Activity Lesson 1

Bitcoin Monetary Revolution
#1808

Hello everyone!
Yes, we used to trade Soccer Stickers… Fifa 90 etc…

Remembering world cup, we used to have an album and placeholders for all stickers where each sticker was each player of each team. There would be that one member that’s remaining to cover the whole team and when somebody has it in duplicate, we would want to barter with them for another card!

While I did not do it often as I only participated in this during one world cup (out of the many every four years); that was a great bartering experience! Those were the days!!

#1809

when I was about 10 I traded my Obelisk the Tormentor card for an entire deck from my brother (which included blue eyes, dark magician, black luster soldier, etc…). I was pretty happy with it

#1810

When I was a child, I used to excange toys at school.
For exemple, once I exchange a cartoon watch for a beyblade.
Now, looking back, I think the excange wasn’t fair for me.

#1811

trading sandwiches for deserts with the kids at the lunch table. fair exchange. some kids didn’t like their candy - i didn’t like my sandwich.

#1812

  1. As a child a exchange marbles for a toy car.

  2. I thought it was fair because I wanted the car so we determined the value by giving x amount of marbles for the specific car.

#1813
  1. swapped video games.
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#1814

swapping Pokemon cards was the daily activity! :grinning:

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#1815

As kids we used to exchange toys. We had something the other kid wanted to spend some time with, and it was usually a fair deal unless a kid broke a toy and then tried to get it exchanged back again haha.

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#1816

My first experience of transactions is when I was around 6-8 years old. We began exchanging candies based on barter system and personal taste. Orange to coffee and peanut candy to orange candy to lime candy or coffee candy exchange between friends. My real experience of monetary system is while we found out about fighter fish (The Siamese fighting fish (Betta splendens)) while 8-13 years old. We found out that male fighter fish can battle to death(while being a vegetarian my whole young and adult life). We bought, trained and organized out own fish fight cloud where rewards ranged from candy to fiat currency equivalent or currency for toddlers. This is my firsy experience on exchange on value which further lead to human fighting with myself involved. Where value was decided.

#1817

As children we would often trade different kinds of trading cards, some were just a part of a collection of all kinds of images of animals, and others I can’t even remember, it was a long time ago… I rarely initiated the exchange. I was always reluctant to do those, because I often felt like I didn’t make a good deal in previous ones and it didn’t seem like I’m getting anything better than I already had.

#1818

I seem to remember trading Pokémon cards in my childhood. But essentially, they are pretty much the same thing, altough later some have increased in value, but looking back, I can’t remember any details of it. So on the question to if I think it was fair, I honestly don’t know.

#1819

Bartering … when a friend picks up the check at a nice restaurant an option instead of me getting the next bill, is cooking a homemade dinner of equal, most likely better, quality. I do think it is a fair exchange because I pick quality organic ingredients and make everything from scratch with love and my time is also involved :wink:

#1820

My grandmother used to go and visit different neighbours in the rural area, will bring second hand clothe and will exchange it by either a sheep, a goat, duck, chicken, or so… It was great to see her trading abilities. This happened in Patagonia Argentina 30 years ago or so…

#1821

When I was four years old, I got a One Dollar bill from my grandmother for my birthday. My cousin and I wanted to play store, but we needed many monies, not just one. So we tore the bill into about 20 smaller pieces and happily played store all evening. My grandmother was very angry when she saw what we had done, but my mother understood completely. She taped the pieces back together and exchanged it at the bank the next day. (Not exactly a bartering story, but related.) A few years later, my older sister promised that she would give me her paper doll collection if I would do some cleaning work for her. When I finished work and went to claim my reward, she said she had never made a deal like that. I was scammed!

#1822

My first barter transactions were pretty identical to other people here haha, mostly collectible cards such as Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh or even WWE cards (it used to be huge, once).
As kids, we didn’t really cared or known about cards value, as for us it was pretty much how much we liked the card and how “strong” it was. If you had a legendary Pokémon, it was more rare and considered more valuable for us, so we had to trade two or even three cards to get it.
Since we were not finding any monetary value in it, most of those trades were fair except when it was fake cards, you just feel scammed (which happened very rarely but happened to me).

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#1823

When I was a kid I would trade my recess snack of fruit roll-ups with my friend whos mother wouldn’t buy them for popcorn which you could buy at the cafeteria.

#1824

It´s quite hard for me to remember anything. Probably i traded some of my toys or presents with those of my sister. I was at those times the older and the smarter one. To be honest these deals have never been fair.

#1825

I traded Pokemon cards. A Venusaur and a Blastoise for a Charizard. The Venu and Blast were less valuable than the Char therefore I needed more than one to match the perceived value of the rarest card which was the Char

#1826

a year ago I traded a guitar amplifier for a guitar that I wanted. The amplifier was probably worth more than the guitar but the guitar was reasonably rare and exactly like a guitar I had in my younger days so had some sentimental value to me. I still have it and am happy with the trade, the person I traded with felt they got a good deal at the time so I think we were both happy.

#1827

I traded my Dragonite Movie Edition Pokemon Card for a Golem because it said Golem could do more damage. Indeeply regret this.