The Story of Indonesian People who are Fortunately from the Bitcoin Collection
The first time saw bitcoin started trading on the forum buying and selling Kaskus about three years ago, men from Mojokerto, East Java who settled in Jakarta, Bayu (32) admitted not so interested in the virtual currency. But in September 2013, he finally began to plunge himself into bitcoin investment.
His biggest question then was where he could get bitcoin. That's what he thinks seems to be a question for most Indonesian people today.
After intensively studying bitcoin from various articles on the internet, he then began to reap the bitcoin. Unlike most others, he drank his first bitcoin for free. Without spending a penny.
The lure of making a profit in large numbers makes it increasingly pursue the world of virtual transactions. Bayu began to try to buy his daily needs with bitcoin.
Every month, he admitted to buy a pulse of Rp 50 thousand with bitcoin that dikantonginya. He no longer need to bother to spend cash and go to the sale of credit.
How do the twists and turns of Indonesian men who dare to grapple with this bitcoin? Whereas Bank Indonesia clearly states that bitcoin is not a legal means of payment.
Admittedly, the hardest thing when you start to jump into the world of bitcoin is how to get bitcoin. Fortunately, thanks to his diligence to learn bitcoin, he managed to get it without having to spend a penny.
He is increasingly actively searching for information on the internet and is able to find free bitcoin provider sites.
"I can get it free.In the internet there are some sites penyedianya, I try to make an account there and can bitcoin Yes, even though the number is small or we in the community used to call itcoins, "he explained.
He said, not just one site he tried. After an adventure for a month, he managed to find some sites that provide `` large amounts of bitcoin `coins.
What is meant by coins is the smallest unit in bitcoin, ie one satoshi equivalent to 0.00000001 bitcoin. He usually collects up to 50 thousand satoshi first, then move the virtual currency to his wallet (wallet) online.
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In addition to free, Bayu explained bitcoin can be obtained through online games. Currently, the game he is working on is coin hunter and golden village.
"If the coin hunter is simple and complicated, the player can be free to take as much bitcoin as possible, but on the way back to the basecamp, he will be juggled by many robbers from various countries," he said. .
He explained, the game can be played online. In addition, there is also another bitcoin pendulan game, golden village.
"One more name is golden village.This takes a long time, build the village, starting from the house, the people, the police station, to the mining, from the mine it can be bitcoin," he explained.
Bayu recounts, a friend in the community bitcoin that he knew able to get the money up to tens of millions of dollars from the results of his online mine. Not a minute, it took more than a year to get to that stage.
Bayu's main motivation for bitcoin is a huge profit potential he can get. Although indeed, must be patient and diligent in continueus it.
"Yes, it's interesting because the profit is very tempting, that's the price to follow the dollar, well from the newly converted dollars.When we buy at a cheap price and sell at the price as expensive as December, one bitcoin cost US $ 1,200, if dirupiahkan so tens of millions. big profit, "he explained.
He also claimed to have sold 0.01 bitcoin he had. At that time, the interpretation cost about Rp 10 thousand per US dollar. He managed to earn enough money back then.
The rising potential of currency laundering on bitcoin is one reason many people avoid it. Bitcoin Indonesia CEO Oscar Darmawan spoke on the issue.
"Basically, all the potential goods hit by the money laundering is great, the dollar can, gold can, bitcoin can also, all the same can be hit, but the bitcoin risk can be smaller if the state set," he explained when talking with Liputan6.com.
According to him, all bitcoin transactions are done transparently and recorded. That is, users and governments can browse every transaction that occurred.
As a user, Bayu sees every entrepreneur potentially doing tax evasion. Because the government does not know the total revenue of all transactions made. He also asked the bitcoin user community not to abuse the virtual currency.