How to Make Money with Bitcoin: The Definitive Guide [2020]

Дата публикации: 31-01-2020 23:01:24

One of the predominant ways that people have always used the internet has been to make money, and this will likely never change. The Internet has provided numerous opportunities for people to make a living.
More than any other technology in recent history and possibly ever, the internet opened up various new ways to generate wealth and as the internet matures, new technologies are further increasing the number of ways to make money online.
Cryptocurrency has most definitely had a huge impact on the financial part of the online world. It is gradually becoming the currency of the internet and with a huge range of new ways to make money being possible now because of crypto.
And Bitcoin was the one that started it all, and remains by most popular and widely-used of all cryptocurrencies.
We’re going to take a look at ways to make money online with Bitcoin today, breaking down exactly what Bitcoin is, why it has value, places to buy and sell Bitcoin online, and the number of different ways to make money online with Bitcoin.
What is Bitcoin?
Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency to be created, the largest cryptocurrency by total market cap, and the most popular cryptocurrency with tens of millions of Bitcoin wallets being in existence today.
An anonymous individual or group known as “Satoshi Nakamoto” published the Bitcoin Whitepaper in 2008, outlining a new algorithm-based financial asset called Bitcoin.
The paper outlined the new underlying technology of Bitcoin, known as “blockchain”, and also collectively called all digital currencies that use blockchain “cryptocurrencies”.
At first, there was only a very small number of people that even knew about Bitcoin. A few thousand people globally that were responsible for all Bitcoin mining, all Bitcoin transactions, and all literature and content produced relating to Bitcoin.
The value of a single Bitcoin remained under $1 for a long time, with the launch of the Bitcoin genesis block in early 2009 and the first time that a BTC was worth more than $1 was in early 2011.
As time went on, the value of Bitcoin increased exponentially, so did the adoption.
Today, the landscape of the cryptocurrency industry is incomparable to the early days of Bitcoin — where it was seen as a fringe, strange toy currency that was only used by drug dealers or for illicit purposes.
The world today is bracing itself for widespread adoption of cryptocurrencies in the mainstream over the next 5–10 years and a majority of the largest companies in the world are involved with crypto and blockchain in some way.
Why Does Bitcoin Have Value?
Pseudo-Anonymity
One of the earliest major use cases of Bitcoin was as the default currency of the darknet, with it being impossible to imagine thriving illegal marketplaces prior to the creation of Bitcoin.
This obviously meant that one of the earliest demands for Bitcoin was from this sector, however, it’s not only people involved in the crime that value the pseudo-anonymity of using cryptocurrency.
In many parts of the world, legitimate financial actions can be blocked by authoritarian governments, and many legitimate people and organizations have been targeted in relation to their funds.
Bitcoin also allows “normal people” who would just like to manage their own financial transactions and storage of wealth without needing a bank to do so. Today using a Bitcoin wallet is actually easier than using most bank websites.
Trust-less Transfers of Value
For the first time in history, people using Bitcoin were able to make transactions without trusting the person they were transacting with, and without needing a middleman that both parties trust.
The impact of this cannot be understated, as up until this point a constant inefficiency existed that meant that any transaction would either require an amount of real risk to be incorporated by not being able to fully trust the other party or a cost by trusting the middleman.
Bitcoin largely has value because of this simple fact: anyone, anywhere in the world can pay anyone, anywhere in the world without the need to trust them, much less know them, and without having to pay a central authority to facilitate the trade.
Independent Value Store
Bitcoin is often called “digital gold”, with good reason. Although many often claim that Bitcoin is a highly volatile asset, over time one metric that has remained constant is that over the course of years Bitcoin’s value has always increased exponentially.
Storing value in Bitcoin has been one of the most reliable and profitable ways to do so over the last decade, and from the logic behind Bitcoin’s ongoing adoption rates, along with the mechanisms that lead to Bitcoin’s continual increase in value, it’s likely that over the next decade the same will be true.
Bitcoin Trading & Investing
PrimeXBT
PrimeXBT has grown to become one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency trading platforms, specializing in providing the highest leverage available of up to 100x along with a wide range of powerful tools and functionality.
Traders can access a range of different markets, including cryptocurrencies, commodities and metals, forex pairs, and the leading global stock indices.
The platform also offers low fees of just 0.05% flat rate on all trades, and funding accounts can be done via direct BTC deposits or using a wide range of cryptocurrencies and banks cards available on Changelly via PrimeXBT’s Changelly integration.
Another good feature of the platform is the lack of a requirement for KYC, with only an email address being needed to sign up, and this allows for the maintenance of privacy when trading.
The platform comes packed with some of the best tools for trading that we’ve seen, and clearly a lot of effort has gone into designing a powerful yet intuitive interface that suits novices learning the rope, and experts looking for more advanced features.
LocalBitcoins
LocalBitcoins is a platform that has been around since the earliest days of cryptocurrency and provided a unique service throughout that time.
LocalBitcoin users can create an account, and then either buy or sell Bitcoin as they would on any other platform, however, the difference is that users can pay using a wide range of online and offline options.
Online options include bank transfers, Paypal payments, and gift cards. However, the offline options are relatively unique to LocalBitcoin, with the ability to pay for Bitcoin using ATM direct deposits and even in-person payments.
The site is smooth and easy to use, and there aren’t any other platforms that offer the same ability to make safe offline purchases with strangers in your local area.
Binance
Binance came onto the scene in 2017, midway through the ICO boom and just prior to 2017’s bull run peak in December.
The timing couldn’t have been better because as new users were flooding into the cryptocurrency market they were searching for platforms to sign up to. Binance quickly built a good reputation and a decent range of listings available to trade.
Since then Binance has continued to keep adding new features like its decentralized exchange and the Binance IEO launchpad.
Binance did get hit by a large $40 million hack of user funds in early 2019 though, why even though they have repaid to clients, put a large dent in the veneer of Binance’s security.
Bitcoin Mining
Retail Mining
The most common way that people have mined Bitcoin over time is retail mining, or mining as an individual, and while this is certainly the most widespread way that people have mined, today it is virtually impossible to profitably mine Bitcoin on your own.
Bitcoin mining began as soon as the Bitcoin blockchain was launched in 2009, and in the earliest days setting up a Bitcoin node was much more complicated than it is today, but also the rewards were much higher.
With the use of a simple CPU desktop or laptop, a miner could mine hundreds of Bitcoins each day, and this is as a result of the difficulty being much lower, the reward per mined block being much higher, and the number of competing miners being much smaller.
Mining Pools
Mining pools were a natural evolution as more miners came onto the ecosystem and it became harder to profitably mine Bitcoin.
As competition increased, simply using a CPU to mine with became less and less effective, until eventually GPUs and then ASICs took over.
Mining pools began to be set up, where miners could combine their hashing power to have a higher collective potential to win blocks.
Once a block is won, the facilitators of the mining pool take a percentage and then the rest of the winnings is split between all miners that took part in solving the block, with the division being based on the amount of hashing power each miner contributed.
Mining Farms
Mining farms were another development that occurred early on, but really took hold once ASICs became the only viable way to mine Bitcoin.
Mining went from being conducted in peoples’ houses with a maximum of a few relatively simple rigs, to large operations being set up in warehouses where millions of dollars of investment would see the creation of huge farms of hundreds or thousands of individual mining units linked together.
China in particular became a hub for global cryptocurrency mining, with revenues from successful mining farms moving into the millions of dollars per month at the top end.
Bitcoin Referral Programs
Bitcoin businesses and startups often provide users with ways to earn cryptocurrency via partnering with them to increase the platform’s exposure.
This can become a win-win situation for both the platform and the user, because as the user brings more users to the platform, the platform rewards them with either one-off payments per new signup or with a cut of the revenue generated on each referral.
Platforms like PrimeXBT are known for their referral programs, with that program generating over $1 million for the top 3 affiliates this year.
PrimeXBT has a unique system where 4 tiers of direct and indirect rewards are earned. For example, if an affiliate signs someone up they will get 40% of any fees generated by that user’s trading. Then if the user that was signed up signs someone else up, the top-level affiliate gets revenue from the 2nd tier as well.
This continues for 4 tier and is easily one of the most lucrative referral programs in the cryptocurrency industry.
Bitcoin referral programs can be used to create autonomous daily revenue streams while helping various crypto platforms to grow.
Bitcoin Faucets
Bitcoin faucets are the easiest way to earn Bitcoin online — just don’t expect to get rich doing it.
Early on, people realised that a lot of cryptocurrency users wanted to get Bitcoin for free. Searches on Google for things like “how to get free Bitcoin” were common, and at some point some industrious visionary realised that setting up a website for these people could make sense.
Bitcoin faucets were born, and basically users get a very small amount of free Bitcoin. Sometimes this is for completing a specific task and often this is for doing nothing at all.
Tasks can include liking or sharing something on social media, going to a website and clicking a link, and other simple tasks.
Once the user has complete said task, their supplied Bitcoin wallet will be topped up with a small amount of Bitcoin — often a few satoshis. The user will then complete the same task over and over again, or will complete many different tasks in a day in order to try to build up some decent revenue.
Often this isn’t really the case, with the adage that nothing comes for free being kind of true here.
In Summary
Making money online will always be a central part of the internet, but more and more the role that Bitcoin is playing in this is increasing.
While it seems certain that cryptocurrency will play a key role in the future of money, it’s still hard to accurately predict exactly what that role will look like.
Needless to say, trading Bitcoin is the largest activity of its kind — with a majority of cryptocurrency users having traded and invested at some point.
And as the value of Bitcoin continues to increase exponentially, it is likely that more and more new users will be attracted to the modern new Bitcoin trading platforms coming onto the market more and more frequently each year.
How to Make Money with Bitcoin: The Definitive Guide [2020] was originally published in Good Audience on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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