ProjectJourneyman

Coinbase has been the most reliable airdrop. While you may be waitlisted to get in, once you're activated you get rewarded seconds after you watch the videos. So even if you're not buying $100 in BTC (which gets you and your referrer $10), you can earn over $100 from watching the videos which means it's worth signing up to make sure you're ready. If you can't KYC an account, you're not eligible though.

Some of the most successful scams use some real details. Brave is a great browser and it DOES reward users, including with install bounties. Just use some common sense though, the dollar value is out of range. After a while in the crypto world, the crazy high values are a big red flag for scams.

This forum desperately needs a "this is garbage" button that will flag messages to be reviewed, which will result in not just the deletion of the spam accounts and the messages they posted, but flagging their Yobit Accounts so no further rewards are processed. I posted a question and 90% of the following TWENTY FIVE pages of comments were either random text, a garbled version of the question I asked with no original content, or a thoughtless comment to google it. As the one who opened the topic I was reading every post and would have been happy to tag each garbage post if it was easy to do. I would prefer that over time, though, that the amount of noise would decrease so I could focus on the well thought-out responses. That requires better tools to stop rewarding garbage posters.

Sadly, other than Pi and Electroneum (cloud mining), there aren't any good options. Nearly all mobile "mining" apps are scams or ineffective. Even most computers can't really keep up anymore, let alone mobile devices.

Faucets are a way to get interest in a coin, but if you look at the time spend per click and find out how many hours it takes just to get to the payout threshold... it's usually a terrible deal. There are other ways to make money from crypto, and usually they involve a little work and pay out bigger chunks at once.

The Graviex faucet is currently my only go-to. It kindly lists the value in satoshis of each drop, so you can decide which ones you want to spend time doing a captcha for (some don't even require it). Some drop as often as every 10 minutes, some a day. While the amounts are tiny, they are large enough to trade on Graviex so you can play around with trading and try to migrate to a coin you want. If you're not depositing any other crypto, it could be a while before you're able to withdraw a major coin like ETH but smaller ones have much smaller withdrawal minimums and you can trade into them.

It depends on what exchange you want to trade on. Coinbase Pro has its own app (not very good unfortunately). KuCoin does as well. I greatly prefer trading on the desktop though. Before it was yanked (due to harassment from Coinbase) I was using the AnyX app on Android to trade on Coinbase Pro. It made it pretty easy to day trade BTC and ETH.

Stable coins are the only way to reduce risk. If you're "parking" your money for a while and just want to be able to move it easily, stable coins will have the same value whenever you need it. When you invest in Bitcoin, you may find it's worth less when you need it -- leaving you with the choice to either wait or take a loss.

I'm pretty sure that if bitcoin had stable prices, many more people would be interested in SPENDING it, rather than investing in it. Investing and spending require opposite things with crypto: it's hard to spend if the price in crypto changes continuously. It's hard to even know how much you have. That has kept a lot of people out of crypto. Stable coins allow for actual purchases.

Did this airdrop end? Original post has a date in January, and I'm already on YoBit and don't see any such button.

If you're looking to do something nice for someone, not only can you sign up for a coinbase account with the $10 bonus (if you buy $100 in BTC), but with or without that any existing account can click a referral to the Earn airdrop for one of ongoing airdrops and the referrer gets the $10 as well as you getting everything in the airdrop.

Very informative and great work with pictures. I would spell it "click here" rather than "click her" though, as "her" makes it sound like you're suggesting clicking on a girl...

I'm starting to use Authy for 2FA codes because it syncs across devices. I have so many codes to use that I haven't migrated off of Authenticator yet though...

If you are new to mining and don't just have a lot of cheap electricity and high-powered computers sitting around, Bitcoin is not the right coin to mine. It's just too expensive and competetive. There are a lot of other coins that can be mined, and even software that determines what to mine based on profitability. Explore other options and tinker, but do not expect that bitcoin mining will be profitable.

What is the site you are referring to? I couldn't find it. Came in expecting some sort of links in this thread for job sites...

Coinomi is very similar, you just go to your BTC wallet (main tab) and touch the three dots in upper right corner. Then select "sign/verify message". The trick is that you need to copy the address you are signing from first so that you can paste it here (you can have several addresses that sign from the same key). Enter your message to sign, click "sign", then you get the signature you can copy for whomever needs it.

I had been using Blockscout, but at some point it started being inaccurate and not showing latest transactions. I switched to Ethplorer.io and it has been working great. It's rather polished as well.

Exchange services like Coinbase are not wallets (although I do like Coinbase, and in fact the pro service actually doesn't charge normal gas fees to transfer out). That said, a primary criteria is that ANY "wallet" that charges you a fee other than the "gas" fee (network charge to miners to send the crypto) then it's not a wallet and should be avoided. Exchanges charge fees because they perform a service, but they are NOT wallets. A number of apps and services purport to be wallets but they charge a fee (that they keep) to get your funds out. That's a huge red flag and you should avoid that "wallet".

There's a saying: Not your keys, not your coin. Wallets (where you have the private keys) allow you to control your crypto. Exchanges are not wallets, they're a service that generally puts control into someone else's hands (for the benefit of being able to trade)

Making a mistake because you knew your method or prior decision was to sell but you wanted to hold longer.... is a painful mistake that can keep teaching. So it's important to be mindful and understand when you're making emotional mistakes, so that you can know what you need to pay attention to next time.

Fewer coins have pairs with USDT. Almost all exchanges have BTC and ETH as base pairs for most coins. This makes it more difficult if you're thinking in USD terms of value, but I think a lot of traders don't.

Here's a great way to start and figure out the mechanics of trading: Sign up at graviex.net and get the "airdrops" (basically a dozen different faucets for various coins). They refresh at different rates, but some are every 10 minutes. Within a day, you'll have enough to start trading into different currencies. Just be aware that some low value coins can be exchanged into BTC, but you can't exchange out into anything else without enough value. Eth is easier, as is GIO as an intermediary.

Occasionally even professional outfits have embarrassing mistakes, but in general you're absolutely right the poor grammar gives away a lot of scams. If it seems a bit off, it likely is!

To all who are worried they can't trade without KYC: You have to read the rules of every exchange. Some lock you out completely, some just won't let you trade insanely large amounts without doing KYC -- in the 2BTC per day range which is way above my daily withdraw value.

It's good to see cryptotalk gaining traction. I know bitcointalk is the OG but it seems a little odd to talk about anything and everything that's not Bitcoin there...