Low-hanging fruit update, plus My Actifit Report Card: March 9 2020

Today I’m hijacking my @actifit post to give an update on a previous post from a couple of months ago - Low-hanging fruit. If you only want to read my @actifit report please scroll to the end of this post.

The low-hanging fruit were opportunities to earn small amounts of money (usually cryptocurrency) for a minimal amount of effort. Today I’m sharing some updates on my experiences using these services and also sharing some new ideas.

coinkit

coinkit is a tip-bot service on twitter and other social media channels. One earns tips from other users by performing small tasks and cryptocurrency is then distributed using coinkit. The most exciting coinkit development since my last post is that bitcoin (BTC) is now available as a tipping currency which (in my opinion) is super-cool! The amount tipped is in satoshis (aka SATs - the smallest unit of BTC). A lot of the tips are just 5 or 10 SATs (still nothing to be sneezed at!), some more. Another good thing about BTC being added to coinkit is that there is no fee to withdraw the SATs out of coinkit and into your own Lightning wallet. coinkit have also added extra features, including a give function. This allows the original tipper to give away a prize to lucky winners who participate and perform a set of tasks the tipper sets as the parameters for the giveaway. I was lucky enough to win a giveaway from @bloqport so I can confirm that these are mostly genuine. Just from BTC alone I earned 12950 SATs until I withdrew last week.

wallet of satoshi

I have also continued to participate in wallet of satoshi’s giveaways on twitter. Until last week I’d earned about 180,000 SATs just from their giveaways, including a cool 150,000 from just one!

I also withdrew my SATs sitting in wallet of satoshi last week to test that it was possible. Although I was shocked that there is a 20000 SATs fee to withdraw (they gotta make money), it’s not much skin off my nose since all the earning were from their giveaways anyways!

Brave browser

The amount of BAT I earned by enabling ads in Brave browser in February jumped significantly on previous months. On my phone I earned 22.5 BAT, for desktop 19.7 and tablet 1.7. Currently there is no way to withdraw from mobile so the BAT earned can only be used to tip but of course there is a ‘loophole’ in that if you are a registered Brave creator you can tip yourself from the Brave mobile browsers using earned BAT (have read others have successfully done this). I’m not sure if I will do this or just let it sit there until Brave rolls out the functionality to sync BAT earnings cross-device.

New ideas

cctip_io

There is another tip player on twitter - cctip_io. I don’t like this one as much as coinkit for a couple of reasons - there are unreasonably high fees to withdraw earned crypto; the coins/tokens that are offered are mostly (in my opinion) sh*tcoins that are unlikely to be worth any significant amount. However, I still participate in the giveaways and am letting my balances grow across their suite of crypto offerings until paying the withdrawal fees seems worthwhile.

Electroneum

Electroneum is the ‘mobile-based cryptocurrency’ - to be honest I don’t really understand what this cryptocurrency (ETN) does but I installed their app a couple of months ago on my phone and started earning ETN. The phone app ‘mines’ ETN - a small amount each day. The way I understand it is that if you don’t engage with the mobile app for more than a week you lose the ability to ‘mine’ ETN. You also can’t do it more regularly than once every 24 hours. So I try to remember to do it each day to can get some free ETN. The trouble is it’s a very small amount. You also cannot withdraw it from the app until you reach 100 ETN - I’m now at about 82, inching my way to 100 (which I think is worth about 30-40 cents?) at the rate of about 2 a day!! The other annoying thing was that after a couple of weeks I was forced to do a really annoying KYC to continue earning ETN. Not really recommended!

All logos taken from twitter - @coinkit_, @walletofsatoshi, @brave, @cctip_io, @electroneum

@actifit report

Sorry for the hijack. Today’s stepping action was just ‘Daily activity’ - walks to and from the train station and morning playground duty at school. Thanks for reading.

Daily Activity