Jack Laurence

I was working for a number of different tech startup businesses there.

And there was a guy that was working with me who was from the US and he'd just moved to Berlin.

Now in Germany, you get kind of like, I'm sure it's the same in Australia, same in the UK, you get a credit rating.

And with that credit rating, it allows you to take out, get a credit card or even a mobile phone contract.

And this was the days when mobile phone contracts were expensive, not like they are now.

So this guy said to me, hey, you've got a credit rating in Germany.

You've been here six months.

Will you put it in your name?

And I said, yeah, okay, mate, no problem.

So I put the thing in his name.

He wanted the full WAC plan, which I think was about 100 euros a month, which back then for me, I think I was earning about,

probably just over 1,000 euros a month.

It was 400 euros for the rent, and the rest went on what every man spends his money on in his early 20s, mainly going to bars, meeting girls, and having a good time.

So this guy left the company pretty soon after and disappeared, and I was stuck with this phone bill that was hard for me to pay.

So eventually I tracked this guy down, and I'm like, look, dude, you owe me the money for your phone bill, and I really need it.

So he said, oh, can I pay you in Bitcoin?

And I was like, what the hell is that?

And I was like, oh, OK.

I was like, I'm never going to track this guy down.

Goodness knows where he lives right now.