Living On Bitcoin | TechCrunch

Editors note: Contributor Kevin Cruz writes for BitcoinMagazine and so he knows a few things about Bitcoin. But with the help of a BTC to cash service he tried to live for weeks using only bitcoin.

I write for a living and sometimes people pay me in bitcoins. Im aware that Im being paid in a currency that hasnt reached mainstream adoption, but I keep collecting them to see what happens.

Last month, while writing a book review late in the night, I got a phone call from an unknown number. It was a guy named Cyril Houri from a Bitcoin company called Brawker.

He had a proposition that blew me away: he would help me to live solely on bitcoins for a month. I was going to be his guinea pig.

Brawker allows people to buy and spend bitcoins by matching a bitcoin holder with a credit card holder; The credit card holder pays for a good/service and receives the bitcoins in return. Effectively, this provides a platform for people to buy bitcoins.

More important for you to know while reading this story: the platform allows people to use bitcoins anywhere, with a considerable discount.

I didnt know where I would spend them, or where this journey would end, but I accepted. This was an opportunity I could not turn down. It was time to make some magic.

I used Brawker to buy most of the things on this journey, and Ive indicated the instances in which I used another method.

Week 1

I was living at my aunts apartment in New York City where I paid no rent or electricity, and travelled using public transportation (no need to buy gas).

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