How Bitcoin Helps Survivors Of The Prison Industrial Complex
For Americans cut off from basic financial rights because of their incarcerations, bitcoin can be freedom money.Ubaydah Baa’ith is one of thousands of formerly incarcerated Americans who found greater financial security thanks to bitcoin, since employment, banking and housing discrimination against returning citizens is widespread across the United States. “I come from generational incarceration. My grandmother and uncle did time, here I am years later with armed robbery,” Baa’ith said. “I learned about bitcoin when I was in a halfway house in 2018.” When Baa’ith entered the halfway house,....
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