Stoking the fire... who has considered entering into a silent-partnership? : )

Aside from investments, I consider passive-income any way you can make money from your hobbies or free-time.

If you're going to be posting on forums anyways, it's passive to make money from it; this isn't anyone's day-job.

Bill Gates worked very hard before he now makes passive-income on his stock holdings. 

Those are all horrible and very risky methods of income, and none of those are actually "passive." 

Hello everyone.

When I first started studying marketing and business the first suggestion I received from some successful people in my niche was to first establish a source of passive-income. For some this is placing ads on their personal website or otherwise capitalizing on their hobbies (e.g capitalizing on your forum hobbies with signature campaigns), and for others this means developing a product or service-solution which manages and sells itself.

Passive-income sources should be thought of as an investment. Like any kind of asset, it can be analyzed to determine whether your time-input is sufficient for your income-output. For example, if it takes you X hours a week to post on forums and you make $X.XX... maybe it would be more cost-efficient for you to learn a trade-skill, or take on some over-time, or make YouTube videos to promote your personal website or hobby. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Whatever it is you do, whether you manage an online-store or you post on BitcoinTalk forums on your weekends, share your knowledge with us so we can all support each other.

Shalom aleichem.

Yes sir, that is how credit works. It creates a need for currency which doesn't exist, and as such we have inflation.

I've read about 13 pages of replies so far... good stuff. I really appreciate some people laying out what they've done long-term for years and how it's going for them.

My advice:

Keep a ledger of your expenses, and go over your spending habits. This is very easy to do with banking statements, or for those who use cash just receipts or a memo book. You may not want to try to save every penny, because really your time is worth more than what you'll save, but maybe you'll find patterns.

For example, if every time you go to a certain city you eat at a specific restaurant because you like the food, maybe next time go try another place, you can see a lot of place's menus online nowdays and see if you'll save money or not in a few minutes, otherwise see if you can pick up a menu.

If you buy a bag of chips every payday when you're cashing your paycheck, look into having your wages direct deposited into a bank account.

When you buy a drink every time you stop for gas because you like the cashier, ask her out already and save that money for a date. 

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More advice:

1. If you have even a modicum of talent in the area, please learn to cook. It will save you a lot of money and your life will also be more fulfilled. : )
2. Have more than just one primary source of income. This could even be just helping friends sometimes with their computer for some cash.
3. Help your friends and family who aren't good with money. They will appreciate it and it gives you experience for your own.

Is the top-hashes toolbar not working for anyone else?

Edit: It's working now.

It would be useful to have a calculator on-site for calculating approximate daily profit with the current hash rate for each coin/algo.

STR is up to $0.002481 now!