One word of advice.
Be careful digging into and exposing the personal details of the people in this thread. As in avoiding it. It is not good etiquette as most of us want to remain anonymous, and safe. Luckily... I don't mind terribly. My opsec is fairly well blown here, and as you have discovered there is a lot of personal info about me on this forum.
I did offer bitcoin as payment at my business, and none of my clients ever went to the trouble to use it. Even with a 20% discount.
I still live in Dallas.
Sadly for me, I was around for the beginning of bitcoin, but as a starving artist I never really accumulated very much of it... so no buying of islands for me. Hindsight is always 20/20.
To be honest, I had a headache after this incident, so I feel shy to reply to you about why I did. I doubt I don't have a sense of humor or basic common sense. To be honest, I thought you would appreciate me just because I remembered some golden old days. But, I forget that every coin has two sides. This is a good lesson for me. I forget to say sorry. I am really "SORRY" and apologize.