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odolvlobo
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February 04, 2014, 05:03:53 PM |
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He will have much better luck begging for dollars instead. |
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Ripdon007 (OP)
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February 04, 2014, 05:06:23 PM |
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He will have much better luck begging for dollars instead. Why do you think that? unless of course you don't like bitcoin.. |
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February 04, 2014, 06:48:11 PM |
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He will have much better luck begging for dollars instead. Why do you think that? unless of course you don't like bitcoin.. He will encounter 100's of people with dollars. He might encounter 1 or 2 people with bitcoins. |
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Ripdon007 (OP)
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February 04, 2014, 07:31:48 PM |
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He will have much better luck begging for dollars instead. Why do you think that? unless of course you don't like bitcoin.. 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! |
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htimsxela
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February 04, 2014, 07:35:37 PM |
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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!
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Lethn
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February 04, 2014, 09:40:16 PM |
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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. |
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hellscabane
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February 04, 2014, 09:56:43 PM |
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He will have much better luck begging for dollars instead. Why do you think that? unless of course you don't like bitcoin.. 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. |
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htimsxela
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February 05, 2014, 04:35:42 AM |
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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. |
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Ripdon007 (OP)
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February 05, 2014, 07:11:23 AM |
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He will have much better luck begging for dollars instead. Why do you think that? unless of course you don't like bitcoin.. 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 |
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mvdheuvel1983
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February 26, 2014, 03:38:59 PM |
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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.
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ChuckBuck
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February 26, 2014, 04:01:57 PM |
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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. |
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