How to earn bitcoin
We’ll show you how you can earn BTC using the Lightning Network. Our aim is to help you live on Bitcoin, stack Sats as savings, and take off from the fiat world.
Why Lightning?
The regular Bitcoin wallets are getting expensive to use for small payments, and the average confirmation wait time will likely keep increasing.
But there are lots of interesting ways to get instant earnings in the world’s rarest asset with the Lightning Network!
If you don't have a LN Wallet setup yet, pick one from here.
Video for Cypherpunks
Light-Tube is exactly that, a Youtube style video site for cypherpunks where users pay Satoshis to content creators to watch their videos.
If you’re still on Youtube and worry about getting demonetized, you can always receive censorship-resistant LN payments from your supporters on a Patreon alternative, Bitpatron.
Alternatively, you can use LibrePatron, a self-hosted censorship-resistant Patreon alternative that acts as an add-on to your BTCPay server, which lets you process Bitcoin onchain & LN payments with your own full-node.
Blog for Sats
Y’Alls is a blogging site where you can post written content for a small fee, and earn sats from viewers who pay to read your content.
Mechanical Turk style micro-tasks for Sats
There are several nice apps for getting paid in Satoshis for micro-tasks, we’ll just list them in no particular order:
- Stakwork is a website which allows you to pay or earn Sats instantly for completing a variety of simple tasks. You can also crowdsource an army of micro workers if you need a task completed.
- Paid is an app for iOS and Android which lets users get paid in Sats for completing simple tasks.
- MicroLancer is a P2P task listing board where you can post a job you want done or apply to complete one of the published.
- EarnSats allows you get paid in BTC via the Lighting network for taking online surveys.
- Sats for likes is an app that lets you get paid in Sats for providing social media likes on popular platforms like Twitter and Youtube.
Sell Photos for Sats
If you’re a photographer or digital artist you can sell your work for Satoshis at Bitcoin4Photos, or you can use FileBazaar, from Blockstream’s Elements project.
Anonymize your online data and get paid for it in Sats
Trakkin.me is a service which lets you “Anonymize yourself on the internet while requesting bitcoin for your data” as they put it. Take back control of your online privacy while earning Satoshis.
Get satsback from your credit/debit card purchases
Pei is a new service that lets you connect your debit/credit card and get cash-back rewards in LN Sats for spending with your card.
Earn tips in Sats
Tippin.me Lets you easily accept Bitcoin micro-tips with LN.
Lightning Network Faucets
Here are some popular LN faucets where you can collect Sats:
- Coinpanic’s Community Jar is a Bitcoin service that helps users claim Bitcoin fork coins. They also have a LN faucet for you to enjoy.
- Fixedfloat is a popular LN-powered cryptocurrency exchange that runs its own faucet for the community.
- Escape QR, a game which integrates Lightning Network has a Lightning faucet to get you some Sats so you can enjoy Escape QR’s 8-bit retro gaming experience.
Play video games and earn Sats
Escape QR is a classic 8-bit video game which allows players to earn Sats for advancing in the game. Get micropayments in bitcoin while enjoying an exciting arcade play. They even have a faucet to get you started!
Satoshi Games is another nostalgic 8-bit gaming option which lets players earn Sats for arcade style gaming. Satoshi Games currently features 10 different games which give players the opportunity to stack Sats.
Stay tuned for their star creation Lightnite, a Fortnite style game with impressive graphics where you can earn Sats with each kill. Subscribe to their pre-order!
Thndr Games is another way to play games and earn some Sats while you do it. Their first game, Bitcoin Bounce, is a platform title where you navigate a Bitcoin along a blockchain full of obstacles. They also have a Satoshi giveaway which you can enter with Thndr tickets that can be found within the games.
Hangar 6 Gaming is a new platform which uses Call of Duty’s API to run COD Warzone tournaments which integrate Bitcoin’s Lightning Network for payouts of prizes, awarded to the tournament’s winners. This means you can now play COD and win Bitcoin paid out instantly over LN from defeating your foes, in one of the greatest FPS games ever made.
Mint Gox Gaming is an amazing eSports Tournament platform that allows players to participate in global eSports tournaments which payout in Bitcoin. Mint Gox lets you earn Bitcoin, tip streamers, even powerup your favourite players. There is a variety of games and tournaments and all of them payout Sats, instantly over Lightning.
Sats giveaway in this new Bitcoin price check site
CryptoAlly is a site that lets you quickly figure out Satoshi and bitcoin to fiat exchange rates for over 100 national currencies. To promote their launch they are giving away LN Sats to early adopters. Get them while they last!
Sats giveaway in Twitter
BitSahara is an organization which aims to increase LN adoption, and regularly gives away free Satoshis. They frequently run contests to help increase LN awareness in Twitter’s Bitcoin and Altcoin communities.
Provide Liquidity to the Lightning Network
If you have your own Lightning Node, you can earn Sats by having some liquidity in your channels and charging a fee to route payments through them.
Earn Sats by adding a Lightning Paywall to your online content
Paywall.link is a Lightning Network paywall app, which allows content creators to charge in Sats for viewing digital content. Bloggers, Youtubers, influencers, can start accepting Lightning payments for their digital products and content right away.
Add a Lightning payment option to your website
BTCpay server is a self-hosted, open-source cryptocurrency payment processor. It’s secure, private, censorship-resistant and free. If your products are not very expensive, a Lightning enabled processor is a more suitable long term solution. Learn how to implement it here.
Onchain bonus: Get your salary paid in Bitcoin
Bitwage will give you a bank account where your employer can deposit, and they will give you Bitcoin. Not Lightning ready yet, but onchain still works well for these type of payments (larger amounts, typically once per month).
Now that I have Satoshis, what's next?
Once you earn some Sats you can use them to pay living expenses with Bitrefill or a similar service, instead of giving your personal and banking information to every merchant. By paying with Lightning you get instant delivery while incurring in low fees!.
And/or you can save them for your future self.
Bitrefill has been participating on the Lightning Network since the start, and began offering LN services to help onboard users and businesses with less friction. Anyone can remotely open a Thor Lightning channel with us to get incoming capacity, and get BTC instantly into their Lightning wallet with Thor Turbo, or Thor Recharge.
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