Topic: [Life lesson]Nothing is really free (Read 609 times)

Free thing dey porge, that saying is reality. Nothing is free because  free thing hardly last or get value. You can only know and value what you spend time,money energy etc anything these afar mentioned is not given hardly yield good results.

The time you spend in learning skill, trading make it not being free even when you don't spend to learn it dedication is equal to it.

Example some person spend time to mind shiltcoin, altcoin and BTC all this required dedication, you see that making earm meet is not free.

Learning is part of daily lives and yeah mistakes do the same so when we say Learning
there must be accompanied by mistakes and they are always partners .
We must experience mistakes to be more knowledgeable about matters
like what OP did and now he had this learning to not do it again.

that means it is give and take and is giving considered as payment? not sure if this  is true  then because I believe that payment is given as obligation and giving heartedly is not a payment.


you are lucky enough to have friends and family that shares knowledge about bitcoin for you so congrats then.

Often people are not attentive enough to realize that things they are doing are not adding any value to their life.

time is money and time is precious so I see no reason why some people will just choose to invest their time on irrelevant and unproductive things. For one to grow in life, it requires productivity and when one spends so much time on things that doesn't add any value or help to someone's life it becomes a very big problem because you won't be open to new innovations that will make you earn and become a responsible person in life.

Faucets and other low earning opportunies may be a waste of time to you but not to others.   For them, the amount of money that they earn and accoumulate are enough to help them survive for the day.   Moreover, this thpe of earning mechanism ks just a start, as the famous saying says, we need to start somwhere then grow from their.

Everyone has different strategy to move forward.  Each has has preferences in earning money and doing cryptocurrency.  What works for you do not mean can work for others also.  Hence, we need tk respect each others' method of achieving their goals.

As long as one is able to afford Internet there is plenty free stuff available to learn from.

wrong , you cannot just spend all your time in learning because there are no free education, even life needs funds to struggle in life so maybe better to say spend more time in learning but also spend some in working and gaining income.
but like what OP says, nothing is free in the world now as even garbage to others has value,learn more and work hard that is the combination we need in life.

Nothing is actually free even a free town, some time even I educational settings where they will say or talks about free education  that doesn't work life is literally hard and complex and the early you understand that very fact then the better for you, it is best to be free minded and hard working let what ever that seems to be free becomes an advantage when  it finally becomes true, face reality and become more useful to yourself. However most time experience becomes the best teacher.

I agree with your notion. I am of the opinion that if you are getting something free, you are the product. Learning new skills is always helpful in the long run. If you are doing something that interests you, you will lose the sense of time. You will enjoy the work you are doing and you will also be earning money for your work. I think social media have negatively impacted the youth and most of them including me are killing their time on social media apps. I have realized it and now I am trying to limit my social media exposure. In my country, Facebook and TikTok are harming young minds and people are not even realizing it.

It goes without saying that nothing in the world comes for free, everything requires time and effort. The world is a matter of exchange and what you give you get something else in return, even love.
So for development in life, we should spend time in the productive sector and do due diligence. It's a very important and interesting thing in my life that I came to know about Bitcoin forums from my friends and family and joined here.

Success takes hard work but learning new things will give you new experiences. Learning something new is hard work. There are no set rules on how to learn something new. Every person has his own learning technique. Something new helps to find future tasks with increasing own knowledge.

Specially in this world of internet now that there are lots of things we can generate profit than just Airdrop.
this forum alone has tons of profiteering to offer and we only need to find what suits us , there are bounty
hunting in which sometimes bringing larger income if you know where to find one better.

I will hold these words from you as i have been watching you for some time now and you are good in terms of altcoins in which i love reading your post and learning each time.
so now that you said this that faucet are just waste of time nowadays then maybe many of us will refrain from spending our time in such a waste.

thanks for this update and see you around mate , Keep bumping bitcointalk members of your knowledge in altcoins.

Our presence and effort are things that should not be given away for free nor should it be taken advantage of. It is time that you invest in yourself by learning new skills and knowledge and have other people reach for what you have. Even if it is not money, you are still giving away something.

I think probably the only thing thais free is kindness. I hope more people realize that and stop with the attitudes

It's not about having success when you learn something new. But it's about having the feeling of satisfaction when you learn something new. And you can apply that to anything you think is going to give you potential profitability.

It is simple and fact that we should keep on learning and upgrading our skills because we're in a very competitive world where things don't stay being stagnant anymore.

We have to adapt and have the initiative to learn something new from time to time.

Totally agreed if people were to spend their time on learning new things many will become more successful than there were.Its a simple fact that many don't seems to believe.

No one will ever give anything for free as their interests are hidden here. In giving free coins they don't work properly and many times stop. Graphics design is good apart from these there are many other jobs you can know if you do market research. Success is easy if you master them through technical analysis and knowledge. There are many jobs online that need to be learned well.

nothing in life is ever free.
everything comes with some kind of condition, cost, consequence.
however there are things that have more then one method of obtaining it at different varieties of cost, condition, consequence

never close yourself off to avoiding things, but instead make a judgement of the best way to achieve things with least consequence

I agree with this, I played too much with these so-called faucet that gives free coins, but once you go for withdrawal, you have to met the minimum requirement to withdraw. And then I feel worthless here.

Put efforts more in what you wanted to do for a long time. Like me, I like to do graphics designs.

Time and Money has no difference , Time can be consume and same us money is consumable .

Faucet and airdrop is best if you are earning more than how much you can earn in regular Job but if not?
then best to stop what you are  doing and look for Job instead because spending money in nonsense
is like spending your life in nothing but stupidity .

I was thinking about this yesterday. That there is no shortcuts to success. Being successful need time, dedication, consistency, perseverance and smartness etc. I have made many research and discover that what ever gives you money must take you time and Brain power to compute it before being paid. There is no free money. That's why am always afraid when they talks about airdrops. It sound somehow because i see free money scheme which might possibly be a scam attempt. So since I knew that nothing Good come so easily, I run as fast as possible with the sight of any free thing. Because I know there is no free thing.  Even if you are given something for free I think you will still need to work on that thing given to you, before consuming it. So what then makes it to be free when you still need to work  or prepare them before use

I just want to mention another important fact, "Life is not the same for everyone". Be it financial status or skills and capability or their mental strength to pursue something in the long run which vary one another, so better not to compare yourself with anyone. Just focus on accomplishing your goals and sooner or later you will reach the line you wanted.

But somehow i already realised this thing, years ago. And why should anyone give us for free without their benefits? No one does that. And i remember when i used to do ppc, it was popular for that time. Hardly i earned $1 after 1 month clicking, lol. But that was just a start up and then meet with people & they referred to different path to make money. I think thus a person can discover new thing from ground. Just need confidence and dedication for a Start

Sometimes realization comes when we are already tired of same thing happening , this will be our wake up call to  never let those mistakes happen again .
Imagine that our time is precious that we can do something that is more or much better to what have we done recently yet we continue because of our desires that in the end did not come , but its good that we finally realized when there is still time and when our precious moment already over.

There are things of lesser value than engaging in faucet activities. Moreover, there are valuable lessons for those who manage to earn money through faucets. It is true that we cannot amass wealth through faucets, but recognizing your patience in pursuing something can be a valuable skill to apply to different concepts.

I used to seek earnings from faucets and consistently shared our progress and good faucet opportunities within the community. It marked my initial introduction to Bitcoin, and I have never forgotten it.

I played faucets simply to determine whether it was worthwhile or not. In the end, I had to seek something better than faucets but still related to Bitcoin.

How much did it cost you to get your hands?
How much did you shell out for your arms?
What about legs and feet?
Torso and head?
Magnificent computer brain?

If you lose these, or any major part of them, there is really no way to get them back. You might get a replacement part from a donor, but it isn't as good as your own was when it was new. And prosthetics are junk compared with your original.

The best stuff in life is free, because you didn't pay for your original body.

Where did this free stuff come from? I mean, really. Your parents didn't invent it.

I deliberately ignored it cause I found your statement quite dubious. Regarding my entry into BTC, I came across Bitcoin first time around 2013ish when Stellar did an airdrop. I still have my blockchain.info wallet created in 2014. I had created account on bitcointalk during that time as well, it was hacked in 2015, I created new one in 2017 cause old one was at newbie rank, could care less.

I used to do raw faucets, got around $20 or something for God knows how much time. You are one of rare ones to hold onto earnings for this longer. I wasn't aware of rotators, I earned better through doing gigs on Reddit, if I cared about BTC back then I would have accumulated more of it by converting those gig earning than from faucets.

Faucets worked for you cause of rotators and referrals, for me they didn't. What I say is from my own perspective and may not be applicable to everyone.

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Edit: I checked BTC address linked in my old account, and those $20 bucks are now worth good ~$1600 USD, so yeah, you are right, but then again if I had chance again to invest in BTC, I'd choose other work and invest than doing faucets. Hope you get the point.

What we think is not worth doing is not necessarily not worth doing for others. We currently feel that playing PPC, faucets and the like is just a waste of time because it is not commensurate with the results we can get. But not for those who are just learning because they will feel happy and challenged to get more when they try it and get very little results.

Let's go back to the early years after Bitcoin was released. At that time, people tried to collect Bitcoins through faucets and they could get a lot of satoshis in a day and some could even get 1 BTC in a day. But if they sell, they can't get much money but still try to collect more satoshi.

And some people mined Bitcoin because Bitcoin could be mined using a PC at that time. They might say you are not worth messing with the faucet because the results are only marginal. It's better if you just mined BTC, they say. But those people still play with faucets.

So, from that flashback, those of us who can already earn more satoshi than them might say it's better to look for another way to earn more satoshi. But they feel they cannot find another way, so they still use the methods they can and know. It's all a learning process and I'm sure if there are people who want to look for that opportunity, they will look for it until they find it.

If you want to know the reasons why people spend so much time on PPC, Faucets, airdrops, and many rather than spending that same amount of time learning about bitcoin is because, it is the path of least resistance. It is very easy to do one or two steps and think that it will get you bitcoins. Do your own research about bitcoin is very hard. It requires hours of intentse and consistent study. However, this is the path that offers the most benefit.

Not yet, Bounties are still paying real money but not enough, the allocations are not worth is anymore so bounties are slowly fading away, there are few bounties that are still worth giving a try, like those projects from Julerz12, they aren't that bad, I can also see few casino campaigns paying with USDT, I believe this is better than Airdrops today.

If you are very good with finding altcoin gems I believe you will be able to avoid crap list of bounties in altcoin bounties section of the forum, for someone like me it's a piece of cake as I can easily filter the bad ones among the few good bounties.

The best bounty I saw in the altcoin section was Cocos that was renamed to Combo, that project did well in last bull market, follow the likes of Vulcan Forged and Alchemy Pay.

Maybe by next year, new projects will show up on the forum, but honestly, alts bounties are the those who are strong at the mind, many will turn to shit and few will do very well, it depend on if you are ready to take the risk.

Some people sound like a broken record, and you are repeating something without reading my previous post, or are you deliberately ignoring it? You probably think I'm lying or talking nonsense, but I've always thought that what I collect will one day be worth much more than it was then, and even today faucets can be profitable if you own one of them.

You also completely ignore the role that faucets played in the promotion of Bitcoin, so you shouldn't look at everything only from a profit perspective.

Besides, I don't believe that you knew that Bitcoin existed 10 years ago, and therefore you can't have personal experience from that time - I earned my first BTC just like that and I don't regret the time I spent at all. Every day I spent an hour or two less watching TV or playing games, and I don't consider that a loss.

Thanks for the good topic, OP. I agree 100% with the content of your post, but the title I would personally change a bit. We do not have to pay for the air we breath, and that wastes no time.  If you need to be outside anyway, ie. on the way too work, and you stop for a very brief moment to remember to enjoy the sunny day, then that nice moment was almost as free as the fresh air, just took a few seconds.

I'm trying to say a certain amount of happiness can "be free", and that is important. While attempting to build a better life, it can be great to remember to be happy with what you have right now.

Faucets were never good, people are looking at faucets earning of then with current prices, which is untruth. 5 BTC at 1 cents/BTC is 5 cents.

Faucets used to be good ten years ago but not now before you can cash out you will need two or three years or have hundreds of active referrals, faucets, and PTC are totally waste of time the only ones who make money from these are the owners of these faucets and PTC, many active clickers give up after several months so the admin only payout users that are dedicated, its the newbie that are looking for ways to earn free satoshis that are the victims of these faucets until they found out that its not worth it.

I beg to differ here because there are actually free things. I've never done faucet hunting but from what I read, the first bitcoin faucet paid 5 BTC to participants for doing absolutely nothing. This might be of little value back in the days but for the persons who held unto their Bitcoin before cashing out, they would have made a fortune. There's this story I read about a teenager who became a millionaire after he found the Bitcoin he got from faucet. So don't be too critical on people that are into it because you don't know what tomorrow holds. However, if I were to choose between faucet hunting and learning a skill, I would opt to learn a skill.  

Everything related to Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency can be learned for free here, this is what encourages newcomers to register almost every day on the Bitcointalk platform. As long as it is not based on laziness, is willing to think about moving forward and is committed to learning something useful while on the forum, the time they invest here will be much more beneficial than just collecting theory without practical support or being directly involved with what is learned.
I would encourage newcomers to value their time to learn something more valuable than to be tempted by something that is not worth the time spent. It needs to be underlined and if necessary pinned in every member's mind, PPC, faucet is just a waste of time.

we may not spend money, but in return, it will still consume our time, which is still will take away the other tasks that we earn and cost us money in the run, people only say it's free because they don't spend money but in reality, they are consuming the most precious thing on earth time, if you use your time wisely, you will get better results.

Time is money. This is the one thing that's always on my mind. Whenever I wake up in the morning, I always think of the things that I must do on that day, and will make me productive if I do that thing/s. For example, if I work on that day, that makes me productive.

There's no such thing as free money in this world. If only there is, we might not see poor people anymore. We aren't living in a Utopia, but we are living in a cruel world where you need something to get something in return.

Maybe it's time to add bounty campaigns in the list, eh?

I mean for me, it's a waste of time joining into bounty campaigns already. I'm pertaining to those bounty campaigns that're paying the participants with their own native tokens. You will advertise the project, and in return you will be paid a few bucks... ohhh wait if you're lucky, you will be paid. Some if not most of the bounty campaigns aren't paying the participants, and if they are being paid, sometimes that token doesn't have any value at all. Quite unfortunate TBH.

Besides it is not about whether these people sells their BTC or not but the fact that the faucet rewards those days have significant value today.  This is enough to refute @OP's belief that nothing is really free.

There are lots of non-material things that is also given for free, such as listed in this link: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/happiness-lessons_n_6534304

It maybe hard to find freebies in material things but it was once popular in this forum and is still ongoing, the airdrop.

I think it is not that easy to get anything for free. It may be the fortune of only a few, but not everyone. In crypto currencies, if someone is told to spend nothing and get a lot of money in return, it would be a misrepresentation. Crypto currencies involve both profit and loss. I don't think if someone told me to give one and take two, I would easily believe it, Or anyone can convince someone to earn a lot of money without spending and they can easily believe.

However, I believe that everything comes with hard work, and if anything is most valuable, it is our time. The better time we use in any good activity, the more profitable it will be for us. No matter what business you are doing, or what job you are doing, you need to work hard in every area of life, then you get the reward. All the rich people in the world didn't get wealth so easily, but they got everything in their life by working hard with their precious time, so I think we should never focus on the formula of getting something for free.

It is the belief that something can be gotten for free that usually lead newbies in the cryptocurrency industry into scam. When they are told that they will spend no money but in return they will earn much money, they will be very happy. The end will become scam. If you are told to bring one and collect two, it is also a scam. But what makes it look like some things are free is because people do not value their time. The time you used to share links and promote some projects which will in turn apppwar that is free, that time is not free if you measure its value in money.
The earlier we realised that nothing is free, the better for us

Mate, it  is said that in free town nothing is free. In life nothing is free you must work in one way or the other to get engaged in something if you must want something in return. Life is not a bed of roses. That is why it is said you lie on your bed the way you dress it. If you must succeed in this life, you must do something and what you do should count. Just as it is here, you must read, learn and post in other to make contributions in adding more value to the platform while you exist here. So therefore, nothing is free.

It's true that nothing is free in any case, at least we have to set aside time for something we want, and our mindset has to change that time can make us successful and vice versa. If you are wasting your time then just leave it, as you could be wasting your time on faucets, PPC, airdrops and bounties (for now).

But I personally believe that every user here is given the choice to determine the direction of their own wishes, and I am now even more enthusiastic about spending more time so that I can continue to progress in this forum. Because this forum can produce results for free as long as we really want to spend a lot of time to continue to explore and want to develop in learning something on this forum.

I don't know how much time have you wasted on faucets or on PPC but I learned this lesson a long time ago and in a very short time period too. Because, I almost tried every website back in time and each website was connected to another, and we ended up in loops of websites in the process of completing the tasks.

And now as a content writer, I do understand what was happening and how can I earn more money by just making a website like faucets and how can I earn way more money than using faucets. I also wasted a lot of time on such things, and a thought always came to me that I was wasting my time. I should look for something more productive.

But every time I gave up this thought, whenever I saw that people were making that much money out of the same faucets, which we can easily see on the reward timeline section of every faucet. I think that's why they have integrated that thing on their faucet websites.

Time determines the value of things and apart from faucets there are a bunch of things that today were regards as worthless that were of value years ago.

The thing is that there are certain things we put our time into years back that we never knew or were not so sure of them gaining value today but we just gave it the benefits of doubt. 1btc today is worth thousands of dollars and can buy a few pizza companies but in 2009 it could only buy just one single pizza.

Yet, there were people that gave in their time despite how worthless the value was at that time while others sold theirs thinking it was all a waste of time.  Today if bitcoin never gained this much value for those that hodl they would have falling into OP category of time wasters while those that abandoned it in the early stage to go into any kind of skill would have said to have taken the right decision and spending their time well.

I still have a part of the earnings from faucets when I was just starting to get interested in them, and the amount I have is not very small, let's say you should be in the signature campaign you are currently in for several years to earn that amount. Of course, nothing is free, but in the beginning the faucets were something interesting, and you didn't have to click all day to get through them all, because then faucet rotators were popular - in a little more than an hour you could collect more than 300 000 satoshi + earnings from referrals.

You're generalizing things, because you can also say that everyone who was an early adopter spent all the BTC they had, although we know that's not the case since the blockchain is public and we see daily transactions involving coins mined in the first few years of Bitcoin's existence.

You do have a point OP but I will like to drop my own opinion on this matter, see, learning skills to make money through crypto or other takes time, and it is not right to judge anyone when they go after faucet, I know that faucet isn't a thing anymore but there are people who slowly do faucet and get somewhere with it, the present condition they are facing makes them go for faucet and they know that learning a skill takes time.

I know how cheap it was to claim Bitcoin faucets in 2015 and 2016, a very serious person is capable of gathering 0.5BTC from faucets only by joining different faucet platforms, some comes in 30 minutes claim, some an hour and some are more than an hour, today, faucet is done for good.

It was a skill to be a faucet hunter years ago, either you like it or not, many made cool amount of BTC, Litecoin, Doge coin with faucet.

Later Airdrops came, and as stupid as airdrop sounds today, it changed the lives of many people when it was still 🔥 hot, things changed, time went by, we all need to move forward, isn't we?

Even if you learn a skill, it's mostly time-based, as time goes on you will need to adjust yourself or remain in the same spot, the best I can say is, be willing to learn something new, even if what you know right now is enough for the rest of your life.

When we know that what is worth doing is worth doing well, anything not worth doing well should not deserve our attention or time no matter what, we sometimes finds ourselves into doing some things that are not worthy or deserving for our own personal benefits.


Just as it will appear almost insane for a newbie to invested on memecoins and memetokens and yet hold them for a longer period, it's a risk taking in its highest order, faucet and airdrops are waste of time, only begginers can be encouraged for doing that, because they are learning, these are not investment and we shouldn't count them as legalized digital currency we could exchange like bitcoin or use in making payments.

How many of those users of faucets back in the day still holding? likely none. Whatever huge amounts of BTC might have earned, it would have been gone by now. BTC is huge today, it could have not, too.


I think it has little to do with knowledge or learning, it's hard to know how things will work out in future, at most you can make a guess and take a gamble.

The word free sometimes means searching for the value of something. Sometimes things are not have value to you, so you sell them at a price close to zero, and others turn them into things of value. For example, in the early days, the value of 5 Bitcoins was paid to you for watching an advertisement, and now you may work for many years to obtain it.
The question remains without knowledge and learning. You will not know the value of things or turn worthless things into useful things. Therefore, as long as everyone can do the same work as you, your work will have no value or will have a very small reward.

When I started knowing about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, what I first knew are faucets and pay-to-click sites. I use the sites for many times and it was not profitable. I can remember that a pay-to-click site even directed me to a fake mining site that said it has mined 0.005 BTC for me that I should pay half amount into a bitcoin address for me to receive the bitcoin mined, it was a scam and luckily I did not pay. Faucets and pay-to-click are waste of time.

Then you must have wasted many good valuable years of your time on things that really didn't matter eventually and I am hoping it's never too late for people like you. The lessons learnt from shoveling your time to things not worthy is what you should rather appreciate and grow from your rediscover that it has all been a waste and  since it didn't take your life with it but just your time even though time is priceless you can still make better use of the little time left.

Learning some value skill to earn better takes much time but some dudes ain't ready for that "shit" (gradual process), they want it all and now which is not how life works. Good things don't come easy, you must put in neat  work.

Just like most airdrops and bounties.
I find much more useful to study and learn about bitcoin, and share this knowledge in the forum.

We are all very luck to have this place.

In the long run you will much more rewarded, and will also make better investment decisions

Why did it take you that much time? It so obvious even for a newbie who has a good sence of reasoning to see that nothing in this life comes for free. You have to put in effort to accomplish a said goal or achievement. Instead of putting your money or time in something that won't yield you any profits for a long time, you have to find something worth time spent. The ppc and faucet cannot give you profits and I consider them a waste of time. The creators of such, usually use them to advertise their coins or products. I don't see any reason why I should waste time on them.

That's true that those way of earning bits of money are just there for someone who doesn't do a lot. But I am not neglecting them for being good introduction to the newbies on this space.

Many have been introduced to faucets and the era where PPC have been popular, I think many have experienced being on the various websites and popular one during those times.

These days, it's a common thing to upgrade yourself and learn a new skill, we've got a lot of skills website where we can learn from scratches, either free or paid trainings.

It is so disheartening that people are growing increasingly lazy and unwilling to think and be committed to something worthwhile. They just want to enjoy easy life without putting in any effort. Unknown to many is the fact that what appears to be free on the surface may actually come with huge consequences.  Scammers hide under this guise to get their victims.

I rarely pay attention to them because I understand that they are 99% not worth the time. I realised this when I was actively participating in airdrops.

It took me quite a long time to understand that nothing is really free, to the least you will be giving away your time. If you don't find whatever you do worthy of your time, don't do it.

Ppc, faucets and such are waste of time to earn money. If you put the same amount of time in learning some valuable skill you will earn better.