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Hah! The SmartCash community is awesome. I woke up this morning and saw this:

His balance almost doubled due to donations from people like @decentralizd and @msg768 who liked this story. I showed him first thing, and he was so stoked! Thank you all. :)

(going to upvote this comment for visibility)

And someone added another 1,000 last night! Devon is so stoked. He's talking about saving up to buy his own computer now. :)

Lucky boy. My parents barely had the fiat skills to pass along, much less this. I wish I had recorded my breakdown of crypto talking to my mother the other day when I filled her in on my Steemit life...

It can be a lot like speaking another language to those who just don't get it yet.

Sometimes my notes to myself on crypto for the day look like another language the next day! Glad I got on this train rather than pulling out my old state quarter map haha ;)

@lukestokes your son must be proud of you. Im sure in near future he appreciates more and more :)

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and now I’ve got something else to learn! after seeing all of the flag wars and stuff, I’m more than a minnow on here before accepting anything lol; I’ve become a straight up apologetic plankton/bottom feeder.... 🦐 I believe, for now, I will say thank you, bot/human/cyborg(?)

Is that the web wallet you have shown? My wallet on my Mac doesn’t look like that. I like how it shows the US dollar amount which mine doesn’t show.

Thanks.

Oh heck yeah, man! Thanks. Now I'll have plenty of ammunition to tip around. :)

Σ$$$ Tipped @lukestokes Σ300 SMART! Comment @smartbot help to claim. Currently the price of SmartCash in the market is $0.056 USD per SMART. Current value of the tip is $16.80 USD. To find out more about SmartCash, please visit https://smartcash.cc.

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@lukestokes has Σ408.98 SMART (unconfirmed: Σ0 SMART).

HAhah! Now you're just showing off. :) :)

Thanks.

Lol no way! I just don't login to Steem enough lately and want you to have some Smart to pass around to interested parties. Besides i think i just killed the bot LOL

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@lukestokes has Σ108.98 SMART (unconfirmed: Σ0 SMART).

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@lukestokes has Σ1078.98 SMART (unconfirmed: Σ0 SMART).

Wow, that's cool!!! Thanks for the hint :-)

Wow, thanks for the post @lukestokes, it warmed my heart! Glad you teached your son about SmartCash, hopefully he will be in the generation where using it is common. This will be my first resteem and i'm sure we can polish his 'Christmas Money' up a bit!

Wow, your first resteem!? I'm honored. :)

Yeah, I left a comment already, but the SmartRewards community already dropped some donations his way! He's so excited about it. Pretty cool thing to wake up to. He's going to be telling his friends about it, for sure.

Last Christmas, one of the gifts I gave my son was a Bitcoin paper wallet for 0.01 BTC, advising him to not touch it for at least several years. It's gone up in value not quite 1000% since then.

I can teach him about crypto, but his entrepreneurial spirit is something he's learned all on his own. He'll go far in life.

Very cool!

Love the concept of teaching kids about money that's based on a "proof of work" instead of the FRN route. Personally...I'm a late comer to this game and have a LOT of catching up to do. It sickens me to know that I could have invested one or two thousand dollars in bitcoin back in 2008 and ended up not doing it because I didn't understand it.

Peace man...glad to see there are good dads out there like you. Upvoted!

Also, you say your trading cryptos now? By what means? Through what platform? Do you day trade or are these long term holds. I just recently opened up a coinbase and Poloniex account, but I have literally NO IDEA what I'm doing.

Thanks!

Yeah, I've been trading off and on since 2013. Coinbase is a good fiat on-ramp, but ultimately you want to keep your cryptocurrency stored in paper wallets or hardware wallets like a Ledger Nano S or Trezor. As for trading, I had some issues with Poloniex a while back, so I'm avoiding them for now. Bittrex is pretty good and if you have Coinbase you can also use GDax (owned by the same company). For SmartCash I've used HitBTC and Cryptopia. I have a lot of exchange accounts. I'd also highly recommend getting into the BitShares world as it's a decentralized exchange meaning you own your own cryptocurrency because you control the private key (no centralized third party you have to trust). Here's my referral link if you want to create an account there: https://wallet.bitshares.org/?r=luke-stokes (scroll down on my latest post on BitShares to see links to all my old BitShares posts with tons of information, including how you can short the USD using bitUSD. Definitely check that stuff out.)

Cryptocurrency trading is a wild and crazy ride. You can learn a lot, but only play with what you're willing to lose. As for learning, I suggest searching for some popular YouTube videos to get started.

Thanks @lukestokes I appreciate the reply back.

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Good stuff Luke. Just sent some love over to your son :)

Thanks so much! He was so excited to hear about the gifts he received this morning.

My pleasure!

Would you mind taking a look at the comments on this post? @decentralizd tried to tip me a large amount but it didn't go through the first time and the second time went to a non-existent steem account due to a typo. Third time didn't go through (I don't think).

Yeah sure. I'll have a look now. Sorry for the late reply. Busy day!

Your son is a lucky one. Wished I was his age when I got into crypto (Oh yeah, at that age there was no crypto). I can imagine how fast he'd grab the concept and in ten years time he'd be a wealthy cryptocurrency guru. Doing a lot of great things, but not too late for me, we are still early adopters, greater things still ahead. It is an adventure worth taking. No regrets. Thanks for sharing, now I'd show it to my cousin who thinks he's too young to learn about cryptocurrency :)

Awesome post Luke. I've been teaching friends at work and my wife about Crypto, and it is like a foreign language sometimes. Explaining it to one co-worker I ended up making him consider why our fiat paper money having value is so different than BTC or other cryptos. He still had a hard time accepting it, haha.

Thankfully my wife has a better grasp, so we've recently been talking about how we want to integrate crypto into our kids savings. My son has been working and saving every fiat dollar he earns to buy a kayak, but your post got me thinking to maybe start teaching him about crypto too. He's 7, my daughter is 4 (so not quite earning the same principles yet).

I'm looking forward to getting my first smart rewards in a couple days; I bought Smartcash when you first starting talking about it. Now seems like a good time to buy more, and it could be an encouraging one for kids because of the Smart rewards.

I remember when I was younger buying a CD would give a good return on savings after one year. We looked into CDs for our kids and I couldn't believe how bad the interest rates were. Pointless. I figure when they're adults, crypto savings accounts I start now could be worth a lot more and a bigger part of how money functions in our world (hopefully).


As a totally off topic aside: thanks for coming by The Writer's Block. Sorry I missed you, but chatting with the other members I can tell you made an impact and helped with their understanding and current concerns. Funny thing too, how I just talked you up in my #steemitistome post on being a catalyst for community at Steemit. It speaks volumes that you demonstrated that in a personal way for them.

As I've been saying, @Lukestokesmhth for top witness people! ;)

I'm getting my first smart rewards as well. Pretty stoked about that. It happens in just over two days: https://smartcash.bitcoiner.me/ Looks like we'll be just over 13% in rewards: http://smartrewards.ccodam.dk/

I wonder if the price will dump after that as people sell off new winnings (which would invalidate them for future rewards though).

I'm so glad I was able to do that as well. I loved your post and really appreciate your support on @lukestokes.mhth :)

@smartbot tip @aksounder 50

Some smart to get you started! :)

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@smartbot withdraw SZeBvtLeTpp9P9AzSXGjA3uJezvugisqYQ

@aksounder: Σ49.99 SMART has been withdrawn from your account to SZeBvtLeTpp9P9AzSXGjA3uJezvugisqYQ. You have been charged Σ0.01 SMART withdrawal fee. Transaction bafde44dfdb4e03f9efd427e39c0dc19387e2a309d3675ad2d9a19cce853a8bb is now completed. To monitor the transaction status click HERE.

@smartbot tip @lukestokes 1000

Since it never went through...

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@msg768 I goofed lol @lukestones isnt real :D

I fixed it. I really need to apply a permanent fix for typos but I can only stop this if you tip someone who doesn't exist. I can't stop you from tipping someone else so make sure you ALWAYS copy and paste the username! It's easy to mistype a username...

Stones!

Heh. Maybe you did break the bot. I hope those funds aren't lost.

If it was fully decentralized and immutable, it'd be lost! :P

This story would be like the one where their dad started teaching their son about computers before they appeared in schools.

Think of the advantage he'll have over the other kids...

...and the new friends that will want to socialize with him because he knows something none of the other kids do...

Being bright about cryptocurrency is something to be proud of...

That's a great analogy. Yeah, I really like that. :)

He's already telling his friends about SmartCash and cryptocurrency stuff. Some of the dads in his scouting group have been asking me about cryptocurrency during our campouts as well. Fun stuff. :)

What a awesome story, i'll hope to teach my kids this the same way (when i have them in a few years)!
Steem and SmartCash are a match made in haven! Best / easiest crypto's out there!

I agree! Super easy to use, super fast, low and now fees. It's good stuff.

Awesome initiative, have to start them young. Seems like a wonderful opportunity for bonding time as well.

@smartbot tip @lpreap 20

Yeah, we had fun. He stayed up way too late tonight, but we wanted to complete the whole process, start to finish. Good thing STEEM and SMART both have super fast confirmation times. :)

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You can use the following commands:

  • balance - displays your current wallet balance
  • address- displays your deposit address
  • withdraw <address> - withdraws your whole wallet balance to specified address
  • tip <nick> <amount> - sends the specified amount of smartcash to nickname
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Thanks for telling us all about SmartCash and how your son has embraced crypto. My 13 year old thinks I'm crazy.

They'll catch on eventually. I think it's somewhat inevitable.

My boys look at my silver coins with green eyes.
Stupid risks I take they'll probably get them sooner rather than later anyway.
In the meantime, make yourselves useful, wait for Christmas, and watch the spot price.

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One of the biggest problems with crypto-currencies is that they aren't tangible. You can't see them laying there. You can't go through your couch cushions to see if any fell out of your wallet.

If you don't remember you had them, and as you get more coins and more wallets, then they just fall into the memory hole.

I know this will be solved in the near future. (near meaning decades)
And, I am glad your son is already into cryptos. It will make his life much easier as all of us shift over.

@smartbot tip @builderofcastles 20

With cryptocurrency, we all have to be our own bank with our own spreadsheets to keep track of things.

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@lukestokes very happy to start the day by reading this nice post! We must give the new generations the right keys to open the doors of a new world. Humanity is capable of it, it is a long way and it will not happen tomorrow, but together we can accomplish beautiful things as long as they are motivated by noble intentions. I truely believe @smartcash is one of them and that is why I am so happy to give some of my time to this great project.

Excellent! I'm so glad this post encouraged you. :) Yeah, I've been impressed with the people in the SmartCash Slack. I hope this project does very well.

Brilliant boy ! Best of luck !!

This is really cool! I need to set some coin aside for my son. He definitely has an interest.

If only I could get my desktop wallet to sync properly. Downloaded the latest version but it is stuck at 19 weeks. Blergh!

Ping in #support in slack and they can get it cleaned up in no time, also may want to consider using wallet.smartcash.cc for a replacement if you hate keeping synced up daily.

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That's awesome.. he will probably be the next Bill Gates :D

As long as he comes up with a way to provide value to his fellow human beings, he'll do well.

Amazing article and a lot of good stuff to learn from it. That kid is SMART, just like his Dad ;)

Hahah. Thanks, and thanks for the Twitter love and Smart tips in Slack. Much appreciated!

Very fun!
Ok... You got me interested. I am going to have to read through your other posts about SmartCash and get up to speed.

Thanks Dayne! Yeah, check it out. It has some pretty cool things going for it and an active hive community concept so that anyone can get paid to do things which benefit the network.

Already did! 👍

I have my wallet ready for SmartRewards! :)
Can't seem to join the slack group though. Looks like they are at capacity there.

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@smartbot tip @daynewright 40

Well that's a bummer. Huh. I just tried to invite you directly as well and got this:

I posted about it there. I'll let you know what they say.

Usage: tip <username> <amount>

Ah... Looks like they have a lot of invitations floating out there that have not been redeemed.

Bummer.

They just announced they are moving to Discord: https://discord.gg/BDUh8jr

Seems someone was spamming their invitation link and Slack can't do anything to fix it, so they are moving on.

Yeah it's really great to see your child and you and really you are good father and your son in his early stage knows anything about market and we perform better in future.
Sir I had also suggested one of my friend name @googlee about the conversation made with you and then after he put his $1,500 to steem.

Steem On!

I hope that investment does very well for them.

Wow, that's fantastic!
I think I have to research SmartCash now...
I actually think that children are way more open (and unconditioned) to understand this new kind of money much quicker than we do/did. I wonder how many 8 year old's will be trading on exchanges soon 😄

Yeah, it's a paradigm shift many are not easily able to make. Just this morning, he was explaining it to Aria (his 6yo sister) that SmartCash really is "real money." She was like, "I want SmartCash too!" :)

LOL they seem to be smart.
People on the other end of the spectrum begin to get it, too, though. I recently got an email from a woman, saying, "Anja, I am 70 years old but I am fascinated by this new kind of money you are talking about!"

The shift is happening everywhere :)

Crypto is the future, therefore it's our job as a parent to introduce to the kids at there young age. @lukestokes you are the best example of a responsible father.

Thank you so much for saying so.

Great read and well done to your teaching skills

Thank you!

Haha awesome! And don't think I've ever heard a child saying Bitcoin before so its rather strange. Maybe one day nobody will say Bitcoin or whatever coin anymore.. hmm. Just back to saying.. money?

Hahah! I think that's certainly a possibility. Money will be thought of as language, something we use to express ourselves.

Never had much luck with the paying for chores concept. They never had any money and I was frustrated because chores never got done. I changed to a system where they always get their pocket money no matter what ($0.5 per year of age per week) and chores are an expectation of a functional family. Failure to do chores meant loss of privilege etc. This way chores tended to get done and they always had money of their own even from a very young age. My youngest is now 18 and I switched his pocket money about 6 months ago to Ether and Bitcoin. He never asks me for money. He always has some.

My kids beg to do the chores because they really want the money. They sometimes argue with each other for who gets to do what. Maybe you weren't paying enough. :) You have to match supply and demand curves.

I can't wait to be able to teach my child.

You're going to love it. And it will be the hardest thing you've ever done.

I'm sure your kid will be a genius at relationships, social media, and cryptocurrency.

That's so cool!
The earlier they adopt, the merrier.

I'm a proud pappa. If my 8-year-old son can understand this stuff with some help from his dad, anyone can.

I guess you're a great father and teacher, and your son is as smart as you are :-)

Looking forward to more stories from "The Crypto Stokes"!
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Thanks for sharing!

I like "The Crypto Stokes" idea. Heheh... maybe we should do more videos together.

That is great but i think here on steemit big power holder have little heart they don t share something with others for there good even a vote they did give others true they are earning from those votes comments thank you.

@smartbot tip @alidervash 50

I think you've met the wrong "power holders". Social media is what you make of it. If you follow and interact with awesome people, you'll have an awesome time.

Thank you very much sir your reply kindness social is an sea and there big fishes hint small fishes i think. Awesome peopel is finding is als an hard task in the my dowline followers are are followed my more 4000 people which one is Awesome no one knows thank you. for kindness

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Very nice. You remembered me my past. When i m was child i also have just few PKR and i was very happy When i got 100 PKR.

Yeah, hitting that 1,000 Smart mark is nice as that's when the Smart Rewards kick in.

such a good son you have..Huh??

That's awesome.

I made some Dash off of Reddit comments a few years about that's now worth like $50 bucks. I think it might have been worth $1 or $2 back then. Crypto Hodling is awesome.

Very nice! I love stories like that.

I guess if an 8 year old boy can learn, so can I! lol

That's the spirit!

very nice. the younger the better. in 10 years there are no banks anymore.

Or at least they won't be the only option available to us. I love systems like BitShares that let us trade and hold all within the same wallet system.

Hi Luke, I've been enjoying the posts. Keep it up! I am moving to Nashville Jan 2018 -- are you aware of any good crypto-interest meetups going on?

Oh cool! There are a number of various meetups (check meetup.com), though I haven't been very active with them lately. I used to run a bitcoin meetup back in 2013/2014 but it ended up morphing into a non-profit that ended up being a big waste of time. I've been getting a lot of value out of online meetups and discussions like this. Let me know when you show up, maybe we can get some steemians together for a meal.

A father must be like you, a true teacher, guardian, you will be the role model of your son.

Thank you. I'm doing the best I can. It's certainly not easy.

Yes I can understand but still the best part is you're making an attempt and you will be succeeded

SO AWESOME! I wish our kiddo would understand the value... Instead she rolls her eyes at the work bitcoin. lol

Give her time. She'll get there once she sees the value and watches all her friends get into it.

Yes... if parents do it, it can't possibly be cool! lol

You are great papa @lukestokes, you should proud of yourself. Nice job 👍

Thank you. I am. :)

Ur welcome

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Dude great article resteemed, and reposted in facebook!

Thanks for spreading the word!

Great story and thank you very much for this tip on $SMART - will look into this. Devon is lucky to have a father like you!

@smartbot tip @lumberg 20

Yeah, I've been using the web wallet. Seems to work well enough and they are updating it and fixing bugs all the time.

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wow. yhur son is picking something good from yhu. that is lovely. my dad knows nothing about crypto. it is not his fault though

Upvoted and resteemed. Im happy that you giving a good example. Smartcash and steem are great coin. Smartcash and steem for future generation. Thank you @lukestokes i appreciate your contribution to smartcash and steem :)

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How you doing Luke, this is @Oucan from Mexico, I'm a young father and i will take your initiative for my daugther ;)

Bought some smartcash today - based on these articles and other ones I have read! Seems like a great option for buy and hold while collecting the monthly payouts Like OKCash tbh....

I signed up for cryptopia using your referral link - hope you get something out of that

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