Bitcoiner who tried to trade his way to Alaska has failed, 900 miles from finish
A Bitcoin proponent’s recent attempt to crypto trade his way from New York to Alaska has come to a sudden and bitter end — some 900 miles from his final destination.
Thomas Kralow, a crypto trader and educator recently set himself the daring task of traveling from one side of the United States to the other funded solely by trading crypto.
On Aug. 12, Kralow set out from New York with his assistant Ilya and an initial budget of $5,000 cash.
The pair forked out some cash for a dinged-up Mercedes and set up a Starlink antenna on the back of the vehicle — with fast internet being a requirement for quick trades — leaving them with just $2,500 to trade their way to Alaska.
Unfortunately for Kralow, he never made it to his final destination — with his cheap vehicle grinding to a permanent halt in Seattle, just 12 days after starting the journey.
Speaking to Cointelegraph, Kralow shared some details of the trip that didn’t make it into the 6-episode YouTube series where he documented the daily happenings of the crypto-fuelled voyage.
Kralow said that despite the trip being riddled with “insanely scary” lightning storms, wildfires, car troubles, theft, and navigating a constantly changing landscape in a foreign country on a razor-thin budget; the biggest challenge of the entire journey was actually the trading itself.
“We had like $2,500 our initial trading deposit and we had approximately $300 per day in expenses, which means everyday we had to earn like 12 to 14%,” he said.
Despite the odds being firmly stacked against him, Kralow explained that it didn’t matter all that much that it was a potential suicide mission. While he admitted that some of the motivation behind the journey was growing his social media following, he said
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