Homeless Bitcoin A Homeless Florida Man Is Alive Because Of Bitcoin

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Quote from: greyhawk on September 24, 2013, 09:31:25 AM

Quote from: FirstAscent on September 21, 2013, 10:52:06 AM

That's awesome that he makes 60 cents a day watching videos on youtube.

Only he doesn't. It's 6 cents. That article had so many factual errors it was a hilarious piece of unresearched bullcrap.

...Nothing else to say? lol I read the article, AND now I can't reach this business insider post.

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Quote from: auto2nr1 on September 20, 2013, 03:04:22 PM

http://www.businessinsider.com/homeless-on-bitcoin-2013-9

Wired reports on a Pennsacola, FL man named Jesse Angle who earns Bitcoins however he can. They quite literally help keep him alive.
Using the free Wi-Fi in an area park called Martin Luther King Plaza, Angle watches YouTube videos for roughly five cents worth of Bitcoin per pop as part of a service called BitcoinGet, a means to artificially drive traffic to video content, but it's one of Angle's sources of Bitcoin income.

He can watch up to 12 videos a day, netting him 60 cents at a time. He also uses Bitcoin Tapper, an app that dispenses fractions of Bitcoins with every tap of an icon.

Since setting up his Bitcoin wallet three to four months ago, Angle has grinded it out to earn somewhere between $500 and $630 of the digital currency. Bitcoin income supplements his food stamps and affords him a bit more comfort as he goes about his life.

There's a really cool Pennsacola charity called Sean's Outpost that takes donations for the homeless in Bitcoin instead of regular currency. So far the organization has raised $32,000 worth of Bitcoin for the area's homeless.

That's awesome! Posting for future reference.

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Quote from: BitcoinBarrel on September 25, 2013, 10:27:24 AM

The man is alive because he works and buys food. Whether he works for Bitcoin or not is irrelevant. You can make much more money at a real job and then buy all the bitcoins you want. There's no point in sleeping on the streets wasting a lot of time on your phone when you can earn a real living.

+1. Typing captchas and watching useless videos will not help you earn a sustainable living.

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Quote from: BitcoinBarrel on September 25, 2013, 10:27:24 AM

You can make much more money at a real job and then buy all the bitcoins you want.

This, for real.

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Fill Your Barrel with Bitcoins!

The man is alive because he works and buys food. Whether he works for Bitcoin or not is irrelevant. You can make much more money at a real job and then buy all the bitcoins you want. There's no point in sleeping on the streets wasting a lot of time on your phone when you can earn a real living.

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These types of apps aren't great for a living income. Wink

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Quote from: FirstAscent on September 21, 2013, 10:52:06 AM

That's awesome that he makes 60 cents a day watching videos on youtube.

Only he doesn't. It's 6 cents. That article had so many factual errors it was a hilarious piece of unresearched bullcrap.

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That's awesome that he makes 60 cents a day watching videos on youtube.

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Here's the link to the original post from Wired: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/09/bitcoin-homeless/

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http://www.businessinsider.com/homeless-on-bitcoin-2013-9

Wired reports on a Pennsacola, FL man named Jesse Angle who earns Bitcoins however he can. They quite literally help keep him alive.
Using the free Wi-Fi in an area park called Martin Luther King Plaza, Angle watches YouTube videos for roughly five cents worth of Bitcoin per pop as part of a service called BitcoinGet, a means to artificially drive traffic to video content, but it's one of Angle's sources of Bitcoin income.

He can watch up to 12 videos a day, netting him 60 cents at a time. He also uses Bitcoin Tapper, an app that dispenses fractions of Bitcoins with every tap of an icon.

Since setting up his Bitcoin wallet three to four months ago, Angle has grinded it out to earn somewhere between $500 and $630 of the digital currency. Bitcoin income supplements his food stamps and affords him a bit more comfort as he goes about his life.

There's a really cool Pennsacola charity called Sean's Outpost that takes donations for the homeless in Bitcoin instead of regular currency. So far the organization has raised $32,000 worth of Bitcoin for the area's homeless.

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