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# Crypto Cash
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Crypto Cash
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By ROBugatti
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Disclaimer
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You agree that by following this guide the author is not responsible for the success or failure.
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You also agree that the author(s) are not responsible for any consequences resulting from using
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the information herein.
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The Author has strived to be as accurate and complete as possible in the creation of this report,
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notwithstanding the fact that he does not warrant or represent at any time that the contents
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within are 100% accurate due to the rapidly changing nature of the Internet as well as
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other factors.
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While all attempts have been made to verify information provided in this publication, the
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Author assumes no responsibility for errors, omissions, or contrary interpretation of the subject
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matter herein. Any perceived slights of specific persons, peoples, or organizations are
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unintentional.
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In practical advice books, like anything else in life, there are no guarantees of income made.
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Readers are cautioned to reply on their own judgment about their individual circumstances to
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act accordingly.
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This report is not intended for use as a source of legal, business, accounting or financial advice.
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All readers are advised to seek services of competent professionals in legal, business,
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accounting, and finance field.
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Distribution, transmission, republication, or resale
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of this document is strictly prohibited.
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Introduction
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If you haven’t heard about Bitcoin, then maybe it’s time you learned more about
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it.
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As a digital currency, it’s gaining in popularity and has been in the news a lot
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recently. Just take a quick look at some of the places that accept Bitcoin for
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payment:
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WordPress – yes the favorite blogging platform of IM users everywhere
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accepts Bitcoins. You can use them to buy upgrades such as ad-free,
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custom designs, and other features on wordpress.com.
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Etsy – kind of like eBay, Etsy is more crafty and local. And hundreds of
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vendors accept Bitcoin for payment.
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Namecheap – the best domain name registrar out there, and they take
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Bitcoins for payment.
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Overstock.com
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TigerDirect.com
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…and the list keeps growing
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OK, so just do an internet search and you’ll find out everything you want to know
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by doing a little reading. From what I can tell, Bitcoin is here and it’s here to stay.
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Profiting From Bitcoin
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Let’s just get right down to it. You want to make money from Bitcoins, right?
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That’s why you bought this report.
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Well, let me tell you straight up that trying to deal in Bitcoins directly is going to
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be hard. And expensive. About a year ago one Bitcoin was worth about $21.
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Today (as of the time I’m writing this) one is worth $814. And as recently as
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November 2013, you could have bought Bitcoins at the low, low price of about
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$200 each. So 10 weeks later you just made 400% on your investment. Can you
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see why they have become so popular?
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In addition to Bitcoins, there are dozens of other cryptocurrencies on the market.
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Bitcoin is the first and most popular, but the other most popular ones (in order of
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market capitalization) are Ripple, Litecoin, Peercoin, DogeCoin, Nxt, MasterCoin,
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Namecoin, Quark, and ProtoShares. And that just rounds out the top 10.
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Go to coinmarketcap.com and you can see the full list of 86 that they have
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information for. The total market cap for all of these cryptocurrencies combined
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is a whopping $13,182,548,476. Yeah, over $13 billion.
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So how do you make money with cryptocoins? In general, there are two basic
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ways to make money. You can mine them or you can invest/speculate. There are
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other ways to earn as well, which is what I’m doing and how you can get in the
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game. But first I’ll go over the basics of mining and investing.
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Mining
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First, you can mine coins. I won’t go into explicit detail, but mining is basically
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using your own computing resources (called a rig) to attempt to solve a complex
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algorithm which helps to verify and approve any transactions with that particular
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currency.
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Here is the description of Bitcoin mining from https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining:
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Mining is the process of adding transaction records to Bitcoin's public
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ledger of past transactions. This ledger of past transactions is called
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the block chain as it is a chain of blocks. The block chain serves to confirm
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transactions to the rest of the network as having taken place. Bitcoin nodes
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use the block chain to distinguish legitimate Bitcoin transactions from
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attempts to re-spend coins that have already been spent elsewhere.
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Mining is intentionally designed to be resource-intensive and difficult so
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that the number of blocks found each day by miners remains steady.
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Individual blocks must contain a proof of work to be considered valid. This
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proof of work is verified by other Bitcoin nodes each time they receive a
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block. Bitcoin uses the hashcash proof-of-work function.
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The primary purpose of mining is to allow Bitcoin nodes to reach a secure,
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tamper-resistant consensus. Mining is also the mechanism used to
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introduce Bitcoins into the system: Miners are paid any transaction fees as
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well as a "subsidy" of newly created coins. This both serves the purpose of
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disseminating new coins in a decentralized manner as well as motivating
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people to provide security for the system.
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Bitcoin mining is so called because it resembles the mining of other
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commodities: it requires exertion and it slowly makes new currency
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available at a rate that resembles the rate at which commodities like gold
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are mined from the ground.
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If you keep reading on that page, you’ll see the different ways that you can mine
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Bitcoins. The problem today is that in order to mine them profitably, you need
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very powerful and expensive hardware (see ASIC mining) that can cost five
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figures. Most of us don’t have the kind of cash or technical know-how to set that
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up.
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The next most popular cryptocoin to mine is Litecoin. Right now one Litecoin
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(LTC) is going for around $21. These are much easier to mine. While typical
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mining rigs use CPU power to mine, you are limited to usually just the one CPU in
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a typical computer. That’s why recently people have been switching to GPUs to
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mine.
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GPU (graphics processing unit) is the CPU of a graphics card. What GPU miners do
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is focus all of their processing power to the GPU because they can install multiple
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graphics cards on one motherboard so that they can mine much faster. And the
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more computing power you have, the better chance you have of solving the
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algorithm.
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I was actually going to get into GPU mining, trying to mine Litecoin, by building my
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own LTC mining rig. The problem I ran into was that the graphic cards themselves
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are very hard to come by. And even if they are available, they are ridiculously
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expensive.
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I don’t think that mining is the cause of the video card scarcity (people do love
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their computer games and high-end graphics you know), but due to the recent
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popularity of mining with GPUs, it’s now much harder to even find the right
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hardware.
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The cost to build a LTC mining rig isn’t terrible. I was pricing one out by buying
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each piece individually (the motherboard, CPU, memory, graphic cards, etc.) and
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it came to around $1200. Not too bad really for a moderately high-end computer.
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I could always use it to play the latest PC games or sell it to someone who wants
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to.
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And since I could not get the best graphics cards (I think the ones I priced were
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still around $350 each), my hash rate (a measure of how much power I’m using to
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compute) wasn’t top of the line. At my proposed hash rate and power
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consumption, I think that I could have made about $20 per day mining Litecoins.
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That might seem awesome at first, but that $20 depends on a lot of things,
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especially the price of Litecoin. If it drops or crashes, then that $20 could go
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down to $10 or even $5. Best case scenario would be about 2.5 months to get my
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investment back, then the rest is profit.
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But that’s a lot of work, and you have to be somewhat of a techie to get it all
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setup correctly. Plus, you really have to join a mining pool so that you are joining
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forces with other miners. I could write an entire book on mining and pools and
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GPUs and ASIC mining, but that’s not why you bought this report, so I’ll move on.
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Investing
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Plain and simple, you can buy cryptocoins now and hold on to them, hoping their
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value will rise when you can sell them for a profit.
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It’s the same as investing in gold, silver, stocks, bonds, etc. Buy low, sell high.
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On the technical side, this is a much easier way to get into cryptocurrencies. But
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you still have to jump through a few loops.
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First of all, you need a way to pay for the cryptocoins. You do this by signing up
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with a bitcoin wallet and platform site where you can use USD (and possibly other
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currencies, but since I’m in the US I’ll only talk about doing this with USD) to buy
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and sell Bitcoins.
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I use Coinbase. You sign up with Coinbase and connect your bank account so you
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can fund your account. Once you have money in your Coinbase account, you can
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use this to buy Bitcoins.
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Now, they only deal in Bitcoins, but that is fine. I know I talked about other
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cryptocurrencies earlier, like Litecoin, but the grand-daddy of them all is Bitcoin
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and honestly if you’re going to use any cryptocoin like currency, it will probably be
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Bitcoin anyway. You may buy/sell/earn other cryptos, but you will eventually
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trade them into Bitcoins so you can use them.
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Once you buy Bitcoins, you can then use them in one of the many exchanges to
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buy other cryptocoins. BTC is like the USD of the world. You can trade almost any
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currency to/from Bitcoins.
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I’ll give you a quick example to clarify.
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Joe wants to buy Litecoins. At around $21 each, he feels that the price is
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good and the long term potential for profit is high. He has read where LTC
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might reach $100 by the end of 2014.
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Joe opens an account at Coinbase. He verifies his bank account and
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deposits $800 into his Coinbase account.
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Joe then uses Coinbase to buy Bitcoins directly at their current buy price.
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Since right now it is exactly $800.00, he gets exactly one BTC.
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Joe then opens an account with Cryptsy, a cryptocurrency exchange.
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Within Cryptsy, Joe creates a new deposit address. This is a long
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alphanumeric string like 17jUWvAWa79boxmgdnEtf4JLv4CBUW8b3D.
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Joe then goes back to Coinbase and chooses to Send Money. He copies the
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deposit address from Cryptsy, the amount he wants to send (in this case
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1.00 BTC) and clicks to send the money.
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After a period of authorization for this transaction (could be 15 minutes or
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longer) he goes back to Cryptsy and sees that he now has a balance of 1.00
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BTC.
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Within Cryptsy, he goes to the LTC/BTC market to buy LTC.
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The price per LTC is currently 0.02629412 so he can buy 37.95 LTC with his
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1.00 BTC. This includes a 0.20% fee (in BTC). I figured this out just by
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putting in different amounts for how much LTC I wanted to buy until my net
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total was just barely under 1.00, since that is all I had to invest.
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Joe clicks on Submit Buy Order and he buys 37.95 LTC. At around $21 that
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is worth $796.95, so he paid around $3 in fees. Not too bad.
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At this point you have a balance of 37.95 LTC at Cryptsy. You can use this to buy
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any cryptocurrency that trades on Cryptsy.
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You now have two options: leave the balance at Cryptsy, or withdraw the balance
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to a local wallet.
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Wallets
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When dealing with cryptocurrencies, there are two types of wallets: online and
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offline.
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Online wallets like Coinbase let you store your BTC or USD with them so that you
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have it available to trade using the cryptocurrency exchanges.
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Online exchanges will store your cryptocoins as well, so that you can buy/sell at
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will without having to worry about sending or receiving coins in order to make
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transactions.
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If you do a lot of trading, it’s not unreasonable to keep these online balances filled
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to whatever amount you need to trade. It saves time and you don’t have to
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worry about constantly funding your account.
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If you want to make a one-time trade to hold on to some cryptocoins for the
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future in hopes that the price will rise (kind of like investing in gold or silver coins,
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or even stocks for that matter) then you might want to store those coins in an
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offline wallet on your PC (or even off your PC, i.e. on a flash drive or even paper).
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All cryptocoins have a wallet associated with them. Well, at least I think so. For
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Bitcoin, the wallet is what allows you to transact with other users. It gives you
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ownership of a Bitcoin balance so that you can send and receive bitcoins. Just like
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email, all wallets can interoperate with each other.
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Once you install the wallet (there is a different program/wallet for each
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cryptocoin which you need to install separately), you can generate an address to
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send or receive cryptocoins.
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So now, you can (within Coinbase, Cryptsy, or other online wallet or exchange)
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send whatever coins you have to an address that you generate with your local
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wallet. Once that transaction gets processed, the coins are now held in your local
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wallet.
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Many people do this as a security measure so that if an exchange crashes, or
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worst case goes out of business or gets shut down for some reason, you won’t
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lose whatever coins you had stored with them.
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Personally, if I’m in this for the long term, I would recommend keeping all of your
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cryptocoins offline. In fact, I even copy the data file from my PC to a flash drive
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(or even multiple flash drives for security, or in case one fails) and then delete the
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data file on my PC.
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Why do this? Well, if you get hacked, the hacker can steal that data file and get
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ALL of the coins in that wallet. And if you’re dealing with thousands of dollars’
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worth of cryptocoins, even tens of thousands, then you probably want to make
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sure your money is safe. It’s like a safe deposit box.
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Let’s continue our example with Joe:
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Joe just bought 37.95 LTC on Cryptsy and wants to store this offline in his
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Litecoin wallet.
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Joe goes to https://litecoin.org/ and downloads and installs the LTC wallet.
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When Joe runs the wallet for the first time, it takes hours to sync, since it
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needs to download all of the previous transaction blocks. Once this is done,
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Joe is ready for the next step.
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Joe generates a new address within the LTC wallet to receive coins.
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Within Cryptsy, Joe chooses to withdraw his LTC to his local wallet. He does
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this by going to his Account Balances, hovering over Litecoin, and choosing
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Withdraw LTC.
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Joe puts in 37.945 as the amount since there is a .005 LTC withdraw fee.
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Joe then enters the withdraw address that he created from his offline LTC
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wallet installed on his PC. After entering his password and captcha, he
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processes the withdraw.
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Joe opens his LTC wallet on his PC and lets it run. Eventually it processes
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his transaction and his offline wallet is now credited with 37.945 LTC.
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OK, that may have been too long and drawn out for some of you, but I wanted to
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go through the entire process, showing you everything that is involved when
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you’re dealing with buying and selling cryptocurrencies.
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Other Ways to Make Money with Cryptocoins
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Now let’s get to the meat of this report. Hopefully you’ll be much better
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informed on what is required of you to deal with cryptos, because it’s not always
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simple for someone who has never done this before.
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Other than mining or buying cryptocoins directly, there ARE other ways to make
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money with crypto.
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Faucets
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A faucet in the alternate currency world is basically a website that gives you a
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small amount of the coin for free, whether because of the advertising revenue
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they have on the site, various clicks they get, or because they are interested in
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promoting their crypto-currency & if someone has a stake in that crypto-currency
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then they are more likely to promote it.
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Personally, I stay away from them. I liken faucets to the “earn credits by surfing”
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programs, or “complete surveys to earn points” programs. They just seem like
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scams to me. Just take a quick look at most faucet sites. They are spammy, full of
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ads, and my personal opinion is that they are a complete waste of time.
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What free coins you get are probably worth a fraction of a cent, and if you want
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to spend hours per day on the hundreds of faucet sites (or cryptocoin lottery
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sites) trying to earn maybe a buck, then by all means go ahead. I’ve got better
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things to do.
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I really can’t comment any more than that, and this is just my personal opinion
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since I have not looked into it more, but my time is valuable and I’m certainly not
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going to waste it on faucets. Do research and form your own opinion, though.
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Cryptocurrency-Specific Ways to Earn
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OK, that probably sounds a little vague. But if you look at the list of cryptocoins,
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they all have different purposes.
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For example, Ripple is actually an internet protocol for making financial
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transactions. So it’s like PayPal, but it’s not controlled by any organization. As
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HTTP is the protocol for displaying web pages, RTXP is the protocol for making
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transactions on the internet. And the market cap for Ripple is over $2 billion.
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They even have altcoins that serve different functions, such as:
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Tickets – also called LotteryTickets, it gives random rewards for each block
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solved
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Sexcoin – an altcoin that can be used for adult websites and services
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Craftcoin – used as portable in-game currency for Minecraft servers
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Devcoin – to support open-source projects by programmers, hardware
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developers, writers, musicians, painters, etc. worldwide
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Ok, so pay attention to that last one. More specifically, because it supports
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WRITERS.
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Earning Devcoins by Writing
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OK, so sorry that it took so long to get to the real how-to of this report, but I think
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it’s important to understand at least the basics of crypto and what you will need
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to do to earn cryptocoins and then turn that into cold hard cash!
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First of all, go here: http://devtome.com/doku.php?id=devcoin.
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Download/install the Devcoin wallet.
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Then, go here: http://devcoin.org/get-devcoin.html.
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You’ll see a link for “earn Devcoins by writing”. Click on that. At the very top of
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that page is a really good “getting started” link to learn more about how it works.
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There are four steps you need to go through to get set up:
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1. Get the Devcoin wallet
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2. Request an account on Devtome and give them a sample of your writing
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3. On your userpage, post your wallet address so you can get paid!
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4. Write your articles
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That’s it.
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You can write fiction, non-fiction, poetry…whatever. They do have requirements
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such as no plagiarism, erotica, scammy stuff, etc. And they want good formatting.
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No crap!
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I was even able to take a few articles that I posted on one of my websites and
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repost them to my Devtome account for credit. I did provide a proper reference
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to my site, which is even better for me!
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What they don’t want is a bunch of outsourced garbage, poor formatting or
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grammar, copying/pasting some PLR articles that you have, or anything else
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where they think you are trying to game the system.
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For Round 31 (see the devtome page for what that means), I wrote six articles.
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Two were copied right from one of my blogs. They don’t care as long as it is
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YOUR work and you can reference it. I even had to edit those posts so the admins
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could see that it was really mine.
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One article was basically me rambling on about fantasy football . It ended up
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being the longest of my articles, and it was fun to write.
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One article was something I had posted on my Dropbox as fiction fodder. I had a
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crazy dream one night and remembered most/all of it, and so the next morning I
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put it all down on paper (i.e. Word) and saved it to my Dropbox in case I wanted
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to use it for a short story at some point. Well, I did.
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The last two articles were short stories (two or three pages each) that I wrote and
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posted on fictionpress.com years ago. Again, I had to verify that they were
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actually mine and I wasn’t stealing them from someone else, but once I did that I
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posted the source as a reference and they were accepted.
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How You Get Paid
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Take a look at the Generation Share section here:
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http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=earn_devcoins_by_writing
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I won’t go into details (it’s all on the site) but in round 31 everyone got 144,810
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DVC per share. And at the prices at that point in time, each share was worth
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about $61.
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Devcoins are paid out each round to various groups. The admin gets a cut each
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round. They give shares to people who do marketing. They give shares to
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Devtome writers. They also have bounties and ratings. I’m not even sure what all
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those entail as far as how you earn with them. All I’m concerned about is the
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Devtome writers’ shares.
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Go here: http://dvccountdown.blisteringdevelopers.com/
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That is a DVC countdown clock. It shows the shares earned per round and other
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info. On the bottom you’ll see this:
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You’ll see for Devtome that there were a total of 512 shares allotted. So for
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everyone that had articles during the last round posted and approved on
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Devtome, you got a certain percentage of that 512 shares.
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First of all, they look at word count. The more words, the more shares, plain and
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simple.
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But recently they have instituted a popularity index using Google Analytics. So if
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your article on Devtome gets a lot of views and people stay on your page longer
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than for other articles, that article is worth more. So if you write good stuff that
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people want to read, you’ll get rewarded for it.
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The takeaway here for me at least is that I want to post longer articles. First of all,
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if people actually are reading the articles, then they will obviously take longer to
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read my (longer) articles. At least longer than a short piece of flash fiction. And
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so my popularity index rises.
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They have the formula all broken down, but we don’t need to go into details here.
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Just know that if you write crap, people will immediately see this and stop
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reading, and you will get even less of a share, even if it’s a longer article. Garbage
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in, garbage out.
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So write high-quality, longer articles about interesting subjects and you’ll be fine.
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If you consider that I published only six articles, two of which were copied/pasted
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from my blog, three of which were written years ago on another site (all proper
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references sited of course), and only one was written in about 30 minutes as
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more of a rambling, you’ll be shocked to see how much I earned for less than an
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hour of work.
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My username on Devtome is cryptowonk. On the countdown site referenced
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above, you can put in my devtome username and round (31) to see how many
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shares I got. Here’s a screenshot:
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So you can see that I got 7.0 shares. Since each share was worth about $61 at the
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time that the round was over, I made $427. Who else wants to make $427/hour
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in their job?
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Actually what I earned was 144,810 DVC per share x 7 shares = 1,013,670 DVC.
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At this exact moment, one DVC is worth $0.00054, so that equates to $547. Nice,
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huh?
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Getting Paid
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Now comes the bad news. Well, not really. I’ll take $527 for an hours’ worth of
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writing any day.
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If you look at the countdown page
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(http://dvccountdown.blisteringdevelopers.com/) you will see that the payment
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round won’t be complete until Feb 27. That’s because of how altcoins are
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processed. Each block is only so long and they each have to be mined so that all
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the transactions get approved. That takes time.
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So by Feb 27th at the latest (my transaction could be confirmed today or a couple
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||
weeks from now) I will get 1,013,670 DVC sent to my Devcoin address.
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To see if I’ve got paid, I run the DVC wallet on my PC every few days. It syncs all
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of the latest transactions and if mine were in the latest blocks, then I will see
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those DVC in my wallet.
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Turning DVC into USD
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Ok, so I got over a million DVC. That’s great and all, but it does me no good if I
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can’t spend them or convert them into something useful, like BTC or even better
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USD, right?
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Now you see why I went through the process of online wallets and currency
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exchanges for Joe (my previous example).
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I’m not a speculator, but if you wanted to you could analyze the charts of all of
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the major altcoins and see which ones have the greatest potential for gain and
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then convert all of your DVC into that. Or you could put it all into something
|
||
more popular like LTC or BTC. Or you could cash out to USD.
|
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For purposes of this report, let’s assume that you want to cash out to USD (or
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your local currency if you’re in another country).
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Once I get the DVC into my local wallet, I need to find an exchange that deals with
|
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Devcoin. Fortunately, the previously mentioned exchange – Cryptsy – will allow
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||
you to buy and sell DVC for either LTC or BTC.
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But right now I just have all of my DVC in my local wallet, so I need to send that to
|
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my Cryptsy account. Here is a step-by-step breakdown of the process.
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1. First, you need to login to Cryptsy, then click on the Balances icon at the
|
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top.
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|
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2. Scroll down until you see Devcoin, then hover your cursor over it to bring
|
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up a menu:
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||
3. Click on “Deposit / Autosell DVC”. The deposit address will be blank, so just
|
||
click on the button to generate a new address:
|
||
|
||
4. Copy that deposit address (yours, not the one above – unless you want to
|
||
send ME coins ;) ).
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5. Now open my local DVC wallet and send coins to that deposit address.
|
||
6. After six confirmations, the deposit will go through and you will see your
|
||
coins show up at Cryptsy.
|
||
7. Now that you have your DVC at Cryptsy, you need to convert them to BTC.
|
||
a. Why? Because Coinbase only deals with BTC. Once we have BTC at
|
||
Coinbase, we can convert/cash out to USD.
|
||
8. Click on the Trade icon at the top of Cryptsy.
|
||
9. Scroll down until you see the DVC/BTC Market and click on that.
|
||
10. Here you’ll see a box where you can sell DVC for BTC.
|
||
11. In Amount DVC enter your total. For me it will be 1,013,670. It will
|
||
calculate the total BTC you can buy, the transaction fee, and the net total
|
||
BTC that you will receive. For the current prices as of this writing, here is
|
||
what mine would look like:
|
||
|
||
(Since I don’t have any DVC in my account (yet) it shows that I have 0.0 DVC
|
||
available. )
|
||
12. Once you submit the sell order, it will have to match your sell order with
|
||
other people’s buy orders and then process the transaction. Right now I
|
||
see a buy order for more than what I’m selling, so this should go through
|
||
pretty quickly.
|
||
13. After the transaction goes through, I will have 0.67712142 BTC in my
|
||
account at Cryptsy. Now I need to send that to my Coinbase account so I
|
||
can cash it out.
|
||
14. Login to Coinbase. On the left side, click on Account Settings. Above where
|
||
it has your name/email/etc on the page, you’ll see “Bitcoin Addresses”.
|
||
Click on that.
|
||
15. Create a new address. I like to then go into Details and give it a label. For
|
||
this transaction, I would enter “DVC from Cryptsy”:
|
||
|
||
16. Copy that new address from Coinbase and go back to Cryptsy.
|
||
17. Again, click on Balances and scroll down to BTC. You should now see your
|
||
balance in BTC. In my example, it would be 0.67712142 BTC.
|
||
18. Hover over where it says Bitcoin and choose “Withdraw BTC”.
|
||
19. In the popup box, enter your exact amount of BTC, which is the number in
|
||
#17 for my example. Copy and paste in the new address from Coinbase in
|
||
the BTC Withdraw Address. Enter your password and captcha.
|
||
20. Cryptsy will assess a 0.0005 BTC transaction fee and show you the net:
|
||
21. Once I click on Process Withdraw, the money is sent to my Coinbase
|
||
account.
|
||
22. Go to Coinbase to confirm the transfer. You’ll see the balance in your
|
||
account once the transfer is complete.
|
||
23. In Coinbase, click on Buy/Sell on the left side. Then in the main area of that
|
||
page, click on Sell Bitcoin and enter how much you want to sell. In this
|
||
example, I’m cashing everything out and not leaving anything in any of my
|
||
accounts at Cryptsy or Coinbase.
|
||
|
||
24. The “pay out method” that I blacked out is just my bank account info. Once
|
||
I sell the Bitcoin, I will get $536.83 transferred to my bank account.
|
||
Lather, Rinse, Repeat
|
||
The key to making this work consistently is just to keep writing. It’s really not that
|
||
hard. Write about anything you want! Just don’t give them crap.
|
||
Some Caveats
|
||
Just to be up front about this, you do know that this is not a get-rich-quick
|
||
scheme, right? If you have the patience to work the system and do it right, this
|
||
can be a nice extra income stream for you for a long time to come.
|
||
Be aware that each round for Devcoin is about a month long. So you can write
|
||
and submit your articles, and at the end of the round (about once a month). It
|
||
then takes about 3 weeks to get paid. So there is some lead time, but if you keep
|
||
doing this consistently, you’ll get paid monthly like clockwork.
|
||
|
||
Here is how Devtome explains it:
|
||
http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=devtome_earnings_for_the_layperson:
|
||
After a round ends, which you can see at the Devcoin Countdown, another
|
||
2700 blocks need to be created before earnings start being paid out. Each
|
||
round lasts approximately a month, then there are approximately 21 more
|
||
days before you start getting paid. On your first round, especially if you
|
||
posted articles at the beginning of the round, this might seem like a long
|
||
time. If you post articles every round, what will happen is that you will get a
|
||
steady payout every month. Once the payout block begins, your full
|
||
earnings (your number of shares times how many Devcoins are in each
|
||
share this round) will be disbursed over the course of the next round until
|
||
all your shares are paid out, because each share is deposited individually in
|
||
a kind of round robin.
|
||
Conclusion
|
||
To sum up my experience, I copied two articles from one of my blogs, reposted
|
||
two previously published short stories from fictionpress.com, published a short
|
||
story I just had stored on my hard drive, and then actually only wrote some
|
||
ramblings about fantasy football and posted that.
|
||
Less than one hour of actual work.
|
||
Profit more than $500.
|
||
The potential here is outstanding, if you do it right and don’t try to cheat the
|
||
system. But if you act in a professional manner, post only original content written
|
||
by you that is useful, informative, and engaging, then this can be a huge source of
|
||
income for you!
|
||
Oh yeah, one of the best parts about all of this is that if you hold your coins,
|
||
whether that means the DVC that you earn, or if you hold onto the BTC or LTC (or
|
||
any other cryptocurrency that you exchanged into), as the value of these altcoins
|
||
rise, so does your net worth!
|
||
|
||
If I don’t cash out the 0.67662142 BTC at Coinbase and instead just hold onto it
|
||
(whether in an online wallet like Coinbase, or even at an exchange like Cryptsy) if
|
||
the value of BTC rises, then your coins will be worth even more.
|
||
For example, let’s say I hold onto my BTC and two months from now Bitcoin takes
|
||
off and goes to $1200. Now I want to cash out because I have a need for some
|
||
cash (USD), so I go into Coinbase and transfer to my bank account.
|
||
Instead of the $536.83 that I would have received if I cashed out as soon as I
|
||
could, now I would get more: $1200/BTC x 0.67662142 BTC = $811.95, an extra
|
||
$275.
|
||
Of course, the price of BTC could fall, too. No one knows. If you want to
|
||
speculate and you think that prices will rise, whether that is short or long term,
|
||
then hold on to your coins and cash out when you think the time is right. But if
|
||
you need the cash and don’t want to gamble on the market, then just cash out
|
||
and enjoy your payday!
|
||
If you have any questions, I’d be happy to answer them in the thread (I’ll update
|
||
the FAQ as needed) or reply to you personally.
|
||
Cheers!
|
||
Rob
|
||
rob@cryptowonk.com
|
||
p.s. For the previous round (30) each share was worth $221, not just $61. This
|
||
means that my 7 shares would have been worth $1547 – three times what mine is
|
||
now worth! Since you never know what the value of DVC will be, the same
|
||
amount of work that you do (in my case 6 articles) could be worth $500 or $1500!
|
||
|
||
FAQ
|
||
Q: Can this really be done without any money at all to start?
|
||
A: Yes. It’s free to set up the Coinbase and Cryptsy accounts, and it’s free to get a
|
||
Devtome account. All you have to do after that is write your articles and publish
|
||
them. As long as they fit the (very basic) criteria for the site, they count toward
|
||
your earnings. The only time money is really involved is linking your bank account
|
||
to Coinbase and withdrawing the cash.
|
||
Q: Can I outsource my writing?
|
||
A: I’m sure you can if you want to, but I would be careful. If you get lower quality
|
||
articles, then they may not be accepted and/or they won’t get that much traffic
|
||
on the site.
|
||
Q: Can I use PLR articles?
|
||
A: Like most people recommend, any PLR articles should definitely NOT be used
|
||
as copy and paste material. It is wise to rewrite them in your own words. My
|
||
feeling is that for the time it takes me to rewrite one, I could have just written one
|
||
from scratch.
|
||
Q: Won’t my earnings depend on the price of DVC?
|
||
A: Yes and no. You get so many allotted shares based on your word count and
|
||
other factors discussed in the report. Each share is worth X amount of DVC.
|
||
Those shares have intrinsic value, but to turn them into USD (cash out) you have
|
||
to convert them to BTC (or LTC) and then into USD.
|
||
Q: Can this get saturated?
|
||
A: Possibly. Since each round there is a set amount of DVC that are handed out
|
||
each round: 180,000,000. The number of DVC/share is determined by the
|
||
number of receiver lines (which is determined roughly by the number of
|
||
articles/words that you submit), so with more people getting shares, each share
|
||
could be worth fewer DVC.
|
||
|
||
Q: Is there a limit to what I can submit each month?
|
||
A: Yes. Words are limited to 50,000 for each round. You can write more, and the
|
||
overflow will go towards next round’s payment. So if you wrote 70,000 words,
|
||
you’ll only get paid for 50,000 this round, and you already have a 20,000 balance
|
||
to start out the next round.
|
||
Q: Where I can get more detailed information on how/what to write?
|
||
A: http://www.devtome.com/doku.php?id=devtome_writers
|
||
That link will take you to the Devtome writers page where it has links to all sorts
|
||
of articles to answer most/all of your questions about how to write, what things
|
||
to write about, the formatting that they require to publish, etc.
|