Bitcoin freelancing is dead?

[supercanada1]

I'm a person who would like to do some work for Bitcoin, so I monitor freelancing sites occasionally, and at this time I feel like the freelance market in Bitcoin is nearly dead. The Services board is 99% listings of services rather than people who are looking to buy some; XBTfreelancer is empty or has 1-2 projects most of the time; cryptogrind has mostly just ridiculously underpaid projects or again service announcements (shouldn't they be banned there?), and there's also not much available projects overall; workingforbitcoins has very little traffic, just a few projects per month.

It was theorized that Bitcoin will help alleviate poverty by allowing people to work online without any restrictions, but on practice this just isn't happening. In your opinion, what is the reason for this?

Sad to hear that, but most probably it is because of all the volatility of bitcoin. Companies or institutions are hard pressed to keep bitcoin reserves because of the risk that the value will suddenly increase or decrease because whatever value they have, they still have to pay a fixed amount of regular operating expenses.

If we see more adoption and stabler valuations I'm sure this can easily change for the better.

Bitcoin freelancing is not dead at all, but there were just some opportunities that are not profitable nowadays just like joining bounty campaigns, Signature campaigns that are paid in Bitcoin, also marketer, administration, social media manager, and other ICO related job are not that in demand now compare last year.

The reason behind this change is the present strength of bitcoin. Bitcoin always had the potential to survive but no one can deny the fact that campaigns played a vital role in its success too. Now trading is the most beneficial way of making money from bitcoin or increasing the its amount. There is blogging and options like making youtube channel regarding bitcoin or come up with one’s own business.

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[AGroose]

I think your looking at this in a wrong method, I wouldn't argue that Bitcoin freelancing is dead as a whole, but instead freelancing as a whole has been going downhill ever since everything has become a lot more professional.

The only companies that ever really hired freelancers are the new startups that would like to save a couple of bucks and go with a design/marketing/development agency, or a regular person who can't afford that much.

With the industry becoming a lot more professional and less start up and crypto start ups that are popping up, we are obviously going to see the market shrink.

The reason is simple - bitcoin is very volatile. For example, you agreed with the employer on 0.2 bitcoin. And the next day he fell 2 times. Freelancers do not want to work because of this risk. Therefore, many go to bounty and airdrops from other projects

[AicecreaME]

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That is one of the chain-effect of the 2018 bear market. Some of the individuals or companies didn't able to withstand the wrath of it. And aside from that, even there is a so-called "project", maybe others aren't interested anymore to test the waters at those freelance works that pay in crypto.

Back during the hype of 2017, lots of projects just popped out of nowhere due to the fact that it's quite easy to set up a project as regulations aren't that strict.

But don't stop, if someone has a special talent, just continue offering services at any platform. However, consider thinking about other alternatives as we all know that any crypto-related works aren't bound to lasts forever.

True enough, rather than grieving on what happened, make yourself more productive and search for alternatives of it, as long as we are earning bitcoin no matter what services it is (it should be legal), it is still an achievement and it means that bitcoin is fulfilling its promises and its job to help people, we just have to look on different angle to see other opportunities to help us.

We could not rely to bitcoin all the works, there is a saying that "actions speaks louder than voice"

[huu78]

Cryptocurrencies usually follow the existing trend flows such as when trading there are trend rises and downtrend. As the style event model has its time and will be replaced more efficiently and crowded.
It is true that I think bitcoins help reduce poverty like myself since I participated in promotions and other prizes. However, we must at all times be ready if there is a new trend model like the ICO is constantly dying and moving to IEO.

[tambok]

I think your looking at this in a wrong method, I wouldn't argue that Bitcoin freelancing is dead as a whole, but instead freelancing as a whole has been going downhill ever since everything has become a lot more professional.

The only companies that ever really hired freelancers are the new startups that would like to save a couple of bucks and go with a design/marketing/development agency, or a regular person who can't afford that much.

With the industry becoming a lot more professional and less start up and crypto start ups that are popping up, we are obviously going to see the market shrink.

The reason is simple - bitcoin is very volatile. For example, you agreed with the employer on 0.2 bitcoin. And the next day he fell 2 times. Freelancers do not want to work because of this risk. Therefore, many go to bounty and airdrops from other projects

Agree with you, my friends are also doing Bitcoin freelancing and up to this date, they are still here in cryptocurrency, doing some job, they even have some offer too, but they refuse to accept some as they are already loaded with what they are doing, so I doubt that freelancing is already dead, it's not true.

[meliodas]

I think your looking at this in a wrong method, I wouldn't argue that Bitcoin freelancing is dead as a whole, but instead freelancing as a whole has been going downhill ever since everything has become a lot more professional.

The only companies that ever really hired freelancers are the new startups that would like to save a couple of bucks and go with a design/marketing/development agency, or a regular person who can't afford that much.

With the industry becoming a lot more professional and less start up and crypto start ups that are popping up, we are obviously going to see the market shrink.

The reason is simple - bitcoin is very volatile. For example, you agreed with the employer on 0.2 bitcoin. And the next day he fell 2 times. Freelancers do not want to work because of this risk. Therefore, many go to bounty and airdrops from other projects

Agree with you, my friends are also doing Bitcoin freelancing and up to this date, they are still here in cryptocurrency, doing some job, they even have some offer too, but they refuse to accept some as they are already loaded with what they are doing, so I doubt that freelancing is already dead, it's not true.

Freelancing will not become dead even after 10 years. Freelancing is one of the most underrated type of job because some of the people are skeptical with freelancing since they think that the salary is not stable and it is not like the regular job but they are wrong because you could possibly earn more in freelancing compare to other jobs because you are so flexible with your time and you can accept as much as client you want.

[ivakar]

i think that the problem and the reason is not the way people get paid, by cash or by bitcoin, the market itself, the meta has changed.
now I think outsourcing is the king of the jungle and that is very different story with it  own way of negotiations, payments and so on..

[Colt81]

I don't see that the bitcoin freelancing is dead because as we can see there is a bounty and signature campaigns in which we can say that it is a bitcoin freelancing because we are working in exchange of a bitcoin and we can see that bitcoin freelancing is any job that is paid by bitcoin and other coins, so we can say that bitcoin freelancing is not dead because until now there is a job that is paid by bitcoin.

[NathanJB]

I don't see that the bitcoin freelancing is dead because as we can see there is a bounty and signature campaigns in which we can say that it is a bitcoin freelancing because we are working in exchange of a bitcoin and we can see that bitcoin freelancing is any job that is paid by bitcoin and other coins, so we can say that bitcoin freelancing is not dead because until now there is a job that is paid by bitcoin.

And how many campaigns out there that are being paid with Bitcoin? There are only a handful. And these jobs are actually bounty related. It may still be considered a freelancing job. However, I want to see more of freelancing jobs such as article writing, SEOs, programming, virtual assistance, and so many more that will be paying in Bitcoin. There was a time when projects were created on the freelancing industry. But they seemed to be faring less than good.

[fullhdpixel]

It was theorized that Bitcoin will help alleviate poverty by allowing people to work online without any restrictions, but on practice this just isn't happening. In your opinion, what is the reason for this?

Was that what satoshi really promised in his abstract or what we chose to believe of bitcoin when we got to know about it? And I think some of these misconceptions of bitcoin are caused by the people that actually introduced it to us, but we should have ourselves made findings on all these before we openly broadcast it.

There are so many benefits of bitcoin, and it is left to us to actually explore it and use it to our own benefit which may intend alleviate poverty, but the sole work of bitcoin is to create a peer transaction. Since the market became tight a little, it is been difficult to get bitcoin freelance jobs, but there are still other ways like trading that you can use to still make your daily income from bitcoin if you learn how to really do so.

[imstillthebest]

Since the market became tight a little, it is been difficult to get bitcoin freelance jobs,

tight or indemand must lead to explosion of jobs and careers  . these days we can now find many sites that offers jobs and pays in crypto when compare to before but then again the competition is tight  .

but there are still other ways like trading that you can use to still make your daily income from bitcoin if you learn how to really do so.

trading is not easy but still learnable however the problem is that trading is not free  . you still need to find a job to earn and you can then use those funds to start trading  .

[doomistake]

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There were a lot of ICO's that plans to create one but they all failed miserably in the market, people are still hoping, Bitcoin could be a life saver for those who want to work from home doing a task.

Lols, I think I have seen tens of ICOs that were claiming they will solve the problem of freelancers and they will get you better payments better ....everything. But if you use common sense and realize that no matter what technology you have at hand if you don't have water you can't grow fish, it was clear from the start that all those projects depend on people that are offering those jobs
And if there is no offer, you can't create them from this air...

I hate to admit it but you are right, ICOs are politicians that's better at making promises but never fulfilling it, they do all the talking but they lack in actions, they are just after our money and support, after that, they will throw our efforts and trust on trash cans like nothing. ICOs are the human, we are the fish, and they put us on a very nice aquarium and feed us (false hope) and when after we made them happy (by making their ICO a success)

they will break that aquarium leaving the all fish dies that can't breathe without water.

[Yaunfitda]

It was theorized that Bitcoin will help alleviate poverty by allowing people to work online without any restrictions, but on practice this just isn't happening. In your opinion, what is the reason for this?

Was that what satoshi really promised in his abstract or what we chose to believe of bitcoin when we got to know about it? And I think some of these misconceptions of bitcoin are caused by the people that actually introduced it to us, but we should have ourselves made findings on all these before we openly broadcast it.

To be honest, it is not what Satoshi envision.

There are so many benefits of bitcoin, and it is left to us to actually explore it and use it to our own benefit which may intend alleviate poverty, but the sole work of bitcoin is to create a peer transaction. Since the market became tight a little, it is been difficult to get bitcoin freelance jobs, but there are still other ways like trading that you can use to still make your daily income from bitcoin if you learn how to really do so.

Of course there are so many ways, after all bitcoin is still in it's infancy, 10 years? damn, that was young if you are going to have a market comparison. So as it mature, it also evolved, it could be used as peer to peer transaction, then it will become sound money. Just maybe in the future freelancing job will also evolved and be mature enough to accept bitcoin as payment method.

[smyslov]

I'm a person who would like to do some work for Bitcoin, so I monitor freelancing sites occasionally, and at this time I feel like the freelance market in Bitcoin is nearly dead. The Services board is 99% listings of services rather than people who are looking to buy some; XBTfreelancer is empty or has 1-2 projects most of the time; cryptogrind has mostly just ridiculously underpaid projects or again service announcements (shouldn't they be banned there?), and there's also not much available projects overall; workingforbitcoins has very little traffic, just a few projects per month.

It was theorized that Bitcoin will help alleviate poverty by allowing people to work online without any restrictions, but on practice this just isn't happening. In your opinion, what is the reason for this?

I don't think it is totally dead you can check the service section, it has a lot of freelancers that offer various works in exchange for Bitcoin, and we have many signature promoter who gets paid in Bitcoin by promoting various projects like gambling, mixer and exchanges, it's not totally dead, we just lack one big marketplace like Fiverr, that will housed every Bitcoin related freelancers.

[Wintersoldier]

I think your looking at this in a wrong method, I wouldn't argue that Bitcoin freelancing is dead as a whole, but instead freelancing as a whole has been going downhill ever since everything has become a lot more professional.

The only companies that ever really hired freelancers are the new startups that would like to save a couple of bucks and go with a design/marketing/development agency, or a regular person who can't afford that much.

With the industry becoming a lot more professional and less start up and crypto start ups that are popping up, we are obviously going to see the market shrink.

The reason is simple - bitcoin is very volatile. For example, you agreed with the employer on 0.2 bitcoin. And the next day he fell 2 times. Freelancers do not want to work because of this risk. Therefore, many go to bounty and airdrops from other projects

It is quite easy to settle if the value they will choose will not depend on the market price of the crypto/bitcoin itself. But to consider that USD or stable coin conversion so they will have the same standard on how they will set the price for each services that they will offer and accept. Most of the time, this is happening as the main example are the bounty campaigns that has the rate of USD in their Bitcoin payment.

[tinyteapot]

In my personal opinion i will conclude that free premium job listing bitcoin freelancing services like https://www.xbtfreelancer.com are dead but there is one that requires an upgrade that still operates actively https://crypto.jobs requires $199 upgrade fees.

I really miss https://www.xbtfreelancer.com  

[Aying]

I don't see that the bitcoin freelancing is dead because as we can see there is a bounty and signature campaigns in which we can say that it is a bitcoin freelancing because we are working in exchange of a bitcoin and we can see that bitcoin freelancing is any job that is paid by bitcoin and other coins, so we can say that bitcoin freelancing is not dead because until now there is a job that is paid by bitcoin.

Yes, you are right. it is not dead. some freelancers are taking their move and find any job on crypto on their own. it is affect because of market but we are not blaming the market the most because a lot of projects now are not finding any much freelancers. everyone are worried too much on what is happening. freelancers are multiplied and you can find them anywhere in social media's. every each of them are hard worker and find crypto a better solution in future. 

[dimox]

its not dead, the salary is not like last year, and thats why people said that its dead, or bitcoin popularity down, etc. if you searching more and more. you will find the best. and its not give you high salary, but it will give you some token that have big potential in the future

[peempeem]

The market just isn't mature enough yet. We are still in the volatile phase of crypto, it might honestly take years to go mainstream to the extent that it will support a freelancer platform.

Another issue is lack of escrow.

But really it's the same reason why there aren't so many other mature services for crypto.

Even though bitcoin is almost fully mined, it's still volatile.

Things will only change when the masses can easily get their hands on crypto and I don't mean via an online exchange.

It's a shame that there isn't a whale out there who could just give away say 100 bucks of bitcoin in some kind of postcode lottery. Not too much that people would use an exchange but enough that people will just spend it instead.

[meliodas]

its not dead, the salary is not like last year, and thats why people said that its dead, or bitcoin popularity down, etc. if you searching more and more. you will find the best. and its not give you high salary, but it will give you some token that have big potential in the future

I agree with that. It is all about searching for the possible opportunities in the world of cryptocurrency to see some projects that could be the next big thing in the market of cryptocurrencies. It is all about having dedication and you should be patient also because with this type of market, it is harder than before to find decent source of income because of the negative movement of the market.