After an extremely successful start to the year, I hit a hiccup in February. Part of it I had discussed in my January post due to the price of Bitcoin and Ethereum has rallied so much. It was also an extremely busy month for me at work and we had our first Full Committee Hearing. That being sad how bad was the damage???
Brave Browser
I am not sure if my number was so much lower because I was not using my laptop that much or if this is the first sign of advertiser spending decreasing is behind it but I only earned 2.087 BAT this month. Compared to last month of 8.36974492 BAT it is quite a fall off. Again I was busier than I had anticipated but I did not seem to get hardly any push ads and whenever I did receive ads they were worth much less than normal often around just 0.003 BAT per ad which kinda sucks, to be honest. The browser is great though so it is not like I am going to be changing because of it so it is what it is.
Publish0x
I came into the month hoping to earn at least $28 in crypto because that is not something I have noticed I have done before. While I think I have had 30-day periods of earning over 30 I do not think I have had a month where for that specific time frame I have hit the magic number. Since February is the shortest month I was hoping to hit it with this one but I swung and missed. That's not to say I didn't have some articles perform really well as I had several that I was very impressed with but I would go 3-4 days without posting which was going to end up biting me in the end.
For the month though I earned 7.6086 AMPL, 14.4285 SPOT, 0.00357590 ETH which at current values would put me over the $28 dollar mark and be around the $29-$30 range but that is only because of AMPL and SPOTS recovery for a while they were both down to roughly $1 a piece erasing a few dollars. Now, this isn't anything to be ashamed of as the price increases have pushed me over what I wanted but in my mind, I failed to hit the goal and now have to work harder to hit the $30+ range.
I started this last month and almost forgot to continue it but caught myself. While with FOLD you can withdraw once a week on Tuesdays, you do have to have 50,000 sats to withdraw, I realized that if I just do it at the end of the month it makes calculating the withdraws a heck of a lot easier! This month I withdrew 118,541 sats compared to over 300,000 the month before.
The reason for this comes down to two separate changes. First up is the price increase of Bitcoin this year. I mean it was super super easy to stack sats when Bitcoin was down to $17-$18k so with it now being up between $23 to 25k the number of sats back is a lot less! I also really supercharged my sat stacking by purchasing the Fold + exclusive gift cards which were 5% back. They ended those in the middle of the month right after Valentine's Day and the rate was cut in half to 2.5% back. Moving forward I will also likely be cutting back on these purchases as well since Amazon has also changed their Amazon Fresh free delivery level from $35 to a whopping $150 to get. As a single adult in Washington, DC spending $150 on groceries would mean eating practically everything out of my pantry, fridge, and freezer to do so purchasing Amazon gift cards is likely to decrease.
Optimistically I am hoping to see roughly 90,000 sats back a month at a minimum. Fingers crossed I can manage to stay above the 100,000 sats level as I just find it to be a super satisfying level to hit and it really adds up month after month!
r/cryptocurrency
Once again I was carried by the ratio which was a pristine 0.9138! This and the CCIP polls carried me and allowed me to earn 223 moons! Since they have been trending around the $0.20 mark it is a pretty nice bag to secure, to say the least! Nothing like seeing moons soar in price and stay around the $0.18 to $0.20 range making your moons for the month worth $44.60! To take advantage of the higher ratios I have been posting more in preparation for next month and am much further along in my karma earning for the next snapshot.
Final Thoughts
With the first hearing out of the way and getting used to the new position and schedule, I should be able to help better leverage my time to increase my earnings. The last few weeks have been early to work and early to bed. As I am writing this at 8:47 PM my time it is the latest I have been up in the last two days. Hopefully, I can fix my sleep schedule and work schedule to better balance life and take better advantage of the opportunities before me!
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