Quote from: chowderman on December 12, 2013, 12:49:03 AM

My gf is a waitress and in school, and if someone tipped her in bitcoins i would be furious, she has no way to use that. Its bullshit you try and push what you use on other people, forcibly. It's no different than going to another country and forcing them to take your currency and not use the local currency. Its a bunch of crap. If you can pay for the meal in fiat, pay for the service in it. Don't leave someone hanging on bitcoin because you think you're clever, you are only fucking them over. People pay for their lives in fiat, her university sure is hell not going to take bitcoin, nor should she or anyone else without their chosing. They dont need some shit they cant use making it more complex. Use legal tender.

My girlfriend would scream Hell Yess and come home all proud saying she earned bitcoins today...

Quote from: PenAndPaper on December 12, 2013, 05:44:18 AM

Quote from: zeetubes on December 11, 2013, 02:39:21 PM

I did this as bit of fun last night. I asked the bar staff if they would like the tip in mBTC. Within a few minutes there was a group of five or so people learning about bitcoins. One of the bar tenders had a samsung, the other an iphone. I downloaded mycelium on to the samsung and sent her the tip and then she split it with the other bar tender by sending to some iphone app I had never heard of. People were suitably impressed and it's probably not a bad way to spread the message. It didn't hurt that during the discussion the price rose a few points.

Are you an attractive woman? Because i can't see any other way for your story to be true.
Also the waiters appear to have to much time to spare to start learning about bitcoin while they work..

No need for that, the people behind the bar usually have a pretty good sense of what money is worth. Especially the ones who have been behind the bar longer. Well bar people and time, that just depends where you are and at what time. If its near closing time its understandable that they have less to do.