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A member in my local board created a thread from the news she saw on X and here is the link to that thread.
Link (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5556179.msg65716567#msg65716567) and here is the link to the news on X link (https://x.com/simplykashif/status/1958028666950021229?t=p7s98iGSP62g8DSxm5O1qw&s=19) so according to the thread and news on X they said that a Brazilian man was picking cans and selling them and then using the money he generates from selling those cans to buy Bitcoin and he has been doing this for 2 years now and he is close to having 1 Bitcoin.
I really don't know how true this news is but I know is possible because I have a close relative who picks cans as his side hustle and he makes good amount of money from it because he sells it to companies.
When I saw this it really motivated my spirit, if you are working and your salary is not enough for you to accumulate Bitcoin you can fine a side hustle and be making money from it and then using the money to accumulate Bitcoin you never can tell how far you will go if you are determine and consistent for some years and like you know Bitcoin can change your life for good.
This is a call to everyone who's salary is not enough to accumulate Bitcoin fine a side hustle.
There is dignity in labor don't be shy when doing any side hustle that will be easy for you because you will reap the good from your hustle in the future.

“For those with low salaries who must spend all their time earning it, how can they build a better future?”

To be able to accumulate Bitcoin one needs to put into consideration some side hustle services like graphic designing, writing and doing some programming work.
 Another thing one needs to consider is buying and trading of Bitcoin on crypto currency exchange.And also to invest in  mining equipment to earn Bitcoin

Lastly one can also consider creating and selling digital content like offering Bitcoin courses, ebooks etc,
One can put in consideration of marketing Bitcoin in the affiliate marketing to be able to promote Bitcoin related products and services.

These  approaches require dedication , research and adaptability , putting more efforts and potentials to accumulate Bitcoin and benefits massively from crypto currency growth.
Finding a side hustle enables one personal growth ,builds confidence, Independence and self reliance

First of all I want to tell you that avoid asking short or one-liner questions because it makes it harder for the reader to answer you and they look low effort and might not get you serious replies. If you explain your thoughts in detail It can help you get useful answer.

But regarding your question I don't know how you want to build a better future? Let's assume you Want to build a better future using bitcoin. So if you have a low-income and don't have discretionary income coming then first and foremost you should reduce your expenses as much as you can so you have discretionary income. Then part of that discretionary income should be saved for an emergency fund so you dont sell all your investments in bitcoin if there is an emergency and the rest should be invested in Bitcoin and It can be as little as $1. If your monthly income is let's say $100 then $70 should be used for expenses $20 saved for emergency fund  (till you have reached a comfortable amount) and $10 invested in Bitcoin. If you do this for around 5-10 years consistently then I believe you will be in a better financial condition than you are now.
 ( If you have more Monthly income you can get more profits and you should take these examples as percentages of you income I.e 20% of your income for emergency fund etc)

1 whole Bitcoin from gathering cans for 2 years? That sounds ridiculously impossible because who can make tens of thousands of dollars just from gathering cans? Don't get me wrong, if this is true, good for him.

It would make sense if he did this when Bitcoin was in the low 4 digits... Then sure. But gathering even 10K USD in two years by gathering cans is dubious, at most. Let's say he somehow gathers 1000 cans per day that is about 10kg which amounts to 2 - 10 dollars based on the recycling prices.  ???

Its so easy to say to find side hustle and earn some biycoin nowadays its not that easy. Besides your work the little time you have is for family, and maybe if you are skillful enough you could leverage that into potential side job that pays you money or crypto let say usdt then buy bitcoin with that. Somehow the niche is important for side hustle.

maybe one day, whilst out collecting cans, he happened to come across a lost bitcoin wallet, lying in the dirt, shining like a diamond in a pile of coal

and somehow managed to figure out the passphrase or maybe it was just a raw seed that he found,, i don't know, anything is possible, right?

Easier said than done, picking cans for sell for two years and using the money to invest in Bitcoin and is already close to having 1 Bitcoin sounds too impossible to believe. As a worker that is earning salary I'd rather save up to invest in Bitcoin or I use the DCA method to invest every month because I don't see myself picking cans to sell, yeah there is dignity in labour but I choose my labour wisely and I choose the labour that will be possible for me to invest in Bitcoin because I don't see picking of cans as the side hustle for me, don't get me wrong though, I respect people that picks cans but I doubt the money from picking cans will be even to accumulate almost 1 Bitcoin in two years.

In 2023, I heard about this man on a Brazilian news portal
It's not just the fact that he collects cans to buy BTC that is interesting, but the whole package: in addition to recycling and accumulating satoshis, he also promotes Bitcoin and spreads knowledge
He has educational projects about Bitcoin, and his X profile is for anyone who is interested: https://x.com/sucateirocripto

An extremely interesting quote from him (translated to english):
“My partnership with Bitcoin was never about getting rich, but about not getting poorer.”
Source (https://portaldobitcoin.uol.com.br/sucateiro-que-recicla-para-comprar-bitcoin-quer-ir-alem-do-lucro-e-foca-na-educacao/)

And one correction, he says he's not close to having 1 BTC
He comments that the current goal is to reach 0.1 BTC, which makes the story more believable

I don't know exactly where the idea came from that he's almost reaching 1 BTC

It's possible to accumulate quite considerable amount of bitcoin than what a newbie investor can think of by maintaining DCA over long time but collecting and selling cans for having 1 bitcoin during 2 years, it sounds unrealistic with me.

Your math just supports opinion that it is like a cooked story that is unrealistic to achieve except if this man is a owner of a big business and 1 bitcoin comes from that business revenue in 2 years, not from individual effort of collecting and selling cans. A person can not do this individually to accumulate 1 bitcoin especially in a short time (2 years) and with very high price of Bitcoin last two years.

https://costavg.com/
With the above website and its calculator, if I want to DCA for 1 bitcoin in last 2 years, I need to spend spend about $570 weekly and do it in two years.

Collecting and selling cans individually can not help a man getting $570 weekly.

Basically what most people do not realize is that time is truly money, as long as you have time it’s best for one to engage the little time left out of your daily routine to get some extra cash, where I lived before voluntary jobs could pay you some little amount that will be enough to add to your current accumulation amount, it’s not a job that you’re forced to or have a boss who controls your actions yet it’s more convenient and pays out a lot of you put the little into what brings you back some cash in the long run like bitcoin. We might tell ourselves that we do not have time yet every average man who is not rich rich has enough time for themselves, yet we choose vacations and visiting as where to spend our time however if used for an extra job would be profitable in long term.

I doubt these news are real.  Maybe the guy earned close to a Bitcoin but I really doubt it was from picking cans alone.  How many cans does one person have to pick in order to earn between 20 and 60 thousand dollars?  This is considerable money for a lot of countries.  Hell.  In Romania even 12 thousand dollars an year would already earn you some decent money.  Or, maybe I am undervaluing the opportunity and I picked the wrong job.

Finding a side hustle and increasing your income are basics that any normal person knows. This is no secret and we do not need to advise anyone, because I believe everyone knows it.

I believe that those who really want to invest in bitcoin, and no matter how difficult their situation is, if they want it, they will find a way. Instead of complaining or whining and giving hundreds of reasons why they can't invest in bitcoin.

This is an inspirational story for those who are in economic trouble and want to invest in bitcoin, but honestly, I don't believe this story.

That is the internet trend, people love to change something into their own version of story and recycle it over internet again and again that is how we find some news that happened a decade ago now resurface by connecting with other incident. People just love the attention for their creation and they don't hesitate to lie for it. :)

@OP, You meant Find a side hustle?

I doubt this news to be true, because I don't see any possibility in it. and let me be Frank here it is not everything you see on social medias that is true a lot of people out there post things on their social media handles just to attract attentions in other  to get more viewers. And Please you guys should note this so that you guys won't get me wrongly, am not saying that the user who posted the news on x is trying to get attention in other to get more viewers this is just me speculating, because I know that alot of users here will start arguing that the x account is a verified one, buddies not all verified x accounts are real we also have fake ones. So what ever is the intention of the person who posted the news on x is best known to the person.

Regardless of whether the news is true or not, I caught something positive in it, as long as we have strong determination and do it consistently, then whatever is planned will be achieved. This will certainly be very motivating for anyone who still feels like collecting Bitcoin. Besides having a primary source of income, anyone needs to find additional income to support their income to facilitate the realization of what has been previously programmed.
The flexibility of Bitcoin allows anyone to buy it without having to collect large amounts of money because Bitcoin can be broken down into the smallest parts (Sat), when someone wants to have Bitcoin, they must be able to make changes in their life.

If this is true then good for him. But my question is that how is he surviving if he is using his profits for bitcoin? He has a phone good enough for an internet connection? How is he having an internet connection to buy bitcoin? Does he have a family that he has to support? These are just some of my questions but if you can find any side hustle that can give you extra income then make sure to dedicate it to bitcoin. But how is picking cans a side hustle? Isn't too low paying and too physically taxing?

If I am not aware of money some those people who are picking cans and some little rusted metals from the streets are making.I may easily concluded this is a fabricated story, but with what I have witnessed, I can't take this story and say it is impossible for a person who is picking up cans to make that kind of money and be investing in Bitcoin because 1 Bitcoin is not easy to gather. But what is there is that they are many hustles someone can never think of; people are making a lot of money from until someone starts the hustle and begins making money themselves.

The fact is that there are some hustles even we too know that people are making money from, but due to the nature of the hustle, we don't want to involve ourselves in that kind of hustle.just like you have said about the man who is picking cans from the street, even as I know people are making reasonable amounts of money from there, I can't do it because of its nature. Bitcoin has become a good investment, and many are making a reasonable amount of profit from there. But what is just there is that it is a long-term investment, and instead of people saving their fiat currency in the bank, I would advise just investing in Bitcoin. And the fact is that if you really want to make it in life, you need to hustle hard and not just rely on one source of income.

Well, I think it's easier for us in the forum to accumulate bitcoin with a side hustle. We don't need to pick up cans. I understand that for some people who participate in signature campaigns and have no other source of income, it cannot be a side hustle, but I think that for the rest of us it is. Although I would say that most people gamble it away or something. They don't save it up.

By the way, OP, correct the title. It's “find”.

People in the forum can get satoshis from their participations in signature campaigns or works from their services here and get payment in bitcoin. It's how they can get bitcoins but how they will be able to hold bitcoins is harder and more challenging.

Most people received bitcoins from signature campaigns or services can sell their coins for cash, stable coin or use their coins to buy shitcoins. It's how they lose their bitcoins with time and they can feel very regretful many years in the future by looking back in the past years as how good payment rates were in bitcoin. It is same regret like people got 0.1 or 0.05 bitcoins a week or a month in signature campaigns years ago but lost their coins after that.

Signature campaign: The lowest and highest payment BTC and USD in 2013-2022. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5403191.0)

Exactly. I don't think such news can be right, especially when it mentions Brazil, because Brazil doesn't even have a very strong economy. If a country with a better economic situation was mentioned, one could think that it might be true because people earn good wages, and such a side hustle might allow someone to make more than $5,000 a month, but a country with a struggling economy or not a very strong one, it's hard to believe, because if you are earning that much from only a side hustle, what would you be earning from a full-time job?

Anyway, I do agree with the fact that those who have side hustles or those who make extra money from somewhere apart from what they make from their main source of income, it becomes easier for them to accumulate Bitcoin or make investments in general, because they wouldn't need to compromise on anything else only to do this. If you don't have a side hustle, you will have to tighten your budget to save some money that you can use for investments.

At the end, the goal is to stack more bitcoin and so we need to find every way to make money so that we can buy more bitcoin.
Some people are able to buy bitcoin using their primary job itself but others have to look for a secondary income.
Having a side hustle can be beneficial here so that we don't need to worry about saving money from our job for bitcoin.
Few years later, we will be able to stack enough bitcoin for our retirement if we plan it accordingly.

That's right, any side hustle that's just right and legal is one of the best way if the main salary that we have isn't enough to buy bitcoin.

Because we've got a lot of expenses to be said and to be filled, and so if that's the reasoning of everyone. There's always a way on how we're going to fill that problem with a solution.

And that solution, whether you collect plastic bottles or tin cans to be sold in the junk shops or recycling areas or machines, it's a good idea to that. I've seen people buy their dream playstation 5 from collecting plastic bottles so, it's possible to a person that has a will to do it.

Congratulations for those who managed to accumulate Bitcoin by working on micro earnings industry (being it virtually or physically). These individuals are inspiration for everyone who only complain and want to earn free things without doing anything in couterpart. Even a low paying side hustle can be important on the task of investing money.

I remember myself ten years ago on this industry, grinding from faucets small amounts of satoshis and working on every available opportunity on the internet for cheap money. I didn't know Bitcoin would reach where it's right now, but I knew I had to do something with my time, pursuing a better life quality in the future.

And against all the expectations, advices, criticism and persecution of people around, I made it! And I'm sure other people have made it as well, so they can finally enjoy the fruits of their labor! For those who are starting just now, do your part and the universe will do theirs!

Having bitcoin in your crypto wallet seems to be a wise decision to take, because I believe with the way bitcoin startede and where it is today, having reasonable amount of bitcoin in your portfolio can make you happy in the future.

I don't know the currency of his country and how much is 1kg of can, but I find it difficult to believe that this man was able to accumulate the quantity of bitcoin he claimed to have accumulated through picking of cans.

Down here in my country, those that pick cans hardly use the money to survive and they have nothing to show for it because the money that you will realize from it is very little. Is the man single or with a family. If he was really picking can to inveet in bitcoin, he did the best thing for himself.

Nice question, because i have a few people who have 7 am - 6 pm shift such people have all their time spent on their job and energy drained so how do such categories of hard working people be able to add another side hustle that is still requires alot of time to do that, although i encourage multiple jobs to generate cash flow that can be used to buy bitcoin.

Anyways the guy story may be true and he can be abke to accumulate such amout of bitcoin vai DCA approach and sure we know that, is not every body that can do two jobs but if it work for you why not go along with it.

There is a saying, "garbage in, garbage out." I will explain it to be that what you give is what you get, and here I ask, what is the quality of service you render? because you can not just be doing multiple things at the same time with no quality output to back you up. There is nothing bad in doing side hustles, but if your main stream hustle pays you very well, you are good to go, but if not, go get good skill that you know is in demand so that you can be able to render good services through it and get good income from it otherwise you will break down all in the cause of getting a side hustle to save.

Getting a side hustle is no different from what has always been advised in the forum which is for you to have another source of income which is very important to investing comfortably in bitcoins if you lack enough initial capital. Sometimes it doesn't matter what the other source of income is, you just have to identify a legal means to make money and then if it is something that you can do, you commit to making sure that you make the best of the opportunity. Depending on your salary alone to investment and also sort the other needs you have will not be a good plan, will be even worse for someone who earns less.

Well, I really do not know what to say about the picking of can thing but I definitely support the idea of finding a side hustle where we can be making extra money from, but instead of doing things like picking cans, why don't the party learn a skill instead?

There are quite a number of skills that can be learnt from several of the skill courses that are available online, and once one become perfect in the skill, the party can start having clients and be making even far more money than going up and down and picking cans..
I know that picking of cans and selling them is a good business but I honestly do not know how lucrative the business is for a man to do it for only 2 years he's now close to owning 1 full bitcoin.. 😁, I would say that he didn't achieve this by only just picking of cans.

This is a perfect example of determination and consistency paying off. There’s dignity in all kinds of work. Sometimes we underestimate what small, consistent efforts can achieve over the years. This is a great reminder that if your main salary isn’t enough, finding a side hustle and using that to invest even in small amounts can really add up.

No matter what your side job is, as long as it can generate extra income (besides your main income from your real job) sooner or later anyone can achieve their dreams. Although its truth is still doubtful, the story in Op is only a motivation for anyone who is still having difficulty increasing their income.

Investing in Bitcoin is the best choice for building a better future because financial freedom will be easily achieved when someone has income from a side job. Money earned from side jobs can be categorized as cold money and money earned from the main job to meet primary needs, so whatever the job and how much money earned from side jobs will be very profitable in the long term as long as it is managed well, such as investing in Bitcoin.

It makes more sense for people to have the money to buy Bitcoin, and it's even better when someone has a steady job, as it can guarantee their livelihood. Buying Bitcoin doesn't have to be a large sum, as we can invest in installments using the DCA method. If we ever have a large amount of capital, we can wait for a decline to accumulate a much larger amount. Many people talk about investing but don't have the money to start and to me that's a lie because we're not trying to achieve our desire to invest in Bitcoin.

Sounds like a good way to earn some extra Bitcoin for holding would be to participate in different programs, like learn to earn. That way, you can earn some crypto and get to know the market at the same time.

If you don't feel like studying, you can also get real rewards for simple actions, like opening a wallet or verifying your account. I got $30 just for doing that on Cryptomus. With that money, I opened a copy-trading account and now I'm earning from subscriptions from people who trade using my signals. It's a double win, earning from trading and from the copy traders.

I'm thinking of doing this, with metal detector finding metal, etc. Basically anything that can be turned to bitcoin but I just don't have that much free time to begin with.

As for now, I just put 5% of my portfolio for risky investment to help accumulating bitcoin faster, mainly through altcoin, etc. But this guy is solid, he got 1 whole bitcoin from just gathering cans. Wonder how much time needed to achieve that for now with current price of bitcoin.

There's no other way to change that except through hard work. Hard work is the only effective way to change circumstances and achieve your dreams or goals. Only you can change your own future in the direction and direction you desire. Yes, we must continue learning and developing our skills. The new knowledge and skills you acquire can open up more opportunities and help you address your needs and achieve your goals much faster, if done consistently and patiently.

Exactly, probably somewhere someone decided to embellish the story a little and the value was changed

I'll translate what he himself said in the article: https://portaldobitcoin.uol.com.br/sucateiro-que-recicla-para-comprar-bitcoin-quer-ir-alem-do-lucro-e-foca-na-educacao/

Bitcoin has proven to be an asset that is profitable to hold, it's history is enough to assure us that it can be dependable to give us a good retirement from it's returns on investment. If your income cannot afford you a discretionary funds it will be important to increase it, get a better paying job or get a side hustle. But it is a pity that some people's jobs don't give them any chance for a side hustle and this is a big problem, employers are demanding more time so that their employees will continue to slave for only them. Anybody that is in these situation and is interested to invest in Bitcoin must think outside the box and come up with a plan because it will be sad to miss out on the future profits of Bitcoin investment. Choose DCA method and start with amount that you can afford, gradually increase it if your income starts to increase.

Thank you for the clarification, at least the story now seems realistic for us. This is why getting a side hustle should be more encouraged not just when it comes to bitcoin investment but even in any certain goal where you think your main job can’t afford it, then it’s best to look for a side hustle that would still be suitable from your interest and skills.

Bitcoin isn’t a do or die, but if you would take some risk investing into bitcoin even at a very minimal amount, you would not be at loss in the future, as long as you are determined to hold no matter how volatile and unpredictable its market value is.

How can be an one liner is harder to read? actually it's harder to read a paragraph which having more than 3 lines.

One liner isn't always low effort too, whether he got a serious or troll reply, we can't control other users the way they post.

I see his question is serious, no bullshit, just a straight valid question.

Most people can reduce their expenses, but the main problem why they still don't have enough saving is, their parents are keep asking for money. The higher the salary, the higher they will ask, if the child not give enough money, the parents will blame the child for disobedient.

I've only read on reddit of a man who was able to buy PS5 from money made from picking cans. As for 1 Bitcoin I don't think it's feasible to accumulate it from picking cans. Unless they're fully into the recycling business, then, it could be possible, depending on how a single can costs in their nations. However the business is booming currently all over the World, but for single person, they may not make that much selling cans.

They can do the same, every dollar is powerful enough, yiu don't see it this way right now because it's a dollar, if you have small money that you can use to accumulate Bitcoin you only need to do it right.

Don't bother buying bitcoin right now, start saving the money aside and wait for 2026 I'm guessing by November-December of 2026 Bitcoin would have bottomed out after the upcoming bear market.

Just use all the money to buy at the time, the difference is you will be buying at lower price than those that choose to start buying right now, forget that Trump and his people are buying, this still won't stop what's coming.

Bitcoin will dump very hard after this bull market is over and believe me it's almost over, I can see that many people aren't telling themselves this right now until it happens, don't DCA right now, the next bottom price might be $40,000 or slightly lower.

Mate, Bitcoin is for everyone including the wealthy and low income earners, every investor can't not be on the same page financially but the DCA has made it possible for every class to the able to own a share of bitcoin and reserve for the future, the only difference is that the rich can do the lump-sum however the low income earners have to buy in bits and periodically then be patient and allow it grow into something that would put them in a better position financially in the future. So if you know any low income salary earners that's interested in bitcoin but think they can't afford it you should encourage them a help them to understand they can still do the DCA and build a very good portfolio in the future.

The story seems unrealistic accumulating nearly 1 BTC through collecting cans in just 2 years is a stretch.While manual labor can pay off, the numbers don't add up without more context,like the number of cans collected daily. If true, this story could motivate those waiting to save more before investing in Bitcoin.However, the truth is you can start investing with any amount, no matter how small. Don't underestimate your starting point; appreciate it and watch yourself grow.

They can build a better future by investing in Bitcoin  ;D.  Anyway they should follow the title, find a side hustle to earn extra money,  Separete a certain percentage of the income to DCA in Bitcoin, a 5% of the income does not hurt.  One can tighten their belt to have a better tomorrow. 

We have witnessed how Bitcoin enables huge profit in the long run.  Assuming a person who just have enough money to sustain his family in his job, finding a legal side hustle to earn extra money and put part of it in investing Bitcoin, do it for two to 3 cycle, and I believe that person will have enough money to live a more comfortable life in the future.

If one is lacking even with a stable job, one should either look for a better-paying job, do a side hustle, work smarter or learn a better financial management program while tightening their belt.  Then when everything is ok and the peson can have some extra from his paycheck, then he can start accumulating BTC.

Honestly, if you want to buy and accumulate bitcoin, that can really happen if you are determined to. Even if you don’t earn sufficient amount of income from your main job, as long as you are eager to find a side hustle that would finance your bitcoin investment, then it’s always possible. It may be a very little additional income, but if you can earn from it regularly, then once piled up, it can afford already a small portion of bitcoin.

There’s no impossible for a determined person. Stick with your job and your side hustle, believe me you will earn a single bitcoin within a decade. It takes time, but it’s definitely worth the wait.

It's definitely not real, unless it's an old story back when Bitcoin's value was significantly lower ($2,000 - $3,000), and even then, it's quite unlikely. Aluminum cans weigh almost nothing, according to this link (https://www.brysonrecycling.org/recycling/cash-for-cans/), you'll get about 81 to 85P per kilo, and according to Gemini AI, each can weighs about 13 to 15 grams, thus, you'll need approximately 6,600 to 7,700 cans for 100 kilos of aluminium, and based on what I found, they're worth less than $100.

So, anyone expecting us to believe that a random guy has acquire one Bitcoin, or anywhere remotely close to one coin, just by collecting cans from the street must be a gullible fool.

That became a trending topic on gaming forums, and that guy was a real legend. So, it's all about being patient and having that grit of using the time for picking cans. And we can't compare that to Bitcoin with its price now. But, it means that there's a way for everybody even it's not that a lot but everyone can also pick whatever they can which they might be able to sell for some money. It doesn't have to be a one Bitcoin that they should afford but, we always tell about DCA and any amount will do from that kind of side hustle. That is an encouraging way of DCAing.

You know the safest way to invest into bitcoin, use your side hustle income to finance your investment, while you continue to save up your main earnings for your future needs and emergency funds. That way, if ever your investment does not turn out as you expected, you only lose your side income, but your main income is still there and untouched.

However, its not impossible to profit from your bitcoin. Just by simply buying and hodling, with the right amount of patience in the market, you will surely be in profits in the later part. But if you are planning to enter trading, there is always risk of losing especially if you are not that prepared and capable enough to trade especially in an unpredictable market.

Selling cans and turning them into an investment asset in Bitcoin, which is now almost worth 1 Bitcoin, is clearly a crazy situation because how much does he collect every day if he manages to collect 1 Bitcoin in just 2 years?

However, if this were to actually happen, it would undeniably be a wake-up call for those of us who are sometimes still lazy when it comes to seeking income.
Being in Bitcoin isn’t a race where, without any pressure, whatever we collect is clearly in line with our capabilities. However, on the other hand, this can also motivate us more because simply collecting Bitcoin and achieving such significant profits especially when it’s almost reached 1 Bitcoin is definitely worth appreciating.

Hard work is the mother of luck, a person who works hard will definitely see the face of success someday. The person you mentioned may have worked hard and bought Bitcoin with the money he saved. He has gradually invested and increased his Bitcoin fraction and now he may have experienced a lot of profit. Those who bought Bitcoin two years ago have earned more than double the profit at present, so Bitcoin is always ready to give high returns. If we are able to invest in Bitcoin and hold it for a long time, then we will definitely be successful. So if at this time, if we invest some amount of money in Bitcoin and hold it for a long time, then we will definitely be successful in the future. So working hard should never be a shame, but by working hard, that person wishes for a bright future of success in the future.

It's a good idea, but I've made everything related to Bitcoin my side job. Because right now I also have a job related to the government. I do both and I'm happy with it to this day. Because I can earn income from two different sources and am able to increase my income and meet the needs of myself and my family. I think this is good, there's nothing wrong with it. Focusing on one job is also good. But given the current economic conditions, having multiple skills and sources of income will help you live a better life.

This is indeed a powerful and motivating story. It highlights one of the most important lessons in Bitcoin accumulation: consistency matters more than the size of your initial capital. Many people assume that only those with high salaries or large savings can meaningfully invest in Bitcoin, but this example proves otherwise. Even small earnings from side hustles—like collecting cans, freelancing, or other extra work—can be transformed into long-term wealth if directed into Bitcoin regularly.

What makes this inspiring is not just the act of buying Bitcoin, but the mindset behind it. The Brazilian man understood that every satoshi counts, and over time, small, disciplined actions add up to something significant. His journey also shows that there is real dignity in labor. No work should be considered too small or shameful if it helps you reach your financial goals.

For those who feel that their salaries are not enough, this story is a reminder: instead of being discouraged, look for opportunities to earn a little extra and put it into Bitcoin. The future rewards of determination, patience, and consistency can far outweigh the temporary challenges.

In the end, Bitcoin doesn’t just reward wealth—it rewards commitment. And that’s something everyone has the ability to practice, regardless of their income level.

If the person can do it, sure, more expertise means more demand for you as a worker or an employee somewhere, and nowadays, it's hard to find such a balance.

It can only be only commended that you managed to do it..

One thing that we should always keep in mind is that we should always think positively in everything we do, and we should always believe that we can do it. The story may not be true for some people, but this can happen because Bitcoin is not only for the rich. I have always said that as long as you have a way to make money in a day and be able to put food on your table, you are capable of investing in Bitcoin. People may not believe that the can picker can buy Bitcoin because of the money he earns per day for his labour, but with his belief and patience, he can accumulate close to one bitcoin.

This will serve as an example and lesson for those who have the money but believe they cannot buy Bitcoin, investing in Bitcoin is all about the plan and mindset of how you can buy it and hold for the long term, those who buy Bitcoin are human beings like us; they do not have two heads, and, as far as cans pickers can buy Bitcoin, anyone can buy Bitcoin if they are serious about doing so.

Is that the best way to live? even though the economy can be really bad and daunting on people, you can always put in the effort to ensure that you are at least able to work yourself from some kind of jobs that does not give you the slightest time to try other things out. not everyone will try out a side hustle and it is not necessary that every investor must sell somethings just to assist himself in his accumulation journey but the fact is that one ought to create a system around him that gives him the leverage of not just working but to also make investment in the right thing.

This is not just necessary because we are talking about bitcoin, it is necessary in life in general. for me, i have decided long ago that any job that looks like one that will take the whole of my active hours, i will never do such jobs. not because i have a lot of alternative but because that for me is not the best way to live life. even though you do not want to take up any side hustle, it should be because you just don't want to and not because you do not even have the time to doing.

Emotions only make matters and the way harder, imo, be it BTC or anything else.

We can do it with a cool head and with our own pace, reaching our goals 8)

This might be my first time hearing someone pick cans and buy ps5 from it lol. Usually those who pick cans do so because that is the only choice they have to earn some money because they have no other skill to offer the economy. Is this the easiest side hustle to earn money? Probably if you do not have much time and you are not used to physical labor, this will not be sustainable for you.

You're not the only one who has doubted the veracity of the story in the thread; I doubt it too. However, as an idea, it's not bad. Finding a side hustle is a good idea in general to diversify your income, and if you use that extra income to accumulate bitcoin, even better. To save and invest, you need to have a spread between your income and expenses, and for people with low incomes, the best thing to do is try to increase your income. Well, I think that's generally best for everyone, but when people start out in personal finance, they tend to focus more on saving, when increasing income is actually the most effective strategy.

He has reached great heights by collecting Bitcoins for two years but it is truly amazing that he is accumulate Bitcoins regularly by selling cans, To be honest Oliveira had a clear purpose behind collecting and selling this aluminum. However this man a resident of the city of Limeira in Brazil, was able to turn the full use of the can into a financial strategy and with that money this Brazilian bought Bitcoin and it turns out that now owns almost one Bitcoin and this struggle proves that anyone can own Bitcoin.

We can all see that his struggle is a speculative strategy and not a traditional investment because he was able to convert every sales waste into value, even it included pure dedication and faith.
It is largely true that his primary goal may have been financial but he has also been able to contribute to the cleanliness of his city, so my idea the world's most recognized currency gave that Brazilian financial sovereignty.

He's been collecting cans for 2 years to buy Bitcoin: now he's about to have 1 BTC  (https://news.bit2me.com/en/Collecting-cans-for-2-years-to-buy-bitcoin#:~:text=For%20two%20years%2C%20Bruno%20Oliveira,time%20of%20writing%20this%20article.)

For those that still have a job that's enough for them to accumulate Bitcoin, that shouldn't stop them from accumulating Bitcoin with an additional side hustle. Side hustle makes more money to be at your disposal and with more money, you can achieve more things. The time you have strength to do more work and make more money, use that time well because soon you mightn't have time anymore or the money you have won't be enough for you hence making good use of all the time you have when you have them is important. Side hustle are many now that you don't have to overwork yourself anymore.

Signature campaign can be considered a side hustle as you grow your account and be participating in signature campaign to get more money and accumulate Bitcoin through that process. Anything can become a side hustle this day while you still have your main job.

If one is working in a place where they have a chance to get extra jobs, then there is a need for them to add something up to their hustle and make that extra income. Such type of hustle is not for people who work straight 8 hours daily, as they will not even have enough time for themselves to rest, talk more of doing other things.

The best side hustle nowadays is to learn an online skill, which you can even do while working and still be rendering services to those who need it, and still be making that extra cash, which you can use to either accumulate bitcoin or foot other bills.

Freelance hustle would fill such a category, imo.

But not many can find such a good alternative to the main job, if they have powers at all..

I am assuming that this advice is for those of us here in this forum, obviously we are the ones reading it right now,  except one of us wants to relate it to his friends and family who are not here in this forum.

I will advice anyone in a campaign and still struggling to invest in bitcoin to see his weekly campaign payments as another means he could DCA or accumulate bitcoins. Instead of withdrawing everything every week, he can save all or part of the bitcoins. If he thinks it's too small, he can still buy more to add to it. Investing in bitcoin should not be made so difficult and stressful, with any small amount, bitcoins can be accumulated.

Agreed through and through, it should be natural and not weigh heavily on our minds.

It should be done just constantly, no matter the amount, and the results will be there.

This is very good. If investing in Bitcoin or accumulating it is a problem, then the best thing to do is to focus on having more sources of income, which can allow one to easily invest in and accumulate Bitcoin without any stress. I think this is a good idea for those who understand Bitcoin. It shows a good level of understanding compared to people who invest in Bitcoin but expect to make quick money from the little they have invested.

It takes an understanding of increases for one to see the importance of accumulating Bitcoin and working on their income to achieve productive results in the future. Having a better income is the first step a good investor takes because of the concern they have about their investments.

From the topic and story, picking can seem to be his side hustle, in under 2 years, he has been able to accumulate 1 Bitcoin. If i have a side hustle that can generate a good sum to buy 1 Bitcoin, i wouldn't take it as a side hustle anymore, it automatically becomes my main job, i don't care how dirty the work is. I'm going with a second thought about OP story, it doesn't paint a clean picture but even so we can take out important lessons.

While this hits the reality about life, but just like what we often hear, if there’s a will, there’s a way. No matter how little time you have for your family, but if you know how to manage your time and maximize your potentials, you will still get into a side hustle that will definitely value your skills and experience.

Don’t just focus on your job, but always set your limits high and aim big. Eventually, you will land into a side hustle that will finance your investment, and just add your extra money from your main job.

This is 2025, the higher your investment the higher your returns. No two ways about it. Getting a side hustle isn't the solution, the solution is to increase your income. And by income it includes your actual income and passive income to get your portfolio income after your investment matures.

The example you gave of a man selling cans to invest is good. But the sources never mentioned how much he made from selling those cans in a month. In the end of the day, you cant find yourselves doing everything but you just have to stick in doing the thing that will give you the right amount of income to support your investment.

In this life one have to be flexible. We all know that our world is getting digital each day which is good that we can now earn from our comfort zone , there many of opportunity online is left for to train he or her self to be ready to grab any opportunity that come their way. So there are many things you can do online as your side hustle then you can use it to generate some discretionary income which you may later choose to save or invest .

From a more positive perspective, this is indeed very inspiring because, after all, it can be an opportunity and a sign that we can do anything to earn additional income for better results in the future.
I really like people who don't just sit around and rely on their existing income because, after all, even though their current income may be enough to buy what they need, there's no harm in doing their best to find additional income to get more.

Being in bitcoin is clearly profitable because even though sometimes there is a lot of FUD or even people who underestimate it or think it is too high to buy, we still have to believe in our convictions and long term goals to achieve what we want. Even though this is not a race to earn more, the more optimal our investments are better.

If you're working in a company where you can't have free time or space to look into other business/ investment you have every right to quit from  the Job and look for a better one, you can't been spending all your time in a job that your monthly salary can only be due to take care of your expenses without having enough leftover. I could remembered working in a company where I don't always have time to make other business plans,  and the money they were paying is not even enough to take care of my expenses so I decided to quit and then look for a better one. So if you see that if you continue with the job you're doing that you won't achieve anything in the future then you have to look for a more decent one. As a matter of fact there are a lot of decent jobs out their that you will be giving some space to plan and also do whatever thing you wish to do for the betterment of your future.

I agree with the term "flexible," because even those who are able to adapt to tough environments can emerge from the pressure to achieve financial freedom for the better. The problem is, not everyone is ready for this, and there may be certain limitations that make it difficult for them to keep up. To simplify, treat everything with discipline and continue accumulating money so that we have the opportunity to build a stronger financial foundation through the process of investing in Bitcoin. There are many online opportunities that can be utilized to make money, and what we need to do is continue to improve ourselves and try to take advantage of every opportunity that arises.

The thing is that income is not enough, you need to invest it.

And to be able to invest it, you need to make more money than what you spend, and be smart about the difference.

If you just work for income, even if you get paid in BTC, and you spend it all, then you're not advancing.

If you earn more than what you spend, and invest the difference, then you will have a chance to grow wealth. That's why saving in BTC makes sense.

Really? Can recycling cans can give us that much money we did not had such a facility before but just few months ago or maybe weeks ago, in our bigger cities we have this facility but I am sure the rate they are providing here for one plastic bottle is too low that maybe in the next 100 years I won't be able to buy a full BTC.

Can anyone from Brazil, what is the highest rate for a can recycling, we can calculate it with numbers, even by assuming the rates very high. Although recycling them in machines and getting paid from there is a bit different then selling them in person to some buyer, rates are better when we sell to someone in person.

I would like to do this haha but really people will judge me like Why are you in the garbage haha, because we don't have so many cans but plastic bottles and the rate is very low.

Actually this depends on the conditions in which our preparations are in the end because after all when we are already in a form of commitment such as earning a side income then there must be a price or there are other things that must be sacrificed such as time and energy, it is a common risk that will indeed be commonplace.

Learning online-based skills is of course quite fun because we don't need to be tired in expending energy but it also clearly has consequences where we allow only glued to the monitor screen for a long time which actually the level of fatigue is the same and can even be much more tired but of course that is a risk.
On the other hand, whatever type of side job is done, it depends on our readiness because even if we force it but it is not our fashion, it will only be in vain in the end.

Being in bitcoin by doing a side job which of course as a goal to increase the load to be more whatever type of side job is done (as long as the implications are positive) then of course this is a very good thing.

This makes more sense to me personally. I don't mean to belittle his ability to accumulate 1 BTC in 2 years. Logically, it's quite impossible to acquire 1 Bitcoin at, say, an average price of $100,000 just by relying on side jobs. However 0.1 Bitcoin is still possible. Assuming the person collects $15 per day, this means he would need to collect approximately 10 kg of cans per day. It's more reasonable, right?
Yes, I understand that the OP goal is to motivate people that even if we're not rich, we can still invest in Bitcoin as long as we have the will and mentality. The story from Brazil is very inspiring and I respect it.

If you allocate a part of your earning to buying bitcoin every month, it can gradually accumulate to a big amount of satoshis.

Just remove all those subscriptions and paid food delivery, use the public transport and huff it to your office. It will save quite a lot of money before you know it.

I know that is not possible for everyone but it will be applicable for a select few in this forum. Even then try to buy bitcoin at every low with the accumulated cash. If you do that well, side hustle will not be needed - after all you are one person, doing one job is tiring enough, if it is not, then you can think of another.

It's inspiring for sure, but I would rather believe in something that's more viable than bringing up cans.. It's too much to do and probably won't be as good as doing it where OP did, that is, if it's even true to such a degree.

The story just sounds absurd to me, because how could you possibly earn nearly 1 Bitcoin just by picking cans and selling them? It seems too far-fetched.

however, i agree that finding a side hustle to accumulate bitcoin is a good option, because by using the money from your side hustle, you can allocate it to investing in bitcoin, and do so long-term. this way, you can focus solely on investing in bitcoin, while building your portfolio until you reach your target, while at the same time, the money from your primary income is solely focused on your personal needs and savings.

It does not matter whether the story of the Brazilian man is true or not as it remains very realistic since recycling is a reasonable side hustle in most countries. I even have friends that collect bottles cans or scraps and resell it to a recycling company to turn it into a consistent amount of money. It is certainly feasible to earn nearly one Bitcoin after two years assuming somebody devotes sources of income to Bitcoin.
What I find inspiring here is the mindset. When trying to find an optimal moment or large salary to invest, many people just look forward but as can be revealed to by this example even the tiniest paycheques can amount to something. It also disuguages the reason that Bitcoin is only for rich people. With a consistent side hustle, and stacking, the long term payoff can be life altering. I also concur with your concern through dignity of labor. It does not even matter what others say about the task that the application that you do as the end results will speak in future.

To me the lesson is clear. Never underrate the small steps and never postpone doing it. Be ready to add another hustle, be disciplined and think long term even when your salary is small. The patients and frequenters of Bitcoins are rewarded as opposed to the unlucky gamblers.

Funny enough picking cans can provide an investor a good portfolio within 2 years difference, side hustling is good especially in a generation when everything is considered expensive while some might see bitcoin price as too expensive not minding the future growth ahead. Honestly using the little money we can to buy bitcoin consistent is worth the stress due to bitcoin value, I find the encouragement interesting and if thinking as an investor your income is too low to invest even after finding a side hustle then they’re missing out although bitcoin price is high compared to previous time but if thinking to wait for the dip also they’ll miss out rather buy bitcoin with the little amount available gradually you’re building your desired portfolio, op mentioned side hustle definitely a multi source of income will be of great benefit.

Waiting for dip market is also waste of time, buy as many as you can at your level, this is what you are trying to say. And i buy the idea, because any day we delay to buy bitcoin when we have the resource to buy is a lost on your side, because bitcoin is not wait for any body, for the past years we can see the increase in price and how it has turned many to millionaires.

I think Op, advised for us to have side hustle is a plus for bitcoin investors, because you won't be move or panic to withdraw your portfolio in case of dip market, it will also help you to hold for long time. Depending on your bitcoin investment will not help you in this crypto world, but having side hustle will make you rich with time.

It is not fundamentally important here whether you sell the cans (collected) or receive a salary for working in the office. What is important is to do it systematically, for a long time and save money. In this case, buy bitcoin. In parts. And when this lasts for years, then a significantly noticeable amount accumulates, as happened in your story.

Wealth (or financial well-being) doesn't happen at once, because this is not gambling (although here too this happens extremely rarely), but is the result of long-term (and applied efforts) systematic actions.

If you accumulate sat. by sat., then you will accumulate a whole bitcoin sat.'s.

You can ALWAYS save some, even with the lowest incomes

I've been there, I know.

It just takes a bit longer to build your wealth.

I lovd the motivation and message OP very well said and I couldn't agree more with you that finding a side hustle and grinding to get more coin is an honorable thing to do! Anyone who does this is surely going to find success! Bitcoin is and has been changing lives since 2009

There are actually ways to achieve this, one of which is to strengthen discipline in managing expenses, even though they may be very limited. Take advantage of existing opportunities and continue learning, especially regarding technological developments. Learning can come from anywhere, through collaborative spaces and mutually reinforcing communities, which ultimately can change people's mindsets in the long run.
But we must admit that struggling to start over from all the shortcomings is not easy. It requires a very strong spirit of resilience, and a willingness to learn and seize even the smallest opportunity.

If we barely make ends meet, it will be a lot more challenging though, We can always save some money by living frugally. If we've been living frugally, live even more frugally to save more money.

But sometime shit hits the fan and we'll need to empty our saving. If anybody is having really low income it doesn't even cover basic needs, maybe we need to find the right job first before saving. Just side aside money for emergency and that's it.

After all, building wealth with low salary is just waste of time.

I don't believe in frugality, but at near $0 you gotta be frugal. Here's how I would do it. You instantly start looking for better paying jobs, apply everywhere, relocate if you need to even if it means going down to $0 and even if it needs help from friends / government / whomever. Then set aside as much as you can from your paycheck until you reach one goal: that you can comfortably live for a couple of months if you lost your job. In the meantime, you build your options: learn new skills, sales, programming, whatever suits you. There's not much competition at the bottom. You'll easily find yourself in the average earners once you put in the right amount of effort.

Only then, you start investing.

Having a side hustle or other businesses and also accumulating Bitcoin is a good idea because this will make you to hodl your Bitcoin investment for a longer time without thinking of selling out because you already have other means of getting income and will not depend on your Bitcoin investment to feed, it will also make you have a better amount in your discretionary which you can be accumulating Bitcoin with either every weeks or months and even accumulate aggressively without overly doing it when there is a market decline.

Yeah I don’t buy the collecting cans for 2 years and getting an entire bitcoin.

How much was bitcoin 2 years back? Like $35K or so. Even if you found $30 worth of cans a day which is an entire days work there is no way you would have enough if you even managed to buy all your bitcoins at $35K.

Most people who collect cans are homeless and buy food instead of investments like crypto.

What on earth could be more life changing than the accumulation of over or close to 1 Bitcoin you stated this user was able to acquire in just 2yrs? Because to be frankly speaking, with the current rate of Bitcoin been valued at $112,000 per BTC at the moment, let's assume if this user would have accumulated more than half Bitcoin, (i.e 0.5 BTC or 0.7 BTC), if we are to convert that into dollar, then that's roughly over $55,000 to $77,000 he must have accumulated in just 2yrs. Which is actually quite life changing, That is, judging by what you stated above.

As it was said, the story is more about discipline and making what you do count than about collecting cans as a good way to get a good amount of BTC... I too don't buy into it in that regard ;D

It doesn't matter, words of encouragement is a great tool that have turned the tide of many past wars before, weak soldiers can instantly turned aggressive by words of encouragement, in their own term they call it battle cry.

I couldn't have gotten anywhere in this crypto space if I've not seen people sharing their success stories online, it's the fire that's needed to burn a steak before it can finally be eaten.

Hopes, Fiath, encourages, these are necessarily good for human consumption, many innovations are been created starting from these words alone, it's how we got here in the first place, Nakamoto Satoshi isn't an alien.

Because it is. In my nation, you need to gather 45 TONS of it to get 1 bitcoin. Not kilos, not pounds, TONS of it. As in 45 THOUSAND kilos. So of course, it is a lie and nobody gathered 45 tons of these cans to get one bitcoin in return. People say whatever they want to say, it is not going to be realistic and make us agree with that.

Even if you have been doing this for two years, and even if you are not at 1 bitcoin exactly but close to it, that still means a lot more. By comparison for 2 years, if you want to gather 45 tons of it, you need to pick up 61 kilos of it EVERY day, not just sometimes, EVERY day. I am sorry, but nobody is out there picking up 61 kilos of cans every single day as a side hustle, hell I am sure very few average that as a full time business.

Yeah I believe that, he told me if he start picking cans for 2 years and sold it, he got $2K for his hard work. Then he sold 2 villas for $150,000, now he own 1 Bitcoin, hoorayyy. :D

You forget if not everyone have the same IQ, mentality and knowledge like you.

I'm sure you already in better position, that's why you can give advise how to step up from rock bottom, unfortunately they're not same like you, so they can't think the way to escape from their current condition.

This is just one of the most easiest ways to accumulate bitcoins. Others may complain about different things like how to raise money to buy bitcoins, how to buy bitcoins without being scammed and this natural reluctance to use their money to buy a volatile asset. Here, they get paid in bitcoins every week just by making eligible posts here in the forum. With this easy option available to them, anyone who still has excuses as to why he cannot DCA part of the bitcoins he earns here is not emotionally and generally ready to invest in bitcoin.  They will do the right thing when they finally become ready.

Bitcoin accumulation is a long process so concentrating all your time only on Bitcoin accumulation without any side hustle is not a good thing to do because it's going to impact on your financial balance because you can't use all your earnings for the purpose of accumulating Bitcoin because you have other expenses to take care off .


So the best thing to do is to have a side hustle that will be as a back up plane which will fetch you alternative source of income

The main point I can take away is that finding any job that can provide income to survive and allow us to buy more Bitcoin without having to adjust our budget further from our income is certainly a very positive and reasonable thing. Regardless of whether the story about the can hunter is true or not, I personally don't really care because he probably always gets at least hundreds of kilos of cans a week, lol.

On the other hand, this may ultimately be encouraging for some people, especially beginners who believe motivational quotes like this. However, I have a slight concern about those who focus too much on what others have and try to implement the same thing without understanding the risks that could occur at any time. Considering the background of two years ago compared to now, it's clear this will be a multiple benefit. For now, even though I strongly believe Bitcoin will be much more than this in the long term, for new people or those just getting started with Bitcoin, they always want to avoid the short-term impact, so it's still important to learn how Bitcoin works before actually investing in it.

I really don't know how true this news is but I know is possible because I have a close relative who picks cans as his side hustle and he makes good amount of money from it because he sells it to companies.

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You never can tell ,but I want to let you know that there's nothing so impossible in life especially when it's your appointed time to rise,it will just happen to you surprisely..
And again life is all about determination, confidence, consistent and industrious.

The very young Man has a plan and goals that he is pursuing and he sacrificed himself in order to achieve his common goals and at the end he was able to achieve it ,and now that he was able to achieve his goal,his story begans to looks common,,but I must tell you that if the young man, were to narrate his life story on how he was able to achieve that which he has planned , you will know that the journey has not been easy for him,but it's just all about determination...

Lots of people are so picky towards picking some side jobs that's why they never think that its possible to save some Bitcoins thru the small efforts made by that person mentioned by OP.

Now that we see some living proof that its really possible to accumulate Bitcoin thru those small things that we know then I guess for sure that lots of people will get inspired to try those things then maybe save some Bitcoins for long term purposes.

With those things he made we could see that he's really good on savings and he's been rewarded so well especially that Bitcoin price increase so for sure that they earn good profit with those all efforts he made.

I don't know anyone who does such hustle, but after doing a little bit of reading on the internet, I got to know it's quite lucrative. Although scavengers do make that much. I mean, those people who go from dumps to dumps, picking trash. It's the middlemen who buy from the scavengers and sell to the factories that make most of the profit. So if the Brazilian man is also acting as a middleman, it's very possible to save up to 1 BTC.

This is a 21st century lucrative business that many people are not aware of cause of how dirty looking the business is but they forgot that the money made from it is not dirty. It is not mandatory you have to be a middleman to make better profit from it, you can make large profit by gathering it in large quantities before going to sell it to the middlemen. In this present day there a countless of lucrative businesses to do to make money which people are not looking into that direction but are tossing towards white-collar jobs and the rest.

First of all, someone who wants to seriously accumulate in the long term must first ensure that they have a steady income, so that they can gradually accumulate Bitcoin. Apply the DCA method, because this method is one of the best methods for accumulating Bitcoin at this time. You don't need to worry about when the best time to buy is, just buy it when you have extra money (discretionary funds). Make sure all your real-life needs are met, and if possible, have at least some emergency funds set aside. This is important because if you ever have an urgent situation that requires money, you can use those emergency funds instead of selling your Bitcoin holdings.

No matter how much trash or bottles from trash you collect every day, it is not possible, or at least not believable, for someone to make more than $10k a month from it in a country like Brazil, where the average annual wage is around $7,000. Someone who is doing an average job in Brazil roughly earns $7k to $8k a year, and you are saying that one can easily make that much money by collecting plastic bottles from the trash cans and then selling them to companies. I can't believe this, even if it's true, it's a rarity, and not every person can make that much money from this, so it's not a type of business model that everyone should get inspired by.

However, I do agree with you that there are a lot of business ideas that people overlook, thinking that they might not be able to make any money from them, but those businesses aren't related to this; they are just small businesses, and if run well, they can generate good revenue. Some people do try them, and then when someone starts from a small business and then grows his business and become wealthy and own many branches of the same business, that's when people start thinking of starting a business like that. :)

I am currently DCAing the bitcoins I earn here. Infact I started this right from the first time I joined a signature campaign. It is very convenient and doesn't stress you at all. Someone out there who earns from signature campaigns is still contemplating? Yes, he's not ready. If he cannot accumulate bitcoins from little things like this, will he be able to pull out large capital from his pocket to buy bitcoin? Definitely, NO is the answer.

If you are a salary earner, and your salary is low, you will have to spend all the money on basic things which you need, so there is no room for saving or making any investment, I know things like this do happen, but if you are in conditions like this, then you have to be smart also, you have to look for other things which you will be doing thats going to increase your earnings which you will be able to invest some at the end, or try and get another job thats going to pay more better.

In life you shouldn’t focus on what’s happening currently alone, we should always make plans ahead for future, if you don’t invest for future, then you might end up suffering or struggling later in the future, so when we still younger, we should just make sure we have plans for the future, don’t spend everything you earning right now, make sure we have multiple sources of income, incase if anything happens to one, you will be able to depend on others.

...I had to make a research to confirm your words and yep, you are correct the average Brazilian earns approximately BRL 40,200 annually which is worth $7,000 plus.

Yet people do go the extra miles in all walks of business to achieve the rarity, and this is not about what we believe it is about the possibility of any such thing occurring, and not to dismiss it because it's rare.

I know a man in my local community that has different trash collecting centres starting with one from the beginning, you will be marveled at the mansion owned by this man through the trashed collection business.

I used to pick up snails around SF and sell them online to buy Bitcoins.

Bitcoin was $50-$100.  So, a Bitcoin every 100 free snails I could wrangle.

It's hard to have multiple source of income if a person has a full-time job already. Better choice is make investments while we have a stable source of income. Practice delayed gratification and only spend on what is needed.

Not everyone can have side hustle but it shouldn't stop us from accumulating bitcoin. Even 1% of our salary is enough to buy and save for long term if done consistently.

There are more stories on social media about people who have accumulated wealth by stacking sats. We should not believe all the stories but the story about the Brazilian man is not unique. A side hustle to stack sats is a good idea if you get another income to buy BTC.

It does matter. Because if you tell people to get a side gig, and they can get 1 bitcoin (or even half) in 2 years, when they can't, then you are tricking them and they will be very upset when they earn a lot less. Look at the guy who figured out how much is needed, so if you tell people to get some cans, and they make only 50 bucks, then of course they will be mad at you.

I am not saying people shouldn't have a side gig where they buy some bitcoin with it, of course do that, but find a better way to get these people to get motivated, and not lie to them. This is why it's risky and dangerous, because you are fooling these people so they have no idea what they are dealing with, and as long as you lie to them, you are not going to get the best results.

If they have been lied to they will be very upset. There will be many stories about people who have been tricked because they earned less than the amount they were told. If everyone collected tin cans for Bitcoin who would become rich?

DCA is a proven technique that gives you best return over period of time. These days it's very easy to find online work that generates your discretionary funds and once you have discretionary funds at your disposal it becomes very easy to go for Bitcoin accumulation via DCA technique. The salary we get at the start of each month must be reserved for our day to day needs and some part of it must be saved for  emergency funds.f

Nothing is actually impossible to achieve when you set your mind to it. Steady drops of water can form a flood tomorrow before realizing it.

That may actually be the case of the Brazilian man who picks cans. He's just being consistent in his Bitcoin investment journey with the money he makes from his business. Before he knows it, he is close to having 1 BTC.

You and I can achieve such a goal someday, if we are consistent in our Bitcoin investment and have side hustles that we earn from. It may take a long time (depending on our investment money), but one thing is that we will get there someday.

I have no doubt about the Brazilian man having close to 1 BTC or not in two years. The thing I love about him is that he has foresight and understands what it means to secure a future in Bitcoin because that's what can change someone's financial status from being poor to rich.

Like what I'm trying to say to other people, just be consistent on what you're doing, and you'll hit it someday. If you're very negative to everything in the world, you won't reach your dreams but if you're trusting the process and believing to it, you'll eventually get there. Even if the story is not true, the concept and moral lesson is about being consistent and trusting Bitcoin. There are also similar stories I've read about Bitcoin and it's true, you really need to exert effort a lot in this space, and you can still do it right now since global adaptation is just getting started!

Online work has made it easier for people to accumulate bitcoin even without having to touch their salary. Some people are not even doing anything much but just doing some random tasks online and earning little crypto payments, which they can automatically convert to bitcoin and be saving it little by little. That’s if they don’t have any online paying job. The games and round section of this forum, which reward people with bitcoin for just predicting price accurately, can also be another side way of getting bitcoin by luck without putting in much effort.

First of all, i'm sure everyone has the same doubts as i do. How did he manage to accumulate almost 1 Bitcoin in 2 years just by collecting cans and selling them? i wonder, did he really earn money from just one job, collecting cans, or did he have other jobs as well?

However, looking at the positive side, this can motivate us to be more enthusiastic about accumulating Bitcoin, increasing our real life income, and gradually buying Bitcoin little by little. If we can consistently maintain our investments, this will surely grow into something significant someday.

For some people, it may be possible to invest regularly. But nowadays, many people are struggling, with just enough money to eat. They cannot even set aside a small portion of their money for investment. So, lucky are those who can do that on a regular basis. Currently, I am in the opposite situation. I have a main job, and crypto is an additional source of income for me. I cannot make Bitcoin my main source of income yet, because I am afraid of relying on Bitcoin due to its instability.

Finding a side job to earn more money to invest in Bitcoin is certainly a great idea. It certainly has a very positive impact. However, it's important to understand that finding a side job can be challenging for most people. Many people work long hours, often 8-10 hours, or even more. Therefore, finding a side job is certainly challenging, as time is often limited. Therefore, I believe that to earn extra or even more money, we must be willing to take risks, which can be significant. If we work in an office with a fixed monthly salary, that's certainly a safe haven. However, the problem is that salary increases can be very slow. Therefore, if we want to make a change in our lives and earn more money. Perhaps we can start a self-employed business, but this may require sacrificing our current job. Even though it's extremely risky, I think it's the path many people take to transform their lives and become more secure.

But if the context is looking for money to invest in Bitcoin, I don't think we need to worry. Because as long as we have cash, we can start and pay in installments to buy Bitcoin. So, regardless of the amount, the most important thing is to consistently accumulate Bitcoin. However, if you have no income at all, you'll definitely need to find a job first to earn money. Only then can you consider investing in Bitcoin.

Investing on Bitcoin is not about luck, it's about how determined a person can be in getting extra income that would enable them to have discretionary for regular accumulation, for those who find it difficult to feed, they don't have to be relaxed and depending on only food for survival, I know some who own a quiosk but was very determined to manage the quiosk for years till it turned into a mini mart and he's now comfortably feeding his family, managing his business and still have funds for other investments, so it about management and how determined one is to succeed that would motivate them to look for more source if income to be able to invest in Bitcoin and before you know it the person would go from shrimp to a whale as time goes on.

The first step to freedom is to quit such a job and find another one.
If your job should take all your time, it should pay you well to compensate for your time
But if your job should pay you rediclously low, it should allow you some time to hustle another side.
If you are stock in a job that pays little and consumes all your time, your first step is to quit the job.

If he has other boys that works for him and he pays them, it means he will earn enough and if he started 2022 when BTC was around 15k, this is possible because we are talking about daily DCA and not weekly or monthly DCA

The $15k Bitcoin price you mentioned didn't last long, it was the lowest Bitcoin price at the end of 2022, a few months before the price rose higher to reach its current price of over $100k. In my opinion, it's quite difficult to accumulate Bitcoin in a short period of time by relying solely on income from collecting cans and selling them, because i don't think that money is entirely discretionary income, their families must also use it for real-life expenses, so it's certain that the money has already been divided. But whatever the case, i hope it’s true and i hope he’s still holding onto it until now. If so, congratulations, they’ve made a huge profit from the rise in this cycle.

You don't need to be technically strong to earn online because if you see freelance platforms then people are earning dollars by providing services like online tuition and more. We can generate good amount from this forum by participating in signature campaigns. It's your choice whether you want to generate extra funds that will go straight into Bitcoin and by doing so we can reduce the stress on our monthly income. It's very important to have discretionary income that continuously goes into Bitcoin otherwise it's difficult to accumulate Bitcoin with consistency.     

I don't know how true this story is, and I don't care if it is true or not, but one thing I know is that I so much believe in the accumulation of Bitcoin because consistently accumulating Bitcoin will surely yield a reasonable amount that you can't even imagine you will be able to invest in. Accumulating 1 BTC or 2 BTC is possible because it depends on the income one is earning. For some people, accumulating this amount of Bitcoin is impossible, maybe because of what they earn. Everybody is not the same, but the important lesson here is just to accumulate Bitcoin, no matter the amount one can afford.

This is a good proof that no matter how expensive the price of bitcoin, it’s never impossible to purchase and own it. That’s just a matter of setting your priority and create a goal plan and eventually putting it into action.

There’s no impossible with bitcoin. If you don’t have sufficient amount to buy, then work for it by gaining a side hustle. With that, while you have your main income, your side hustle will give you additional income until you hit the right amount enough to buy a portion of bitcoin. And just keep doing the process until you find yourself already have impressive amount of bitcoin in your portfolio.

No magic, it's very possible to own Bitcoin it's just for one to plan well just as you said. Using money from other hustle to accumulate Bitcoin bit by bit will give you huge amount later. Its just what some one really want, and the advantage of having side hustle is that it will help you hold for long without panicking or touching your portfolio.

In this generation we have no excuse not to own any amount of Bitcoin, Bitcoin is just 16years old, have it has big potential for the future imagine Bitcoin in 30years. Very move matters in Bitcoin, just have Bitcoin no matter what no excuse, use your side hustle money into Bitcoin investment, see it has a life time investment and pension for yourself.  Imagine if you can hold even if is $100 Worth of Bitcoin in 30years time, you will be glad. The longer you keep your Bitcoin the more profit you gain.

Yes, I think that's the main thing.

It buys them some kind of hope, to be able to get out of the rat race, to have some dream of something else...

It's clearly not rational, it is a decision based on hope, not math

It's not magic,but I believe it works.Many young people do it because they can't afford to buy large amounts of Bitcoin at once.Nothing comes easily,one can start small with continuous savings methods and focus.So yea with the idea of side hustle,you can secure some funds and convert part to Bitcoin savings.