Thank you all for the replies! What I don’t understand is your insistence on faucets. Let me be a broken record, you will more easily find a job that pays better even in you current situation than earn well in faucets, unless you intend to stick to this faucet thing for years. No insistence. I'm using a faucet right now, it's a way to make a buck while I don't have another option. In any case, I don't intend to earn well, and I definitely don't intend to stick with it for years. About getting a job, I've been job hunting since mid 2015 (yeah, even while I was working), and didn't even get a single interview. getting a job is not that easy everywhere. Don’t celebrate with your $2.49 just yet; it couldn’t even pay for the fees. That I don't understand. AFAIK, fees are a percentage of what you invest, and in some cases they may be pennies. But OTOH, the faucet I'm in lets you withdraw directly in BTC to your own wallet (they do have a fee), so no exchange is involved. Reading your posts, it seems to me that you have what it takes to write a more than decent news article, essay, review, or whatever content. There’s probably a lot of online writing jobs out there which pay you fairly.
I feel sorry for what you’re going through right now. I wish you all the luck in the world!
Thank you. The problem is I don't even know where to start, and I'm getting antsy. I know 5 bucks is not gonna change much, but it's a start. I keep coming here every day, and talking about things I'm not doing, and it gets frustrating. When I just joined the forum I read a blog from a guy who joined a signature campaign as a newbie. I can't argue about that, but today, even for full members, signature campaigns are scarce. I think the best advice in the thread was given to you by FatFork, but I'm not sure you understood it: Thank you, I did get it.  You seem to write well. If you have time to go to Starbucks and play faucets with their free connection, as well as to write posts in this thread, you could use that time and energy to write for a signature campaign. That doesn't mean staring at the ceiling, I don't know where you get that from. You are still a member but from full member I think you can easily make $30-40 a week.
Take advantage of the time you are going to Starbucks to write in the forum use faucets temporarily, as you have been told, in many cases you will not be able to pay even the fees with those amounts. However if you work on your Bitcointalk account you can earn good money. I earn $100-125 a week with my signature campaign... What would yo do with that money? Couldn't you live with that?
Think long term.
Thanks again. I'm not intending faucets as a full time job. I'm working towards joining a signature campaign, but as I can see it, I have another month (at the very least) before I rank up. The way I see it, even if cointiply ends up being a scam (I'll find out soon enough), it's just gonna be 5 bucks, and no actual money is coming out of my pocket. We'll see... |
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IQ stands for Intelligence Quantitative.
It is a parameter that is used to identify a person's intelligence.
These parameters may vary from situation to situation.
No, it doesn't, and it's not. IQ stands for Intelligence Quotient, and it's meant to create a relation between people's intelligence. Having an 160 IQ doesn't make you a genius, it just means you're above average. On the same token, having a 100 IQ doesn't mean you're an idiot. For the record, I did take the test about 10 years ago. Got a 148 score. Guess I should take it again, as it changes with age, but it's kinda boring... |
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Security codes are, at best, temporary fixes in an endless battle.
Personally, I think it's lame that crypto.com denied the hack, even when everybody knew about it, and were providing numbers as to its extent. It's great they refunded people, but in a market in which confidence is of utmost importance, I don't see the advantage of such a position.
I do think it's great to remind everybody to keep control over their assets. But, on the other hand, if you're trading, for example, you need to keep your coins in the exchange. I'd be very wary of having a single penny in an exchange that, if something happens, chooses to bury its head in the sand and act like everything's cool.
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Not really. Even language isn't that important. Lots of people have made great posts in other languages and enlisted others to translate them.
I think it's mostly a matter of attitude, of wanting to help. You have several English speakers trolling the "Politics & Society" board, just to make their signature campaign's quote, and seldom (if at all) making a useful post, and you have others making great posts in broken English, or directly in a foreign language. I think nothing beats willingness to help others. Of course, you need to also know what you're talking about, and general knowledge also helps, but in the end, you can be the most knowledgeable guy in the world, but if you keep to yourself, you're useless.
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- You build some sort of "scam detector"
- The shitty scams would easily be detected, giving people a false sense of security
- The shitty scams would make adjustments to find a loophole, to not get detected
- The scams would end up thriving anyway
So yea, it's a pipe dream; easily. The only thing that would stop scams to a certain extent would be education and being realistic.
Yeah, I was fearing that. Just keeping it updated would be a huge task. Kinda like what happened to viruses. Oh, well, it was an idea... |
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First, before even thinking about spending a penny: learn.
There's a good number of online courses on crypto. From very cheap ones on Udemy.com, to free ones at Tutsnode and ThePirateBay, the choice is yours. you can find many free ebooks too, and Wikipedia is always your friend.
Then, above all, never forget the #1 rule of investing:
Never invest what you can't afford to lose.
This rule may seem silly, but lots of people lost their lives for not following it. You WILL have emergencies. We all do. And you WILL face situations in which you HAVE to "bend" that rule "just a little bit". Don't. If you don't have the money to invest, don't invest, or try to get the money elsewhere. But do not bury yourself, ever.
One of your worst enemies is FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out). Don't fall for it. There will always be another chance. Just take your time, do your homework, and make a move when you're ready.
And, finally, read the forum, and ask questions. There's an ungodly amount of information here on pretty much everything, and there's also a whole lot of very knowledgeable people ready and more than willing to share.
Don't be shy: somebody said the only stupid question is the one not asked. Also, this forum has a great policy when it comes to dishonest people, so you can trust the answers you get.
And above all: DON'T GET DISCOURAGED!. The crypto world can be difficult, but if others can do it, so can you.
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Ok, it is interesting, as much as it is upsetting. And that's only the part I understood. I don't want to think how it would feel to get it all.  Now, my philosophy in these cases it to "grab them by the horns", but on this particular subject my knowledge is very limited. I saw a website (Scam detector, or something like that) a moment ago, and it got me thinking it'd be a good thing to be able to do something like that. Of course, you will never be able to get them all, but maybe to code a site to run a good algorithm on another site, and advice people accordingly... Or even to show a warning to anybody visiting that site, before directing them to it. Who knows? I'm just learning the basics of python myself, maybe in the future I'd be able to write something like that. Or even get in contact with the forum's more knowledgeable people (once I can add something to it), and come up with a sort of "crypto scam detector" for the forum? Would that make sense or is it just a pipe dream? |
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Love it. Always did. In Argentina there's a very popular pizza flavor (many, actually) that has mozzarella, hearts of palm ("palmitos" in Spanish) and "golf" sauce ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salsa_golf). Some people consider it disgusting, I love it. Then again, if it's about eating, what's not to love?  |
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Thank you all! Nakamura12: well, I'm on several faucets already, including Cointiply (I'm up to $2.49 already!  ), so my intention is to cash out as soon as I reach $5. We'll see... Have you heard of GPT sites?
Look it up on Google. A few years ago they were very popular. And today I also see their activity. But I can't recommend just one paying site, as it's desirable to participate in most of them and have some tricks that people use to increase their payouts. In any case, you need to try.
Well, I hadn't. Reading up on them now. I'll probably end up signing up on a few, see how they go. Thanks for the tip.  Joining crypto faucets isn't bad, unless if you'll get nothing from them. But yeah, we can't expect them it gives us much, not much as $1. if were not deemed doing complaint of receiving small amounts then, that's good. Maybe within a year of doing this, you can earn more... https://cryptoprofits24.com/crypto-faucets-list/I'm not sure how these faucets works, maybe someone had even try one of them. Couldn't open the link... I'll work on it in a moment... |
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Took me a long time to answer because we have been under non stop rain since the weekend, and I have to walk 9 blocks to get internet access. Sorry.
Wow! I can relate what rhe picture of this could look like, sometimes work takes me to a place of function where I go through this and its usually so bad. This tells you how appreciative being in a good weather condition with network access could be. Easy Internet, easy life. Well, personally what it tells me is I'm about ready to move to the middle of the Sahara... |
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Oh, most definitely. I know a lot of Linux users love to work endlessly on their machines, tweaking this and that, but that's not really what moves me. I want an OS to be reliable, fast, and to get out of the way while I'm working. Since I love Openbox, I loved Mabox Linux, but I found years ago a big drawback with community projects is they lack a general direction. Loved the Crunchbang! feeling, but didn't like the non-customizable menu at all, and then somehow the repos got all screwed up, so I couldn't update. Not good. I have downloaded OpenSuse Tumbleweed and have it running on virtualbox, but can't really find the time to test it out. I love the fact that's a rolling release, so I don't have to be reinstalling it after every 6 months like Fedora, but we'll see. Kaggie: never had those problems with Ubuntu. Especially not my OS bricking my pc. I guess I left Ubuntu at the right time... I'd recommend you get virtualbox and start testing other distros. You sure got plenty of them to keep you entertained... |
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Thank you Mpamaegbu. Yeah, it sucks, but I don't waste my time complaining. I'm trying to find a way out. Actually, it took me 3 1/2 days (I'm up to $2.16 now. ) and the minimal withdrawal is $5, so I'm hoping to withdraw, maybe, at the beginning of next week? Good thing is it pays directly in BTC, so I save the transaction fees... Fatfork: yeah, I'm planning on doing all that. But right now money is getting tighter, so to spend all day staring at the ceiling is just not a good option for me. I'm kinda hyper, people say I live in a constant sugar rush, so this is also a way to release some steam. I just don't want to get scammed... |
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Bitcasino.io Support: just a bit of a correction to one of your "fun facts" (#6): as of today, there are 17001 cryptocurrencies listed in Coinmarketcap.
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Thank you noorman0, I'll check it out. About my internet bill, I'm good. I don't have internet. Every day I come to a nearby Starbucks store to use their connection, so Internet and electricity are free. I'm somehow "working" while I'm here, thanks to a friend who's lending a hand. That's (barely) paying the bills. What faucets afford me is money I can't spend on food, and at the same time money I can get crypto with, which is the other major hurdle I'm facing. |
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Freebitco.in is pretty much the only one I remember that still exist today that is legit as far as I know.
As for faucets being a waste of time, yea.. I understand what you're saying because I'm also currently in a 3rd world country. But with that amount of money earned I'd rather just get hired as a virtual assistant instead; or a encoder, or a translator, or heck, I'd rather work at McDonalds. Pretty much any job/gig is better than faucets lol.
Thank you, that helps! As far as getting hired, I'd be happy if I was hired to keep the fires of hell going right now. But I have been actively looking for pretty much anything that pays, and haven't had a single interview in more than a year and a half, so I'm not holding my breath. This gives me a chance to do something, bad as it may be, to at least start. |
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Thank you both for the replies.
As I said, that's not what I'm looking for.
I'm doing my best to add to the forum, but my knowledge of cryptocurrency is limited. When I started, I read a blog by somebody that claimed he had joined a signature campaign as a newbie. That didn't happen. Ever since, Signature campaigns seem to be getting ever more scarce, ever more demanding, and paying less by the minute.
I'm learning python programming. But the course's name would've been more accurate if instead of saying "all you need to program in python" said "all you need to print shit on the python shell". I love it, but I'm far from ready to start working on it.
I'm also bilingual. Tried to start translating (English-Spanish), but that didn't work out either.
About the "waste of time" thing, if the alternative is to spend your time doing nothing, then working for what you consider "peanuts" is far from wasting anything.
Can I survive on $8.56 a month? No, I can't. But I can wet a pinkie on the crypto pool, and right now I can't, and couldn't do it if I was a millionaire.
PLEASE: I need to know which faucets are good/bad/scams. I already know they are, RIGHT NOW, the only suitable option I have.
I didn't know about the Micro Earnings board. Sorry about that.
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Thank you Ratimov. I really appreciate it! |
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Ok, so I'm a newbie, I've been trying for months to start investing in cryptocurrencies, and, so far, nothing even remotely good is happening. Just to be clear, I'm well aware of what most think of crypto faucets. It makes sense, for somebody living in the US or any other developed country, to not "waste their time" on them, as you can make a lot more money just by trimming your neighbour's grass, if needed. But some of us aren't that lucky. In my particular case, I have been unemployed since April 2020, and I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Meanwhile, even the chance of me getting a crappy job (which at this time would be a blessing) at my age and in a country which has been economically ravaged by the pandemic is slim in the best of cases. To make things worse, even if I did get a job, the law here only allows internet transactions to be made with credit cards, so I could have a truckload of money, and still would be unable to use it. So last week I started reading about crypto faucets. Got into Cointiply, and since last Sunday I have managed to raise a grand total of $2.14 ( ), which is very little by any means, but it's much better than nothing. So this thread is intended to get some information from you, more knowledgeable guys, as well as to help other newbs that may be in a similar situation. The question is: Which faucets do you guys recommend or not? I'm looking for reliable information on honest sites where I can make a buck. I don't mind working for what most would consider "peanuts". What I don't want is to waste my time for nothing, or to get to those "deposit $$$ to get $$$$$" scams. I have come up with this site: https://cryptofaucets.cash/2021/02/01/best-free-bitcoin-faucets/ that lists 27 faucets as "the best ones". How trustworthy is it? Do you have any experience in any of those faucets? Thank you all in advance. |
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