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Same–Same But Different

¡Sí! I knowww! This is a bad copy of the "decaying digital artifact" Million Dollar Homepage, but if a guy became a millionaire by selling pixels, why not try to get one bitcoin?

2020.08.26 – 1 block read

Let's start like Sthephan: how did you get into Bitcoin?

IDK exactly, it was under $100 because I wanted to buy one as an internet-geek 21M limited edition collectible, and to tell one day to my grandkids "Oh! I had an ICQ, Napster and Bitcoin accounts" but it was impossible to buy it from Colombia with a Colombian credit card anyway. When I first tried, a guy emailed me a form to print, sign and fax it with copies of my credit card, my country id zoomed 150% and a bank statement! Yes, FAX IT!!
Send a fax in 2012 or 2013 to buy the internet native money!? With all my credit card data on it!? Seems scammie as hell! Reason enough to think that shit was going nowhere back then. Later when the price reached $100 I remember saying myself: no way, too expensive! That’s it.

I didn't understood Bitcoin monetary properties until 2017 bull-run when I got curious again and wanted to buy some. One good thing of being poor is that you don't have the money to worry about alts and those other bictoin copies. You in your ignorance just want the first one, the big one, the good one.

Must be frustrating hindsight...

AF! Imagine being the generation that grew up in the most dangerous shithole in the 90s but connected to internet, so developing a global-thinking mind within the Medellin traditional context, values, currency, violence/drug stigma, travel restrictions anywhere. It's like having two separate lives: your digital one posting memes to bitcoin millionaires in the mornings, and taking a bus in the afternoon with people that sometimes can't afford $0.65 for the ride.

So born and raised in Medellin, Columbia. Did you meet Pablo Escobar?

Sure, like everyone here! He used to live two blocks away from my home before he became Netflix famous. He moved to a more decent neighborhood.

He made millions with lines, not of code precisely. Do you really think you can become a sats millionaire with this shit?

Hmm... we have this toxic-maxis only-bitcoin guys creating companies, podcasts, products, art, podcasts again and a strong community out there, constantly looking for ways to show others that they are OG, that they're running their own nodes & holding their keys, that they're cool not scamming anyone, posting all day about how in a single helicopter-money stacked more sats than a poorbitcoiner in a lifetime and cheering NgU.
I will try to get them involved first, but if not works...

...if *it doesn't
If it doesn't work, what?

Well... this is my side project while learning to code my own ICO $CAM, you know? I have been thinking of the name because it seems like $PXL symbol is already taken by two others scampanies.

Someone should invent a who.is for ICOs. Is hard to find a sticky name and symbol nowadays... another million dollar idea here!

Then your goal is to make one whole bitcoin by selling pixels?

TBH, I'm just looking for a way to get one bitcoin while being unemployed in Medellin before my Parisian girlfriend (or ex– already?? IDK) gets one with her fancy salary in euros and her bitcoin skepticism.
I finally bought my first sats two and a half years ago* while she, in less than 6 months has already stacked more than me! Earning in euros vs Colombian Pesos is a fuck*** unfair relationship.

At her current stacking-rate, I estimate ~21 months before she gets a whole bitcoin. But I'm afraid a bull-run, S2F and NgU happening sooner than expected because she will convert more EUR into bitcoin while I... I can't just simply observ and do nothing! That’s why I spent my last 4 months of staking budget in this website!

I'm also tired of educating, involving friends and family into bitcoin. I'm the one buying the books, sharing articles, translating things, teaching them how to use wallets, secure their words, track their balances, keeping them away of alts... and once they get it, they are stacking more sats than me! They asume that I have more bitcoin than them and respect me for that, but is not always true.

Bitcoin-twitter community already made a Colombian whole coiner earlier this year. Are you that stupid naive to pretend they will make the same for you? And with the current network fees!?

Yeah, that Colombian guy. I was there that day! Lucky bitc…oiner.

Well, I think it's different. The bitcoin community who donated him was buying a piece of heaven helping another poor bitcoiner while feeling cool by participating in an spontaneous tweet-mob-trance of bitcoin influencers. But today seems like that pre-covid pre-halving pre-elections bitcoin-twitter community is not the same anymore.

The One Bitcoin Page buyers can be sure they will not receive any piece of heaven nor that special philanthropic feeling of donating, but some pixels in a canvas to put whatever they want... except pedo things and shitcoinery.

Talking about bitcoin influencers, maybe I should copy that "Influencers Pay Double" initiative too!

Talking of buyers. What can they expect from One Bitcoin Page? Printing more pixels perhaps?

No, no. I almost didn't fit that 1000 × 1000 pixels .png in my iPhone 5 while learning flexbox! I don't want to try with even larger pictures.
And actually it is literally impossible to print pixels: print (📄) – pixels (🖥)... once you print a pixel it become a dot, you get it? Then no #supplygate here.
You can find in my Github a script to validate the canvas dimensions anyway. You can run it and check the 1M pixels supply. Don’t trust. Verify.

Just to be clear: is this a bitcoin-only project?

I suppose yes as I'm accepting only bitcoin payments and not allowing to promote other cryptos in the canvas, perhaps Dogecoin if someone wants to place that dog up there. It's funny.

But exchanges and crypto products-services...

If they are paying me in bitcoin pues claro que 'yes' I’ll take the money.
I’m on a mission here and I'm not in position to reject any satoshi. Yearly domains and hosting are not free where I came from!

What will you do when you get a whole bitcoin?

Just show it off to my gf until she gets one for herself. If she can because if S2F is happening within a year... between us two won't be able to afford one.

Then just hodl it. If one day we have the chance to recover my gf's family castle spending 1M sats, I'm okay with that. But meanwhile I would like to build me a node without feeling guilty for not stacking those ~$300 dollars, open a LN channel and support other bitcoin ideas like this one, why not?

I also will be waiting the day I can buy some bitcoin products from One Bitcoin Page's sponsors with a fraction of the sats they paid for their pixels. I call that: 'Mastering Low-Time Preference'.

Pierre audited your Twitter account and found that this questions never happened, actually neither did this interview.
What do you have to say about it?

Did he find that tweet!? Gad! I invited my followers to ask me random questions but no one asked anything... and I still have to put something in this section and... I couldn't wait more. That’s all.

...So your entire internet reputation as @poorbitcoiner is preceded by this false interview, right?

Absolutely! But if you don’t believe me or don’t get it, I have some pixels to sell and convince you.

No no... gracias, amigo. Good luck with selling pixels anyway!

Merci !

* This time without sending a fax but a passport, credit card and a selfie with a stupid paper with an exchange name on it.