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It is already easy to spend BTC. It is becoming easier to buy and sell BTC.

To close the cycle and have a real Bitcoin economy we really need some way for millions of people to be able to earn BTC.

Thankfully there is a simple way to achieve that:

https://www.fiverr.com/   millions of gigs, already takes Bitcoin for funding (via Coinbase)

https://www.uber.com    Over 1 million drivers worldwide      (works with Braintree/Paypal)

https://www.airbnb.com/  34.000 cities, over 1 million listings (works with Braintree/Paypal)

https://www.freelancer.com/  15 million users. 8 million projects. (works with Paypal)



If we can get just these 4 to do Bitcoin payouts for contractors, it will give access to millions worldwide to earning BTC. Anyone with a house, a car or able to work will be able to #EarnBitcoin.

The payment processors are already in contact with these companies and have been offering the option to receive Bitcoin payments... how hard can it be to offer the option of Bitcoin withdrawals/payouts?

well i have used fiver with bitcoin to pay a few things i have gotten done, but not really sure how it works from the other stand point where and how the services providers get paid.

Breaking traditions, the false trustworthyness of the banking system and change closed minds who stopped in time is pretty hard ;) But we'll get there soon.

This is a great idea, and I can imagine that


It's not that hard, because we have BitPay  ;)

I forgot to mention that https://www.bitwage.co/ offers this option to many. Although it's only for stable payrolls in developed countries...

http://blog.fiverr.com/fiverr-now-accepting-bitcoins/

It doesn't. Yet.

Still have a site which offer you to work for bitcoin, check this: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=985550.0


Not really hard, we have BitPay.
And people just set their address for WD to their wallet.

Great find there i didn't know there was already something like that out, look like bitwage is a pretty cool tool for payrolls, so mostly likely for companies that want to go decentralized with their payrolls this would be a great choice.


it would be pretty interesting to see that happen, more bitcoin interested people will be posting on fiverr.

I hope to see this too.  It is sort of a catch 22, we won't see wages in bitcoins until we have wider adoption, but paying in bitcoins would make for wider adoption.  It seems to be getting some nice media attention with the  Greece thing, so you never know what is on the horizon.

Sounds like a good idea, I think there was a subreddit that had you do jobs for btc as well. Maybe combine them together and get a twitter rally going?

This is my hope for the outcome of the Greek situation. They can't really buy BTC because they can't really get their hands on cash. Thief best option is to accept BTC for payment of goods and services, which will in turn enter the ecosystem when spent.
We still need a huge injection of BTC into Greece in the first place. Too bad TBF is useless as it is corrupt and bankrupt. They could have sparked a revolution.

We can pay for uber rides with bitcoin?!?! How do we do that? You have to set up your payment method prior to the ride... I didn't know bitcoin was an option!

And how about earning opportunities for a few people to earn millions, rather than millions of people earning a fe BTC, any ideas?

I don't know that you can yet.. but it should be a matter of months. Uber works with Braintree:
https://www.braintreepayments.com/
https://www.braintreepayments.com/features/coinbase

I'm waiting for STEAM to accept Bitcoin, who's with me? ;D

i am right there with you on steam. i was wishing this for over a year now.

also inspired by this post about amazon (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1096611.0), i submitted a request with their support team a couple of days back, and waiting for respond now

why waiting for that if you have something like https://steambitshop.com/? they have not all the games from steam, but still there is a great repertory

I'm glad there's other people waiting for it
You also have to send a request to Steam support, maybe they would consider it. 8)

Don't you understand, if I buy in site like that the price must be more expensive than buying on Steam itself.

Well Thanks for sharing tough . Iam already using two of the above and had only little sucess

Only if bitcoin was a little more stable I'm sure more conservative companies will make the step to join the ecosystem, either their CEO plays in the bank sector or they are to scare of the bitcoin price changin or tax regulation issues, then again by us just sending an email to the companies to accepted bitcoin would help a bit. #EarnBitcoin

Bitcoin job boards:

https://www.xbtfreelancer.com/
http://jobs.coindesk.com/
https://coinality.com/
http://bitgigs.com/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Jobs4Bitcoins
https://angel.co/bitcoin/jobs

Instead of waiting why don't you call Steam and tell them that people want to pay with bitcoin, that more people will buy more games if bitcoin is a payment option. Maybe start a poll on this forum and then share it with people at Steam. Companies will chase the money...

These links should gain more prominence.

We should not forget that Bitcoin makes international trade so much easier. So it's always a good idea to help existing webshop owners adopting Bitcoin. Getting small businesses to adopt Bitcoin is a double-win, because they provide services for Bitcoin and might at the same time (as individuals) become users of Bitcoin.

uhm no, they are the same price, the real difference is that the real steam has more deals and better deal overall, also many more games, that's all

those site are great no need to wait for steam to accept bitcoin, like we no need amazon to accept bitcoin, when open bazar is coming

Uber confirms - bitcoin integration already in the works.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3cimhq/uber_confirms_bitcoin_integration_already_in_the/


*looks like this was a fake

That's what I'm talking about, the discount price.
And by the way, some country have a cheaper price for a Steam game. Those are the country that have a restricted redeemable key.

I think the issue with these companies and why they don't yet use Bitcoin to payout their workers is because of the exchange of Bitcoin - fiat. While you can fund your Fiverr account with Bitcoin the person doing the job might want or not to take bitcoin. If he/she did want BTC it wouldn't be a problem, but since they probably want dollars it becomes a headache for the intermediary (in this case Fiverr, Uber, ...) to deal with the exhcanges. It's possible. In fact, they could benefit from the exchange rates - but I suspect that that is the reason they don't offer it (yet).

They don't have to deal with exchanges.. that's what payment processors are for.

If Uber wants to accept Bitcoin payments, all they have to do is activate their Coinbase connection so that when somebody sends them bitcoins, Coinbase automatically exchanges it and Uber gets dollars. Same thing with Bitpay.

For payouts it is just the reverse: User wants bitcoins, Uber sends dollars to Coinbase, Coinbase exchanges and sends bitcoins to user's Bitcoin address.

The technical issues are simple and have been resolved long ago. My guess on why they do not do this, yet, is the perceived lack of demand. Big companies like Uber and Airbnb see too few Bitcoin users to make it worth their while. That will change.... especially as they expand to 70+ countries where Paypal is unavailable and credit cards are not widespread.

http://cointelegraph.uk/news/114988/satosh-the-new-website-that-pays-you-in-bitcoin-to-share-your-content

Sato rewards anyone posting content, proportionally to its popularity.


Sounds very promising.

it is a price you have to pay if you want to be able to buy your steam games with bitcoin, you do not get the fancy sale prices but do contribute to the bitcoin economy. It might cost extra, but it would benefit the bitcoin as a whole to grow and thus make your coins grow too. And yes, just like the $ 2m pizza, you might end up having a steam game that when looking back would have cost you even more if you did HODL those coins, but the coins will never go anywhere if we all hold them, you cannot reach the moon if you hold the rocket back.

I think Bitcoin will only gain major traction for payments when merchants give discount incentives for using it. But they don't. Why would anyone spend extra money to buy BTC only to be paying the same amount if they used a credit card or paypal?

It has to have consistent discounts in the first place for people to consider it valuable to by, and not just hold, but to actually use.

Since Bitcoin does save transaction money, then part of those savings should be given back to the consumer. Things should always be cheaper with BTC.

Soon enough, thanks to Bitmesh, another way to earn bitcoin:


https://99bitcoins.com/earn-bitcoin-by-sharing-your-bandwidth/

i'm with you  ;D
and origin too  ;D

but, there are lot of online store that you can buy game code with btc...

There are people who are making claims, that Bitcoin adoption reduce sales.

See this thread on Reddit ---> https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/3flrz9/is_blizzard_ever_going_to_accept_bitcoin_as_a/

The thing is.. these businesses accept Bitcoin as a payment method, and only a few people support them, and then they withdraw their support for it.

We need to have a active drive to contantly support businesses who accept Bitcoin payments.  ;)

yeah and with the bitcoin price rising i don't like spending my bitcoin for buying steam games without any discount and the same or even higher price in comparison with buying directly from steam.

i hope steam accepts bitcoin someday soon so we can use it directly and don't rely on third parties for using out bitcoin.

well i wish to add something like dx.com

i think it will also be good if there will be a big and popular online store that will accept bitcoin as payment
because there are things that is great to buy if bitcoin will be accepted on an online store

By the way, how to type "BTC", I mean the symbol, I can only copy yours.  Sorry for kind of off topic.

Just click the icon besides the Strikethrough icon
http://ctrlv.in/615472/annotated

I think if we use bitcoins to pay for fiverr service then we can save paypal fee. Usually fiverr collect $0.5 as a paypal fee. But if you use bitcoin I think we can save this 0.5$.

Another way for many people to #EarnBitcoin

http://www.coindesk.com/market-research-giant-qualtrics-adds-bitcoin-reward-option/
https://www.qualtrics.com/target-audience-demo/

This made me think how much would it cost to get Bitcoin trending on twitter I dont think its been trending on bitcoin or facebook yet

One good aspect of bitcoin is it is international and not controlled by countries unlike sterling,yen,euro and dollar etc.

I think that to get big companies to consider bitcoin, we should use it more.

Many people only use it as a stock/inversion/way to earn "real" money, or to do/receive small tipping here and there, then exchanging it for money.

More bitcoin selling/buying is needed I think.

Another way to #EarnBitcoin

https://coinworker.com/

CoinWorker lets you earn bitcoin using only your web browser.

Thank you very much for the sources.  I must try few of them.

Well if @Uber @airbnb and @fiverr take too long to start using Bitcoin... we will soon be able to create an app with @OpenBazaar tech that does exactly what they do with 0 commissions and uncensorable...


The beta is starting to look good...
https://www.reddit.com/r/openbazaar

I didn't know that you could pay using bitcoins on fiverr. There are tons of scam service out there though so better be careful.

Uber with Bitcoin Now Possible
http://cointelegraph.com/news/115291/uber-with-bitcoin-now-possible-heres-how

oops

http://imgur.com/n9520MI

nice list
Im member of freelance and join in this section :)
https://www.freelancer.com/contest/create.php?skill_category=4&skill_subcategory=21

Yes, spending is always easier than earning.

I'm wondering are any users here who tried these sites already? How much can you earn say in a week? I mean some real examples, I know we all can be millionaires if work hard. )

It depends on your skills what do you offer to others.
You can create mobile application and work as a freelancer in these sites.
Then you can offer video editing, voice over in fiver and many other things, it depends on how much you are popular and the income will be increased

Gavin Andresen



so... #earnbitcoin

Purse to Launch Marketplace to Compete with eBay and OpenBazaar
http://coinjournal.net/purse-to-launch-marketplace-to-compete-with-ebay-and-openbazaar/

“We use Bitcoin to enable anyone to shop, earn bitcoins, or sell items without approval from banks or payment processors.”

I currently use the signature campaigns in bitcointalk and used faucets a lot, but they are a lot of waste of time

These are great options for people. But if they do not want to do these, they can always use signature campaigns which is what I use. You earn a decent amount of money and you get to learn a lot about Bitcoin.

its not easy a i think to earn bitcoin there :D

Fiverr raises $60M to help lure freelancers online

http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/11/fiverr-raises-60m-to-help-lure-freelancers-online-and-removes-5-minimum-charge/

This looks amazing:
http://alexandria.media/#/about



And a similar Bittorrent + Bitcoin system:

http://joystream.co/

I have been reading into a little bit about joystream in the past and is a really cool sounding concept and could probably work if more people get interested in earning bitcoin by sharing bandwidth.  But as I know of right now, they are still in Beta and I think they aren't paying out in bitcoin just yet, and instead using testnet coins or something of the sort? Last time I check, they haven't really posted much info about it on their home page.

Decentralized Library of Alexandria is now live....
http://blocktech.com/

OpenBazaar is launching in March
https://openbazaar.org/

It is probably gona take one to peel from the heard first and start excepting bitcoin,  After that they will all jump on the bandwagon themselves.  But at the minute tho its a wait and see approch.  ;)

Its been like this with no large services accepting Bitcoin openly. I think we need some big media attention grabbing event before it takes off. This will get exciting after that.

There is a big speculation around openbazar it may change the way people do business and push bitcoin into an higher interest,killing the famous ebay and others,but lets wait to see how huge openbazar will achieve.

Fiverr is already accepted payment in Bitcoins , i guess.
More sites will be accepting Bitcoins as payment as soon as more people take interest in paying in Bitcoins.

The thing about OpenBazaar is that, because it is FOSS, devs will be able to fork and modify it to make a P2P Uber, Airbnb and a ton of other specific apps... P2P eBay is just the first of many.

OP forgot to add the services section of this forum. While the pay may nor be good, at least the opportunity is there. I've gotten a few jobs via this forum.

Services section has got lot many jobs in dark market places too which can also be added.

i'm registered on https://www.freelancer.com/ and i dont see people talk or do payment with bitcoin,they always use paypal,but i hope when so many people start talk about bitcoin there,sometime freelancer will accept bitcoin soon,it would great.

I'm using Airbnb for quite some time now, both to rent rooms and offer rooms.
It helped me make some extra money and to know a lot of people and make contacts.
Now I can travel to a lot of places and always have a place to stay ;)

Hey are people comfortable with renting rooms for Bitcoins via the Airbnb? Because I have some vacated properties here and been searching for tenants but haven't tried with the Airbnb service till now.

I think that it would be relatively easy to incorporate Bitcoin into those companies. People just have to take the initiative to do it.

I really wish the Jobs4bitcoin subreddit was a bit more active, and offered some more low skill kind of jobs. I mean, it's just so easy to browse through and it would be even better if there were like 20 new offers per day.
Now if you're lucky there are like 10 offers per week..

OP must have skipped but seoclerks.com which is known for seo jobs is also accepting bitcoin just like fiverr, they are however using bitpay. still it helped the bitcoin economy that's one thing btc have which other altcoins don't. there are some employers on adult industry which also pay via bitcoin and sexcoin, if one will just go to gfy.com, they'd be surprise bitcoin is being talked to such forum.

 ;)

https://blog.bitpay.com/load-your-steam-wallet-using-bitcoin/

yeah I sell some tutorials to earn bitcoin on there and very lucky for me many are interested in buying my goods. This is great for freelance work. many goods and services that strange is sold there? if you want to earn an extra bitcoin or additional money. maybe you could try to get a earning in fiverr

there are so many ways to earn Bitcoins.  First if you are a beginner https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=71.0
or buy Bitcoins for a low price value or wait for the fluctuation price value,then gamble if you like ;D

Do we still need to know what are the ways to earn Bitcoin. I think most of us here are well experienced about earning. So my way of earning and major one by all is signature campaign you can earn more through this.

thanks for this information flix...really useful for a newbie like me

Gavin Andresen Explains the Main Roadblock to Massive Bitcoin Adoption
http://coinjournal.net/gavin-andresen-explains-main-roadblock-massive-bitcoin-adoption/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5g6ct7/21_about_to_launch_iphone_app_that_allows_users/


Currently in Beta.

It's almost a year and a half since this has been posted and the only fiverr has adopted bitcoin as a payment method (I'm not so sure still, please correct if I am wrong). I think the Bitcoin network must offer these services and products something that would change their minds in adopting Bitcoin as a payment method. In my opinion, what is missing is the adoption not by services but by its consumers. If we can influence more than 10% of the total customer base of these services, maybe we can pitch bitcoin to these services. Because if these services do not see that their clients will not use Bitcoins as payment methods, then there is a greater possibility that these services will adopt Bitcoins.

For me this thread is very usefull as i was searching the sites where i can give my skill for bitcoin payment and this thread has given me some 2 or 3 site where i can approach my skill and hope that i get some job work to be done to earn bitcoins.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5ghnpe/possibly_more_important_than_the_trend_for_buy/


Freelancing
XBTfreelancer
Cryptogrind
Bitlancerr
Coinality
Bitgigs
/r/jobs4bitcoins
Rein Project

Market Places
OpenBazaar
Purse.io
Bitify
/r/bitmarket
21 Market

Video Streaming
Watchmybit
Streamium.io
OTika.tv
XOtika.tv NSFW

Tasks
Bitasker
BitforTip
WillPayCoin

File/Image Sharing
Supload.com
SatoshiBox
JoyStream

Advertising
CoinAd
A-ads
Coinzilla.io

Also, check /r/BitcoinGames for ideas on earning bitcoin and blockchain game assets.

Wow these are good news if they are already are happening right now It will be great to bitcoin Industry. I am already looking towards a skyrocket price in bitcoins price and finally I can convert my saved earning in my wallet. But aside from that I hope that bitcoin transaction confirmations will be much faster to cater the sudden increase of users and the number of activities and transactions if what you posted will happen in full blast.

You do not have to worry about friends. For bitcoin growth will always be good and will certainly give us a tremendous advantage, because the sight indeed bitcon growth and also the system is desperately needed by everyone and will surely give birth revoluasi good for the financial system in the future. So, just enjoy what is happening for sure we would get something extraordinary

So today this happened:
https://twitter.com/bchesky/status/813408027445489665

Airbnb CEO overwhelmed by demand for Bitcoin in Airbnb.

Fiver and freelance is not that easy to earn, it really requires luck and effort to earn it. I would suggest signature campaign as a far more effective method rest i feel are slow or difficult to earn. So I think you should add signature campaign also. Rest is faucet site and get few, 100 refs then only one can earn.

It may be effective for places with low costs of living or as a side job, but for anyone who actually needs to earn something in some decent capacity freelancing and Fiverr aren't necessarily bad ideas. Freelancing can definitely make people money, and it takes more time and skills as opposed to luck. It's like working a real job here and there.

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