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One Click, Two Economies: How FaucetPay PTC Looks to Earners and Advertisers

14 Aug 2026 10 minute read 0 comments WakeUpToCrypto $0.03

A Paid-to-Click ad is one of the stranger transactions on the internet. One person is being paid because they agree to give a website a few seconds of attention. Someone else is paying because those same few seconds might turn into a visitor, a signu...

Standard Chartered's Solana Bet: Unpacking the 1,900% Thesis

3 Feb 2026 1 minute read 0 comments CryptoTrendSeer $0.12

Standard Chartered forecasts a 1,900% surge for Solana tied to micropayments adoption. Here's what the thesis assumes and whether the infrastructure can support it. Standard Chartered released a forecast this week projecting that Solana could surge...

Upnup Bitcoin Micro-Investing App Review

6 Nov 2022 2 minute read 0 comments Heath Muchena $0.74

What is upnup? Upnup is described as Africa’s first passive micro-investing app that allows users to accumulate Bitcoin on autopilot. The app claims to be the first fintech platform in South Africa to make it possible for users to accumulate funds th...

BTC Lightning Network is Legit, I Just Verified it Myself

29 Dec 2021 2 minute read 2 comments cryotosensei $0.64

Due to my research, I learnt that the Bitcoin Lightning Network facilitates micropayments between two parties as a way to reduce congestion on the main blockchain and expedite transactions. But how is it actually manifested in real life? So I tested...

Can Bitcoin Finally Become Currency? | Understanding the Lightning Network | Scalability Solved?

13 Mar 2021 2 minute read 2 comments BudgetHolics $0.45

  Bitcoin has established itself as both an investment vehicle and as a reverse currency. Both individual and, this time, institutional investors have allocated part of their portfolios into bitcoin, yet, it still hasn't established itself as a curre...

I was wrong about Publish0x

26 Feb 2021 2 minute read 0 comments rhysmonkey $0.36

I am not a prolific writer on Publish0x (P0x). I am a regular reader and I happily take the maximum amount (80%) from tips I give out to earn some extra pocket money. I used to write on Hive semi-regularly - I now only write occasionally. In April la...

How Micropayments Can Change the Internet

11 Feb 2021 3 minute read 6 comments Allen Taylor $0.12

Current payments models are about 10 years behind the technological ability to implement. An article published in Wired online two years ago asked rhetorically, “Shouldn’t we have seamless micropayments by now?” The article points out that a “402 Pay...

Cryptocurrency is Changing the Gaming Industry

25 Sep 2020 5 minute read 5 comments MintDice.com $12.00

“Georges down.” It was video arcade slang in the early 1980s, the era of standup-cabinet games. If someone was playing the only Pac-Man machine in the room, you could reach past him as he worked the controls and set your quarter in a lower corner of...

Bitcoin Micropayments!

19 Apr 2020 1 minute read 4 comments cryptoramble $0.61

There is an exciting way that Bitcoin (BTC) and its lightning network might be able to change the landscape of the Internet and how we send and receive content and funds across the web. Here's the Bitcoin take on micropayments, a direly-needed soluti...

Mastercard vs. Visa: Blockchain Projects

7 Sep 2019 21 minute read 2 comments MintDice.com $0.80

There has been a lot of buzz surrounding cryptocurrency and blockchain, mostly due to the potential high sums of money that can be made in the industry. Recently, though, a lot of that attention has shifted to the blockchain applications of this tech...