Today, is EXACTLY two months from when Sean's Outpost first started accepting bitcoin donations. Everyday, I am so grateful to this community that we have become apart of. Thru this community, we have fed over 6000 meals to the homeless and hungry in the Northwest Florida area.





And we are proud of that. You should be too.





But feeding people is just one piece of the puzzle. We've all heard variations on the parable "Give a man a fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man to fish he eats for life." Many of our donors have brought this up to us and we are taking that to heart. We really try to be the best stewards of this tremendous generosity we have been shown.





So...we've started something new at the outpost. I'm afraid that I will ramble on about it, so I will just cut to the meat.





-We are building really cool homes for the homeless

-We are paying the homeless to build, homes for the homeless

-We are teaching those who want to learn, how to build homes for the homeless





I'm currently sitting in an Airport, on my way to San Jose for Bitcoin2013. My only regret in going, is that I probably won't be there for the completion of the prototype home we are building.





But that's ok, we've already raised the funds to build another one. All in BTC.





The houses are styled after the small house movement. If you've ever seen tumbleweed homes, that's very similar to what we're working on. I am floored at the progress I have seen in the past few days, watching a pile of wood morph into a home. Better than minecraft.





Watching everyone pitch in to build this thing has been incredible. You can see hope in their eyes. It's something we don't see enough of. So happy to be providing even a glimmer of it.





Obviously, there's a lot more to this. But I have a plane to catch.





If you're going to be in San Jose, I'm speaking at 10:15 on Sunday, in the Econ/Finance Room. Even if your not at the conference, let's get a beer. I'm really looking forward to meeting a bunch of passionate bitcoiners.





Thanks for everything.





Jason

Sean's Outpost

beinghomelessisnotacrime@gmail.com

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PS - Just to head it off at the pass. Yes, yes we can build houses with USD too. That's not unique to Bitcoin. But there is a lot unique to this community. And a lot of goodwilll and compassion here. And being able to receive donations, globally, without a record of donors that can be confiscated is a big damn deal.





Wikileaks? Defense Distributed? Sean's Outpost? Wait, one of these things is not like the other, right? Well, after Thursday, it will effectively be illegal to be homeless in Pensacola.





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When you allow people to dictate who has the right to donations you never know where that will stop.