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Are there actually any legit places to earn sats other than fountain and SN?

2402 sats \ 72 comments \ @stack_harder 27 Dec 2024 bitcoin

Ok, totally serious here, it seems everything I see is either shit, a scam, dead in the water or some play to earn. there was some fitness app, but the payout was so low that it's not even worth the space on my phone.

fountain is a small payout sure, but I'm going to listen to those pods anyway and why not have the sats.

SN is the best thing I've seen in terms of earning sats, bar none, nothing I have seen even comes close. nostr is good if you are already a known face in the btc world, other than that, the zaps do not flow.

are there any other fun apps or things you have found to earn some sats?

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265 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Dec 2024

New fitness app, Workit. Several of us have been participating in their challenges and earning decent chunks of change.

It's a commitment device where you and dozens of other stackers stake some sats on completing the challenge. Generally, the challenges are x steps per day for two weeks. At the end, the staked sats are divided up amongst the winners.

I also love prediction markets and Predyx launched a few months ago. You can earn lots of sats there, provided your predictions are accurate.

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @Skipper 28 Dec 2024

New fitness app, Workit. Several of us have been participating

Where's the money coming from? Are you sure they're not selling your personal data in the background?...

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Dec 2024

No, to the second question.

To the first question, the money comes from the participants, as I described.

29 sats \ 3 replies \ @stack_harder OP 27 Dec 2024

i think i remember seeing stackers talk about that here, how much is the stake ?

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Dec 2024

It differs by contest. The past couple I've done have been 20k. The first couple were less and there are some cheaper ones still.

The payouts have been really good, though. Anywhere from 25-50% of participants have dropped out each time. I think @grayruby and I have each made over 50k on a challenge.

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder OP 27 Dec 2024

so basically just don't drop out and get the job done? I'm good at being consistent , but how many steps we talking per day, 10k or more?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Dec 2024

10k is the highest I've seen so far. The one I'm in right now is only 7.5k.

70 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 27 Dec 2024

Yeah, like Undisciplined says, I'm looking forward to trying WorkIt (apparently not on android until next year), but otherwise I'm with you: SN > Fountain > Nostr

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 27 Dec 2024

i just checked and saw a few things called workit on the play store, must not be it (too bad the name is a bit generic ) I'll have to give it a test

78 sats \ 4 replies \ @siggy47 27 Dec 2024

@Undisciplined gave a great explanation of what sets SN apart yesterday:

#825151

I guess the SN incentives are way more sophisticated than any of us can grasp.

TLDR: @k00b

56 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Dec 2024

Thanks

89 sats \ 2 replies \ @siggy47 27 Dec 2024

I'm not just blowing smoke up your ass (as NY ginzos sometimes say). This was the best explanation I have seen of the special sauce that makes this place great. It should be pinned somewhere.

301 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 27 Dec 2024

I would guess that I've spent more time thinking about the SN mechanisms than anyone except for @k00b and @ek.

I really love these kinds of systems and this one is a thing of beauty.

288 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 27 Dec 2024

For some reason I expect more bitcoiners to appreciate the primacy of incentives, but it appears to require an economist :)

I'm especially surprised by how few technical bitcoiners appreciate incentives. Judging based on appearances, technical bitcoiners seem to think wire protocols, cryptography, and goodwill are what make bitcoin tick. Even the most naive non-technical bitcoiners are more sophisticated in this regard, eg infinity/21m and PoW.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Heisenbergbitcoin 29 Dec 2024 freebie

Microlancer It is a website where you can do small tasks and get paid in sats. The pay varies and is in the range of 50-1000 sats. Sometimes even more if the task is bigger. You can directly transfer it to a lightning wallet. For it me it works pretty smoothly to transfer the earned sats to a Muun wallet.
Nexo You can store your Btc in the nexo bitcoin wallet. And they offer 4% interest on the default basic account.
Yzer is a app to learn concepts about bitcoin and earn sats while doing it. I had fun using it.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheMorningStar 28 Dec 2024

I think nothing beats SN but you've got some good suggestions in the thread. Try them and don't forget to tell us your experience with them.

121 sats \ 3 replies \ @Natalia 27 Dec 2024

are there any other fun apps or things you have found to earn some sats?

build&sell your own products.

11 sats \ 2 replies \ @stack_harder OP 27 Dec 2024

i used to be a full time e-com seller , as well as doing print on demand and i have never generated any interest on any of the various btc marketplaces, most coiners don't want their name and address out there so feel weird when placing an order.

i also provide services for brands on amazon and offer discount in btc, but nobody is interest (i should note though, i am not an aggressive self promotor so part of this is on me)

i see lots of jobs for coders that offer btc payment tho

32 sats \ 1 reply \ @Natalia 27 Dec 2024

most coiners don't want their name and address out there so feel weird when placing an order

Indeed, the solution I found is accepting both fiat and sats at the same time. However, you can offer discounts when paying in sats.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 27 Dec 2024

my issue is most of my clients come in via upwork so fiat world to the max , i have the discount on my website, but obvs organic traffic is limited.

do you have any good self promo tips for finding btc client overlaps?

51 sats \ 5 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 27 Dec 2024

There’s always actually earning sats from Bitcoin jobs! Or selling ebooks to @grayruby on @AGORA

10 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby 27 Dec 2024

Actually been somewhat busy with the holiday season. I promise I will read your book and do a review next week.

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 27 Dec 2024

What is this "selling books to GrayRuby"?

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 27 Dec 2024

He bought my first book “The Bitcoin Dog: Following the Scent to the Bitcoin C++ Source Code” off of my website https://realbitcoindog.com/

Paid with Bitcoin!

40 sats \ 1 reply \ @realBitcoinDog 27 Dec 2024

Do or do not, there is no try

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 27 Dec 2024

Deal

42 sats \ 4 replies \ @TheWildHustle 28 Dec 2024

Nostr

10 sats \ 3 replies \ @stack_harder OP 28 Dec 2024

nostr is just me talking into a void lol

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @TheWildHustle 28 Dec 2024

You can cross post from SN to Nostr and use both at the same time. But you'll only start earning sats on nostr once you engage with the audience more.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder OP 28 Dec 2024

i forget to do this, although for some reason it quite often doesn't work

116 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheWildHustle 28 Dec 2024

Maybe its your relays.

Try these.

And wrote some nostr stuff based off of your comments along with a couple of other Stackers/Freaks/Nostritches

#827860

25 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby 27 Dec 2024

WorkIt challenges are pretty fun. You have to contribute sats to join a challenge but as long as you complete it you get more back in return. I have probably earned around 100k sats from WorkIt but I did win a 30k sats bonus payout as part of that. Still worth it if walk alot of steps per day.

51 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder OP 27 Dec 2024

i lift weights 5 times a day, but only average about 5k steps. i could quite easily become a maniac though, if the sat motivation was there lol

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 28 Dec 2024

Only 5k lol

21 sats \ 9 replies \ @gmd 27 Dec 2024

Fold card!!!

For the USD value I have stacked I would have had to spend ~$840k with a 2% cash back card (was much higher before the recent dip lol)

The rewards used to be so much better (save spin rewards to use on bigger purchases to get huge % back), but although it’s been nerfed I still use for extra 0.5% BTC back on:

rent (usually a small fee for debit)
quarterly estimated taxes ($2 debit card fee)
paying off citi and amex cards via paypal (nets me 4.5% on gas via costco visa, 2.5% on citi double cash catch all card, 4.5% restaurants / groceries via amex gold)
I also used it to pay off some $~25k in residual student loans (depending on your servicer) for ~0.032 BTC

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @stack_harder OP 28 Dec 2024

i would probably take advantage of something like this if it was available in the EU or UK and just do all my spending on it to earn passive sats

33 sats \ 1 reply \ @Skipper 28 Dec 2024

Fold is spyware.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 28 Dec 2024

Are they worse than any other credit card?

33 sats \ 5 replies \ @Bell_curve 27 Dec 2024

you pay off your credit cards using paypal?

11 sats \ 2 replies \ @gmd 27 Dec 2024

It ain’t much and takes a little bit of extra effort but it takes a little bit of the sting out of paying credit card bills

33 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 27 Dec 2024

PayPal scares me with debanking and operation chokepoint

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 28 Dec 2024

Paypal is just the payment interface that enables you to pay some bills via debit card- the sats are earned via Fold card and you can take your sats off of Fold so theres zero risk from Paypal here.

There’s been issues in the past where paypal randomly changed some underlying code charges or something where it wasn’t triggering the bonuses but Fold went out of their way to find work arounds (although it eventually went from 1% to 0.5% BTC back) and even added back rewards for prior charges.

11 sats \ 1 reply \ @gmd 27 Dec 2024

Yup! It works for Citi and Amex cards (no BILT, Capital One, and Chase to my knowledge), maybe a few others. You just log into Paypal -> "Pay My Bills". Allows you to pay off your credit cards using Paypal (select debit card / bank etc) which triggers 0.5% Fold bonus (Fold advertises this as a feature on webpage).

Credit card churning is a fun little hobby of mine and this gets me a nice extra 0.5% bonus.

Just doing the math I realized the ~$500 I made back paying off my student loans is now ~$3k

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 27 Dec 2024

damn

nice job

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 27 Dec 2024

Heyapollo https://heyapollo.com/ is still legit if you want to contribute reviews of BTC-related products and services

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 27 Dec 2024

I just started experimenting with the Satoshi App. It’s a new wallet, learning center, and sells bitcoin OTC.

They are trying to gamify the use of lightning where you earn sats based on how much you use lightning. I think the UI is much needed in bitcoin. One thing I like is being able to send bitcoin to usernames or contacts.

It also has a referral program where you can earn sats for life rather than a limited timeframe. Here’s mine if you want to do some experimenting of your own.

https://satoshi.money/r/jon_hodl

Once I use it more, I will post a review about things I like/dislike.

I think this platform will become a dominant player in the US because it has finally brought together several key features.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder OP 27 Dec 2024

this sounds quite interesting, but have they got a way to deter gamifying it, ie. people just sending sats to other wallets they control ?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 27 Dec 2024

I’m not sure. That sounds like a great experiment. Once I get an enough friends on there, we can run some tests to see if we can game the system.

I have a feeling they can prevent abuse via some sort of centralized control.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kontext 27 Dec 2024

THNDR Games used to be good but since they changed the payouts to be like every 1-2 hours (resulting in very small prizes per draw) instead of 24 or whatever it was before, the payouts don't make much sense unless you were going to spend your time on playing random mobile games anyway. There are also a bunch of loyalty / affiliate programs you can advertise to earn some sats. Profitability depends on whether you have some sort of an audience and whether their interests/values align with whoever you're trying to promote. Shameless self-plug: Satosh.ee has a loyalty program where you can earn points that can be exchanged for sats -up to: 1% of gift cards, 2% on discount codes and 21% on membership sales. Currently invitations are either via email or by gifting Satoshee gift cards. Referral URL's coming soon. Quick introduction to Satosh.ee: #784376

21 sats \ 8 replies \ @Coinsreporter 27 Dec 2024

I've been exploring zap.stream but that's a video streaming platform. Also, I've to tell you that there's no other better place than SN till now to earn sats.

0 sats \ 7 replies \ @stack_harder OP 27 Dec 2024

are you uploading there as a creator ? hows the experience?

10 sats \ 6 replies \ @Coinsreporter 27 Dec 2024

Not now. I'm just exploring my options for I'm gonna be riding on a bike all over India promoting Bitcoin, Lightning, SN and Nostr. So, I'm just exploring these video streaming platforms. So far my experience hasn't been too good with them.

20 sats \ 5 replies \ @stack_harder OP 27 Dec 2024

maybe post on both and try a tie in with one of the bitcoin publications perhoas, a bit like how joe nakomoto get sponsored

10.1k sats \ 4 replies \ @Coinsreporter 27 Dec 2024

Yes, Joe is my inspiration. I'll make sure I walk on his path. I made up my mind about travelling after watching this video #496159 by Joe.

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @JoeNakamoto 23h

zapped you 10k to start you on the journey! YOU GOT THIS!!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 22h

Thank you so much Joe. It means a lot for me coming from you. I wish you came here, we both travel together. India needs you.

I'll start this journey post Holi. It'll be a bike ride to every corner of India. I'll be simply following you. Asking people questions about Bitcoin and LN. I'm hoping for the best, though Indian people still are afraid to talk about Bitcoin.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder OP 27 Dec 2024

nice, please post updates here so we can follow along and support your journey

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 27 Dec 2024

Sure, I'll post a daily blog about the journey, my experiences, bitcoin talks and some of orange piling stories.

The journey will start post Holi but I'll soon post an update about what and how I intend it to be and how can I orange pile most on the way.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @SwapMarket 27 Dec 2024

tried a job?

34 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder OP 28 Dec 2024

tried not being a snarky cunt?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwapMarket 28 Dec 2024

I did not swear, cunt

32 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 27 Dec 2024

Make a video that's worth watching, as well as a ~30s teaser trailer for it that makes people feel they NEED to see it

Publish those to Lightning.Video and paywall it for 500-1000 sats or some sane amount

Share that link on other platforms to funnel traffic in

Profit.

(Lots of improvements coming Q1 that'll bring Nostr traffic in, better player etc, but for now it's simply the best publishing tool for ad-hoc value-added content production)

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinIsTheFuture 28 Dec 2024

Most of what was said I’ve done. smiles app is a fitness and add one too. You can get about 100 sats a day

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 27 Dec 2024

I’ve been orange pilling normies with my River referral code and getting paid in Bitcoin!

River also has a cash fiat bank account that will pay out 3.8% APR interest in bitcoin for some free sats and you don’t do anything!

I'm inviting you to join me on River. Get up to $100 when you sign up with my link and buy Bitcoin! https://river.com/signup?r=2DBGIJXU

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder OP 27 Dec 2024

i have such a small circle of influence irl I'm not sure how viable this would be, it does look like decent referral rate tho

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @realBitcoinDog 27 Dec 2024

Well so there’s the passive sats too from storing fiat

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BeeAye 28 Dec 2024

if ur a musician there is wavlake for publishing music

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 27 Dec 2024

I see some people with a talent for making memes doing pretty well on nostr.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @roytheholographicuniverse 27 Dec 2024

Wavlake if you make music!

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Miranda 27 Dec 2024

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