Get Free Crypto from Coinbase Earn

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I suggest that now is the very best time to do Coinbase Earn. It’s free money, at a time when everybody need some. Don’t wait for a government stimulus check, take action now.

A great thing about this is that instead of giving you a fixed amount of coins, you get a fixed dollar amount, just for watching a few short videos to learn about crypto.

None of this requires any investment from you except a little of your time. And it’s from Coinbase, a very reputable company (so you know they’re good for it!)

Given the depressed prices of all cryptocurrencies, this is an amazing opportunity. I believe that when good news suddenly pops up in the world, crypto prices will rebound sharply. Maybe not to the levels they were at last month (at least not right away), but significantly higher than they are now. That means the $166 Coinbase is currently offering could turn into $200 or more.

So here’s the quick guide:

While you’re at it, download the Brave browser and get paid BAT for browsing with less ads. I have it on my desktop and my phone; it turns out I look at more sites on my phone that need the ads stripped out (I collected a lot more BAT there).

That’s it! If you’re confused about what to do from there ping me and I’ll be happy to help. I prefer to use Coinbase Pro (included free with your regular Coinbase account) to sell coins and tokens I don’t want for ones I do want.

Bonus: If you intend to buy some Bitcoin, you can get $10 extra for free by signing up here before doing the Earn tasks.


And if you don’t want to keep any crypto, sell for USD and transfer back out to your account. It’s your free money!

** Note that I may get a referral bonus if you click on some of these links, but don’t worry – it doesn’t cost you anything. **

What’s working for me in crypto now – September 2019

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Obviously the world of cryptocurency changes rapidly, so here’s an update:

NRG

The Energi earndrop closed almost immediately after I posted previously, sorry about that. There’s a competition onKuCoin play that’s still open though, and you can score some free NRG so sign up to KuCoin here if you haven’t already and then join the competition. That should enable you for the KuCoin play competition (more competitions avaiable than just NRG!) but if it doesn’t send me your email and I have a direct-injection invite method.

NRG is actually working really well for me – I’m not just waiting for the earndrop, I have invested and am getting about a 4% monthly return in additional coins. That’s an insane level of return, but as with all cryptocurrencies that’s subject to the risk of the coin price going down. Lately it has had a dip which makes now a better time to buy in than last month!

I have some technical notes I need to write up on how to monitor your staked NRG on a VPS, but that’s another article.

HEX

If you’re a Bitcoin holder, this is a critical one to watch. You can get a proportionate amount of HEX based on how much BTC you register (you need it in a private wallet that you control the keys for, not an exchange). The neat thing is that it has a staking program, and even better unclaimed coins (Satoshi’s unclaimed stash anyone?) get distributed to holders after 50 weeks. So basically all the incentives are there to hold the price up and reward saving vs dumping. Claiming happens in late September or early October (update – actually December) so bookmark this page so you can claim on day 1! Every day you don’t claim a tiny portion of your unclaimed coins go to those who have claimed – get in early!

MWC

MimbleWimbleCoin (MWC) – this one closed but doesn’t distribute until later this year. Like HEX it was based on how much BTC you claimed. The thing I like about forks is that unlike airdrops which are limited in how much you get (unless you refer a bunch of people) with forks you can get more by having more Bitcoin, which means it’s an extension of your investment.

Crypto.com

This is a little different – it’s a wallet, and exchange, a bank… all rolled into one. With cashback, signup bonuses, and good interest rates.

When you deposit cryptocurrency with Crypto.com, you can earn 2% / 4% / 6% for your floating / 1 month lock / 3 month lock deposits. That’s a pretty amazing way to turn your long-term Bitcoin holdings into more Bitcoin, regardless of the BTC price.

Possibly better, if you’re also holding fiat, is that you can earn 6% / 8% / 10% on stablecoins (like USDC) so instead of 0.15% that your bank offers, you can get 10% for just locking down for three months.

Even better, if you hold 500 MCO you can get an additional 2% on all of those categories, topping out at 12% interest on your stablecoins. That’s pretty amazing. And then they pay 6% on those 500 staked MCO coins.

There’s enough at Crypto.com for two articles here, but hopefully you see it’s interesting enough to check out.

Special bonus – if you “stake” (lock down) 50 MCO, both you and I get $50 worth of MCO when you sign up right here. What’s more, when you have 50 staked MCO you can get the Ruby debit card that gets you 2% cash back on every purchase, and reimburses you for a Spotify subscription.

Also, don’t forget to checkout my previous post about free cryptocurrency options, including about $45 from Coinbase (instantly after watching videos, it’s well worth it)

Disclaimer: when you click on my links I might get a little extra bonus too – and so do you if you share with someone else afterwards. It pays to share the love.

The Cryptocurrency Freeloaders Cheatsheet

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This is a departure from strictly Android things, but cryptocurrency (and blockchain technology) has been my latest interest and I’ve learned a huge amount recently that I really wanted to share.

Bitcoin

Since free Bitcoin is more fun than buying Bitcoin (and a less risky way to tiptoe into cryptocurrency), this collection of free offerings should whet your appetite. My goal is to help you shortcut to the highest reward for minimal effort (since I already put in the effort and certainly found some things I won’t recommend here).

Update: NRG earndrop closed to new pre-registration signups.

Requirements:

  • None of these require payment, but some encourage you to buy other things
  • Some of these require that you do KYC (Know Your Customer) – basially it’s ID verification just like mainstream banking, to prevent fraud and tax evasion. That might lock out some regions.
  • Email is required for many (but not all) of these, and some offers require a telegram, twitter, or similar account.

Things to try!

Coinbase

This is the first big one – Coinbase Earn can net you $36 in free cryptocurrency (immediately!) with just a few minutes of watching videos about cryptocurrency (I found them interesting) – about 2 minutes each. Then if you refer others to do the same, you can earn up to another $40 – so hey, use my link (also works for existing Coinbase users) 😀

You do need to do KYC (Know Your Customer, which means ID verification just like mainstream banking, to prevent fraud and tax evasion). It can take a few days to get through the process, but it’s worth it!

Coinbase Pro

More on this in another post, but my recommendation is to switch to Coinbase Pro (for which you already have an account from Coinbase) to convert your new free cryptocurrency into something else with much lower fees. You can transfer out for much less. You can also do limit trades, which can make a huge difference if you get into buying or trading cryptocurrencies.

Pi

This is a free mobile “cloud mining” operation from Stanford PhDs that gives you free cryptocurrency by clicking once a day to remain active, but you get a lot more when you add people to your circle. It’s by invitation only, so use use my invitation code to get access, PrjJourneyman (and then I get to add you to my security circle too and we both earn more). You can’t “cash out” yet, but they aim to allow that in the fall. Collect Pi now so you have something to withdraw.

Electroneum

This is another free mobile “cloud mining” app, but the coins (ERC20 tokens) can be withdrawn now. It takes about a week to get to 100, which then transfer to your wallet and can be transferred out. This one is also social, in that if you enter my code you’ll earn faster. **Enter code 49EA56 after installing to activate your higher earning rate.**

Note that you have to take a selfie to start mining, to fight against scammers creating infinite accounts.

Loli

There are a number of cashback programs out there, but this one focuses on Bitcoin returns – after the cashback is received it is converted to Bitcoin and held in your account until you cash out. They even have a browser extension to help make it easier to take advantage of it (and of course you can double up and use your credit card for cashback on purchases). Lolli has a huge list of stores you may already shop at, so check them out and get Bitcoin for purchases you were already going to make.

NRG – CLOSED

UPDATE – Sorry, this one closed right after I posted this. Round 4 pre-registration signups are now closed. You *can* however join the Energi discord channel for free “rain” by participating (join the rain channel), but it will take a while to get 100 NRG that way.

This one is rather insane – joining the NRG “earndrop” increased to almost $1k before the Bitcoin flash crash, but is still over $500 and will probably go back up. A lot of crypto airdrops are not worth the time, but this is definitely worth checking out.

You get up to 100 NRG for simple things like joining their Telegram group or following on Twitter. If you join with my link here you get 10 more NRG which brings the total possible to 110.

Other Airdrops

Airdrops are a huge topic in and of itself, and many are not worth pursuing.

There are however two fork airdrops for Bitcoin holders that I am watching – I’ll need to cover these in another post

  • MimbleWimbleCoin
  • HEX

Faucets and free coins

Generally, it seems that “faucets” and “free crypto” games on the app stores pay in the sub-cent amounts, making them hardly worth your time (but they do pay! That’s an amazing aspect of cryptocurrency, it’s possible to transfer amounts of less than a cent!)

I’m keeping my eye on freebitco.in though – it says it’s provably fair, and doesn’t take much effort to try. There’s also a chance to hit a bigger payout, or get free “lottery” tickets for big prizes. Otherwise it’ll take a number of days to make it up to the minimum to transfer out. You can try again every hour.

Honorable mention

Earn.com apparently used to be a big thing, but this year it dried up. I guess 2018 was the year to ride the crypto craze and get paid to accept emails!

Bonus – where to store your coins and tokens

This is a topic for another post, but for ERC20 tokens, you need somewhere to store them that is NOT on an exchange like Coinbase. The Android app Coinomi is free and lets you create an Etherium (ETH) address that most airdrops require as a destination for your free coins!

More stuff: additional stuff I’m looking at but haven’t finished:

https://www.projectjourneyman.com/crypto-link-bin

Disclaimers:

Some of these links will get me a referral bonus to my own earnings, because most of this industry is focused on growth right now. I only recommended them because I have already or still am using them. This costs you nothing though. Share and share alike! You will be able to share your links with your friends too.

Also note that I’m not providing anything remotely like investment advice. Investing in cryptocurrency is highly speculative and you could loose everything.

If you have something to recommend, please let me know! Please don’t spam my comments with scammy airdrop links though 😀

In-app ads, directly from Google

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If you’re still looking to insert ads into your Android app, Google just released a new guide, the No-Nonsense Guide to In-App Ads.

Now, I admit I haven’t read it yet, but I’m pretty confident you’ll get good value from your money (it’s free) and Google/Admob can afford to put money into a good guide (because they make so much money they don’t have to worry you’ll take the info and run).

I’ve enjoyed the other free design and marketing-related publications lately from Google, and they’ve been high quality, so check it out.

Update AndroidMarketManager for Gradle and Android Studio

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Android Market Manager

If you’re using the Android Market Manager library to simplify your app over different Android app stores, and are also using Android Studio, the latest update should make things easier for you.

Also, I have a new tip to include GitHub code in your project without having to download it – you can include it as a dependency.

Of course, if you’re still using Eclipse then skip this update, and just start working on migrating your projects.  It’s worth the effort.

Referencing a local library

First, if you have the module on your local drive (but not in the same project) then add the following in your settings.gradle (substituting the location as appropriate)

include ':AndroidMarketManagerLib'
project(':AndroidMarketManagerLib').projectDir = new File(settingsDir, '../AndroidMarketManager/AndroidMarketManagerLib')

Next, add the following to the build.gradle for your module:

dependencies {
    compile project(':AndroidMarketManagerLib')
}

Referencing a library directly from GitHub

I just discovered this neat trick to link to code in GitHub that’s not already in a repo.  It helps keep code clean if you’re not going to modify sources at all.

First, your module’s build.gradle must add a new repo for JitPack (the second line):

repositories {
    jcenter()
    maven { url "https://jitpack.io" }
}

Next, add the dependency to the same build.gradle.  Note that the final string is the commit version; you can update this at JitPack.io by entering the GitHub project url and picking the latest commit.

dependencies {
    ...
    // Use jitpack.io to capture https://github.com/TimMackenzie/AndroidMarketManager
    compile('com.github.TimMackenzie:AndroidMarketManager:bc272e410c') {
        exclude module: 'AndroidMarketManagerTest'
    }
}

That’s it!