Ok, it is not all that spectacular since I am selling my truck to my mother but...
I told her that if she is going to buy it she has to pay me in bitcoins.
This is mainly to help her learn how to convert her dollars to bitcoins to help her get her feet wet.
Plus the usefulness of Bitcoin comes into play here. I will be out of the country with no access to a bank. She cannot send me a check. She would have to either go to my bank and deposit into my account or attempt some sort of wire transfer or come up with some other difficult way to pay me (or expensive using PayPal).
I told her that if she is going to buy it she has to pay me in bitcoins.
This is mainly to help her learn how to convert her dollars to bitcoins to help her get her feet wet.
Plus the usefulness of Bitcoin comes into play here. I will be out of the country with no access to a bank. She cannot send me a check. She would have to either go to my bank and deposit into my account or attempt some sort of wire transfer or come up with some other difficult way to pay me (or expensive using PayPal).
Are you making her buy the coins off mtgox and then she can buy your car with it
this is your MOM, why! why, would you do this to her
I could care less if other people use Bitcoin. They will eventually, it is just a matter of when will the technology make it as simple as paypal to switch over. Until then, I am content in buying Bitcoin cheap while it still takes a bit of effort to get set up initially.
But I care about my family and want them to benefit as well. If I can show my mom how to get Bitcoin so that after that initial transaction she knows how to easily transfer money from her bank account, then she will be able to do so at her leisure from then on and enjoy the benefits that come along with it.
She used to not understand text messaging on her cell phone (she called it a "tex mex"). Now she is on her iPhone almost constantly.
1) Losing money to obvious ponzi schemes
2) Bitcoin bank "hacks"
3) Paying ridiculous fees for the privilege to use bitcoins
4) Having her internet fun money lose over half its value over night!