Sounds interesting, I will take a look at it.

On another note, the entire ordinals process for BTC sounds very interesting. "Earmarking satoshis for noteworthy events". Maybe not using your BTC to create income, but a great way to hunt for key satoshis. Almost like sorting through pennies to find mint marks and rare coins.

Either way, I'd be happy have this thread become populated with legit BTC income opportunities.

As a direct answer to the O.P. -

Coins Out Of Favor With The Social-Zeitgeist But Quietly Developing Big Things
ADA
ALGO
XLM

Coins In The Social-Zeitgeist But Have Valid Utility
LINK
SOL - note on SOL, personally I think SOL is going to go the route of a direct-to-consumer provider of blockchain goods and tech, but that's me

New Hype Alts That Could Either Be Smart Investments Or Could Instead Be For "Summer of the Beanie Babies" (for anyone who understands that reference)
KASPA
CASPER
NOSANA

I don't do meme coins. The social-zeitgeist by the grassroots investor population is enough for me in that regard.  

I hope that gives you some options to consider.

Uhhh.... no. I'm talking about credit card arbitrage in that example directly. But I'm using it as an illustration to loosely elicit understanding here to my point about using BTC to make money without disposal of the asset. When you borrow money from a credit card, at a low interest rate, and then invest that money at a higher rate for profit, that is arbitrage.

To your other point, yes I have swapped coins at moments of opportunity in the past. Specifically with ETH to acquire my first full BTC at the time. And the key there is not just to come out ahead in volume on it's own merits, but to come out ahead in volume greater than you would have at the moment you bought the original asset being swapped out. I wrote a very simple formula on a nice, childlike spreadsheet to help queue me to those moments of benefit in swaps and it's served me well every time.

And yet that still does not address the topic at hand - using your BTC somewhere in the markets to make money without disposing of it. I am looking for "on-topic content substance". Yawn and facepalm

And I agree with him as you've posted it here. We are definitely in the same spirit of conversation here......

I have an ongoing interest in finding out a variety of ways to use my BTC that doesn't involve selling it.  I'm finding that information about doing this is either the most closely guarded secret in crypto, or that nobody actually knows (myself included).

There were methods in the past, but they all went out the window with companies like BlockFi stealing stakeholders crypto and folding into bankruptcy. If I had more to offer than that, I'd post it here, but unfortunately I might be taking more information from the community on this one than exchanging useful information.

What methods does everyone know about to use your Bitcoin as an asset or high-interest earning vehicle rather than "having some and selling it"?

For example, I can arbitrage my high-credit limit from a CC issuer whom I've had an account with since '99. They will have an offer 0% and deposit the funds to my account directly (it's possible they only do this for long-term customers or 800+ score holders for anyone who wants to insist that this doesn't happen - I promise you that it does). I then take the funds and arbitrage them into something like PDI at almost 15% for the holding period. I've leveraged my credit and done it on "reputation".

But here we are as BTC holders - we have an asset.  There should be an entire market out there whereby you can leverage your BTC for income-schemes.

On a side note, please don't DM me to recruit for your personal income-scheme. Not interested, won't bite, you've got the wrong guy. But otherwise, I'm absolutely appreciative of any real insight, or publicly available tools.
Thank you in advance for anyone's market wisdom.

Market is dipping because so much the space has been infiltrated by grassroots investors who view capitalism and free-markets as akin to "gambling" as opposed to an inextricable way of freedom-in-life.

Too much emotion and fear by people who have family dinner conversations that include statements like "well you can do that stock market thing IF you trust them to PAY YOU! HA!", "I put 5k in and I'm up 200 dollars - should I pull it all out?" and "I'm glad I got out before it went to zero, man! Whew!". And so you get an ETF announcement and people aren't instant millionaires from it, then "it doesn't work! It's not true, sell it all before it goes to zero!"  And while I'm glad that crypto is widespread, an amount of vitriol towards the environment is warranted because the investing psychology clearly impacts these volatile markets.

But with that said, it's fine... bring it. I have stretch-goals in volume targets I need to hit and the lower it goes amidst this "ETF Hangover" the more volume I can add before my personal long-term-gains cutoff date.

The biggest "exchange issue" right now is that the market has been hit by the SEC debacle and it is no longer clear who has the best trading fees.

Binance.US is basically a swap now so the benefits of paying trading fees in BNB are basically gone - sure you can send stable coin to Binance to make buys but now you've paid the fees elsewhere, paid the gas to move the stable coin to Binance.US, etc.  With Binance.US in the state it's in now, about the only thing I can consider using it for is to swap alt coins into BTC if they happen to pump into a profit zone.

Coinbase got rid of "Pro", opting for a paid service instead. So now if you pay for that you'd better trade more than the value of the sub price for CoinbaseOne at 30 bucks a month. Probably not very hard to recover the 30 bucks, but it's yet another "subscription".

Where are the U.S. users doing their basic "buying/selling" at now without losing volume to excessive exchange fees?

We aren't out of the woods with the fed yet. Several coins are pumping from people buying the dips, but my guess is that we will see another selloff shortly hereafter and prices will take a hit. These small ralleys will be great for buying and selling the waves if you don't mind STG.  But long-term investors I think maybe should think twice about FOMOing in to these pumps.