Hello Hello,

Yesterday I found myself wondering about a familiar question: time vs gains.
With the same effort, which site actually wins?

And then it hit me: answering that question today is much harder than it was a year ago.

So… what changed?

FOREX 

Let’s start with something we often ignore.

FEB25 Eur vs Dollar ? Just a few cents of difference:  1€ = 1.03$ 

FEB26 A very different story: One Euro is 1.18$ 

Clearly, from my Italian perspective, this means that every time I get paid in dollars, I’m now getting less than I would have expected a year ago.

BTC PRICE 

Now let’s look at Bitcoin. But the same applies for most coins: 

FEB25 BTC was close to 97K $ or about 94K € 

FEB26 BTC is dancing around 69/70K $... or 57/58K € 

The loss of value on this side of the Ocean is massive...

When Everything used to be the "same" 

One year ago, EUR, USD, and sats felt almost interchangeable. One cent or 10 sats, roughtly the same.  Maybe it was not precise but the existing difference rarely mattered.

Today?

You need 13/14 sats for a dollar and 1.18 dollars for an Euro. Those 10 sats are now less than 0.006€.

Comparing the value of different reward sites has become far more complex and relatively different if you spent dollars or euros.

Of course, everything also depends on your market outlook.
If you believe coins are cheap and your goal is accumulation, short-term value matters less

So for now, let’s forget Forex and focus on how reward sites actually pay you. 

Four types of reward sites

Over time, I’ve noticed that most platforms fall into one of these categories:

1. Faucet-like sites

You earn one specific crypto and withdraw it directly.
Examples: FreeTron, Tronpayu.

Simple and direct.
The downside? With current prices, you’re earning fewer value per click than before. It doesn’t affect withdrawals, but you definitely feel it when the amount arrives in your wallet and you see the USD value. 

NdR I'm not sure if Final Autoclaim's Dutchy are influenced by their value in sats and therefore the site has his own category or not.

2. USD-based sites

You earn dollars or dollar-pegged coins, that you can then withdraw in crypto.
Examples: Cointiply, Coinpayu…

These are solid. You earn money first, then choose when and how to convert it.
You can wait for better market conditions, choose different coins, or even use non-crypto withdrawals. Great flexibility!

3. FireFaucet

FireFaucet is a weird beast. Maybe there are other sites using this features too, I don't know.

You think you’re earning crypto, but you’re actually earning USD.
Your balance is stored in dollars, but it’s divided into the coin you claimed.

The value stays constant, but instead of choosing between BTC, LTC, or DOGE at withdrawal, you made your choice while claiming.

So FF doesn’t work like a faucet - you claim dollars - and It doesn’t work like a true USD site either - you can't convert at withdrawal-.

It’s a strange hybrid. Slightly better than classic faucets, since you avoid the loss of value when the coins depreciate, but clearly less flexible than USD-based platforms.

4. BetFury (boxes)

Here, rewards are paid in an amount of satoshis equal to $0.01 

This is, in my opinion, the safest system.

Right now, I’m getting more sats.
If BTC goes up later, I’ll get fewer sats but the ones I already earned are locked in and gained value.

There’s no conversion step, no waiting to reach a minimum, no need to await the market.
Your value is already there, regardless of price fluctuations.

Unless you prefer holding dollars but if you are reading this, you probably won't. 

SUMMARY 

One year ago you could compare easily, now you need more time. Every platform has now a 20% difference from the other depending how they reward you. AdBTC is an interesting case study, since it distribute both sats and USD:

[in the table above I used the most common amount paid, not the best one nor the average one]

In Sats, AdBTC paid, and pays, the higher average amount. It was true also in Dollars and even in Euros, one year ago.

Now, once converted, those same Ads have a monetary value that is below 0.001 $. 

Again, having coins is not necessarily for fast monetization, at least for this audience but knowing what are you earning is also important. 

Personally I have cut the time per day on AdBTC to "maybe once". Today, to get sats, it's better to do PTC on TimeBucks, for example, and then convert. 

Hoping you enjoyed, with less purchasing power and more Love,

Lazy 

edited 10.02.26 before midnight, fixed AdBTC table.