14 ways to acquire Bitcoin

[sleepfirefly]

happy Valentine’s to everyone! instead of chocolates and flowers, i’m quite interested in how can i acquire bitcoin? aside from directly buying it from an exchange where else can i earn bitcoin?

here are 14 ways to earn bitcoin:

1. mining bitcoin
if you want to get involved in the more technical and actual processes of bitcoin, you may want to check out being a miner. you are going to need a hardware specific for mining bitcoin as personal computer won’t be able to compete with others then decide on joining a mining pool. you’ll get rewarded with bitcoin for mining them.

2. complete online tasks
if you have a few minutes to spare, you may want to check out completing online tasks in exchange of sats. like microlancer.io where you are given sats for posting online tasks and some also give you bitcoin for completing surveys.

3. offer your services
many employers nowadays outsource from different places and this could make payment a little tricky but not with bitcoin. so if you are working online, you may just ask for it to be in bitcoin

4. content creation
content creators or live streamers can receive bitcoin and there are various outlets where you can live stream or post content and have your followers give you bitcoin. just make sure to be entertaining whatever your content may be.

5. credit or debit cards rewards
some credit card offer rewards but in bitcoin just like gemini credit card. if you are able to spend $3000 using their card in 90 days, you can get up to $200 in bitcoin. coinbase also has a credit card that can allow you to gain 1% of bitcoin for every purchase.

6. airdrops
though not that common, you might get lucky if you find an airdrop that is giving out bitcoin or sats. usually starting out crypto projects give these out

7. refer a friend
some exchanges will reward you if you sign up and also bring friends and families to sign up to the same exchange. this might be a great way to start introducing bitcoin to your family too.

8. giveaways
in the forum itself, some may hold giveaways you just need to sign yourself up. some may hold contests as well and the winner will receive bitcoin.

9. testnet participation
testnet is a way for developers to check if the crypto tools is working as intended and they usually get participants for this in which they may reward with sats

10. playing games
game providers like thdnr games will let you earn sats for playing their games.

11. forum campaigns
in the forum itself, if you are able to enter campaigns they usually pay you with bitcoin. what i commonly see are casino campaigns only requiring you to post around.

12. make reviews
similarly, some casinos ask for reviews from people and reward them with bitcoin. you’d of course have to use and play the casino.

13. report bugs
exchanges or crypto sites may appreciate you for pointing out bugs or vulnerabilities to exchanges, it’s important that they catch these early and they might send you rewards for it

14. a gift
maybe your significant other will gift you some bitcoin for valentine’s  

you can’t earn bitcoin without doing anything. if not money, your time and effort are the ones you’re spending. but if we are serious about earning bitcoin, we ought to make the corresponding steps.

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[_act_]

I have only heard about most of these before but I have not earned bitcoin from all of them before except signature campaign on this forum. Others that you mentioned are not just easy to be used to earn bitcoin. There are some of them that you can use to earn fiat even than to be using them to earning bitcoin. But the chance of earning bitcoin through a signature campaign on a bitcoin forum like this forum is very high.

[LFC_Bitcoin]

The best and most effective way is to just work hard and buy it with your wages. Buy monthly with as much as you can reasonably afford and do it every single month for years.

There are many ways, like OP listed but the most simple and straight forwards ways are the best. Consistency is key and patience, DCA for many years and you will be in a good position.

[BlackHatCoiner]

Just work for it. It's currency. You exchange your labor and efforts for it. Simple as that. Everything you mentioned is exchanging time and labor for bitcoin.

9. testnet participation
testnet is a way for developers to check if the crypto tools is working as intended and they usually get participants for this in which they may reward with sats

Who pays you bitcoin to test their software that uses testnet? Genuinely curious.

I'm afraid this is AI slop wrapped in another AI slop.

[Marvelockg]

I have only heard about most of these before but I have not earned bitcoin from all of them before except signature campaign on this forum. Others that you mentioned are not just easy to be used to earn bitcoin. There are some of them that you can use to earn fiat even than to be using them to earning bitcoin. But the chance of earning bitcoin through a signature campaign on a bitcoin forum like this forum is very high.

Most of the others options still works like the way signature campaigns works because you have to render a service and then as a means of compensating you for the service rendered, you get paid in bitcoin or so. just like some signature campaign can choose to not pay in bitcoin, some of the things OP mentioned most times pays in stable coin or might even pay using a altcoin.

In summary, you get paid basically because you are able to render a service to someone. nothing just comes to you when you have done nothing. you do nothing, you get bitcoin as a reward for something and not a random thing that get thrown at you even when you have done nothing.

[lovesmayfamilis]

All the time spent trying to earn bitcoins using the link you provided, OP, is better spent understanding the basics and regularly buying bitcoin. Because everything you've paraphrased and suggested will just take up your time, but you won't get anything as a result. I will remove participation in the signature of companies from your list, as it was added by you, as well as point 9, since it is clear that you are also far from knowledgeable in this area.
If you are asking for advice rather than teaching, then reading and studying the forum will be the best advice.

[_act_]

The best and most effective way is to just work hard and buy it with your wages. Buy monthly with as much as you can reasonably afford and do it every single month for years.

This is very true, when I am reading articles like this, all I am seeing is how to make money. Just like what OP posted, it is like how to make money. We can earn money and easily just convert parts of the discretionary part of the money to bitcoin without some seconds or few minutes.

Just like I posted, among what are posted above, only few are people really used to make bitcoin. Even the refer a friend now in exchanges, the reward are mostly in USDT but which can be converted to bitcoin after it has been given. The two common ones that I see on the topics are just mining bitcoin and signature campaign.

[Nathrixxx]

Just ensure that you have also actively participated in acquiring Bitcoin by any legitimate means, this is not a time for us to be watching and doing nothing when others are taking moves to invest in Bitcoin and secure their future, the options are there and we need to only find how we fit in the best way to acquire Bitcoin, for there's no excuse for any reason why we should not invest, if we can't mine it then we should earn it or exchange it.

[Die_empty]

Just ensure that you have also actively participated in acquiring Bitcoin by any legitimate means, this is not a time for us to be watching and doing nothing when others are taking moves to invest in Bitcoin and secure their future, the options are there and we need to only find how we fit in the best way to acquire Bitcoin, for there's no excuse for any reason why we should not invest, if we can't mine it then we should earn it or exchange it.

Buying, mining, and earning Bitcoin are the three main means of owning Bitcoin. I have not heard or seen any Bitcoin airdrop project. The days of getting Bitcoin through airdrops or performing simple tasks are gone. Most project that promises to give free Bitcoin are scams. Mining is capital-intensive, and jobs that pay with Bitcoin are scarce. The easiest means is to work hard and buy in bits. Anyone who cares about buying Bitcoin would have to set out funds from their savings to buy the coin. 

[ColdLava40]

If you wish to meet up with your investment plan on a faster pace, then purchasing bitcoin using your money would be the best idea.

Aside from signature campaigns which I didn't know until joining this forum, every other means would be too slow.

Take for instance someone doing airdrop task and he's paid nothing up to $5 for each drops.

Such can't be able to meetup with real investors. Though it's up to everyone to use what ever they feel fits them. But don't waste precious time on methods that doesn't add up..

[Doan9269]

Do I see some of this ways as somehow related to an extent, because they have some similarities in the way of acquiring Bitcoin due to the procedures involved, just that the terms I being used on a different context, to acquire bitcoin is necessary and either of the means could be used as long as we arrive at the end result of being a bitcoin investor or holder, most time I do suggest that even if you wanted to have bitcoin but couldn't afford it, we can go on manual jobs to earn and then convert to Bitcoin Alberta still work for a crypto industry that pays in Bitcoin.

[silpersurfer]

One additional way to get it is by doing business and your business uses bitcoin as an alternative payment to get your product, for example, several technology companies or in automotive industry such as Tesla allowed their customers to buy their cars with Bitcoin in the past, this can also be used as a way to get bitcoin, because if we talk about services, they have their own segmentation of the services you provide, but in certain businesses or product manufacturers this has a different segmentation.

[Catenaccio]

The most common ways to get Bitcoin is work for bitcoins and you will have bitcoins.

You can work for fiat currency and use it to buy bitcoin with part of your discretionary income and DCA strategy.
Dollar Cost Averaging with costavg.com include exchange fee

You can also work for altcoins through retroactive airdrops, then converting your received altcoin tokens to bitcoins. Let's identify clearly that you do altcoin airdrops for bitcoins, not for altcoins so don't hold any altcoin you receive from airdrops.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

A good list but I hope we all know that some of the things or activities listed by the op won't earn us bitcoin directly, but definitely can earn us money in the form of stable coin or an Altcoin which we can sell to buy bitcoin, example is testnet participation, and maybe airdrops as well..

This days, it's extremely very hard, and maybe even impossible to find an airdrop that is rewarding participants in bitcoin, I can't remember the year I last saw this but I know it's in the 2017 and below days..
And about testnet participation, all testnet projects I've ever come across reward their participants in their own token and not in bitcoin, though this token may get listed on the stock exchange and can be sold and the money realized can be used to buy bitcoin from the exchange.

So I just wanted to let us in on this few note so we don't start believing all the things op listed there will earn us bitcoin, especially for the newbies.

[aoluain]

I suppose the list provides many avenues to accumulate Bitcoin and means anyone can be as busy and
dedicated as they want to be in order to stack Satoshi's.

OK some of them could be a lot of effort for little reward but having a long term outlook will result in the
value of the reward increasing!

As mentioned above having a good steady job and ploughing wages into Bitcoin on a steady regular basis
is probably the best way to accumulate.

[KiaKia]

There are things that you don't want to do with your life in 2026, like airdrops where its a complete gamble right now, I will never advice anyone to

Hunt for airdrops
Look for giveaways
Participate in testnets.
Playing games and etc

Majority of what you wrote guarantees nothing, this is not 2016

Get a good job that pays you enough to handle your bills and savings for you to be able to invest in bitcoin, there is nothing more effective than getting a job and buying Bitcoin using DCA strategy.

[pawanjain]

happy Valentine’s to everyone! instead of chocolates and flowers, i’m quite interested in how can i acquire bitcoin? aside from directly buying it from an exchange where else can i earn bitcoin?

here are 14 ways to earn bitcoin:

I appreciate you for your efforts of consolidating this list of earning bitcoin but you have not added the most common way and that is to directly purchase bitcoin with your savings.
Secondly, you can also add crypto trading as one of the ways which is also quite common way to acquire more bitcoin.
Although risky but there's still an option out there.

[Marykeller]

Is it at this time that someone will earn Bitcoin through airdrops? The time when such a thing was achievable was a long time ago, you can do a simple task and earn Bitcoin. Nowadays, I hardly see or hear of airdrops rewarding their participants with Bitcoin.

From the methods you mentioned of earning Bitcoin not all of them that their reward is consistent and the money given is huge. Let's not forget that. You can be rewarded with below $100 worth of Bitcoin that's all you can get.

Why don't the person invest instead as they can rather than stressing themselves out for a few cash that it is not regular

[Zoomic]

here are 14 ways to earn bitcoin:

1. mining bitcoin

Difficult as a solo miner, you can join a mining pool.

2. complete online tasks

Buy bitcoin

3. offer your services

Offer your services and force your clients to pay you in BTC or offer it in Bitcointalk forum and get paid with BTC

4. content creation

Buy bitcoin

5. credit or debit cards rewards

Buy bitcoin

6. airdrops

Buy bitcoin

7. refer a friend

Buy bitcoin

8. giveaways

Try your luck in games and round board

9. testnet participation

Buy bitcoin, bitcoin no longer cheap for testnets

10. playing games

Use money for the game subscription and buy bitcoin

11. forum campaigns

Very sure way

12. make reviews

AB De Royse777 when are you launching the next review campaign

13. report bugs

Buy bitcoin please

14. a gift
maybe your significant other will gift you some bitcoin for valentine’s  

Gift yourself bitcoin by buying it.

[Oshio-man]

Apart from the four ways you mentioned to acquire bitcoin, do you mean someone cannot save funds from business to acquire bitcoin? I'm a business man , I can still remember how I hold my first bitcoin before I started earning bitcoin from signature campaign and it really helped me to grow some bitcoin that made me to contribute to support my parents at home, I agree with you that you can mine bitcoin but it will cause you a lot of data and stress before you can earn bitcoin that will amount to something in the future, i know there are many ways but I will encourage newbies to acquire bitcoin through purchasing bitcoin from the market and hold for long future.