Veteran crypto enthusiasts will remember Didi Taihuttu as the person who joined bitcoin (BTC) in 2016. He sold his property and his family. He was waiting for bitcoins on the moon while camping in the Netherlands.
In an interview with Cointelegraph, Taihuttu recalled how it felt 6 years ago to own almost nothing but bitcoin:
“I have no car, motorbike, nothing. And I’m happier than ever. and that [Taihuttu’s wife] Agree with it! At that time we decide to break that chain and set an example for the children.”
He explains his realization that life is about accumulating happiness “rather than accumulating wealth”. Hence, the bitcoin family was born. The three daughters have “only bitcoins, no bank accounts,” while the parents have never looked back on their former lives.
The Fivesome have spent the past five years traveling the world, settling in southern Portugal as a nomadic base to live in. They are in good company to promote the bitcoiner lifestyle below; Portugal is a growing center for fundamental cryptocurrencies.
Taihuttu acknowledged that, of course, there are challenges regarding how to travel the world according to the bitcoin norm—especially when caring for three teenage daughters.
However, this did not stop other explorer families from following in his footsteps. Taihuttu says the “six families” have sold all their assets, a la the Bitcoin family, to enjoy the bitcoin lifestyle.
Closer to home, Taihuttu gives his brother and sister orange pills, even persuading them to participate in the traveling lifestyle. He concluded that “the decentralized digital nomad lifestyle is the future.”
Taihuttu is wildly generous, giving 40% of its wealth to charity in order to do something. Profits from trade, affiliate links, book sales, merchandise sales and other “digital nomads” activities are funneled into charity projects.
For example, he has built a school for disadvantaged children in Mexico as well as an orphanage in Venezuela. Naturally, though, there is a bitcoin twist.
As the video Mario details with illustrations, it’s a three-step process to set up an orange pill and a charity.
- teach bitcoin
- learn to exchange it
- grow adoption
While projects are not just bitcoin born, they are certainly not centralized:
“CEO of a centralized organization [charity] Will drive BMW. We don’t want that, we do it peer to peer.”
Taihuttu aims to connect with other orange-piled people wherever they travel. Then they sit down together and scope out the sources of concern, addressing the issues that will make the biggest positive impact.
This process stems from one of the many Taihutsu mantras, “Everyone should be able to transact value all over the world with a heartbeat and a telephone.” Bitcoin is that solution and should essentially become an intrinsic part of charity projects.
Overall, although the bitcoin family will continue their world travel, their focus is now strongly on Europe. El Salvador and the next country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender are certainly attractive travel destinations, but Taihuttu is passionate about its home continent’s journey toward bitcoin adoption.
