Plus "60 cents a day" of income is going to be eaten up by transaction fees when they need actual cents to buy lunch (I don't think online delivery services or trendy cafes accepting bitcoin payments cater for the homeless end of the market; there's only so many gyft-funded $10 Papa John's pizzas one can afford)
The whole thing reeks of a PR stunt to the point where I can easily see the people involved's actual "job" - whether genuinely homeless or not - was to sit outside a library waiting for the tipped-off journalist to turn up and interview them.
Yeah, I'd be pretty unsurprised if this story turned out to be a hoax. Making 60 cents a day then spending that on pizza delivery? They get paid to do odd jobs in Bitcoin because they worry about carrying actual money (while they somehow sleep in the rough without their new-looking laptops or bikes getting stolen)? Doesn't add up.
The whole thing reeks of a PR stunt to the point where I can easily see the people involved's actual "job" - whether genuinely homeless or not - was to sit outside a library waiting for the tipped-off journalist to turn up and interview them.