Topic: Does anyone here make a living off the forums? - page 3. (Read 1435 times)

From your table, the monthly salary last from $180 to $500 (from the 29th to 1st positions).
I don't think that people can earn too much money in the forum like this as their full time job.
In average, for my rank (Full Member), the rate of btc campaigns ranged from 0.0012 BTC 0.012 BTC or just higher a little bit. $50 or $75 in some campaigns with bonuses for top merited participants.
Maybe, as their full time jobs, they do same jobs the same time, from signature campaign, to graphic designs, signature designs, Escrow service, as well as campaign managements, but I think that they have to work so intensively to hit such total monthly income.
It's a really hard work.

Ahh! Show me the places like this where I should put "I 'm in". Even if I get 1/100 of it , I will run a signature campaign for you ( Cryptohunter for DT, looks good )

..There are a lot of reasons why people are getting involve in bitcointalk forum,,full time or part-time..some of these are:

1. TO EARN MONEY:
2. TO GAIN/ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE:
3. TO LEARN:

..there are so many reasons to mentions,but I think these three are the most common reason why people are here on bitcointalk..by any means,,I am here in bitcointalk because I want to learn,gain knowledge and also to earn some money because bitcointalk really helps me a lot,,and i did not regret to be get involve in btt and become part of my journey in life..

I have been participating in this forum since 2017 and the weekly payments that I receive from campaign signatures helped me support myself as a student, as there are times where I use this money for my daily expenses.

As someone who is part of a family of 7 with a single father raising us, our expenses quickly pile-up as he needs to fulfill his daily obligation to feed us and pay for our individual education. There are times where I have been the least priority (eldest brother) in terms of money allocation and this quite took a toll on me whenever I attend my class with a hungry stomach and less study materials.

I used to receive $4-$5 every week (last 2017 when the price of each bitcoin was around $3700-$3800) and use the money to save for my next month's savings. As time passed by, my forum rank grew with my weekly payments increasing at the same time.

Now that I graduated college with a mindset and will for post-graduate studies, I use the a portion of my bitcoins to purchase books (these books are expensive as hell!) to at least support and mitigate the expenses so my other brothers do not experience what I had experience before while growing up.

I can say at least that this forum not only helped me individually but indirectly helped my family. This may sound exaggerated but without this forum and the convenience of working online, I guess my dream of pursuing my career as a future lawyer would not materialized and be just a goal that would be impossible to reach for the time being.

Agree with you completely as I have a similar story to yours. I had been working on signature campaigns from a long time and I must say that the money I get from it does complement the savings I make from my real job.
To be honest, the money did attract me in the beginning days and but as time passed by and I gained experience on this forum and now I kind of love the forum for whatever it is. It's really a big platform through which anybody can learn so much out of it. These days I concentrate less on the amount of posts and more on the quality of posts because that is what will benefit the forum and it's the only way I can think of right now to make my contribution towards the forum. I would definitely like to contribute more towards the forum but I don't know how should I do that.

Also I have a question:
What do you feel when these people tell you how important their account is for them ? Doesn't it makes you feel pity or something on them ?

This here sums up how I got into campaigns in the first place. I got into BTC as it seemed an interesting way for me to earn passive income from mining, should I sell or a way to purchase goods without the potential fees.
I was here a couple of months before I realized that Sig Campaigns were a thing. The way I explained it to my partner at work was I'm doing it anyway, I'd be stupid not to earn at the same time. I still agree with this, as it doesn't change what I do here. Looking at my responsibilities and what I perceive as attainable income through the forum, it could never support me

I'm in a lucky spot, most of my active posting time at the forum is done from work. My career, pays well, but is dull 95% of the time, to the point where I literally just monitor screens looking for issues. When I'm away I generally just scan through the threads or do a lot more reading. So the Sig Campaign earnings are like a shift premium in a way when I'm at work.  

I do try to use the forum and BTC in any way I can, more so to try and create opportunities for a marketplace. I have sales threads up for items I thought may be of interest to users within N.A. So far no bitters from the forum, but maybe that changes. I have also used my earnings to grow my personal home mining farm to nearly capacity for what I'm comfortable allocating. This way if I need to step away from the forum for a while or personal issues arise and I'm not as active, I've invested in my future.

One of the things I like seeing the most is when people begin to develop business ideas through conversations here. Not directly earning from the forum, but helping to grow the number of uses for BTC outside of the exchanges, or payment services.

It is only available for bustadice campaign because yahoo is also getting paid on his busta account,but the other campaigns he is managing on his own escow so by searching the other spreadsheet you can't find anything.

But in my guess yahoo may charge more than $150 per week for other campaigns because bustadice is only having 16 participants but other campaigns were nearly 50 members so the managing fee also will get multiplied,so a project with 50 members he may get $500 per week.(Just my guess though.)

Whatever you can make off doing tasks like this, you can make a TON more by using the information the board provides and trading on that information or just sig promoting for them on their ico.

Sure some people are likely making 5k+ per month or greater doing these things.

The BIGGER money is in ESCROW and also SIG campaign managing. Especially if you are holding a HUGE swathe of other peoples BTC when a fork happens to take place. Sig campaign managing depends on the deal they get from the project.

Still as I say.. avid reading and talking with some REAL devs (who also do keep their eyes on new and exciting ideas) will give you some great insights into trading and of course there you can make huge amounts of btc/money.

Some like consistent sig rev  BTC coming in from gambling, mixing, etc. However much more can be gained by picking just some great ALTs that will have a good chance.

For example one could have earned I think about 3 000 000 or it could have been 6 000 000 dollars for just saying a few sentences to promote an alt here previously and quite a few indeed did earn 100's K USD from just saying "i'm in" . So picking the correct one is also very important with airdrops.

Imagine a forum where you can get 6 000 000 USD for saying "hello Im in" - never has there been such place and we worry this place is going to die off  - no chance.  

I think for those who live in developed countries the forum is more like a hobby income. They have decent jobs, stable income and some free time to have fun.
For me, big part of what I have as crypo I bought with my money.
The income from the sig. campaigns I'm spending mostly on hardware to upgrade my PC and some get some gadgets without touching the family budget
Happy wife, happy life they say.

People put in a lot of effort to get merit, but most of them want to get merit, not only for merit, but to achieve higher rank, and higher rank will allow them to earn more in this forum. Of course, not everyone does that - there are certainly many enthusiasts who want to gain a rank for their own satisfaction, but they are certainly in the minority.

I used to wonder if it is possible to completely dedicate myself to the forum by giving up my job. It is possible that yes, but then you would have to focus only on doing business, finding new services and advertising them ... In other words, all the fun associated with being a poster / reader of this forum would disappear. At least that would have to look like today as a resident of a Central European country.

It would definitely be much different for a resident of a less developed country. For example, the page https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/country_price_rankings?itemId=105 shows 30 countries where the average monthly earnings of a resident is $ 500 and less. In this case, forum earnings in the amount of several hundred dollars per month may turn out to be much higher than the residents of these countries can achieve by working hard in their full-time work.


Please note that this site provides data from only 80 countries, so countries where you earn less than $ 500 per month is definitely more.

In other words, for the residents of developed countries, in most cases, earnings here are an addition to be used, for example, for a hobby. In the case of less developed countries, earnings may turn out to be VERY GOOD work (however, it must be remembered that people in these countries have much worse access to new technology due to their lower standard of living, so access to the forum is limited only to "selected" probably richer people).




The world is not fair ... It really depends on the place where you live. For you it's 1/3 or less earnings but If you would live in Nepal or Egypt you could probably feed your whole family only for your signature campaign....

I could pay my monthly internet bill with what I receive in one week of my signature campaign. And probably other small things as my dogs food, some beer. Unfortunately it would not be enough to pay for everything.

But what is the mostly interesting thing, is that I visit internet forum since 99, and Bitcoin talk is the only forum that I have received something for posting. I was mod and adm from a forum that was too 50 in Alexa ranking in Brasil. And receive nothing for this.

Even if we do not have many people making enough to live only from what they receive in the forum, I am pretty sure that Bitcoin talk would be eventually study as a new way of spend time with a hobby. Where you do not receive only "thank you" for your efforts in helping others, but receive money. Real money that you could spend on other things.

Yesterday, I had applied in bustadice campaign managed by yahoo62278, I checked the spreadsheet and yahoo62278's name was listed there. It shows he is getting paid $150 per week for managing bustadice signature campaign. I didn't check other campaign spreadsheet, you can check and probably get the info about how much he gets managing per campaign.

Probably a lot of young people or those that live in countries where 100$ means the difference between poor and middle class.

As for me, no way I could rely on the forum for income.
Lately, as in the last year with the kid growing up, with the wife away for a week every month, I never managed to get to the 50 posts per week mark.
Also, I've stopped being that active during weekends, haven't yet found a deal that would be better than playing with my kid in the park.


I'm in the best-paying campaign (99% sure??) but even so, at current prices, it would be 1/3 of my wage and...that doesn't include health benefits, unemployment insurance, and private pension contribution.

If I were to add those on top of the wage I would probably have to manage 5-6 altcoins campaigns, post my full quota and do some bounty hunting wasting time

I'm comfortable with the extra income that allows me to spend around some coins on various offers with touching my stash.
Some sort of allowance money.

You won't get the answer just by asking them, use this trick contact the project/company they're managing a campaign for and act like you have a project you want the same manager to manage and ask for a price range luckily you'll get a response. In my quest to search for what other altcoin signature campaign managers are  charging I did the same and got an idea of what to charge with few discounts.

You can try asking them directly though like an inquiry and hopefully they'll respond. BTW based on my research (Altcoin though) managers charge differently based on duration of the campaign.

I have always wondered how much signature campaign managers earn in a good month. I am talking about bitcoin campaigns and the Top 3 managers that are easily found by just opening the Services section. I doubt they will tell us though 

Earning a couple of $100s a month on the side is surely a plus and in some countries it means doubling their wages.

In my case it’s a clear no. Whatever income I receive from the Signature Campaign is just a bit of play BTC to HODL, and I haven’t given it any thought other than that. The time I manage to scrape to do things on the forum is variable, and depends on my real-life workload which varies from time to time, while currently providing me a certain flexibility to adjust the day how I see fit to some extent (for now).

For it to be considered a source of income it needs to take into consideration the amount/type of crypto one manages to obtain, how they convert it to FIAT (at the end of the day, that’s where we are), and the cost of life in the country of residence.
 
Reading through posts on my local board, some people are struggling to make heads or tail on the path to follow to convert their crypto to FIAT after making some through signature campaigns. Trying to legalize it is not that trivial, and the IRS equivalents seem to lack a clear inner guide on how to deal with these cases, making the step bold, as one does not know the result beforehand too well, and the solution may well be rather dependent on who is on the other end of the desk.

I’ve also read a couple of cases of people going through Localbitcoins and somehow ending up sued by a scammer and/or having real issues with the equivalent of the IRS, to the point that the loss of crypto is nothing in comparison to the personal wear and legal situation that they are facing.

At the peak of the bounty/ICO hype, I've seen claims of users earning $2000 per month from basically spamming social media for bounties. That's significant in any country, and enough to make a very good living in most countries. It didn't last long for them, it must have lead to more competition, bounty spammers using more alt accounts, and the rest is history.

My signature pays a decent amount of money, but I don't need it. It's small compared to my cost of living. If I divide my "Total time logged in" by what I earned from this forum, it's not worth my time at all But money isn't the main reason for posting here. I'm not selling nor buying Bitcoin, I'm just in for the ride. I've said before that I like the ride up more, after which someone (probably in the WO-thread so there's no way to find back a quote) responded that the ride down is more thrilling.

I wouldn't mind making a living off the forum though, but so far I've only been able to hook temporary signature campaigns to manage (and they didn't pay that much).

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I like to think of it from a different perspective too: the fact that this forum offers many opportunities to earn Bitcoin, and many people actually want it, is great for adoption.

As of now, I have earned 0.0015 BTC from my 4 weeks of signature campaign participation. Although I could have earned more, I don't have enough time to post for earning 2k satoshi per post. On top of that, I mostly post here for learning more about bitcoin. I'm a freelancer and a full time employee. I spend my free time here for learning bitcoin stuff.
If someone wants to make a living here from signature campaign, that will be a load of works. Moreover, it will be monotonous if you are posting for earning something. That's where the spam comes from. When someone posts for the sake of learning stuff/interest, it's possible to post 50 times a day but when you make it regular job, I bet you will be bored.

In my local, there's no one accepting bitcoin as currency/payment method. One of my adventure to spend BTC- A day with Bitcoin
Some probably argue with me on it but the purpose was to show where we are living after 10 years of BTC.

I think it is not good to depend on the works being done here in the forum though there are many users earning huge(good for them) as they establish already a raport here and has talents also doing such tasks. But, if one is just only doing different bounty then this is not the right place to depend on. It is always better to look for a stable job especially if one has completed a college degree.

Now, it is good to be here in the forum but just consider it as a an another source for income. The forum could definitely help one out to earn and to support financially.

This is why it is really a privilege to be here in the forum.

I guess some people are putting the effort may be due to Merit implementation. I am not going to quit my job and paid campaign in this forum cannot be compared my job income. But earning in this forum just give me satisfaction that I can earn anonymously.
Actually , after coming to this forum I got so many business ideas to implement , I guess , now I have no time to sit idle ( whether I have job or not) because I will be occupied in learning and implementing those ideas.