Topic: Does anyone here make a living off the forums? - page 2. (Read 1436 times)

I made a lot from this forum and I've seen people earning millions per year (reputed bounty managers earn over 10 BTC for managing a single campaign or even more) while signature campaigns pay too less for anyone to even make a living. Taxes are a separate issue as SC's don't even pay an amount that fits into any tax bracket. Bounties, yes! You can easily make upto $1000 or even more just writing articles for 1 campaign so imagine ones taking part in just 10 campaigns and writing 5 articles per campaign ($50,000++). Most of them are students and they can make enough to buy a house for themselves.

If I were in a developing nation you can bet your bippy I'd be maximising the opportunities this forum made available to me. That's a superb demonstration of the power of this whole system in a nutshell. Some day if you added it all up it may have lifted a considerable number of people out of poverty and a dead end.

This place doesn't care if you're being hand relieved in Monte Carlo or living inside a putrid cow floating in the Ganges. The playing field is level and neutral and that's how more of the world should be.

If you were in any way financially precarious you'd have to be a mad person to depend on it as the means to stay alive. If you're already comfortable enough it's a fine way to spend a little time.

You are so rich, one of crypto whales. 
You are right because the forum is one of the most worthy place to have serious discussion about bitcoin, and get important things in aspect of crypto technical terms, which mostly not found in other forums, or other platforms.
It makes sense, even payments from campaigns mean a lot of things for people who live in developing, low income nations. They don't do anything wrong if they maintain their post quality, only post when they have something meaningful to say, to discuss, or to help other members solve their issues.

He doesn't have to prove anything to anyone or you. His record says it all. With the merit system it'll be hard for any spammer to make it pass the member rank status. You don't have to be an extraordinary poster to recieve some merit, instead of hating on those that are receiving merit they deserve maybe if you take you time to read through their post history, you'll learn one or two on producing quality post. If you have gone through his post history and can't find a quality post then you need some help. The problem is from you not him.

Is that from spamming your signature?  or do you do something that provides value for the forum?

That is not an insignificant amount to someone in the 3rd world.

Can you please provide some of your very best posts here for perusal. That others may learn from your original thought inspiring contributions?  I have been looking, alas I could not locate anything that I would care to put up as examples for others to follow. We all wait for you to produce some fine examples of your original thought inspiring contributioins, that have earned you these merits,and this btc crumbs each month.

This will be very interesting and also serve as a great guide to others seeking to earn money here.  Just 5 examples of your finest original thought inspiring posts. Then others can see the benchmark required for the few hundred dollars per month.

I make a few hundred dollars worth of bitcoin per month. Obviously it’s not a living but it’s nice to add to my HODL nest by doing something I enjoy - discussing bitcoin with like minded people.

I don’t begrudge anybody from less developed countries making a living here as long as they post constructively & are trustworthy.

 

I only do part time job here as a Signature campaigner, Since I join here there are lots of informations about crypto currency that I learned, this forum help me to achieved my knowledge about crypto currency, on the other hand about the earnings I earned a lot since then, I'm able to bought some things with the help of this forum as well. as long as you do well opportunities will come whether you ask for it or not.

It cuts both ways

Really, who knows when your boss is going to shut his shop down or finally make up his mind to boot you out? Moreover, businesses regularly go belly up on their own, and even the ones which are considered too big to fail (see Lehman Brothers) while Bitcoin and crypto are not going anywhere in the near future (read, they are to stay with us)

Also, as Satoshi had a contingency plan (as he had been running the forum before theymos), so theymos might have one too. Apart from that, crypto is not just about bitcointalk only, so it in fact remains to be seen whether your "main job" is actually going to fare a lot better in the long run

It is why the income from forum (from signature, bounty managements, signature or graphic designs, escrow services, etc.) should be considered as supplementary income source, even the income source is bigger than your income from main job. If you can earn more income from the forum than your main job, it is good, and you should keep doing your good works in the forum to maintain your jobs here with good supplementary income, but simultaneously you should stick with you main job as your second plan when something serious happen in the forum.
Who knows when theymos leave the forum or shut it down?

That's not sad, you are even lucky to have a full time job and you also make money in this forum at the same time.
You can make a living here if you gain good income but signature campaign alone, I doubt you will survive, you have to be resourceful because there's plenty of opportunity in the online world, especially the crypto world.

Congratulations mate. In my case i join the forum since 2017 but January this year was the first time I started receiving payment via signature and today was the biggest. I believed just like the early users, in years (5-10yrs) to come we'll be the ones telling the stories of how earning via signature was fun and profitable in our time because there's every possibility that the satoshi and USD value of bitcoin via payment will reduce within time.

Today is the first time I got decent payment for BTC signature campaign (thanks @Hhampuz). With this amount of payment, I'm pretty sure that someone will make a good living in my country. The BTC economy is real dude!

As for me, "sadly" I already have a full job.

What about cryptocurrency trading?

Or just trading in general? It mostly happens in the Internet these days anyway, so if you are able to earn a steady and handsome income, what's wrong with that? I understand what you mean to say ("it all goes well until it does not"), but it is applicable to anything in life and even life as such (like you live, then you die)

Other than that, I am inclined to think that you are underestimating the impact of luck on our life. This is not to say that we should rely on luck alone (that would be gambling), but essentially, anyone of us, our very existence, is technically the outcome of a lucky coincidence of different factors


If crypto goes south, short it and earn even more


It is the same with anything in life and you should always be on the lookout for new opportunities

I think it was only the first 20 people that got in for saying " I'm in"  - I was one of those lucky few

It is what happened in 2017 and even during early months of 2018, but things changed when bitcoin fell down, broke its supports and fell to below $4000 as well as altcoins fell to its nearly the same starts in early 2017 in BTC trading pairs.
It is always better to see earnings that you can get from your works in the forum as additional financial income for your live, not the main or only source.

Most people have this sort of dream where they can actually live off the internet in general, it all goes well until it does not, the forum and crypto in general are still sort of amateur, just like anything else in life, you may get lucky here and there , but as things develop only those who are actually experienced at something will end up making the majority of the money, so if you are just an average Joe, chances are you going to stick to your everyday's job till you retire.

I personally make more money mining and trading bitcoin than i make from my average IT related job, in fact if i quit my job today and invest all my time and effort in crypto, i could make 2-3 times more income, but then i'd be stupid, if crypto goes south i would be broke and will have to start all over after having lost all my clients and skills, things will be worse than ever.

TL;DR : unless you have a good amount of reserves, then living off the forum and crypto in general is too risky, there is nothing wrong with some extra income from signature campaign or trading goods and services, but don't go balls deep, just in case!

No, I don't make living off the forum and I'm not planning to do that. I think it would be stupid and even risky. What if campaign will scam you? What if you lose your Bitcointalk account? What if there simply will be no empty spot in campaign for you? There are too many risks. Offcourse, you're providing services here, it's normal to earn for a living here. But it's not easy. For example, we have lot of signature campaign managers and limited number of campaign. Simply it can be not enough job for you.
When Bitcoin was at $15 000 - $20 000, I was able to get from sig campaign more than I get from my main full time job. Now I just earn some extra cash from it. And I withdraw only smart part of my earnings. If I would withdraw more, I would have to fill all these tax declarations. When it comes to crypto, it's complicated thing in my country. There are simply too much hassle. I just hold biggest part of my earnings, some BTC I use for investments and for spending online sometimes.

I never said that finding a well-paid campaign is easy but it is possible.
The rates for Members and Full Members are (as you know) not so high but you wrote that in this position you can find a campaign which pays $ 50- $ 75 - when you multiply it for 4 weeks, you reach $ 200 - $ 300 or more than the last ten places from the list I have shown.
Being Sr. With a Memo or Hero you are able to hit an even better $ campaign let's say 75- $ 100 , which means that the potential earnings per month increase to $ 300- $ 400, which means more than 20 bottom places in the table. I am not even talk about the best campaign here, where it gets very difficult to get (but still possible) where you can earn more than in each country I have presented.

Remember also that these calculations were made at the rate of bitcoin at the level of $ 4000 and as you know for a long time it was much higher which means that these payments could also be doubled or even tripled (I'm not talking about the extremely high btc rate in early 2018 when they were up to 5 times higher).

Once again, it is not easy to find a well-paid campaign, but this forum gives people from many countries the opportunity to earn monthly equal or even higher than average wages in their countries, and it still does not take 8 hours a day. If you add other bounty campaigns like Facebook, Twitter and so on to signature campaign (although today it is a very very risky source of income) some people can really treat this forum as a source of income sometimes even better and easier than "real" full-time job in their country.




Signature campaigns NEVER FORCE you to spam! It is always your decision what you post. If you can not write posts that are constructive, meaningful, interesting or at least you should not start the signature campaign - because it is not for you.




this is probably the best example of proper use of earnings from this forum

I think in most developed, or for that matter, developing countries, it would not be possible to earn from this forum enough to make a living. For that, and I'm talking if you only use signature campaigns, you'd have to spam, which risks you getting banned. If you try out many other freelance jobs on the forum then maybe that would give a decent income, but its difficult to continuously find jobs that fit your niche. Also, a lot signature campaigns end (run only for a limited period of time), so its pretty hard to make a continuous income.

Checked another campaign bitsler managed by yahoo62278. As per the spreadsheet, he probably get $300 per week. In spreadsheet, there's an amount written every week below the participants payment. It's BTC +/- 0.07 BTC. That's a passive amount if he manages 3-4 campaign at once.
Nevertheless, it is not only about managing a campaign, it's about his reputation too which took years to build up.