{"id":39598,"date":"2021-03-25T18:43:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T16:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39598"},"modified":"2025-08-30T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:30:16","slug":"reddit-user-loses-wife-after-refusing-to-sell-bitcoin-at-60000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/reddit-user-loses-wife-after-refusing-to-sell-bitcoin-at-60000\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddit user loses wife after refusing to sell Bitcoin at $60,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Reddit user going by the handle Parking_Meater described family problems over the decision not to sell Bitcoin at $60,000. He said his wife did not approve of the move and left.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-reddit wp-block-embed-reddit\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:316px\" ><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Bitcoin\/comments\/mcozeh\/my_wife_is_leaving_because_bitcoin\/\">My Wife is leaving because bitcoin.<\/a><br \/> by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/Parking_Meater\/\">u\/Parking_Meater<\/a> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Bitcoin\/\">Bitcoin<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The investor stressed that the family lives in comfort and does not need money. When the price of Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitcoin-breaks-above-61000\">reached $60 000<\/a>, the user ignored his wife&#8217;s request to sell the assets.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that he bought more digital gold during the current dip, which exacerbated the conflict.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cShe was so angry that she almost struck me. [\u2026] She told me not to talk to her,\u201d wrote Parking_Meater.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Some users advised him to set aside the cryptocurrency for a divorce lawyer or give his wife half the private key to the wallet. However, most commentators approved of the post author&#8217;s strategy.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coingecko.com\/en\/coins\/bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">CoinGecko<\/a>, in the last 24 hours Bitcoin fell 9.8%, and over the last seven days \u2014 13.6%. At the time of writing the leading cryptocurrency was trading around $50 900.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in January, a Reddit user <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/reddit-user-posts-a-joke-predicting-teslas-bitcoin-investment\">wrote a joking post<\/a> and predicted Tesla&#8217;s investment in Bitcoin. In February, it emerged that the electric-car maker <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musks-tesla-invested-1-5-billion-in-bitcoin-the-assets-price-rose-to-44800\">invested <\/a> $1.5 billion in digital gold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Reddit user going by the handle Parking_Meater described family troubles over the decision not to sell Bitcoin at $60,000. He said his wife did not approve of the decision and left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18,1400],"class_list":["post-39598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitcoin","tag-reddit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"15","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39600,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39598\/revisions\/39600"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}