For some reason, I have no sympathy for beggars. Don't mean to sound mean spirited, but maybe living in NY does that to you.
Topic: [2014-02-04] Homeless Man Begs for Bitcoin Donations (Read 991 times)
This reminds me of half of the newbies that sign up here after the Gox debacle.
For some reason, I have no sympathy for beggars. Don't mean to sound mean spirited, but maybe living in NY does that to you.
For some reason, I have no sympathy for beggars. Don't mean to sound mean spirited, but maybe living in NY does that to you.
He probably succeeds because he is the first one so he gets attention. After all the homeless people discover this they will get nothing anymore.
There's something very humbling about this but at the same time surprising that a homeless person figured out the importance of bitcoin while most of the politicians out there got no clue lol 
https://coinreport.net/bitcoin-donations-homeless-man
He will have much better luck begging for dollars instead. https://coinreport.net/bitcoin-donations-homeless-man
He will encounter 100's of people with dollars. He might encounter 1 or 2 people with bitcoins.
You're missing the point completely here... he wouldn't get noticed begging for dollars.. Him begging for Bitcoin says a few thing about him.
1) He's smart enough to know what bitcoin is and how to use it at least.. which is good in my book.
2) He now has a huge audience online (500k+ views on reddit and a few news outlets covered the story) just because he was begging for bitcoins and not dollars. And THAT is getting him a lot more donations he would've ever gotten begging for dollars.
cheers!
Yes it is awesome but the tricky thing is that this is only possible with the coverage. Now if more people started panhandling for Bitcoins and it became a fairly common occurrence, I don't think this will have the great effect that it has in this story. Remember, it only gets coverage because it's different.
You're absolutely right on that... this was just the perfect combination of 'odd' and 'innovative' to get it so much converage
This reminds me of an article I saw a while back, reporting on a group of homeless people who had given up panhandling and were instead spending their days on cheap laptops, earning btc through the various faucets. Much more resourceful than most people would give a homeless person credit for!
I think that was a fake.
Ah really? That's too bad.
There's something very humbling about this but at the same time surprising that a homeless person figured out the importance of bitcoin while most of the politicians out there got no clue lol
https://coinreport.net/bitcoin-donations-homeless-man
He will have much better luck begging for dollars instead. https://coinreport.net/bitcoin-donations-homeless-man
He will encounter 100's of people with dollars. He might encounter 1 or 2 people with bitcoins.
You're missing the point completely here... he wouldn't get noticed begging for dollars.. Him begging for Bitcoin says a few thing about him.
1) He's smart enough to know what bitcoin is and how to use it at least.. which is good in my book.
2) He now has a huge audience online (500k+ views on reddit and a few news outlets covered the story) just because he was begging for bitcoins and not dollars. And THAT is getting him a lot more donations he would've ever gotten begging for dollars.
cheers!
Yes it is awesome but the tricky thing is that this is only possible with the coverage. Now if more people started panhandling for Bitcoins and it became a fairly common occurrence, I don't think this will have the great effect that it has in this story. Remember, it only gets coverage because it's different.
This reminds me of an article I saw a while back, reporting on a group of homeless people who had given up panhandling and were instead spending their days on cheap laptops, earning btc through the various faucets. Much more resourceful than most people would give a homeless person credit for!
I think that was a fake.
This reminds me of an article I saw a while back, reporting on a group of homeless people who had given up panhandling and were instead spending their days on cheap laptops, earning btc through the various faucets. Much more resourceful than most people would give a homeless person credit for!
There's something very humbling about this but at the same time surprising that a homeless person figured out the importance of bitcoin while most of the politicians out there got no clue lol
https://coinreport.net/bitcoin-donations-homeless-man
He will have much better luck begging for dollars instead. https://coinreport.net/bitcoin-donations-homeless-man
He will encounter 100's of people with dollars. He might encounter 1 or 2 people with bitcoins.
You're missing the point completely here... he wouldn't get noticed begging for dollars.. Him begging for Bitcoin says a few thing about him.
1) He's smart enough to know what bitcoin is and how to use it at least.. which is good in my book.
2) He now has a huge audience online (500k+ views on reddit and a few news outlets covered the story) just because he was begging for bitcoins and not dollars. And THAT is getting him a lot more donations he would've ever gotten begging for dollars.
cheers!
There's something very humbling about this but at the same time surprising that a homeless person figured out the importance of bitcoin while most of the politicians out there got no clue lol
https://coinreport.net/bitcoin-donations-homeless-man
He will have much better luck begging for dollars instead. https://coinreport.net/bitcoin-donations-homeless-man
He will encounter 100's of people with dollars. He might encounter 1 or 2 people with bitcoins.
There's something very humbling about this but at the same time surprising that a homeless person figured out the importance of bitcoin while most of the politicians out there got no clue lol
https://coinreport.net/bitcoin-donations-homeless-man
https://coinreport.net/bitcoin-donations-homeless-man
He will have much better luck begging for dollars instead.
Why do you think that? unless of course you don't like bitcoin..
There's something very humbling about this but at the same time surprising that a homeless person figured out the importance of bitcoin while most of the politicians out there got no clue lol
https://coinreport.net/bitcoin-donations-homeless-man
https://coinreport.net/bitcoin-donations-homeless-man
He will have much better luck begging for dollars instead.
There's something very humbling about this but at the same time surprising that a homeless person figured out the importance of bitcoin while most of the politicians out there got no clue lol
https://coinreport.net/bitcoin-donations-homeless-man
https://coinreport.net/bitcoin-donations-homeless-man
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