If you're in the crypto space and not absolutely lush with cash in your real life, you've probably spent a few minutes trying to "earn" some Bitcoin at one point or another.
Some of us spend longer than others chasing a reliable source of free sats to stack, and if you spend long enough you can actually make about $10 worth per year!
Some of the most popular and reliable of these sites (CoinPayU, FireFaucet, Cointiply, Bucksify, CryptoWin, etc) either gift you a few sats per claim (which can be made daily, once per hour, half hour, 25 minutes, or whatever), or assign their own type of points which can be used to "buy" sats at whatever the rate is when you cash out. As the price of Bitcoin has recently plummeted from a high of over $67,000 USD to below $18,000, most of these sites (though surprisingly not all) have adjusted their faucets to reflect the lowered cost. When the price is up, it takes fewer sats to make $1. When the price goes down, it takes more of them. Since these sites essentially would like to hand out an equal amount of "value" per claim, the drop in price has resulted in an increase in sats-per-claim for a lot of these sites. Even the venerable FreeBitco.in has raised their hourly faucet's lowest payout from one single sat to 3.
At the top, it took fewer sats to make $1.
As a secondary effect, since each sat now represents a smaller amount of a budget, the people of the crypto world are paying for a larger number of PTC. In some places, such as Article's parent site CoinPayU, these two effects have been compounded. Where there used to be about 50 PTC available on any given day that were worth up to about 5 sats each, today there are 74(!) PTC available, with values of up to 10.2 sats!
Similarly, Cointiply's PTC used to reflect maybe three hundred available points per day, and today this was almost 1500 points available.
Not all of the PTC is worth more sats than it was before. The ones on the 8th page of CoinPayU are still only worth 1.3 sats, and the smallest PTC of Cointiply is still only 6 points. CryptoWin's PTC are still mostly only 1 sat (except maybe the top 2 or 3 which are now worth 6 instead of 2), but now there's 20 of them instead of 6. So if you want All Of The Sats or points it will take you a WHILE to collect them. It is up to you to decide whether those single sats are worth the 15 seconds of your life that you'll never get back.
The Best Increase I Have Found
One of the sites that has seen an increase in payout is the unassuming Yannik.biz.
As far as I can tell, this site is run by a single person in Germany, who also maintains his own Discord server and Telegram announcements channel, and a blog.
A bit on the obscure side, the site has an offerwall, "games" (read: gambling), PTC, and two faucets: one of Bitcoin, and one of IOTA. The IOTA one can only be claimed once per hour, and you have to have amassed one million IOTA (1 mIOTA) to withdraw. The Bitcoin one has an increasing payout based on how long it has been since your last claim, with the most profitable schedule being to claim every 10 or 15 minutes, with diminishing returns after 30 minutes.
Faucet amounts are explicitly stated to fluctuate.
Though this faucet can be claimed without any captcha or watching any ad, this is not the best part of Yannik.biz.
The PTC of Yannik.biz are generally few in number, and haven't really seen an increase in value from the BTC price shift. They are worth a couple sats, and require that the new tab/window that opens be the active window while the timer counts down (usually about 12 seconds) and then many of them also require a captcha be completed.
This clearly not the best part of Yannik.biz, and is one of those "juice vs. squeeze" scenarios where you must decide for yourself if it is worth doing. (Note: these are purchased by users, and the guy running the site probably doesn't control the value or requirements.)
So What Is the Best Part?
The best part about Yannik.biz is actually not actually "on" Yannik.biz at all.
The best part about Yannik.biz is that you can connect your Yannik.biz account on Loot.tv, and use it to cash out the points you earn for watching videos.
Historically, the ratio of points from Loot.tv to Sats on Yannik.biz has been one to one.
If you already have an account on Loot.tv you might recognize this as already being very high, but it gets even better.
With the recent Bitcoin price drop, the guy running Yannik.biz pushed out a "blog" post saying he was increasing payouts on his site:
What he didn't mention is that this also applied to Loot.tv:
Holy Side-sats, Batman!
This is approximately the number of Loot.tv points my computer earned for me by running videos in the background for a standard workday, and while right now that 1,200 satoshi is only costing the account that paid me $0.25, if I had had them when the price of BTC was over $67k it would have been worth $0.80!
Obviously I'm not going to be building my house on this amount, but in a world where "every dollar counts" and the public faces of the cryptoverse still expect Bitcoin to reach $200,000 by the end of 2022, I'd rather have 1200 sats (worth ~$2.40) than 480. :D
In the past, it was most common for a site to require a user to have 30,000 sats before withdrawing, which was about $10. That doesn't seem to have changed here, even though 30k sats is now about $6.41, but what has changed is that we can get there much faster with these raised payout rates, making this a great time to try out a new faucet or earning site that you didn't know about before.
Like maybe Yannik.biz. ;)
Check out some of my other favorites and faucets for more ways to earn free stuff!
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