Tools you need
- Lightning Network wallet (I use Muun)
- Crypto exchange account (I use Gemini)
- Zebedee wallet
I ranked my methods in terms of convenience from the most convenient to the most effort-inducing one
A walk-to-earn app that pays you sats for your walking. Also has two crypto games (spin the wheel and touch the fort) that you can play daily to get more sats
How I find it?
If your daily routine involves a lot of walking, then sMiles is a form of passive income even if it doesn’t pay a lot of sats. The maximum number of sats it pays out every day is 21 but I usually get at most 19 sats for clocking about 14k-15k steps. Each time I play the two games yields me another 4-10 sats. Not lucrative but easy to incorporate into your daily life.
It is an advertisement startup company that rewards you with sats for watching advertisements. Except that you don’t have to watch these ads. I just add Slice as a Chrome extension and let the ads run in the background.
How I find it?
Like sMiles, Slice is another form of passive income. I just log in to my Slice account every day. Some days, I don’t even remember to log in but it seems that the number of Slices keeps increasing. It takes a long while to hit the 50 Slices that are necessary for a payout but it’s a good tool to use while you are at work.
- Bitcoin Magazine app
An app that pays you sats for reading BTC-related news and commentaries
How I find it?
Since the minimum payout is 500 sats and reading one article yields you 5 sats, you got to scroll through many articles in order to earn some petty cash. Some articles pay out 50 or even 100 sats though, so it isn’t that frustrating a process. But reading these many articles gives you key insights into the mindset of Bitcoiners and breaking current affairs, so the real dividend is that your knowledge of BTC increases exponentially.
An app that dishes out sats when you answer three questions each from the categories of crypto, stocks and NFTs. It also have a Daily Sat Stack in which you can just click to get more sats
How I find it?
I used to answer the nine questions religiously but sometimes, even when I got a question right, it would lead me to an advert (which I guess is how Vestly makes its revenue). Waiting for the ad to end just drove me nuts, so I just use the Daily Sat Stack these days. After clicking on the Daily Sat Stack, I can immediately withdraw the sats to my Zebedee wallet, so at least there is instant gratification.
What are they?
These faucets give you sats when you solve a captcha, watch an advert and do surveys. There are many faucets out there but I use Cointiply, FaucetGamers and Freebitcoin regularly.
How I find it?
I quite like the use of faucets because they are easy to integrate into my everyday life. I watch the adverts while walking to the subway station, so it makes me feel good that I have accumulated some coins before I start the workday. It’s not every day that I manage to complete a survey successfully, which means that I take 1-2 months to meet the withdrawal limit. Still, the grind doesn’t get unbearable, especially for Cointiply, because I have about 9-10 active referrals and get coins from them every day. Their consistency is my motivation.
Available on Nostr (a decentralised version of Twitter), it awards you sats if you are the first person to guess a six-letter word correctly.
How I find it?
The reason why I rank it so low is that you got to activate your brain juices to guess the word. This is sometimes a futile attempt when you play with others and they manage to guess the correct word with you. Still, I like it because I am an English teacher and like to play this kind of word games.
- Stacker News
Stacker News is a great way to keep yourself abreast of Bitcoin news while stacking sats at the same time. You could choose to either post a link or kickstart a discussion. If it resonates with the other users over there, your contribution will earn you tips in the form of sats.
How I find it?
This method is the most laborious because I find that if I want to gain some sats from the viewers there, I need to buckle down and do research and craft a Bitcoin-related piece. I think that just posting a link to an article would be less likely to gain traction than writing something original. Having said that, it provides the most satisfaction. An article I wrote on “8 basic facts about RoboSats and Bisq” netted me 4555 sats. Not much in the grand scheme of things but it validated my identity as a writer!
