I do agree with you on one point of getting no rank if you get involved in bounties. Because i have spent most of my time in bounties and never got any merit, the reason for not contributing to a forum other than bounties is, i was not aware of its importance and also afraid to post anything on my mind because i afraid this platform is full of experienced one and i have no experience so i passed that idea. Well after getting my first merit from a local community member i understood how things work here. So from then, i tried to get involved more.

The second thing is, you can join a signature campaign even if you have been involved in bounties. well, many seniors used to say, if you have selected in signatures then you should avoid bounties, because in bounties you have to post a report of your work weekly which effect the appearance of your profile. So, i suggest you should leave the bounties ones you selected in your signature.

The third thing on which i disagree is that, you do learn something while involved in bounties, because i used to make 2 line posts on Twitter, FB, etc. and i use my mind to make them, no wonder these are only 2 lines, but think for a second, if i have joined 10 bounties and making 2 different posts for each bounty then i am making 20 lines a day. And this has encouraged me to move toward writing articles and then toward YT videos. i kept growing and in that journey, i may have not earned a lot but i have got some basic knowledge of how the project gets into going and make money. I wrote more than 30 articles and 98% of them got selected which encouraged me to go further beyond it so i started to learn about SEO content writing skills and made a website and here is the result in front of you.


The point is you have to start from somewhere.

It seems you need extra effort to achieve that ha. Make profit without capital and only active on bitcointalk. It is very possible if you want to try to become an active member with a variety of new ideas. But you have to consistently do it, you need a lot of support so make positive things useful.
besides that there are also many other things you can do to generate dollars, namely participating in several give aways and several airdrops that you can find easily.

Search for Andreas Antonopoulos videos on YouTube https://youtube.com/@aantonop, he’s a good source of crypto knowledge. He’s the author of the book “Mastering Bitcoin” which was recommended by Cantsay earlier. I recommend watching his videos to anyone who wants to learn about the Bitcoin ecosystem.

For your second question, it’s true most bounties are useless and since you do not have any money to buy bitcoin you can grow your bitcointalk account to full member rank and hopefully participate in signature campaigns.

Participate in Bitcointalk Contests And Giveaways, here you can win some bitcoins.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5448924.0
In a few months, you will be able to apply to the Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns if you earn merit
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.msg62240816#msg62240816
This is a small income, but these coins will be enough for you to explore some projects.

Register on https://www.bitget.com/ without KYC or others and try to make some money first, just don't spend more than $100 at the beginning.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5414537.msg60989250#msg60989250

I rarely use YouTube for learning bit if you want to learn about Bitcoin and crypto then you should consider checking out the following links:

• Mastering Bitcoin (GitHub)
• The Internet of Money
• Mastering the Lightning Network
• Mastering Ethereum
• Beginners & Help Encyclopedia

I just went through your post history and I see that you've been in the bounty section of the forum and if you keep posting there you would end up without any knowledge and your account rank won't change and you won't be able to enrol in any signature campaign if perhaps that's what you mean by "without investment". So just try to go through those links provided above.