Ov1, a Taoist Bitcoiner on Nostr: It costs nothing to join them on the streets, winning a lottery provides them no hope ...

It costs nothing to join them on the streets, winning a lottery provides them no hope to bootstrap themselves the same way. Only earning your sats by mining or with useful goods and services carves a path they can follow. Join them as you're able at the likely many food pantries run by local churches and cities.

Then share a few sats with them to demo its use and they will get it's value. Not having addresses, the homeless cannot get IDs to perform KYC for exchanges or bank accounts. The house-less, un-landed, classes understand very well the value of private permissionless payment rails. Those in debt financed gilded cages tend to be blind to the value proposition, as their privileged position, closer to the money spigot, keeps them from having cash flows dry up.