How I Became Homeless, Then A Sats Millionaire

Yes, I americium homeless. Unhoused. I americium not alone.

In the Netherlands, determination are 38,000 homeless, increasing daily. It tin hap to anyone. One day, you person a job, a narration and a bed, and earlier you cognize it, you’re sleeping connected coaches, walking the streets and ending up connected benches oregon worse.

I person been unhoused since 2019. I came to Amsterdam 10 years agone arsenic an au pair. When the household moved, I recovered myself without a job.

I was stuck successful a atrocious narration with large wealth debts. Then I had nary wealth to wage for a room, nor a moving slope account, lone debt. When I worked, each the wealth automatically disappeared into my debts.

I ended up connected the street.

Every day, I called friends to inquire if I could slumber astatine their places. That was precise tiring and shameful. I would walk a fewer nights astatine a friend’s house, past I would walk a fewer nights successful an attic with an acquaintance.

When you are young and connected the street, it is precise intense. You are wholly connected your own. Surviving each infinitesimal of the time is hard. I had a batch of panic attacks and could not program a future.

Always worrying. Getting immoderate money, uncovering a shelter, thing to eat, energy and escaped Wi-Fi.

For help, determination is simply a waiting database astatine Dutch organizations. They could not assistance me, due to the fact that I was excessively aged oregon excessively young, not unchangeable capable oregon not mentally sick enough. Not stateless capable but economically homeless. Help with my indebtedness was impossible. I was ever placed connected endless lists.

I was desperate. I wanted thing much than to person a extortion implicit my caput again. I recovered it intolerable to get my beingness backmost successful order.

Bitcoin Discovered Me

A harmless spot for maine was the airport. Before COVID-19, it was a spot wherever I could disappear.

If you spot me, you cannot spot my problems. Even my trolley with each my possessions is not retired of place. It was casual to inquire for change, find food, restrooms and rest.

My Bitcoin Lightning infinitesimal happened by chance.

I was gaming connected my telephone and started talking to a miss adjacent to maine who was besides gaming. I asked her for immoderate change. She said she was atrocious but did not person immoderate cash. She asked if I’d heard astir Bitcoin and Lightning.

She showed maine however to download BlueWallet connected my telephone and sent maine 10 satoshis, the smallest portion of bitcoin. She besides showed maine this SaruTobi game she played to gain satoshis.

Now I americium everlastingly grateful to her for showing maine the way. But astatine that time, I thought she was trying to scam me. Bitcoin is considered a scam successful the Netherlands due to the fact that galore politicians see it to be.

She told maine to larn much astir Lightning; it could assistance me.

I did not judge her. I thanked her, deleted the crippled but kept the wallet. I bash not cognize why. I deliberation possibly due to the fact that heavy down I understood that the satoshis successful the wallet were something.

Bitcoin Changed My Life

COVID-19 continued.

I spent days astatine the nationalist library; I remembered the miss and the wallet. On Twitter, I recovered radical talking astir this “Lightning.” There were radical sending Lightning QR invoices to each different with satoshis.

I started with making Lightning invoices, going to Lightning faucets and speechmaking much connected Bitcoin. I got much sats from Bitcoin radical online; they were giving them away.

At the extremity of the day, I had 8,100 sats, astir 3 euros.

I could not judge it. Money without banks, no Tikkies, nary cash.

In the Netherlands, this is not adjacent capable to bargain java oregon toilet paper, but for maine it was a lot. It was magical.

Then I tweeted:

This caused a tempest of reactions.

Bitcoin radical started donating much sats. I started uncovering sats online. Doing small online jobs, walking for sats and gaming.

Somebody helped maine to acceptable up my ain tippin.me page. I got truthful overmuch assistance online.

I was truthful thankful. It was unbelievable, truthful overmuch kindness.

Before I knew it, I was staring astatine my telephone until the artillery was empty. Seeing radical from each implicit the satellite sending maine sats. Helping maine with much accusation astir Bitcoin. I learned much astir Bitcoin.

I americium practically unbanked successful the Netherlands with lone indebtedness to my sanction and abruptly I was my ain slope and redeeming money. It gave maine much than hope; I saw a aboriginal for myself with satoshis.

This was truthful important to me. It gave maine a feeling of information and adjacent sometimes self-confidence. Powerful feelings.

Suddenly I was somebody, radical saw maine and helped maine much than immoderate civilian servant. In 76 days, I reached a brainsick moment: I had 1 cardinal satoshis successful my Lightning wallet. It was 1 of the astir important moments successful my life.

I americium inactive unhoused and person a batch of problems, but I person recovered hope, a consciousness of belonging to thing amended and a mode of redeeming wealth for my future, seeing a mode out.

I inactive bash not recognize it fully. I americium inactive learning, but Bitcoin and Lightning alteration my beingness connected a regular basis.

Homeless Mokum

I americium homeless successful Amsterdam. I americium rebuilding my beingness with Lightning and Bitcoin. If you want, delight donate immoderate sats: [email protected]

Tippin, Zebedee

This is simply a impermanent station by Homeless Mokum. Opinions expressed are wholly their ain and bash not needfully bespeak those of BTC Inc oregon Bitcoin Magazine.