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#### Bitcoin faucets and Bitcoin mining on a laptop
How many of you were around in the early days of bitcoin? 2010, 2011, 2012?  mining some bitcoin on a laptop was a reality back then, but is nothing but a far away memory today.  How about GPU mining? did you ever try that?  Some folks made tons mining ETH.


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And crypto faucets? Were you able to receive bitcoin for some kind of faucet?  I got my very first sats that way (around $500).  I guess you could say It was a very rudimentary form of what Zealy campaigns are today.  You did "quests" and would receive some sats in return.

They might still be around, but I doubt any of them are worth the time or effort.


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#### The current state of web3

Today, however, you can do a bunch of activities with web3 tools and communities and get rewarded in cryptocurrency for doing so.  Let's look at some examples:



**Creating articles on INLEO, PeaKD, Ecency or any other Hive front ends**

Today, lots of people need guidance navigating the wild west of web3.    The community of Hiveans values the effort creators put into creating tutorials on how to use tools like LEODEX, Hive Keychain, Distrion, etc.    Creating written or video guides for the community is a great way of participating in a value-for-value parallel economy.   You provide value to the community, and the community votes to distribute a percentage of Hive's reward pool to you.   

I personally like making videos showing people how I spend $HBD that I've earned on food and drinks.  I think making real world purchases is HIVE's most compelling use case. I've made about a dozen videos like this and intent to keep doing it.

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Here are some of my videos and tutorials if you wish to check them out:

[Paying for my ramen using $HBD in Barrio Bitcoin, Guatemala City](https://peakd.com/hive-151961/@alex-rourke/xhnhspef)
[Paying for pizza and beer using $HBD in Barrio Bitcoin, Guatemala City](https://peakd.com/hive-151961/@alex-rourke/nsxqczdc)
[Micheladas paid with $HBD using V4V.app](https://peakd.com/hive-151961/@alex-rourke/wbqphjpp)

The same goes for well-written, educational articles.   If you're an expert in any given field and wish to share that expertise with others who might be newer to that particular discipline, say basket weaving, the community of basket weavers will reward you with upvotes for sharing with them the latest techniques, materials, and tendencies in basket weaving design.

In fact, we are so early that by simply creating community around things you like will earn you cryptocurrency rewards: outdoors, pets, food, travel, sunsets... you name it.     If you engage with others who are exploring the web3 space with you, you are able to earn cryptocurrency today.

**Curating articles on the above mentioned platforms**

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If you already have some HIVE tokens staked as Hive Power or Leo tokens staked as Leo Power, you can earn between 6% and 10% by dedicating some time to upvoting content you consider valuable.  Not bad!    You can also dedicate some of your voting power to another account and earn curation rewards passively.   I like to do all my curation manually because right now I like to upvote ONLY what I consider valuable to the protocol and not what a curation guild finds valuable. 


**Provide liquidity on LEODEX**

LEODEX was created by the INLEO team on Maya Protocol as an alternative to centralized exchanges like Binance or Coinbase.    By adding some of your LEO or CACAO tokens to the LEO-CACAO liquidity pool, you will be earning a share of the liquidity provider fees without actively having to do work.  Another great way of earning some magic internet money passively if you ask me.

**Exchange time for cryptocurrency**

Of course there is also the good ol' J.O.B.  You put in time and skill into doing a task and your employer gives you shiny internet tokens.   Lots of work needs to be done and the web3 space is no exception. Coding, graphic design, copywriting, editing.... the opportunities are endless.  If you only have a few hours after your regular fiat job or on the weekends, take advantage. Use your skills to do some work for a web3 project and keep those tokens! (hopefully a project on the HIVE blockchain).  

These are just some examples of the things you can do TODAY to earn cryptocurrency by using web3 tools.  10 years from now, the reward pool on HIVE will be lower due to the inflation, the APR% for providing liquidity to a pool on LEODEX might not be the same, the APR% for holding $HBD in a savings account might be lower, not to mention the price of $HIVE, $LEO and many other tokens that are VERY cheap right now might be many times higher (Not financial advice).

We are incredibly early.  Web3 is still in its infancy and protocols such as HIVE are handing out tokens freely and generously. You have several incredible opportunities to earn tokens  NOW and build your stack for the future.  Don't miss it.

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