Netherlands, he tells me that he bought the lion’s share of his bitcoin when the prices were hovering around $1,000 and $2,000 in January 2017.
He watched from the sidelines as the exchange rate crested past the $19,000 mark the following December.
Taihuttu, however, has never fully cashed out.
So as the market corrected and bitcoin has embraced a much more modest valuation of $7,000, Taihuttu never divested himself.
Today, he says he’s in it for the long haul.
Taihuttu’s gambit isn’t entirely unique.
As cryptocurrency has shifted from a semi-legal hacker’s bounty into an unavoidable fixture in the financial industry, more and more people have opted to ditch the banks entirely and live a decentralized life.
There’s an entire community of so-called “crypto nomads,” who live port to port, country to country, with little more than their laptops and their coin tickers.
Taihuttu, of course, is an exception; the vast majority of crypto nomads are young, single men, so he’s almost certainly one of the only people who’s wrapped up his wife Romaine and their daughters Joli, Juna, and Jessa in the lifestyle. But that’s a designation he’s learned to embrace.
Taihuttu branded himself as the patriarch of the Bitcoin Family; he runs a website under that name that hosts his blog and his YouTube channel, and he wears a tattoo of the bitcoin logo on his left arm. We talked about the impetus to put all of his money into bitcoin, any lingering regrets he felt after the 2018 crash, and the conversation it took to get his wife to sign on with the plan.
When did you discover bitcoin? When did bitcoin come into your life? I was still running my business.
There was an internship, and a guy came into my company in 2013.
And he said, “Have you ever heard of bitcoin?” He told me everything, and I invested into mining bitcoin.
It was an evolution to disrupt systems because I’ve always been fighting against systems I’m not a normal guy.
because I could become a millionaire.
At that point in my life, I was still very after the money.
Read the full topic at
https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/6/20/18691848/bitcoin-family-life-savings-cryptocurrency
Follow me on
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cryptoexpert20
IF you be an admin for your telegram group you can order from the link
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