One of the small strokes in his marketing campaign for Stick’s Masterpiece was accepting bitcoin for payments. So far, the author has sold about eight books to buyers using bitcoin – three to Canada, two to Hawaii, two to Utah and one to Wisconsin. The figure that represents about 8% of his total sales.
The author of both masterpieces had recently moved to Costa Rica, reinvented himself as a self-published author, sold his family’s house and started his life from the beginning. Hanson quite sure that one day will be released his first children’s book on alternative currency. He explains that it could seems like that: “ Kids are playing at the playground and realize that in order to share different toys, they can use candy tickets as a medium of exchange.Fred convinces the other kids at the playground that he’ll fairly enforce all the transactions to make sure there is no fraud, [but] mysteriously the price of candy inches upward, while Fred’s gut inches outward“.
How the journey begins…
First Hanson`s acquaintance with alternative currency took place in 2009 when he picked up a copy of Ron Paul’s best-seller End the Fed. He read the first few pages and never finished. But, the book did direct Hanson to the economic resource mises.org, Ludwig von Mises’ Human Action and eventually the bitcoin movement.
Hanson told his story to CoinDesk: ““I immediately recognized it’s potential as a possible solution for alternative rute. I entered bitcoin community, strating from being volunteer, by then met with bitcoin developer Mike Hearnat at the press center for Bitcoin.org and just used the most opportunities I could, jumped into the field”. As the author mentioned in his interview, for him it was a whole journey to alternative currency movement.
Strange trio
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