[Life lesson]Nothing is really free

[libert19]

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.

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[Odohu]

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

It is so disheartening that people are growing increasingly lazy and unwilling to think and be committed to something worthwhile. They just want to enjoy easy life without putting in any effort. Unknown to many is the fact that what appears to be free on the surface may actually come with huge consequences.  Scammers hide under this guise to get their victims.

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 rarely pay attention to them because I understand that they are 99% not worth the time. I realised this when I was actively participating in airdrops.

[livingfree]

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.

That's true that those way of earning bits of money are just there for someone who doesn't do a lot. But I am not neglecting them for being good introduction to the newbies on this space.

Many have been introduced to faucets and the era where PPC have been popular, I think many have experienced being on the various websites and popular one during those times.

These days, it's a common thing to upgrade yourself and learn a new skill, we've got a lot of skills website where we can learn from scratches, either free or paid trainings.

[Hatchy]

Why did it take you that much time? It so obvious even for a newbie who has a good sence of reasoning to see that nothing in this life comes for free. You have to put in effort to accomplish a said goal or achievement. Instead of putting your money or time in something that won't yield you any profits for a long time, you have to find something worth time spent. The ppc and faucet cannot give you profits and I consider them a waste of time. The creators of such, usually use them to advertise their coins or products. I don't see any reason why I should waste time on them.

[bitmover]

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.

Just like most airdrops and bounties.
I find much more useful to study and learn about bitcoin, and share this knowledge in the forum.

We are all very luck to have this place.

In the long run you will much more rewarded, and will also make better investment decisions

[letteredhub]

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.

Then you must have wasted many good valuable years of your time on things that really didn't matter eventually and I am hoping it's never too late for people like you. The lessons learnt from shoveling your time to things not worthy is what you should rather appreciate and grow from your rediscover that it has all been a waste and  since it didn't take your life with it but just your time even though time is priceless you can still make better use of the little time left.

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.

Learning some value skill to earn better takes much time but some dudes ain't ready for that "shit" (gradual process), they want it all and now which is not how life works. Good things don't come easy, you must put in neat  work.

[_act_]

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.

When I started knowing about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, what I first knew are faucets and pay-to-click sites. I use the sites for many times and it was not profitable. I can remember that a pay-to-click site even directed me to a fake mining site that said it has mined 0.005 BTC for me that I should pay half amount into a bitcoin address for me to receive the bitcoin mined, it was a scam and luckily I did not pay. Faucets and pay-to-click are waste of time.

[hugeblack]

The word free sometimes means searching for the value of something. Sometimes things are not have value to you, so you sell them at a price close to zero, and others turn them into things of value. For example, in the early days, the value of 5 Bitcoins was paid to you for watching an advertisement, and now you may work for many years to obtain it.
The question remains without knowledge and learning. You will not know the value of things or turn worthless things into useful things. Therefore, as long as everyone can do the same work as you, your work will have no value or will have a very small reward.

[libert19]

For example, in the early days, the value of 5 Bitcoins was paid to you for watching an advertisement, and now you may work for many years to obtain it.

How many of those users of faucets back in the day still holding? likely none. Whatever huge amounts of BTC might have earned, it would have been gone by now. BTC is huge today, it could have not, too.

The question remains without knowledge and learning. You will not know the value of things or turn worthless things into useful things.

I think it has little to do with knowledge or learning, it's hard to know how things will work out in future, at most you can make a guess and take a gamble.

[Doan9269]

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.

When we know that what is worth doing is worth doing well, anything not worth doing well should not deserve our attention or time no matter what, we sometimes finds ourselves into doing some things that are not worthy or deserving for our own personal benefits.

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.

Just as it will appear almost insane for a newbie to invested on memecoins and memetokens and yet hold them for a longer period, it's a risk taking in its highest order, faucet and airdrops are waste of time, only begginers can be encouraged for doing that, because they are learning, these are not investment and we shouldn't count them as legalized digital currency we could exchange like bitcoin or use in making payments.

[Z390]

You do have a point OP but I will like to drop my own opinion on this matter, see, learning skills to make money through crypto or other takes time, and it is not right to judge anyone when they go after faucet, I know that faucet isn't a thing anymore but there are people who slowly do faucet and get somewhere with it, the present condition they are facing makes them go for faucet and they know that learning a skill takes time.

I know how cheap it was to claim Bitcoin faucets in 2015 and 2016, a very serious person is capable of gathering 0.5BTC from faucets only by joining different faucet platforms, some comes in 30 minutes claim, some an hour and some are more than an hour, today, faucet is done for good.

It was a skill to be a faucet hunter years ago, either you like it or not, many made cool amount of BTC, Litecoin, Doge coin with faucet.

Later Airdrops came, and as stupid as airdrop sounds today, it changed the lives of many people when it was still 🔥 hot, things changed, time went by, we all need to move forward, isn't we?

Even if you learn a skill, it's mostly time-based, as time goes on you will need to adjust yourself or remain in the same spot, the best I can say is, be willing to learn something new, even if what you know right now is enough for the rest of your life.

[Lucius]

How many of those users of faucets back in the day still holding? likely none. Whatever huge amounts of BTC might have earned, it would have been gone by now. BTC is huge today, it could have not, too.

I still have a part of the earnings from faucets when I was just starting to get interested in them, and the amount I have is not very small, let's say you should be in the signature campaign you are currently in for several years to earn that amount. Of course, nothing is free, but in the beginning the faucets were something interesting, and you didn't have to click all day to get through them all, because then faucet rotators were popular - in a little more than an hour you could collect more than 300 000 satoshi + earnings from referrals.

You're generalizing things, because you can also say that everyone who was an early adopter spent all the BTC they had, although we know that's not the case since the blockchain is public and we see daily transactions involving coins mined in the first few years of Bitcoin's existence.

[Lida93]

Time determines the value of things and apart from faucets there are a bunch of things that today were regards as worthless that were of value years ago.

The thing is that there are certain things we put our time into years back that we never knew or were not so sure of them gaining value today but we just gave it the benefits of doubt. 1btc today is worth thousands of dollars and can buy a few pizza companies but in 2009 it could only buy just one single pizza.

Yet, there were people that gave in their time despite how worthless the value was at that time while others sold theirs thinking it was all a waste of time.  Today if bitcoin never gained this much value for those that hodl they would have falling into OP category of time wasters while those that abandoned it in the early stage to go into any kind of skill would have said to have taken the right decision and spending their time well.

[Faisal2202]

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 don't know how much time have you wasted on faucets or on PPC but I learned this lesson a long time ago and in a very short time period too. Because, I almost tried every website back in time and each website was connected to another, and we ended up in loops of websites in the process of completing the tasks.

And now as a content writer, I do understand what was happening and how can I earn more money by just making a website like faucets and how can I earn way more money than using faucets. I also wasted a lot of time on such things, and a thought always came to me that I was wasting my time. I should look for something more productive.

But every time I gave up this thought, whenever I saw that people were making that much money out of the same faucets, which we can easily see on the reward timeline section of every faucet. I think that's why they have integrated that thing on their faucet websites.

[puloweh555]

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.

It's true that nothing is free in any case, at least we have to set aside time for something we want, and our mindset has to change that time can make us successful and vice versa. If you are wasting your time then just leave it, as you could be wasting your time on faucets, PPC, airdrops and bounties (for now).

But I personally believe that every user here is given the choice to determine the direction of their own wishes, and I am now even more enthusiastic about spending more time so that I can continue to progress in this forum. Because this forum can produce results for free as long as we really want to spend a lot of time to continue to explore and want to develop in learning something on this forum.

[Broadanbig]

Mate, it  is said that in free town nothing is free. In life nothing is free you must work in one way or the other to get engaged in something if you must want something in return. Life is not a bed of roses. That is why it is said you lie on your bed the way you dress it. If you must succeed in this life, you must do something and what you do should count. Just as it is here, you must read, learn and post in other to make contributions in adding more value to the platform while you exist here. So therefore, nothing is free.

[Zoomic]

Why did it take you that much time? It so obvious even for a newbie who has a good sence of reasoning to see that nothing in this life comes for free. You have to put in effort to accomplish a said goal or achievement. Instead of putting your money or time in something that won't yield you any profits for a long time, you have to find something worth time spent. The ppc and faucet cannot give you profits and I consider them a waste of time. The creators of such, usually use them to advertise their coins or products. I don't see any reason why I should waste time on them.

It is the belief that something can be gotten for free that usually lead newbies in the cryptocurrency industry into scam. When they are told that they will spend no money but in return they will earn much money, they will be very happy. The end will become scam. If you are told to bring one and collect two, it is also a scam. But what makes it look like some things are free is because people do not value their time. The time you used to share links and promote some projects which will in turn apppwar that is free, that time is not free if you measure its value in money.
The earlier we realised that nothing is free, the better for us

[HONDACD125]

It is the belief that something can be gotten for free that usually lead newbies in the cryptocurrency industry into scam. When they are told that they will spend no money but in return they will earn much money, they will be very happy. The end will become scam. If you are told to bring one and collect two, it is also a scam. But what makes it look like some things are free is because people do not value their time. The time you used to share links and promote some projects which will in turn apppwar that is free, that time is not free if you measure its value in money.
The earlier we realised that nothing is free, the better for us

I think it is not that easy to get anything for free. It may be the fortune of only a few, but not everyone. In crypto currencies, if someone is told to spend nothing and get a lot of money in return, it would be a misrepresentation. Crypto currencies involve both profit and loss. I don't think if someone told me to give one and take two, I would easily believe it, Or anyone can convince someone to earn a lot of money without spending and they can easily believe.

However, I believe that everything comes with hard work, and if anything is most valuable, it is our time. The better time we use in any good activity, the more profitable it will be for us. No matter what business you are doing, or what job you are doing, you need to work hard in every area of life, then you get the reward. All the rich people in the world didn't get wealth so easily, but they got everything in their life by working hard with their precious time, so I think we should never focus on the formula of getting something for free.

[BitDane]

How many of those users of faucets back in the day still holding? likely none. Whatever huge amounts of BTC might have earned, it would have been gone by now. BTC is huge today, it could have not, too.

You're generalizing things, because you can also say that everyone who was an early adopter spent all the BTC they had, although we know that's not the case since the blockchain is public and we see daily transactions involving coins mined in the first few years of Bitcoin's existence.

Besides it is not about whether these people sells their BTC or not but the fact that the faucet rewards those days have significant value today.  This is enough to refute @OP's belief that nothing is really free.

There are lots of non-material things that is also given for free, such as listed in this link: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/happiness-lessons_n_6534304

It maybe hard to find freebies in material things but it was once popular in this forum and is still ongoing, the airdrop.

[LogitechMouse]

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.