May be you will have to throw light on this. How does one earn passively on Bitcoin without staking it? Again, you mentioned in the other post (Post #4) that trading could be a hard thing, how does one profit passively from Bitcoin without trading it? Come to think of it, what you see as the right opportunity now may turn out not to be so a few days from now. Then, what if someone buys now with hope of profiting from it but price dips immediately one does; how is one going to passively gain from it? Please, don't see my questions as probing to scorn. I'm asking because I truly want to know.
It depends on how you see it.
Staking is a passive income, that is true. But what if you stake an unstable coin and the coin crashed and become a shit coin. What if someone massively bought ethereum and stake it when the price was almost $5000 and staked it, the person is losing by now, irrespective of the amount he earns on the staking, but the time of profit is coming.
Bitcoin holding can be a passive means of earning more money, but investing at the wrong time could result to passive unrealized loss. Like now, I believe if I invest in bitcoin for like 2 years, I will make profit. Short term holding and swing trading can help which I see as passive income.
But when it comes to scalping, day trading and those that use high leverage which is what is 100% regarded as trading, it can really drains someones energy, those are not passive means to earn money, they are active means. But also depends on you.
You may have little time for trading, make analyses under 5 minutes in the morning, open position with take profit and stop lose set and wait until night, using just little amount of money for each trades. That could be regards as passive income.
But if you ask most traders if they are earning passive income, they will tell you they spend money on data, watching the screen, sleeping late at times, having to just stop trading for a while not because they are losing but because they want to rest. Should that be regarded as passive income?
Passive income come from what that does not take stress from you before making profit unlike your normal job, what that take stress from you may not take stress from another person.