I had been trading and doing bunch of other things in crypto as a hobby. But When BTC hit 15-20k I decided that I should become a company, pay my taxes and provide for my family in crypto. It worked out well for couple months. But right after I became a company, BTC went down pretty bad and it`s been gradually going down since then. So I can`t really provide a life through crypto anymore. The last 3 months, I made less than half of what I made in November, December, an January. Don`t get me wrong. I strongly believe in Crypto and am an early adopter. I love the volatility, the community, the cause and the technology. But I have to pay my bills and I don`t wanna look for a job again. So here`s what I~ve been doing so far...
1- Currently I have 2 different bots running which neighter of them really makes money at all. Because they`re still at the trial stages and I`m not sure if it`ll ever work out or not. So I can`t put so much money in them.
2- I tried arbitrage for a while but there`s not much of that anymore. Even if you can find an opportunity, you either have to risk tons of money (in 6 digits) or you have to wait in a low volume market to see if anyone buys your high sell order. So the arbitrage doesnt really do anything anymore either for little people like me.
3- I`m still manually trading between 3-4 main currencies but as you know no coin is going high against dollar nor BTC. So I just buy and wait... then it goes down even more. I just don`t know how long is this downtrend going to stay? If it goes for another month, I will have to look for other options, other than crypto to provide for my family and pay my bills.
4- I made pretty good money on the airdrops during Nov-Dec-Jan but now that market is suffering too. Based on a pretty recent study, 85% of the ICOs are scam. 12% of them barely have actual coins and only 2 something percent of them actually goes into an exchange and become dumpable. As we all know almost all new coins suffer on the value. So there`s almost no opportunity in airdrops and forks anymore either.
5- I have a Facebook group with 50k members which brings in a small income from ads. But that amount wont even pay one bill.
So I`ll greatly appreciate if anyone gives any advises on what other ways out there in crypto world to money off of?
Now, I should mention that I have morals and ethics. I won`t scam people, create ICOs, do any kind of fraud, participate in any kind of "adult" project.
Thank you Bitcoin Community for always being there through thick and thin
One question to you! Since you had formed a company during late 2017, what was the product of your company? What was the services of your company? Did you create a company without any of these? If yes, then it is a mistake. No company survives without a service or a product. I still earn in bitcoin and other cryptos but I didn't form a company because I don't provide any services or sell any products to the community. My earning solely depends on my trading capability.
Try to look for a job because that is the only way out I can see for you. You can have all these crypto things as a secondary source of income and must not rely as the primary source. I know a couple more people who has done the same mistake in their life by going full time on cryptos after leaving a well paid job.
Get more involved in the bounty and airdrop market as it is not dead yet. Obviously there are many fake companies are present in the ICO market but since you have to pay your bills, don't hold any tokens that you get from the bounties. Receive and sell it all, it will help you to have some liquidity. If you wait for longer with the hope of price increase, you may not get the desired return. I ended up with a lot of dead coins in my wallet just because I wanted to wait for the price increase. The ICO disappeared and got delisted form the market. But initially for few weeks, they were traded in the market and if I calculate now, I could have received around 3 ETH from these dead coins if I didn't wait for price increase and simple have dumped it.
Don't stop trading as it is the best thing you can do to have a stable source of income since you don't have a job. Shit happens with everyone. Strong man stays and fights and rest gets wiped off. All the best!