Didi Taihuttu is an avid Bitcoin enthusiast in the Netherlands. Four years ago, in order to advocate a pure digital currency concept of life, he persuaded his wife to sell his five-bedroom house and various jewellery. All the money was exchanged for Bitcoin…
When Didi bought a large amount of Bitcoin 4 years ago, the value of this currency was still at US$900, but it has skyrocketed to US$20,000.
Before that, he ran a business of his own in the Netherlands, doing computer education business, and saved a lot of money in the 11 years of operation.
It was his father’s sudden death and job burnout that made him want to change to an “anti-matter” life.
Later, Didi took his wife and three children to travel around the world, and declared that they would start a “digital nomad” life.
The life of pure Bitcoin is actually miserable
However, this kind of nomadic life was really miserable at first.
Although they are completely liberated in spirit, sometimes, eating is a problem.
Didi said, “In the first two and a half years, it was really difficult.”
First of all, it is inconvenient to go through various procedures without cash.
Once, their family was going to travel to Turkey, but after arriving at the Turkish border, the visa agency refused to use Bitcoin to serve them anyway.
They had to ask a friend online for help, sold a portion of the bitcoin within a few hours, and then asked the friend to transfer the money to a prepaid credit card in Turkey before they finally entered the country (barely useless cash).
Especially when the epidemic broke out this year, they were traveling in Spain, but after thinking about going there, they felt that the countryside in Thailand was safer, so they flew to Bangkok, where they were trapped for several months.
Originally, a sponsor was willing to provide them with a new RV for their basic life, but due to the epidemic, this sponsorship was also forced to be cancelled. They had to spend very little money to find a place to live…
But in addition to consumption and shopping, the most difficult thing is the strange vision of others. Many people feel that this family is a bit abnormal in spirit.
Fortunately, they found some places in Asia that fit their anti-matter lifestyle.
He discovered that many people here are actually living a life of low desire.
The pocket money Didi gave to his children was also Bitcoin.
When there is really no way, they will turn to Bitcoin players all over the world.
As the Bitcoin circle has become more and more popular recently, there are some mobile apps that can quickly match players who are willing to conduct Bitcoin transactions. In an emergency, children will exchange Bitcoin for cash.
In addition, Didi is also a very good brainwashing master.
In the days of wandering in the villages on the coast of Thailand, Didi actually leaned on a mouth to convince the hotels and restaurants in the village to accept Bitcoin. These villagers vaguely felt that there was still money to be made by holding Bitcoin…
“Why do people recognize the value of different colors of paper, but not Bitcoin? What I did is change people’s prejudice against Bitcoin.”
At this point, Didi thinks that the key is to show them.
“It’s useless to tell someone that he should use Bitcoin, so I choose to use my own experience to make them understand how everything happened.”
While traveling around, they also discovered more consumer items that can be paid directly with Bitcoin.
For example, a small dirty stall where you can pay with Bitcoin…
Even the birthday cake has a Bitcoin pattern…
Usually, Didi also records their “digital currency life” by shooting videos.
At present, they have accumulated 500,000 fans online. Didi will use his professional knowledge to talk about some Bitcoin intelligence. Although the content is all big news in the currency circle, the recording background is all on the sea, forest, or country roads.
Every day, they will first update two explanations of Bitcoin market trends in the video.
Then there is the daily routine of jokes and jokes between family members.
For example, in a video, Didi asked her daughter if she really wanted to continue traveling like this. Her daughter told the truth: After the wandering, she still hopes to stabilize in one place.
But Didi smiled and said: It’s stable for 6 months at most, and then let’s start again.
The daughter seemed a little unhappy, but she still laughed happily with her father.
The daughter also said that the reason she wanted to settle was to find a stable boyfriend, Didi immediately said jokingly: “I told you anyway, if your boyfriend doesn’t have Bitcoin, I’ll beat him up. Drive him out. No matter whether he is handsome or not, whether he is good or not, as long as he doesn’t play Bitcoin, it’s nothing.”
Didi hopes that in the future it will be able to attract a big platform like Netflix, and be able to shoot him a documentary…
Someone asked Didi if he would regret his original choice. He said: “After experiencing a roller coaster-style life from materialism to minimalism, from normal families to digital nomadic families, now many media have begun to pay attention to us, and we will His lifestyle may change. But so far, this has been a huge adventure, but we have not stopped yet.”
In any case, although the value seems to be high, but the life is very hard, but fortunately their family is still very happy…
