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Canadian Man Wants To Trade Home For Bitcoins
An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from CBC News: " It's not often that Canadian real estate listings make international headlines, but a mid-sized Alberta bungalow has people around the world buzzing today after its owner declared that he would like to sell it — for Bitcoins. If successful, 22-year-old entrepreneur Taylor More would be the first person ever to accept the fast-rising virtual currency in exchange for property. 'My home is being traded for Bitcoins!' reads the listing for More's 'quaint' two bedroom home in Crowsnest Pass, Alberta. ... The property is listed for $405,000 CDN, but More writes that 'the price can be reduced" if a buyer has some Bitcoins to spare.'"
...he will accept some Bitcoins in part payment. Different!
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At least he does not accept the full price in Bitcoin. There seems to be some hope for him left.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
THAT is the question. If he owns the property outright then let this wackjob sell if for magic beans for all I care.
But in real life the Deed holder is gonna want cash.
My guess is that he'll take whatever EQUITY is in the house a fake-pretend-money, but the outstanding balance... gonna need to see some of that confetti they call money up North.
'My home is being traded for Bitcoins!'
My first thought was:
This fella needs some form of psychiatric evaluation. Question is, am I alone?
On the other hand,
The property is listed for $405,000 CDN, but More writes that 'the price can be reduced" if a buyer has some Bitcoins to spare.'"
What could prevent the fella from accepting $404,999 CDN and getting the difference in Bitcoins? He must be playing around with our intelligence.
Thanks for trip back to the '90s web.
You should probably stay there next time.
After getting his 5300 bit coins, he better hope he can get them out before they dive. Unless he's got some family wealth, I imagine $400k is pretty make or break to a 22-year old.
Better than accepting *Canadian* dollars ;)
...will that do?
Sounds like the kind of guy who would blow all his bitcoins shopping on Silk Road.
Dude, you can get weed legally in several US states now! Pack up your poutine machine and come on down!
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another Nerdcoin story. How the mighty have fallen.
the tax man will not take them also need to pay other fees in cash as well.
This is old news .. like last week wtf is it doing on the front page of /. ... this place is turning to poo quickly
He's either a pothead or a pedophile or both. Bitcoins are the currency of criminal scum.
Lets say you want to buy a wireless router or a house. You look at the price in Bitcoins based on todays BTC/USD value and buy enough bitcoins in the market and pay for the item. It really doesn't make a difference what the value of the BTC currency is or if the price is BTC or USD, the only differences is that 1) paying in BTC requires an extra step to get and 2) it's much simpler to actually pay/move the money when you have the BTC. I have no problem selling anything in BTC, including my apartment, since BTC is as good as / better than any fiat paper currency.
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Some clown selling his house for virtual trinkets, or that that dumpy looking placed on claimed land is worth 400,000
yea, first thing show me where you people find goods for sale that accept bitcoins.
but a mid-sized Alberta bungalow has people around the world buzzing today
s/buz/snoo
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
Bitcoin is a scam. Nothing more. It was designed as a way to earn virtual (as in FAKE) money in games. It is NOT a currency.
No matter how much gamers would love to have their beloved fake money turned real, it is completely stupid to try to do so.
Is this another view of the place? Is this another view of the house?: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/16463426
I wasn't aware that you could exchange monopoly money for Bitcoins. Apparently I'm going to be super rich really soon.
There's a house in canada
You could look here:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Trade
tax refuser/corporation sole/"free person"/gold standard etc nutjobs
Just to be sure, not all tax refusers and gold-standard advocates are nutjobs (what's "corporation sole" or "free person" in this context? Those are new terms for me.).
A tax protester who is willing to go to prison for tax evasion in the same way that George Washington et al were willing to be executed for treason is not a nutjob, he's just a person who has extreme (in the USA at least) minority political views and who is willing to stand by them. Now, a tax protester who expects to win in court, well, yeah, that's nut-job territory.
Many respected economists in the post-gold-standard era in the USA were clearly not nut-jobs. However, those that believed they could convince America to return to the Gold Standard merely by stating their case, ignoring the downsides and the difficulty of convincing an entire country that their idea was better than the status quo, were verging on or past the border of nut-job status.
Remember folks, having minority or fringe views is not the hallmark of a nut-job. Having such a distorted view of reality that you don't see the world as it is. When determining if someone is a nut-job in the political sense, a test is whether they are seeing an illusionary world that will listen to them and change once they "hear the gospel truth" when that is clearly not the case.
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Remember folks, having minority or fringe views is not the hallmark of a nut-job. Having such a distorted view of reality that you don't see the world as it is is. When determining if someone is a nut-job in the political sense, a test is whether they are seeing an illusionary world that will listen to them and change once they "hear the gospel truth" when that is clearly not the case.
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Don't forget Mastercard!
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At least he does not accept the full price in Bitcoin. There seems to be some hope for him left.
Well there's some hope left for the sale of the house. I highly doubt you can buy and sell land and using some random exchange technology not being legal tender. How would the govt. calculate the stamp duty for a start?
http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_result.jsp?country1=Canada&country2=United+States
The nearest oil well is 1 mile away. The nearest gas well is 1/2 miles away. The closest chicken farm is 2 miles away. The closest beef farm is 1 1/2 miles away. And almost all land is gain farms. So why does that stuff cost more?
Bitcoins don't count as income and therefore don't get taxed I'd assume.
We are told bitcoin is historically high. Is it the right time to sell in bitcoins? Odds are high it will go down.
You speak the truth! Alberta goes from boom to bust.
I totally got some magic beans for my house!
So the choice is ...
(a) 1. Both parties research a volatile currency and agree on an acceptable exchange rate. 2. You purchase bitcoins for dollars. 3. You transfer bitcoins. 4. The other person sells bitcoins for dollars.
Or:
(b) 1. You transfer dollars.
Yeah, I'm really seeing the simplicity of bitcoins here. Not.
Those people definitely seem to be out of touch with reality there, at least politically speaking.
Kind of reminds me of people who try to claim allodial title to their land without the recognition by the international community as a sovereign state to back it up.
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