Topic: Newbie Question: Growing small amount of BTC? (Read 5889 times)

If you want to grow small amounts of bitcon you can try helping the altcoin community grow while supporting your favorite coins and being paid by the Devs doing social media advertising. Look at the altcoin announcements and the bounties too. There is aoo sorts of ways to earn Bitcoin you just have to go out there and do it! Good luck and have fun! 

To me the best is still bitcoin,
Better to transact in it.
most of thgere ERC20 coins are scam.

I hope little investment of money will take a lot of time to make money, so you have diverted whenever you make profits on the investments you made. It is always a good option to have multiple streams of income but you need to have enough money to make more money on the investment you made.

Took longer than appreciated, but my business is now set up to accept BTC as a viable method of payment.  I have just posted over in the marketplace/services section. 

Yes you right. That is what I was trying to say ^^ The 4% is very very low for a year. You can do better then that with fiat. With fat if you hire an account or someone to help you choose the right plan you can get 30% per year. This is why altcoin exchanges are so great. You just need to be extra careful with coins but if you look at the history back for years or months you will see some coins have been very stable and popular.

Hi, this is good question but problem is  invest small amount = small profit  so if you are lucky try gambling or start trading with poloniex

Yep, inevitably this is what I end up suggesting to everyone. The best way to get Bitcoin is through any other way you'd get a currency. Trading labor/skill for said currency.

You can either trade your skills (translation, writing, etc) for bitcoins. There's plenty of coins looking for translation bounties.

Or you can trade your skills for money and convert that to Bitcoins. You can do tasks at Upwork and convert that USD to BTC. Doing one job will be worth more than a month from a faucet.

On the earning thing and skills, my business website is being revamped to accept payment for invoices and services in bitcoin in addition to the usual paypal, e-transfer, etc.  I've been working on that for the past few weeks.  I have one major hiccup to fix, then I can share it with the BTC community as well as the fiat.  After chasing too many people down over the years to get paid, I am also moving to a pre-paid model where people will buy tech support in blocks of time and THEN get support for their problems, rather than being billed after the fact.  Once I'm ready, I'll be promoting.

You know when i started to work with bitcoin, So in this time, i also stared with a little amount of bitcoin. But with the time, we learn different things like investment, trading and gambling and working on signature campaign. These all are different parts, where you could earn bitcoins. But main thing is that you should have skills to earn the money or bitcoins.  

I don't gamble, so I won't be using that.  I currently have 0.001+ over freebitco.in at the moment, and once I've earned the network fee, I'll be transfering another 0.001 over there that I earned over the past two weeks. Minus the gambling and the .004 head start, your ideas are similar to someone else's I found.  :-)

I would like to share my strategy on how I earned bitcoins using the faucets. I only open five tabs on my PC or my mobile. I just got a day job and I am assigned on the field so I can open my mobile device every now and then. I am just in the crypto world for about a month so if anybody could give me a better strat I would love to hear it.
 
I use the moon faucets on bitcoin, dogecoin and litecoin. I also use the freebit, and freedoge.co faucets. What I like on the freebitco site is their reward point system. I earned about .02BTC in the last month using this strategy.

I deposited about .004BTC on my freebitco to start earning interest. then I claim on the faucets hourly and check my reward points. As you can see there, if you reach 3200 RP you can increase your claims by 1000% for 24 hours. 0.00001700+ is not that big but it is better than 170 satoshis. To reach 3200 RP you either need to gamble a lot or be patient and use the 100 RP/roll and roll more than 12x a day to be on profit. I use the 1000% every weekend, since I am more free to roll and I could stay on the PC for 48 hours(and get short naps every hour). While doing this, I also have an online job so I say faucets for me are not a waste of time since I use the computer and just keep the tabs open. Then, I use the interest I get per day plus the 90% of the faucet claim to multiply using the martingale strategy. When I win about 10,000 satoshis or lose 25% of my balance, I stop. Once I reach 200,000 satoshis on profit I then transfer it to my software wallet. I prefer Exodus since they offer wallets for Bitcoin, Litecoin, Dogecoin and Dash and UI is really good for the newbs.

Oh and also, I have two other mobile apps that give free satoshis linked to my Xapo account and transfer them to my freebit account to add in gaining interest/roll capitals. I already got back my .004 and have about .02 in my freebit account that gains interest. It was up to .03 this morning but I lost because I did not stick to the plan, losing 524k satoshis in one bet.

Ok, so I continued on my way, and I guess the system stopped sending me updates after a bit because I didn't realize we were on page three now till I logged back in.  lol.

Anyway, the faucet thing was to prove to myself that a person without any resources CAN get into the world of bitcoin successfully.  I've written two blog posts now as of last night and wanted to share them with the group.  The shifting sands of the faucet world meant that my recommended (sort of) faucet list has ended up quite short!  Those of you who are against earning BTC in this manner will probably laugh while banging your head against the nearest post after reading why I call my list "Faucet Alley", but the truth is the truth and I found no one else was being truthful about the pitfalls of doing it this way.  It was doable for me because of my background as a computer repair tech. 

My small financial website is here:  http://songdove.fa-ct.com/wordpress-mu/

You'll find the two bitcoin articles under "reviews" if you read this long after today.  I share a broad range of themes on this blog related to living life on less than a shoestring budget, so figuring out how to get into the world of bitcoin without spending any fiat, fit right into my blog's over-arching theme.

Faucet Alley is linked in the sidebar.  Myfe, you'll be happy to see freebitco.in listed there.  I read a strategy for using your site's RP to eventually earn your teaser of up to $200/hr and am trying to put it into action.  If it works for me, that will be another blog article.

You're definitely not going to do well on faucets.

However it seems like that you are intending to only do faucets, we cannot stop you.

It's your choice, after all.

But be warned that after a few weeks/or even days you will become so bored of solving captchas that you literally would rather to your schoolwork than to continue reaping the faucet.

If you were determined to do faucet work though, make sure that you invest the proceeds. Freebitco.in investment only offers 4% per annum, i suggest polo or bitfinex which is currently not in a good state lending.

Global inflation in fiat, we are earning interest here in BTCs, there is a big difference. Our money is becoming more valuable every new day while fiat investments are losing price during the years. It's much better to receive 4% interest annually in BTCs than 4% annually in fiat.

It's a tiny return, but you can withdraw any moment, and it's surely better than let your moeny idle on your wallet without generating any little % of interest.

5 years. So 5x 4 = 20% 100% in 25 years ? Are you serious ? Global Inflation is 5% or something so that 4% doesn't even keep the value constant. Risking something that will take 25 years to replace ? No thanks. That risk is ridiculous for such a tiny return.

Current biggest risk would not be your site but Bitfinex, their Wells Fargo troubles could make the value of a bitcoin drop significantly.

So you own a mining farm? Customers probably would like to see pictures of shelves full of mining equipment, or some hashrate statistics. Current or former data. I am not sure how those are verifyable as legit. On payouts they are proveable using a blockchain explorer.

I think it is better to earn multiple streams of small amounts that way they all add up and count and if you lose a few ways to make Bitcoin it is not the end of the world since you have the other bits if income. In this regard it is worth it in small amount of bitcoin. But just having one stream of income that is not worth many bitcoins probably is not worth your time .

What exactly don't you trust? Let's talk about it publicly!



There's risk to driving a car each day too, but that doesn't keep most of us from doing it.

Every currency and investment system in the history of the world has required a significant amount of trust. We depend on your trust and we believe that the work FreeBitco.in has done in this community over the last 5+ years has earned that trust!

They say they can pay us the interest from their mining profit. FreeBitco.in site owner bought a mining farm, made a big investment. If it was only from the dice game and faucet I think they wouldn't be able to pay daily interest to users.

There is always some risk, it's inevitable on the internet...

One such site would be FreeBitco.in....we're paying 4% on all deposits and you get to keep any appreciation in bitcoin price!

Naw, "all" really implies a lot. To my observation if there is a fixed, even "failesssafe guaranteeed we sssswear" interest rate then something sneaky keeps going on.
Mostly ponzi who have to exitscamm at some point in future. Regardless if it is investing into whatever it is to invest for, over there. Mining operation, special trade methods, regardless.

I'm keeping my BTC and currently beeing on the lookout for small programing tasks.

Could you please give me a few examples of such legit sites? My friend has given me a list of Bitcoin investment sites, but I don't know which of them can be trusted and which ones are scam.

i am sure that you can growing small amount of BTC from free source but you need to hard work to do because i think in this forum, there are many people that can earn free satoshi from time to time including me. the first think that you can do is don't play in any of investment that will not help you to earn some amount of btc, but i am sure that there is still one or more investment you invest but its difficult to find it.

if you want to mining, especially for cloud mining, you can select good and trusted site before you invest with them, but still its better if you mining with your own hardware rather than to mining in cloud mining but you need to buy some hardware.



making blog is a good option for OP to growing the btc, because when you have blog, you can make a post about crypto currency news or you can join with campaign in here to spread about the coins and you can get rewards for the coins or some satoshi. and i am sure that you can do much more to growing small amount of btc and finally you can have more bitcoin in your wallet.

Growing a small amount of money is always harder than a bigger amount, it may seems counterintuitive, but the most money you have the more opportunities you can take advantage.

You need to add a substantial size budget into your bitcoin address and buy it using fiat. Then when there is a decent amount you can focus on growing it. If you want to blog you might want to try steemit it's a great platform for bloggers and rewards quality content. You can spend $5-$10 buying steem to increase your influence.

Legit investment does exist, but the profit so little and not always you can gain profit, investing in a reputable casino is the best investment, but even I invest in the casino I also have trouble to gain profit, it is so hard to find legit investment with decent profit, there are so many scammed site nowadays, my suggestion is to do trading instead, at least in trading you can control your own money

I doubt about Freebitco.in investment actually, they are starting from faucet gambling site and now offering an investment opportunity, I understand that the site got a good reputation, but I still not really trust it

It's true that it's hard to find good sites where we can invest our money, but they exist. None of them are 100% safe, but few are legit and we can earn some nice returns by doing nothing. As you ask for a transparent site paying daily interest I can quote FreeBitco.in, they are alive and working since 2013 and now they pay a little daily interest for who has more than 30.000 satoshis in balance.

I can quote the casino bankroll investment option also, that is being great for investors, since you invest in a legit casino site.

I understand that you have the newbie rank on this forum, and there is high possibility that you are new in our small bitcoin society, but you should have already know that we dont give hints like that.
Moreover, we try to stop and avoid people that are giving such an advices, because they are literally helping the scammers to obtain their goals - earn the profits on the newbies.

Your post over here is worth nothing because you didn't even said something that may lead him somewhere, investing bitcoins is something not easy because of the big numbers of ponzis and scams surrounding the whole network.
Legit site? You know at least one, where you get the interest e.g daily, and they are transparent in doing their business, not hiding any data like team that works on the project, or people involved.

That seems good and it's good to start with faucets. The way you suggested looks a bit complicated, let him earn good through the different faucets available and later on if he feels comfortable let him involve into gambling and strategy making. At the beginning itselfif he move towards gambling in short he won't focus on any other form of earning.

Thanks for your kind words.  

I wish I could invest my own money into trying this out, but I am a struggling computer repair tech working as a self contractor and living in a household of "gibbles" as we jokingly call ourselves, so income is not where it should be to pay bills and put food on the table, let alone put into a savings account.  I have creditors calling me wondering where their money is.  So hence the need to earn BTC from the ground up if I am going to try this out.

As for using my time a better way, I have set myself up with bitpay and will be looking into ways to add the option to pay for my services from my website via BTC.  I am also considering add it as an option to my author site's bookstore as a way to purchase my books.  I am quite busy offline at the moment, so I haven't really had time to go looking for this services section of the forum everyone is talking about, but I'm sure I'll locate it eventually.

Im glad we have you over here @songdove.
Your typing style is very nice, not as most of the newbies here you know something about bitcoin and it's mechanisms.

I wanted to ask you, if you are not able to convert only 15$ ( if you cant, then less ) to bitcoin?
It would be really nice if you can afford it, because I would say that this is still really small sum to start with.

15$ is currently around 0,01254 bitcoin.
Firstly, I suggest you staying out of any type of investment sites, most of them are ponzi scheme's or just regular scams where you dont get anything for sending them your money.
If you want to earn money only on storing them somewhere, then investing in reputable cryptocurrency casinos might be a good idea, I think that cryptogames.com are fine enough.

Also, stay away from gambling, the chance to win something bigger isn't high enough to take the risk.
The best solution for you is browse through "service" section to see what kind of skills do people offer.
That would be the best way to make bitcoins, or also through signature campaining- but you need higher rank than newbie for that, jr.members are getting payed really low, but it is something at least.

Just please, dont touch faucets anymore, you can use your time in better way.
 

Wow! You must be that persistent to be able to earn that amount through faucets. I have also tried earning using faucets but got disappointed in the end because the sites I have used was not paying. I suggest joining signature campaigns if you really want to earn bitcoin. 

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That's the somewhat confusing/bothersome issue.  I have a tab open listing off all the scam sites and the list is huge!  Most of what I see advertised around the 'net is on this list.  Then I go to other "watch list" sites that rank them based on if they're paying or not, and while the official ranking might be good, the comments and posted reviews often see the ranking go from good to bad in a matter of months.  "Legit" to me means staying in the good rankings all the time, not just for a period of several months or so.  The two sites I mention in my original post are currently in the "good ranking" status supposedly, but I wanted feedback on them or better suggestions if they aren't seen as legit.

The best thing you can do is go invest your bitcoin in a legit site

It's unfortunate then. You still can read that part of the forum to create an idea how much bitcoin can a PC with at least 3 mid-high end class GPU-s give you. The only remaining way for you is to start working for bitcoin if you have any skill and to offer them in the Services section of the forum or to sell some digital goods in the digital goods section (always use escrow in that section no matter how trusted the other party is). I wish you good luck and welcome to the bitcoin world

Being a newbie on the forum, I am limited to how fast I can reply.  I was going to say to your previous post that my PC is 10 yrs old, so I won't be using it to mine.  I would want a separate box for that anyway with it's own paid internet connection so that I don't get hackers on my home network.  That's another "when funds permit" item. 

I strongly insist you check out the mining with your PC section I told you in the post above. I am mining LBRY with CCminer and check the pictures below how much they can make you within 24 hours for a month with a graphic card GTX 1060.





You see you can make 1.80 USD a day or 0.001547 btc per day. You can leave your PC open while you are at work.

As I said check the section Altcoin Mining of this forum here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0

You can make a .002BTC fast from faucet on https://bitsler.com using good strategy. As you get 300 satoshi, play it two times on high risk, then use Martingale (your bet should be very low) and once you get at least 10000, stop it and stick to 1% flat betting. I made .002BTC this method in 2 weeks.
If you need referral, PM me and I will give you referral.

Thanks for your offer, it made me realize I hadn't added that info to my forum profile.  It's added now.  "Spend it wisely" is the reason I came here.  I figured there are people here who know more about growing BTC wisely.  I am a quick learner, and it appears I picked up on some stuff on my own as it turns out.  But being wise is important enough to seek out others' wisdom on the matter.

As for an online wallet, I want to test out the debit card method of using BTC offline (step three in my original post) and I need an online wallet to do that.  Maybe when funds permit, I can afford a secure offline wallet in the future.

I read that you have some bulk of sats stored as a investment on freebitco.in  it is indeed a good idea till your amount staked is low once it is higher than 1 btc , move it from there as i don't recommend you to have any btc on any online wallets.

I always help new people who are willing to adopt crypto ecosystem, if you want some free bits like 0.001BTC, send me your address, But again spend it wisely

5000 to 10000 satoshi is nothing. However since you are looking for some serious growing, now it is the best time I guide you to mine some alt coins. If you have a medium to good PC with a good processor, quad core of intel core i processors of 4th generation and up , and if you have a good graphic card, RX 470 or GTX 1050 ti and up you can make some residual income monthly from this mining.

Check here for guides on how to do it, it is simple.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0

If you don't want to do the setup and don't have time, you can download these softwares that will automatically mine the best alt coin for you. Just make sure you disable your antivirus as most of the time these are treated like false positive.

https://www.nicehash.com/?p=nhmintro or www.minergate.com

Hope this helps.

Did you read the rest of this thread? Just popping in on this comment is misleading.  I'm actually earning several USD pennies or 5,000 to 10,000 satoshi every day doing the list of faucets I have currently.  I have a day job away from this venture, so I can't spend all day doing faucets, that's one reason I'm looking for any potential suggestions for steps two and three of my original post.

Freebitco.in is just a faucet, yes they pay a bit more better than other faucets but that doesn't add up. If you have a lot of free times, search in google for "faucet rotator" and start claiming different faucets, it's a good start for beginners.  Faucethub.io should be a better start for you to start building some low income everyday, 0.001 btc daily is quite possible there and if you really have lots of free time, you can win more daily. Check it out.

I am in no way affiliated with them, but I have only seen they are working well. I do not do faucets myself.

Thanks for the welcome.  :-)  I settled on xapo and xapo faucets so far.  Particularly after higher network charges went into effect a month ago.  Thanks for your encouragement.

Darn, thanks for being a second set of eyes trying to find that.  And yes, I have funds over at freebitco.in since you began the interest offering.  That's both very kind and helpful.

Well first of all, welcome to the bitcoin forum!

Always nice to see new bitcoiners around.

As regards to your question, I think the best way to do it if you really wanted to is to find a faucet wallet that you like(e.g. FaucetHub), and then go through their rotator one by one until you get to their minimum payout.

Pay your bitcoins out to freebitco.in because they offer a 4% p.a. interest on your deposits, and that can really add up over time.

And then once you've got enough, look into poloniex and bitfinex lending, they are great ways to earn money as well, and you're basically doing nothing!

Hope I helped a little, and don't give up

I just did a Google search and couldn't find any online wallets that offer debit cards based in CAD. Sorry.

On the topic of earning and growing a small amount of bitcoin, instead of Xapo you should consider FreeBitco.in. We're now offering 4% annual interest on ALL deposits and we pay the interest daily so it can compound for you.

Get interest on your faucet balance, gambling balance, or make a deposit from another wallet (that's what I've don). The offer is one of a kind, you should check it out...link below.

A passive income would be nice, but I can't even do that with all my other stuff away from bitcoin, and I have avenues that you'd think would be generating a nice passive income by now too.  No, I was expecting work of some type.  The faucet income even takes on a form of work if you expect to stay safe while engaging in it.  One of my blog articles will be on THAT aspect all by itself, because you don't earn anything doing it sporadically, but doing it the way I've done it means staying on your toes because most faucets are ad-driven and that occasionally means being my own tech to deal with threats.  So its a slow way to go and not necessarily a safe way for the average user.  So I went into step one with a work mentality.

Step two is what people do with fiat money when they have enough, they invest it, or put it into a savings acct.  At the moment, that's freebitco.in for me.  Putting one's money into savings doesn't mean you can stop working either.

I actually have a tab open where someone shared how to start one's own faucet.  I was bouncing around in my head if and when to start such a thing before or after I've completed my experiment.  Yes, I am probably making several faucet owners quite happy right now (or conversely being a drain on them as the one how-to discusses), as well as the referral links that got me to them.  But two owners of a couple faucets I've seen say they make next to nothing on the faucet itself and the real money is elsewhere such as in a list of preferred faucets.  So with that info in mind, I am on the fence about doing that.  I'd want to make it a xapo faucet if I go that route, and try to find family-friendly ad networks, because the networks I'm seeing right now occasionally do NOT have family-friendly content.  I've had to install a plugin in FF to block one type of content because I won't allow it in my home.  I also just read another google ranking algorithm article where they are now penalizing ad-heavy websites in favour of content-driven websites instead, and pretty much every single faucet I've seen is heavy on ads with the exception of freebitco.in, but I think most of their income comes in from their lottery and dice rolling games other than their faucet.

So stuff is changing rapidly right now and I seem to have come on the scene during a period of flux.

I like the idea of leveling the playing field.  I hadn't looked at faucet income from that perspective, but it does level the playing field for that form of drip-style income. 

So the gyst I'm getting from everyone so far is that step two can't really happen right now, that any site claiming to do so is bogus.  Hmmm. . . ok. . . that does mean changing my plan of attack. . .

If you really want to earn a passive income off bitcoin, this is definitely not the way to do it.

You have to realise that the more you slave away on a faucet, the more the faucet owner will make. You might have a degree at university but if you choose to do faucet then everyone is the same, whether you're a high achiever in uni or a drop kick in high school.

Sell your skills, that way you'll be able to earn more money.

Once you get enough, open your own faucet site, instead of trusting your money to someone you don't know.

Anyways, i'm sure the forum will welcome you. Good luck on your BTC journey!

Your welcome appreciate I do.  And yes, you are correct, I've barely earned enough to tip the waiter.  But snow balls start with snow flakes.  So I'm curious how far I can take this experiment.  And yes, I am basically holding for now.  Till I can get the snowball rolling. . .

U are talking about change that u tip waiter ... its not money to invest or grow.
Take some real world part-time job, buy bitcoin or two, then think about growing it. But best growing is to hold... thats it, world of bitcoin welcome to.

Thanks for all your responses so far, except for Slark's.  Cussing is not appreciated and if you can't watch your mouth, you will be ignored.  I hope your legendary status is for more than your language. 

I will check out Poloniex.  I have a small financial blog that I've decided to monetize using coinurl and I've begun offering services over at coingrind, although I'm not sure how big that site is.  As noted, I am earning more via faucets than the interest offered at freebitco.in currently.  I don't do well with surveys for fiat money or I'd be making a nice penny or two at cashcrate where I've earned at least $40 in the past.  So I'll steer clear of those.  Not interested in gambling, but thanks for the suggestion.  So for now, I've been limited to recaptcha's on faucets taking me around the world from my computer chair.  Thanks also for the caution on investment sites. I think I learned that one the hard way and thankfully with just a small amount.

I will keep watching this thread for more ideas.

Lending on poloniex will give more interest. Rate varies throughout the day.

It's not that you can't earn from faucets, you will earn. But does it worth the time and effort spent on it? Please tell me how many hours have you have wasted?
For what just to earn, what, 3 dollars? You live in Canada so I imagine that even the shittiest of job there gives you $15 or more per hour.
This is some kind of experiment of yours that you want to earn pure BTC and see how it will go? Because if it isn't then stop wasting your time.
If you want to invest in BTC then don't do it with $1 worth of capital. You won't earn much.

As was said, it's very hard to grow small amounts of satoshis like that. You know this as you are earning 0.01% interest daily on FreeBitco.in.

A better investment is casino bankroll. Choose a trusted casino and invest there, the interest amount you will earn is undefined, but it can reach to nice percentages like 1% weekly sometimes... It's the best investment I know.

all investing opportunities are scams

keep bitcoin

if you want to earn, find online jobs and use them to earn bitcoin

if you really want to invest, start your own online business, or try lending your coins on poloniex/bitfinex for interest

Joining signature campaign can help you earn Bitcoin here or invest in some ICO here but be careful and notI recommended to beginners.
And use another wallet that can store your Bitcoin in secure if you are using mobile I recommend you to use mycelium wallet.

Its gonna be quite hard to grow up from such as small amount. Not impossible, but will definitely take some time.

There also are some sites that allow you to do things to earn bitcoin such as surveys or filling out captchas if that is something you would be interested in doing to help grow your stash. If you have services or skills to offer, you could also try trading them for bitcoin.

Hey everyone,

I've been loosely following bitcoin over the past year or so and finally decided to see if I could earn any of my own back in February.  I've read a few recent threads here, and I have to say, contrary to popular opinion, I managed to earn 0.0025+ satoshi only using faucets.  I lost 0.0005+ satoshi due to changing network fees and fumbling around to find a wallet that would accept small deposits (xapo!).  I then lost another 0.001 satoshi getting caught in the bitcity.biz scam.

Needless to say, once bitten, twice shy.  Rumours around the 'net say you have to have a thick skin to engage on this board, not sure if that's true in this particular newbie forum or not, but just saying the rumours I've heard.  I actually thought maybe those rumours could be of some assistance to me.  When scammers are not tolerated, its easier for helpful info to rise to the surface.

I am experimenting to see if it's possible to earn a decent amount of satoshi on my own without affiliates as I am a terrible marketer and most of my friends don't appreciate affiliate systems in general.  So if I can do this on my own, I will be blogging about it and hopefully helping others do the same.

Based on what I was seeing over the past two months, various investment platforms will begin as low as 0.001 investment.  The two that seem to be above board according to some sources are Coin factory and AdmiralBTC.  Would anyone agree, disagree or suggest something more reputable?  At the moment I have the bulk of earned satoshi over at freebitco.in since they began doing the 4.08% annual interest.  Got my first 11 satoshi in interest this morning.

Step one was to prove to myself that one could indeed earn enough satoshi to begin building it.

Step two is to choose the safest, most secure method to do the growing while continuing to earn more satoshi.  I would love as many honest responses as I can get on this one.  I'm not much of a risk taker and I agree with the slogan: invest only what you are prepared to lose.  As I said, I've already lost 0.001 satoshi trying to figure this out.  That's a lot of faucet hours! (first .001 took just over a month, second .001 took exactly two weeks, a few hours here and there each day as I could spare)

Step three is to grow the satoshi via investment and earnings to a level where I can use Xapo's debit card to do things like pay for groceries or buy gas.  Although that brings me to another question:  

Xapo and another wallet both deal only in btc, USD, or in the other wallet's case, also Euro.  Neither deal in CAD, although Xapo does have a CAD wallet that auto-created for me when I created my account.  I live in Canada.  So exchange rates would have to happen at the point of sale rather than at the wallet.  Is there a wallet out there that offers a debit card going from BTC to CAD?

I look forward to hearing some helpful advice.  You never know, I might just cite you in my blogging about this adventure.