The internet is a fascinating new landscape in the world of wealth creation. Despite how ingrained it is into our daily lives, the internet is still widely unexplored and full of untapped potential to make easy money. All you have to do is look.
Naturally, bitcoin, being even more nascent than the internet, quite literally has people and companies handing out free bitcoin for completing extremely easy tasks.
Seriously, the bar has never been lower for people to make money on the internet. Let’s dive into some of the best opportunities to earn free bitcoin online, with very little lift from your end.
Yes, You Can Earn Free Bitcoin
It may not be as easy as the Bitcoin Faucet once was, but to make things as simple as possible, ensure that you have the following prepared before getting started:
- A Lightning wallet to interact with the platforms discussed here
- A self-custody solution, like a singlesig or multisig hardware wallet, to store your free bitcoin
- Access to the internet
- Time
- And a bit of persistence!
Here’s How To Earn Free Bitcoin
The following platforms all reward users for regularly engaging with their services. With just a bit of dedicated time each day, you can start building a small stack of free bitcoin to save for a rainy day.
Other services here may actually enhance your everyday activities like spending on food and retail products, so you may walk away with even more than just access to free Bitcoin sources.
1. Fold
Fold (affiliate) is one of the most practical and user-focused Bitcoin products on the market. It’s a debit card service that rewards users with bitcoin for spending with the Fold card. Instead of offering a flat percentage back, Fold employs a lottery system where you spin a wheel to determine how many sats back you get.
For the most part it’s not much, but I personally remember stacking 100,000 free sats after a simple $9 lunch purchase. That’s a nice surprise that the everyday user shouldn’t expect regularly, but you can expect anywhere from 1%-3% back in bitcoin, similar to other competitors in the market, and earn flat percentage rates back for buying select gift cards with Fold. Regardless, it’s a way to make your spending more exciting with the occasional opportunity to make your purchase back and more in bitcoin.
Be sure to review the various account plans to compare the differences.
Even if you prefer not to use the Fold card, however, you can still stack free sats simply by using your daily spins each day. Your daily spins can net you anywhere from five sats, 2500, or up to a full bitcoin. Obviously you’d have to be quite lucky to land the free bitcoin, but for the little effort that opening the Fold app each day takes, it’s worth stacking your daily spin sats if you view bitcoin on a long-enough time horizon.
Keep in mind that Fold requires a 50,000 sat threshold in your minimum balance to withdraw, so spending with the Fold card will get you there much faster than daily spins will.
2. Lolli
Lolli bitcoinizes your web browsing experience by letting you shop online and earn bitcoin for your spending. You simply install the Lolli web browser extension and let it do the work for you. If you’re shopping on Amazon and pull up a particular product, Lolli will let you know if you can earn bitcoin back for purchasing it.
For example, If you’re shopping on Amazon and pull up a particular product, Lolli will let you know if you can earn bitcoin back for purchasing it.
You can also link up your existing card with Lolli to enable Bitcoin-back rewards with participating retailers. When you make a purchase at a participating retailer, a portion of your spending is returned to you in bitcoin. This reward varies by retailer but generally ranges from a few percent of the purchase price.
Lolli comes with an easy-to-use interface for managing your rewards and transferring them out to cold storage when you’re ready.
So by using Lolli, you can turn everyday purchases into a new way to stack free bitcoin. This approach not only incentivizes how you shop but also helps you passively accumulate bitcoin, which may pay off the cost of your purchases as bitcoin appreciates over time.
3. Slice
Slice is another browser extension that pays you for your everyday browsing, offering multiple payout options; one of them being bitcoin over the Lightning network!
Similar to Brave browser’s BAT system, Slice offers a more legitimate Bitcoin-earning browser extension that will reward you with real sats instead of other cryptocurrencies. And you don’t need to use a specific browser for it to work. If you’re already operating on Brave, or common browsers like Chrome, this extension should work with no issues.
All Slice does (after installing) is incorporate specific ads in place of the normal advertisements you come across when using the internet. By monetizing your attention through their ads, Slice lets you gain some of that attention you spent back in the form of bitcoin.
What’s also nice about Slice is that you can adjust the amount of ads you see to give you a more customized experience. That way you’re not constantly getting annoyed with more ads than you’d like. My guess, however, is that you’ll feel a bit more comfortable seeing ads when you start seeing payments hit your Slice dashboard for viewing them.
4. Fountain
Fountain is a unique service that lets you earn free bitcoin by listening to podcasts. Thanks to the Lightning network, possibilities like Fountain can function true to their name, and “stream back” some of the value you provided Fountain for using their platform.
Any opportunity to earn free bitcoin, for listening and learning to bitcoin, sounds like a no brainer to me. And on top of streaming, Fountain incorporates a social element to the platform, letting users like and comment on other’s podcasts by spending sats, thus creating a valuable platform for creators to monetize their audiences.
5. THNDR
Be honest: How many hours have you wasted away on a mobile device that earned you nothing in return beyond cheap dopamine hits?
What if you could convert those dopamine hits into real sats?
With THNDR games, you can choose from their catalog of games that earn you free bitcoin, instead of typical app store games that offer nothing in return.
They offer classic games like Solitaire or Snake, but also create new games for kids and adults alike to enjoy like Bitcoin Bounce or Bubble Shooter.
To get started, simply install one of their many games’ apps on your mobile device, create an account, and start playing!
6. Choiceapp
Choiceapp is a Bitcoin IRA provider, but you don’t need to set one up with them in order to start stacking free sats.
Choiceapp offers a Plinko-style game, “Blinko”, that gives you a chance to win free bitcoin each day. It’s a small amount, but by simply taking five minutes to open an account with Choiceapp, you can start stacking free bitcoin each day by dropping the Blinko chip. Make it a part of your morning coffee routine and you can earn back small amounts that may pay off when it comes time to actually retire!
7. sMiles
While it may sound too good to be true or just a bit gimmicky, sMiles packages multiple free Bitcoin sources into one easy-to-use platform.
By shopping, playing games, answering surveys – and even just walking – you can stack bitcoin for free. It’s designed to seamlessly integrate itself into your daily routines. For walkers especially; Why not monetize your steps with bitcoin?
The payouts obviously are not very large, but free bitcoin is free bitcoin. The sMiles app is making free sat stacking as easy as it can be, so take advantage!
8. The Bitcoin Company
Once you learn of the possibilities that The Bitcoin Company (TBC) offers for online shopping, you’ll never shop the same again. The Bitcoin Company enables you to earn Bitcoin-back rewards on almost all of your daily spending needs through their gift card selection, exclusive offers, and through the use of the TBC app.
Groceries, gas, airplane tickets, and more – by incorporating TBC into these purchase flows (by buying the gift card, then buying the product with that gift card), you’ll end up with a nice stack of sats on the side that never would’ve been possible without the platform. Additionally, you can even link your existing credit cards to the TBC app to enable Bitcoin-back on your credit card purchases.
Another great benefit of platforms like TBC, and others like Bitrefill: Since you can spend bitcoin on cards that are used to fund fiat services, you can facilitate an entirely private online shopping experience, assuming you are using no-KYC bitcoin to purchase these cards.
One of our favorite ways to use The Bitcoin Company is to purchase Amazon gift cards for buying non-KYC sats. Our RoboSats guide explains how!
Don’t Forget To Take Self Custody
With all the free bitcoin you’ll be earning, you won’t want to leave it spread thin across all different platforms and not in your custody.
Be sure to routinely drain the free sats you earn from these platforms to a BTC address that you control. Taking self custody, even for tiny amounts of sats, is critical for everyone to do in order to usher in hyperbitcoinization. However, also be aware that some of these platforms require certain sat thresholds to be met before withdrawing (like Fold’s 50,000 sat threshold), so be sure that you’re comfortable committing to use the platform for an extended period of time in order to withdraw the sats.
Final Thoughts
We’re living in the Goldilock’s age of Bitcoin adoption. The fact that you’re able to even buy bitcoin with fiat currency is a luxury that won’t be available to future generations. So whenever you have the chance to earn bitcoin entirely for free, no matter how small the amount, it’s a no-brainer opportunity.
Whether you incorporate Bitcoin rewards into your everyday spending, or devote some downtime to farming sats with free mobile app games, you’re participating in a short window of time where bitcoin is more abundant than it ever will be. Bitcoin products are just breaking through to the everyday consumer level, so take advantage of it now before it’s gone in the future.
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