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Homeless, Unemployed, and Surviving On Bitcoins
An anonymous reader writes "Wired profiles a homeless man who's supporting himself primarily through Bitcoin. Jesse Angle, a former network engineer, earns small amounts throughout the day by visiting various websites that pay him to look at ads. He then converts it to gift certificates and uses the certificates to buy food. '"It's a lot less embarrassing," he says. "You don't have to put yourself out there." And unlike panhandling in Pensacola, using an app like Bitcoin Tapper won't put him on the wrong side of the law. This past May, Pensacola — where Angle has lived since April — passed an ordinance that bans not only panhandling but camping on city property.' Angle learned about Bitcoin from a charity organization called Sean's Outpost that wanted something better than PayPal for accepting donations over the internet. The organization has even opened an outreach center paid for solely with Bitcoins. Founder Jason King said, 'Bitcoin beats the s#!% out of regular money, We've resonated so well with people because it's direct action. There's no chaff between donation and helping people.'"
The Supreme Court has jumped on Florida more than once for absurd laws regarding the homeless. Essentially Florida tries to order the homeless not to exist. After all if the homeless can not exist on public property and are arrested for being on private property then there is no place at all they can exist. That is illegal. But being that we have major idiots in Florida government simply being fined by the courts over and over again hardly slows Florida down at all. In Palm Beach, Fl. it is illegal to feed the homeless. A church that fed and sheltered the homeless was fined into oblivion in Palm beach. The Palm Beach county sheriff goes on TV asking the public to never give money to panhandlers claiming that agencies do a better job with the poor. Yet those agencies are a nightmare of deliberate, political, malfunction. Even our wretched governor has been filmed stating that they wanted to keep it a secret that 90,000 Floridians were entitled to benefits that they were not aware of. This will not end until the right wing is kicked out of the state. Frankly we need people from all over the nation to help crush Florida government.