Well then, grinding the side hustle

I suppose it's been just over 2 years since I've posted on blogger. After the forced public G+ profile thing this space became infinitely less attractive, not that anything was ever all that personal or interesting in of itself, more it was nice to have place to write about things without having to spend so much time filtering for appropriateness.

I used to have a friendly little blogger ring. I'm not sure if any of them are still following on rss, but if you are, what have you been up to since blogger stole your adsense stream?  I've been in a number of things myself but the most profitable by far has been swagbucks(*). I usually do about $30-100 a month there depending on promotions and offers and my own shopping habits.  I don't buy thing just to get the swagbucks, but if it's something I'm going to by I do try to find a way to get swagbucks for it.  I needed some new shirts for work, they had a promotion with Khol's that took a few minutes of effort with emailing reciepts, but I got 2 shirts and about $30 bucks back for the effort. I got $250 signing up for uber and completing a minimum number of trips so if you have the time and inclination it's a decent Beermoney side hustle.  Most if not all of it goes to Amazon gift cards, but since they sell most everything it's seems like a worthwhile adventure.

For the more time wasting but in theory could be lucrative category I've been hitting up some Bitcoin and Monero Faucets.  Most are kind of garbage, but these one's are the least annoying that I've found.

First things first, you need a wallet. Bitcoin for bitcoin monero for monero.  I'm using bitcoin core on my desktop for my bitcoin wallet.  I'm not sure how I feel about a wallet in the cloud for bitcoin.  Monero being more secure and more private I'm using Freewallet on my phone.  Freewallet supports all the major cryptocurrencies, if you don't want a lot of headache, this one is probably the one for you.

I get about .0002 btc every 30 days  with the first 2 sites claiming once an hour or less during the work day. currently ~$.95. Not impressive, but just add it to the daily things you do for beer money at work and forget about it.
Moonbits.co.in - easy, uses coinpot micropayment site
Bonusbitcoin.co - easy uses coinpot micropayment site
Onewayfaucet.us - easy, uses Faucethub.io micropayment site
Luckybtcfaucet.website - easy, uses Faucethub.io micropayment site

I've done way better with monero mining, in no small part because I have access to way too much idle cpu power.  If you're interested at trying your hand at it, I've mined about 2 monero or $160 in the last 3 months using minergate.  Premise is simple your crunching hashes looking for ones that are valuable.  It's arbitrary and kinda silly, but that's the way of digital wealth creation.

I've also been trying out Alexamaster.net, I payed out a few times after a year of using the site, ($10ish dollars, but then I looked into promoting websites)  I'm not sure that it's going to shake out in the end, but I've been using it to drive traffic to this site.  I'm only on week two of trying this out, but my adsense account says my earnings have bumped up a bit.  If you do the autosurf it takes a lot babysitting (and a good antivirus because seriously they are trying to get you).  Never the less, it would be nice to see another adsense check, it's been years since the last one.

What you got for side hustle bloggy friends? I'm listening.
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