[Life lesson]Nothing is really free

[tech30338]

It took me quite a long time to understand that nothing is really free, to the least you will be giving away your time. If you don't find whatever you do worthy of your time, don't do it.

Ppc, faucets and such are waste of time to earn money. If you put the same amount of time in learning some valuable skill you will earn better.

we may not spend money, but in return, it will still consume our time, which is still will take away the other tasks that we earn and cost us money in the run, people only say it's free because they don't spend money but in reality, they are consuming the most precious thing on earth time, if you use your time wisely, you will get better results.

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[reagansimms]

Everything related to Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency can be learned for free here, this is what encourages newcomers to register almost every day on the Bitcointalk platform. As long as it is not based on laziness, is willing to think about moving forward and is committed to learning something useful while on the forum, the time they invest here will be much more beneficial than just collecting theory without practical support or being directly involved with what is learned.
I would encourage newcomers to value their time to learn something more valuable than to be tempted by something that is not worth the time spent. It needs to be underlined and if necessary pinned in every member's mind, PPC, faucet is just a waste of time.

[sokani]

It took me quite a long time to understand that nothing is really free, to the least you will be giving away your time. If you don't find whatever you do worthy of your time, don't do it.

Ppc, faucets and such are waste of time to earn money. If you put the same amount of time in learning some valuable skill you will earn better.

I beg to differ here because there are actually free things. I've never done faucet hunting but from what I read, the first bitcoin faucet paid 5 BTC to participants for doing absolutely nothing. This might be of little value back in the days but for the persons who held unto their Bitcoin before cashing out, they would have made a fortune. There's this story I read about a teenager who became a millionaire after he found the Bitcoin he got from faucet. So don't be too critical on people that are into it because you don't know what tomorrow holds. However, if I were to choose between faucet hunting and learning a skill, I would opt to learn a skill.  

[Saisher]

It took me quite a long time to understand that nothing is really free, to the least you will be giving away your time. If you don't find whatever you do worthy of your time, don't do it.

Ppc, faucets and such are waste of time to earn money. If you put the same amount of time in learning some valuable skill you will earn better.

Faucets used to be good ten years ago but not now before you can cash out you will need two or three years or have hundreds of active referrals, faucets, and PTC are totally waste of time the only ones who make money from these are the owners of these faucets and PTC, many active clickers give up after several months so the admin only payout users that are dedicated, its the newbie that are looking for ways to earn free satoshis that are the victims of these faucets until they found out that its not worth it.

[libert19]

Faucets used to be good ten years ago but not now before you can cash out you will need two or three years or have hundreds of active referrals, faucets, and PTC are totally waste of time the only ones who make money from these are the owners of these faucets and PTC, many active clickers give up after several months so the admin only payout users that are dedicated, its the newbie that are looking for ways to earn free satoshis that are the victims of these faucets until they found out that its not worth it.

Faucets were never good, people are looking at faucets earning of then with current prices, which is untruth. 5 BTC at 1 cents/BTC is 5 cents.

[SockAi]

It took me quite a long time to understand that nothing is really free, to the least you will be giving away your time. If you don't find whatever you do worthy of your time, don't do it.

Ppc, faucets and such are waste of time to earn money. If you put the same amount of time in learning some valuable skill you will earn better.

Thanks for the good topic, OP. I agree 100% with the content of your post, but the title I would personally change a bit. We do not have to pay for the air we breath, and that wastes no time.  If you need to be outside anyway, ie. on the way too work, and you stop for a very brief moment to remember to enjoy the sunny day, then that nice moment was almost as free as the fresh air, just took a few seconds.

I'm trying to say a certain amount of happiness can "be free", and that is important. While attempting to build a better life, it can be great to remember to be happy with what you have right now.

[Lucius]

Faucets were never good, people are looking at faucets earning of then with current prices, which is untruth. 5 BTC at 1 cents/BTC is 5 cents.

Some people sound like a broken record, and you are repeating something without reading my previous post, or are you deliberately ignoring it? You probably think I'm lying or talking nonsense, but I've always thought that what I collect will one day be worth much more than it was then, and even today faucets can be profitable if you own one of them.

You also completely ignore the role that faucets played in the promotion of Bitcoin, so you shouldn't look at everything only from a profit perspective.

Besides, I don't believe that you knew that Bitcoin existed 10 years ago, and therefore you can't have personal experience from that time - I earned my first BTC just like that and I don't regret the time I spent at all. Every day I spent an hour or two less watching TV or playing games, and I don't consider that a loss.

[Outhue]

It took me quite a long time to understand that nothing is really free, to the least you will be giving away your time. If you don't find whatever you do worthy of your time, don't do it.

Time is money. This is the one thing that's always on my mind. Whenever I wake up in the morning, I always think of the things that I must do on that day, and will make me productive if I do that thing/s. For example, if I work on that day, that makes me productive.

There's no such thing as free money in this world. If only there is, we might not see poor people anymore. We aren't living in a Utopia, but we are living in a cruel world where you need something to get something in return.

Ppc, faucets and such are waste of time to earn money. If you put the same amount of time in learning some valuable skill you will earn better.

Maybe it's time to add bounty campaigns in the list, eh?

I mean for me, it's a waste of time joining into bounty campaigns already. I'm pertaining to those bounty campaigns that're paying the participants with their own native tokens. You will advertise the project, and in return you will be paid a few bucks... ohhh wait if you're lucky, you will be paid. Some if not most of the bounty campaigns aren't paying the participants, and if they are being paid, sometimes that token doesn't have any value at all. Quite unfortunate TBH.

Not yet, Bounties are still paying real money but not enough, the allocations are not worth is anymore so bounties are slowly fading away, there are few bounties that are still worth giving a try, like those projects from Julerz12, they aren't that bad, I can also see few casino campaigns paying with USDT, I believe this is better than Airdrops today.

If you are very good with finding altcoin gems I believe you will be able to avoid crap list of bounties in altcoin bounties section of the forum, for someone like me it's a piece of cake as I can easily filter the bad ones among the few good bounties.

The best bounty I saw in the altcoin section was Cocos that was renamed to Combo, that project did well in last bull market, follow the likes of Vulcan Forged and Alchemy Pay.

Maybe by next year, new projects will show up on the forum, but honestly, alts bounties are the those who are strong at the mind, many will turn to shit and few will do very well, it depend on if you are ready to take the risk.

[mvdheuvel1983]

It took me quite a long time to understand that nothing is really free, to the least you will be giving away your time. If you don't find whatever you do worthy of your time, don't do it.

Ppc, faucets and such are waste of time to earn money. If you put the same amount of time in learning some valuable skill you will earn better.

If you want to know the reasons why people spend so much time on PPC, Faucets, airdrops, and many rather than spending that same amount of time learning about bitcoin is because, it is the path of least resistance. It is very easy to do one or two steps and think that it will get you bitcoins. Do your own research about bitcoin is very hard. It requires hours of intentse and consistent study. However, this is the path that offers the most benefit.

[michellee]

What we think is not worth doing is not necessarily not worth doing for others. We currently feel that playing PPC, faucets and the like is just a waste of time because it is not commensurate with the results we can get. But not for those who are just learning because they will feel happy and challenged to get more when they try it and get very little results.

Let's go back to the early years after Bitcoin was released. At that time, people tried to collect Bitcoins through faucets and they could get a lot of satoshis in a day and some could even get 1 BTC in a day. But if they sell, they can't get much money but still try to collect more satoshi.

And some people mined Bitcoin because Bitcoin could be mined using a PC at that time. They might say you are not worth messing with the faucet because the results are only marginal. It's better if you just mined BTC, they say. But those people still play with faucets.

So, from that flashback, those of us who can already earn more satoshi than them might say it's better to look for another way to earn more satoshi. But they feel they cannot find another way, so they still use the methods they can and know. It's all a learning process and I'm sure if there are people who want to look for that opportunity, they will look for it until they find it.

[libert19]

Faucets were never good, people are looking at faucets earning of then with current prices, which is untruth. 5 BTC at 1 cents/BTC is 5 cents.

Some people sound like a broken record, and you are repeating something without reading my previous post, or are you deliberately ignoring it? You probably think I'm lying or talking nonsense, but I've always thought that what I collect will one day be worth much more than it was then, and even today faucets can be profitable if you own one of them.

You also completely ignore the role that faucets played in the promotion of Bitcoin, so you shouldn't look at everything only from a profit perspective.

Besides, I don't believe that you knew that Bitcoin existed 10 years ago, and therefore you can't have personal experience from that time - I earned my first BTC just like that and I don't regret the time I spent at all. Every day I spent an hour or two less watching TV or playing games, and I don't consider that a loss.

I deliberately ignored it cause I found your statement quite dubious. Regarding my entry into BTC, I came across Bitcoin first time around 2013ish when Stellar did an airdrop. I still have my blockchain.info wallet created in 2014. I had created account on bitcointalk during that time as well, it was hacked in 2015, I created new one in 2017 cause old one was at newbie rank, could care less.

I used to do raw faucets, got around $20 or something for God knows how much time. You are one of rare ones to hold onto earnings for this longer. I wasn't aware of rotators, I earned better through doing gigs on Reddit, if I cared about BTC back then I would have accumulated more of it by converting those gig earning than from faucets.

Faucets worked for you cause of rotators and referrals, for me they didn't. What I say is from my own perspective and may not be applicable to everyone.


Edit: I checked BTC address linked in my old account, and those $20 bucks are now worth good ~$1600 USD, so yeah, you are right, but then again if I had chance again to invest in BTC, I'd choose other work and invest than doing faucets. Hope you get the point.

[BADecker]

How much did it cost you to get your hands?
How much did you shell out for your arms?
What about legs and feet?
Torso and head?
Magnificent computer brain?

If you lose these, or any major part of them, there is really no way to get them back. You might get a replacement part from a donor, but it isn't as good as your own was when it was new. And prosthetics are junk compared with your original.

The best stuff in life is free, because you didn't pay for your original body.

Where did this free stuff come from? I mean, really. Your parents didn't invent it.

[bayu7adi]

There are things of lesser value than engaging in faucet activities. Moreover, there are valuable lessons for those who manage to earn money through faucets. It is true that we cannot amass wealth through faucets, but recognizing your patience in pursuing something can be a valuable skill to apply to different concepts.

I used to seek earnings from faucets and consistently shared our progress and good faucet opportunities within the community. It marked my initial introduction to Bitcoin, and I have never forgotten it.

I played faucets simply to determine whether it was worthwhile or not. In the end, I had to seek something better than faucets but still related to Bitcoin.

[kotajikikox]

It took me quite a long time to understand that nothing is really free, to the least you will be giving away your time. If you don't find whatever you do worthy of your time, don't do it.

Ppc, faucets and such are waste of time to earn money. If you put the same amount of time in learning some valuable skill you will earn better.

Sometimes realization comes when we are already tired of same thing happening , this will be our wake up call to  never let those mistakes happen again .
Imagine that our time is precious that we can do something that is more or much better to what have we done recently yet we continue because of our desires that in the end did not come , but its good that we finally realized when there is still time and when our precious moment already over.

[Mehedi72]

But somehow i already realised this thing, years ago. And why should anyone give us for free without their benefits? No one does that. And i remember when i used to do ppc, it was popular for that time. Hardly i earned $1 after 1 month clicking, lol. But that was just a start up and then meet with people & they referred to different path to make money. I think thus a person can discover new thing from ground. Just need confidence and dedication for a Start

[jrrsparkles]

I just want to mention another important fact, "Life is not the same for everyone". Be it financial status or skills and capability or their mental strength to pursue something in the long run which vary one another, so better not to compare yourself with anyone. Just focus on accomplishing your goals and sooner or later you will reach the line you wanted.

[Pi-network314159]

I was thinking about this yesterday. That there is no shortcuts to success. Being successful need time, dedication, consistency, perseverance and smartness etc. I have made many research and discover that what ever gives you money must take you time and Brain power to compute it before being paid. There is no free money. That's why am always afraid when they talks about airdrops. It sound somehow because i see free money scheme which might possibly be a scam attempt. So since I knew that nothing Good come so easily, I run as fast as possible with the sight of any free thing. Because I know there is no free thing.  Even if you are given something for free I think you will still need to work on that thing given to you, before consuming it. So what then makes it to be free when you still need to work  or prepare them before use

[rodskee]

It took me quite a long time to understand that nothing is really free, to the least you will be giving away your time. If you don't find whatever you do worthy of your time, don't do it.

Ppc, faucets and such are waste of time to earn money. If you put the same amount of time in learning some valuable skill you will earn better.

we may not spend money, but in return, it will still consume our time, which is still will take away the other tasks that we earn and cost us money in the run, people only say it's free because they don't spend money but in reality, they are consuming the most precious thing on earth time, if you use your time wisely, you will get better results.

Time and Money has no difference , Time can be consume and same us money is consumable .

Faucet and airdrop is best if you are earning more than how much you can earn in regular Job but if not?
then best to stop what you are  doing and look for Job instead because spending money in nonsense
is like spending your life in nothing but stupidity .

[R1dwanRz]

Ppc, faucets and such are waste of time to earn money. If you put the same amount of time in learning some valuable skill you will earn better.

I agree with this, I played too much with these so-called faucet that gives free coins, but once you go for withdrawal, you have to met the minimum requirement to withdraw. And then I feel worthless here.

Put efforts more in what you wanted to do for a long time. Like me, I like to do graphics designs.

[franky1]

nothing in life is ever free.
everything comes with some kind of condition, cost, consequence.
however there are things that have more then one method of obtaining it at different varieties of cost, condition, consequence

never close yourself off to avoiding things, but instead make a judgement of the best way to achieve things with least consequence