In Norway we have a magazine called "Er lik" which means = (equals). To be honest I don't like the magazine that much. I do however like the fact that drug addicts and I guess a few homeless people sells it instead of doing crime. Too bad it's not the greatest magazine.
So today I was shopping with my son, and as we walked out of the mall I noticed this fellow selling it. I didn't pay much attention, but In the corner of my eye, I was sure I saw "crypto". Very unlike me, but I had to turn around and take another look. So asked the guy, who I later found out was named Dan, if he accepted cryptos, and sure enough. He accepted ETH, XRP and BTC. And again, very unlike me, I told him how great I thought this was. He told me I was the first frigging person to comment on it. It just tells you how little people care or know about cryptos.
But things are happening. I felt it today. I'm a very reserved and private person. I wouldn't take a picture if a UFO was landing in the middle of the street. I would be like; "nah..that's embarrassing..I would just feel like a chinese person visiting Norway in groups of a thousand people, all taking six billion pictures in one hour and then they fly to the next destination. Norway in 5 hours - check! Let's fly to the north-pole, take some pictures of a polar bear and head on home!
Aaaanyway.. I asked the Dan if I could take his picture, because I thought it was so cool. So there I was taking pictures of this dude outside the shopping mall, not caring one bit. The guy was english speaking, and I asked him what the hell he was doing here in the middle of the winter. He said he was just a wanderer for the last 7 years, living off the grid.
I said I didn't want the magazine,but I asked him if I could expose him, and he had no problems with that. I also told him to make a Steemit account. (He had heard of that) I also told him to sell XRP and in general HODL. His cellphone was unfortunately out of data at that exact moment, but I told him to send me his ETH address to a protonmail I just created.
Just made him a Steemit account
@movingman , and just as I'm writing this I received his ETH address on protonmail. But come to think of it, I decided to create a steemit account for him, and put him in my steemvoter list giving him a lifetime of upvotes worth 10-20% depending on circumstances. Not because of charity, but because of the encounter and because I would like to know what he does and where he goes next. He should definitely profit from his adventures! I will also donate all my net profits from this post to Dan (after I have accounted for booster/upvoting bots costs)
If you want to, give Dan a hand. Awesome bloke, and the first guy selling street-magazines accepting cryptos in Norway I believe. Top bloke. Or you could just follow him on his new Steemit-account @movingman which I just purchased for him.
Like I've been talking about before - which was a good reminder for me today actually, is the fact that this is something more than getting rich. And sure, the fact that I'm a long term hodler doesn't give me a stroke watching the prices go down a little bit. But it's not just the money. It's the fact that I felt like damn this is someone I connect with immediately because of just the fact that he had the words crypto in his cardboard meant that we share some common ideals.
I'm not sure if he's anarcho capitalist, syndicalist, communist or just anti-violence. But it doesn't really matter. What matters is he want free exchange,free trade between two free individuals. We chose which currency we like to pay with, and it is peer to fucking peer.
And as a laisezz faire capitalist, anarcho capitalist, I'm not giving a small sum to this man because I feel sorry for him (which I obviously don't. Because if he just hodl's he'll be lamboing his way out of Norway in a couple of years), but I'm doing it because this is what we want. This is exactly how it should be. And if we don't put our actions where are mouths are. If we don't turn around when we think we see "I accept cryptos" and give a little bit extra, then we won't see this succeed. In order to win this race against the oppressors, we need to start utilizing cryptos.
To Dan: Make sure you learn all there is to learn about the basics of Steemit. Never give away your owners key. I'll destroy my version of your owners key once you've confirmed that you have it secure. I would love to see where your adventure takes you next! Peace!
