bitcoin – Marilynn Dawson's Musings

February 26, 2019October 18, 2019 Marilynn Dawson Reviews

Tis the Season for Payouts! While Others Pay, I AM Paid!

Tell someone that you are getting paid to view advertisements and they look at you strange! You know, like you should go back to that hole you crawled out of, take another nap, and perhaps wake up a “normal” person again. Many of these same people however, will pay without thinking twice to see ads on TV and in their favourite newspaper or magazine. If their favourite newspaper or magazine went online and installed a paywall, they gladly pay for continued access to their preferred publication, ads and all.

These same people take part in social networks, forums, and other online social sites where advertisers make money from targeting users by how they interact on the site. Do the users ever see a dime of that money? Do they ever get compensated for contributing to the demographic data that got the advertiser their sale??? NO! But they will waste no time scoffing at anyone who thinks they can cash in on the bounty.

Well, I wanted to give an update on the income trickle I have going all by my little self right now. That’s another thing people scoff at, and I have to admit, at one time I was in this group of scoffers myself. The real estate franchise owner would make no money if realtors, who get paid commission only, weren’t selling houses. The owner of the car dealership would make no money if his salesmen, who are only paid commission, weren’t selling cars. Your local grocery store would not make any sales if they didn’t have staff opening doors, stocking shelves, and customers buying during business hours. I actually saw someone scoff that the only way money was being made in one company was because of relying on others to make sales. . . Hmmm. . . run that by me again???

You see, advertisers are businesses, corporations, non=profit organizations, causes, cottage industry and home-based businesses all trying to reach those who want their offerings. They are taught in marketing courses to go where their target market hangs out and purchase advertising there. The concept of banner advertising on traditional-styled websites is just so much noise now on the page. People don’t complain about it unless it gets too “in their face”, but neither do they interact much unless the ad is touting something they were searching for on Google Amazon or Facebook just minutes or hours earlier. This type of ad-tracking is done via cookies.

So if banner advertising has become so ubiquitous that people don’t pay it much mind anymore, how else do they get word out about their offering? They turn to online versions of old offline standby’s. The unaddressed ad mail that now tends to hit the recycling bin before it hits the house has been respawned online as the safelist/viral mailer. The difference? People actually sign up to receive these emails so that they in turn can send out emails of their own. It’s a captive audience, although similar to unaddressed ad mail, if your subject line fails to grab attention, it can be good money after bad if you purchased an ad pack to do the sending.

But the thing is, people DO buy these ad packages. The visual noise of ads in the magazine has respawned online in the form of traffic exchanges where people choose to sign up to view these ads in exchange for their own ad being viewed by others. It’s a bit of a “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours”. Again, ad packages can be purchased and such packages are advantageous to those who don’t have time to sit there scrolling through ad after ad to earn the credits to send out their message.

The theme across all these various advertising iterations, is the concept of real human beings. Google has occasionally suffered terrible bouts of click-fraud on the adword ads on their search engine. Safelist/viral mailers and Traffic exchanges suffer from programmed bots to do the clicking for people as well, but captchas are put in place to reduce the abuse of the system, making it quite viable for most people using these services.

When an ad or an email crosses a person’s desk who happens to be looking for the product being offered, that advertiser has gained a customer. They’ve made a sale. There are literally 100’s of these sites around the ‘net, and most of them are similar to your offline advertising in that they don’t pay anyone for the time they spend viewing or sending their advertising.

I am happy to say however, that sites are coming along who pay you for the ads you click and the emails you open. Even browsers are starting to get in on the act with paying you for your time by installing tiny miners to make your device pay for itself finally.

One of the sites where I click ads to earn a penny or two, is BTCClicks:

BTCClicks pays a certain number of satoshi with every ad you click. Most of the time this earns you at least 100 satoshi per day, with payout at 10,000 satoshi. As you can see in the screenshot to the left here, BTCClicks has paid me a number of times now. The ads I click are paid for by other members who have bought ad packages at BTCClicks. As a free surfer, I get paid to view those ads.

Coinbulb is similar to BTCClicks, but up until Fall 2018, they had fewer ads on their system. Their ads were generally higher-paying, but because they were fewer, it took a long time to get my first payout. Since Fall 2018 however, they’ve added to their site and you’ll notice the second payout came much faster!

A traffic exchange I joined in August 2017, InfinityTrafficBoost, has paid me three times now as of February 2019. They offer 11 different ad packages aimed at the desired number of views an advertiser wants for their product or service. Payouts for them seem to be getting closer together as well. Click the link above to see three different payout screenshots.

Similar to BTCClicks and Coinbulb, Bitter.io came on the scene offering a plugin for your browser that would let you earn by surfing ads on their site. They’ve paid me twice so far, and probably would have paid me again already if I was more dedicated to clicking the ads in their list.

I am doing a fair bit of my earned ad viewing now on a browser that honestly makes my 12yr old system work so much faster online! That browser is CryptoTabBrowser, and it is a version of Chrome that has been optimized to be up to 8x 10x faster (as of April 2019) than Chrome itself while also mining in an open tab on your computer, using CPU power rather than the GPU resources typically used by mining farms. CryptoTabBrowser’s cashout is at a mere 1000 satoshi, and ~~so far takes not quite two months~~ is speeding up as they make improvements as you’ll see in this screenshot.

I’ve been paid once so far from AdFeedz, and thanks to getting in while it was free to do so, I’ve been paid once by HashingAdSpace too, just waiting on that payment to go through as I type this. HashingAdSpace breaks the train in this thread, as going forward as of March 1/19, no one earns for free, you have to buy ad stakes to do any earning. EDIT: Currently, a single Asimi stake will cost roughly $125 USD as of March 4/19. However, that stakes lasts a year, and your funds will be “earned back” 6 months or less, depending on how your daily ad minting goes, and whether or not you reinvest your earned Asimi to earn funds faster.

It’s been a great week starting the beginning of March 2019, as several of these payment proofs show cashouts all since the previous week. My wallet over at Freebitco.in is seeing regular increases in the daily interest my balance is accumulating! If you need a legitimate BTC wallet that honestly earns you interest, head over to Freebitco and get your deposit address. Put that address into every payment system you get cashouts from and after you’ve accumulated 30,000 satoshi, you’ll start to see interest accrue. No need to play any of the games there or even to use the faucet on the main page. Just use the wallet for your sending and receiving. When you need to spend your BTC, check out this incomplete list for ways you can use your cryptocurrency as currency!

I spend anywhere from 2 to 4hrs per day at these sites, pairing the free-to-surf sites with non-earning advertising sites so that my time spent advertising my business and such is earned by other sites that pay me. Imagine what those payment proofs would look like if my scoffers were workers instead?

April 19, 2018 Marilynn Dawson money-saving tips, Products, Reviews

Infinity Traffic Boost Update 9 Mo Into Using the Service

Update report on how InfinityTrafficBoost has been doing since I joined in early August 2017:

Marketing efforts online can take anywhere from one to three months to get decent trends developing that one can work with. I spent most of the past year more focussed on the earning side of surfing than I did on the marketing side, although a free member does have their share of links and banners they can promote on the traffic exchange. However, in the past several months, I began noticing trends that I found rather encouraging on the advertising side of life.

Courses I’ve taken in marketing for on and offline efforts generally state that you have to show someone something at least 7 times before they take action. These courses also teach that you need at least 1000 views to your product or service online before you start seeing action. Some say in more recent years that this number has ballooned to 10,000 views or more. This is due to the fact that so many more websites are out there and so many more viewers to get over to your site who are now largely jaded by most advertising.

Safelists are coming back into vogue in a huge way to get human eyeballs back on company advertisements. Traffic Exchanges have become another big item on the scene again, to get real human beings viewing ads and websites once more. Many offer 2:1 or 4:1 or other odds whereby a free user of these services can get so many other eyeballs sent to their site in exchange for the number of sites that user surfs themselves. Safelists offer free members so many email sends in a week whether once per day, once every 3 days, every 5 days, etc. Some offer as little as 1 credit per email viewed while others offer up to 50 email credits per email viewed.

I am a free member of over 12 different safelists, several classified ad sites, and InfinityTrafficBoost as the only Traffic Exchange that I am actually working. I think I joined a couple others, but with ITB not merely giving me credits to send other surfers to my site, but also paying me to surf, I got spoiled and only really hang out there compared to the other TE’s.

But as I was saying, recent months began showing trends that I wanted to share today. The first is that I get, on average as a free member, roughly 750 views per month to the various links I’ve put up on ITB. The main link goes to SFI and is the one actually being surfed by other members as they participate in the TE. While I was getting sporadic sign-ups to SFI from my safelist efforts, I could go for up to two months or more at a time before anyone would sign up. Meanwhile over at ITB, I am averaging roughly 2 sign-ups to SFI per month! That totally blows those marketing stats I mentioned earlier out the window!

A friend of mine recently signed up in April 2018, and is promoting her husband’s blog. Hardly a week into using ITB, she reported that Google Analytics was saying surfers from ITB were spending on average, 2+ minutes each at the blog link she’s promoting. Now keep in mind that an ITB surfer must sit at each website for 15 seconds before they earn another .25 ad credit and work toward their surfer reward pool shares. A free member can earn up to 25 full ad credits per day minimum, and up to 10 surfer reward pool shares that pay them at midnight EST every day. With those stats, my friend got excited and asked if she could surf more than her 100 daily sites. I replied that yes, you can, as long as you understand you will only get paid on the first 100 sites.

There’s more to InfinityTrafficBoost than what free members can do for sure! Advertisers can purchase any of 11 Traffic Package Options (TPO) and each one lets them advertise more links the higher they go, and purchase more ad credits the higher they go as well. One of the co-founders of ITB recently began doing comparison research to see how ITB’s traffic packages compare to other traffic exchanges out there and discovered that ITB’s prices are anywhere from 30% cheaper to over 50% cheaper than many of the TE’s he’s already looked at. In addition, advertisers wanting to save even more money can now make use of a brand new feature on the site called “The Ad Credit Auction”. This is where surfers make accumulated ad credits available for sale starting in 1000 ad credit increments, for prices well below ITB’s usual TPO pricing. Of course all you’re buying at the auction are ad credits. No additional link capabilities come with it or other benefits. But the potential for purchasing human views of your site drops significantly in this auction room.

I got thinking recently myself, that ITB will now be attracting two types of users: The earner, and the advertiser. Earners can advertise, and advertisers can earn, with 80% commissions possible, but each type of user will have a larger focus. Advertisers can even turn off the earnings capability if they choose, in their settings. This step alone boosts the number of eyeballs they can get on their websites.

My own focus is primarily on the earnings side of things. if I can find 4 active referrals who will do their 100 sites every day for a month or more, the snowball will start roughly 30 days later and then I can start working my way out of debt! Earnings are in BTC, but can be paid out in Etherium or Litecoin. Coinbase, the service ITB uses to pay in BTC still has high fees even though other places have dropped theirs to almost nothing, so ITB is recommending users get paid in Etherium or Litecoin and then exchange that to BTC to send to their primary wallet. Qoinpro is a good place to go for those kinds of transactions by the way. I’ll be making use of their services in this regard hopefully soon.

I could have cashed out in BTC within a month or so already, but decided to take another stab at “TPO my way up” which lets you automatically purchase TPO’s based on what you’ve earned, rather than purchase out-of-pocket. If I can find 3 other active referrals between now and the end of June, that will be great. Otherwise I’m looking at my first potential cash out this coming summer. If I hadn’t been attempting the TPO my way up method all last year, I’d have cashed out twice by now. But the months where I only accumulated my earnings instead have been some very interesting months on the advertising end of things!

If you want these stats for yourself, sign up here using my referral link. I’d love to have you on board!

April 4, 2018 Marilynn Dawson Budgeting tips, money-saving tips, Saving Money - Groceries

Passover and Bitcoin ~ As Seasons Change. . .

Spring has sprung, which means now you’ll start seeing more about foraging again as well as my BTC adventures and financial budgetting tips, thoughts and adventures.

Around our house, we celebrate Passover instead of Easter, which made the incredibly early lunar holiday a bit of a challenge for us this year. We visited one of our usual foraging grounds to see if any plants were poking above the ground yet, and managed to come home with a few samples to at least use in the ceremony portion of the meal if we couldn’t have them as an actual salad yet. Combined with a ground-ivy my daughter’s been nibbling on at work, we managed to have very cute symbolic salads this year!

On the Bitcoin front, Uquid still doesn’t have a replacement debit/credit card yet, but for Canadians that’s not a terrible thing just yet. Today I paid a tiny amount that was placed on a new high-interest-charging Canadian Tire MCRD, through Bylls.com. This service lets Canadians pay their bills directly with Bitcoin! The service exchanges the funds on the spot and if the bill is below a certain threshold, there is no transaction fee at Bylls. You may still have to pay a transaction fee at your wallet’s end however, so if you live in Canada and want to use BTC to pay bills, make sure you are ok with the transaction fee your wallet wants before sending your funds through Bylls or any other service for that matter. In the same way you have to decide if it’s worth $5 to have someone else shop and deliver your groceries or spend $2.5 in gas to go do it yourself, you need to make similar decisions when spending your Bitcoin. Is the convenience of using a service such as Bylls wise for you, or is the convenience costing more than you wish to pay?

Always choose the option that leaves the most funds in your wallet. If that means a little extra work, or a little longer wait time, the delayed gratification of knowing you didn’t have to spend more than necessary will pay off. Fees add up and many people forget this, wondering where their funds went.

January 28, 2018 Marilynn Dawson Uncategorized

Quoting Clinton Clark, Co-Founder of Infinity Traffic Boost

Clinton Clark Co-Founder of Infinity Traffic Boost and Co-Admin of the Official “Infinity Traffic Boost Members” group on Facebook (Jan 28, 2017) shared the following in answer to a frustrated member’s post in the group. I have permission to share it here:

Here’s the deal… ITB was created to:

(1) Provide a fantastic advertising platform with an ever-increasing value proposition and
(2) to allow an easy way for ANYone around the world to earn money.

For those who do not have funds, even $2 or $3 to get started at TPO1, the surfing provides the opportunity to begin.

Now……….. think about it…….think about the POWER.. especially for those in “less developed” nations where incomes are much lower than the “developed” world.

ALL THAT PEOPLE HAVE TO DO is to surf 100 pages a day, and SHARE with 4 people who all they have to do is to Surf 100 Pages (every day: edit mine) and share with 4 people who will do the same.

WHY is that so hard? There is NO money out-of-pocket, the system is sound and mathematically solid and a HUGE Income can be realized over time.

What other options do people have? Jump into a ponzi scheme and hope to get out before it collapses?

Where else can people work from home, be around family and have such a HUGE upside potential with NO risk (other than time spent?).

I just don’t understand why people are so afraid to share this incredible opportunity. The upside is so incredible and the downside is basically non-existent.

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Now go and view the following video or read the linked PDF here: https://infinitytrafficboost.com/bitcoin.php?id=songdove

ITB is the foundation for my 10 Steps to Financial Freedom: https://songdove.fa-ct.com/wordpress-mu/go/10stepstofreedom/

Clinton Clark and Frank Bauer are the real deal, with extensive experience in online marketing since the early days when I first ran across Frank at AdlandPro in the early 2000’s. AdlandPro continues to this day as a testament to success over the years, and so much more!

If you work the system as designed, you are in good hands! Fail to work the system by being committed to just 100 pages every single day, and there is no one to blame but yourself. This is one of those few programs out there that will take someone with no cash (or worse than no cash, and only debt) and give them a legitimate and workable way to raise themselves out of their poverty.

All that’s needed is an Internet connection long enough to get those 100 sites surfed each day.

Who do you know could use this program?

January 9, 2018January 9, 2018 Marilynn Dawson Products, Saving Money - Groceries

End-to-End System for Earning, Saving, Growing, Spending BTC!

As I prepare to type tonight, I am busy in InfinityTrafficBoost doing my 100 site surf routine for the day. The rest of what I am about to type about today however, begins with the earnings that Faucet Ally has netted me since March of 2017. It is my goal to get ITB doing the same thing and ITB has the higher opportunity to do so in a far safer fashion. In addition to the faucets originally listed on Faucet Ally, other contributors were found that are also paying. These have been added to the end of the Faucet Ally page.

(NOTE: Image links are provided tonight because it seems my server isn’t always serving them to you, sorry for any hassle, but wanted to show you certain pics today)

I am now at click 57 in ITB because I realized this blog article couldn’t be written till I updated Faucet Alley! Eesh! To complete one task, another has to be completed first. Kind of feels like the domestic life of a house wife, compute repair tech, or network administrator! The job’s never done. Or so it seems.

Since March, I’ve been on the prowl for active, useful ways of spending what I earn. Contrary to most BTC investors out there, I am actually wanting to use this as a form of currency that benefits my family. The incredible rise in value over the course of the past year hasn’t hurt the effort either. At first, I was going to stick with Xapo’s wallet because they have an integrated BTC debit card. That changed when I discovered they don’t ship to Canada. I am Canadian, so sadly, Xapo’s usefulness came to a screeching halt in this house! I continued my faucet earnings, found BTC PTC sites that paid decently and added those to the daily mix, and continued my research.

Eventually push came to shove and I had to do something to keep my HPConnect InstantInk subscription paid up. That was when I discovered Uquid. At the time, they had a virtual credit card you could pre-load after sending over BTC to your Uquid wallet. I sent over half my earnings at the beginning of August and had enough for two month’s payments in USD. Uquid’s provider suddenly stopped working with them, sending the company scrambling for a new card provider for their customers. I had to go get a pre-paid gift Mastercard to keep things rolling in the interim as I could no longer use the virtual card.

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Continuing my earnings efforts meant earning back what I’d had before August by November 2017. December would be the moment I’d been waiting for! Uquid found another provider, AND this time, their physical card shipped to Canada!!! YES!!! I completed my application for a physical card on December 20th and sent over half my earnings to cover the cost of the card. Shipping is free BTW! The Christmas holidays came and went and I sent in a query about the status of the card because it wasn’t showing up on my dashboard. I sent that on December 30th. The card arrived January 2nd! Apparently, while the status had not been updating, the application had been approved and shipping took place during the New Year’s holiday weekend! I was so surprised when DHL Courier showed up on my doorstep that day!

Going to buy these items with this card — https://songdove.fa-ct.com/wordpress-mu/files/2018/01/20180109_142938.jpg

Today however, I got to test the card at a POS terminal at a local thrift store. My daughter didn’t like the idea of me testing at a gas pump or grocery store, although I intend on using my BTC for that too. So we went to Value Village and picked up a few items that were on my “to get” list. I need to replace my cookie sheets, so we found one on the shelf today and grabbed it. Turns out its insulated! Nice! I’m also looking for a knitting hoop so I figure out how to knit grass. If the experiment is a success, I will have a new way to make baskets while I try to reteach myself basket-weaving in general. Rest assured, there will be blog posts here about that journey as I continue learning how to do things at home to cut costs while living better than if I was spending money I don’t have downtown. Also found a replacement lid for my medium-sized saucepan. So it was off to the till.

Screenshot-2018-1-9 Uquid card UQUID — https://songdove.fa-ct.com/wordpress-mu/files/2018/01/Screenshot-2018-1-9-Uquid-card-UQUID.png

I don’t know if it was the card’s chip, or the card terminal, but the terminal claimed the chip couldn’t be read. The Uquid card comes with Tap-to-pay enabled, so I tried that instead and the transaction went through flawlessly. It should be noted that the card’s currency denominations are in USD. They don’t have CAD in their list of currencies supported for everyday transactions. This made me curious how my transaction list would look when I got home and logged into my account.

The transaction was listed as having been successfully completed, but the card balance was higher than I thought it should be. That’s when I remembered the exchange rate between USD and CAD. But even with the fee Uquid charges to handle that exchange on the back-end, I was pleasantly surprised to have basically earned on that purchase! See screenshots for details.

math balance — https://songdove.fa-ct.com/wordpress-mu/files/2018/01/mathbalance.png

I earned roughly $1.22 in exchange, fees included, from today’s purchase. As I click through site 87 on ITB, I am quite happy with that discovery!

Needless to say, I have found a very workable end-to-end system for earning, saving, and spending BTC! The bigger way to generate the earnings is through InfinityTrafficBoost. The savings account earning interest is through Freebitco.in, and the spending wallet/pre-load card is over at Uquid. I invite you to check out the presentation I’ve created showing the steps to engage in to make this all happen for your household.

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BTC pay to click and ITB will be the better ways to earn going forward. I am still earning via a quartet of faucets I still keep active, but now I’m only doing it a couple hours or so per day instead of spending all day doing it. These sites also let you obtain referrals and then reward you for their efforts, so that can speed up your progress exponentially if you are the type to rope in family, friends, coworkers etc.

But I sit here a very happy clicker, techie and single mother as I recount for you the path from nothing to something to spending. You read that right, I did not spend a single dime on this path! Not one! Not even a digital penny went into any of this! All I’ve invested is my time. That’s all it can take for you as well, just your time. So as I click through site 97 on ITB, I will close off the writing portion and start adding my graphics to show you what I’m talking about today. I’d love to have you join me on this journey!

(PS: Pics are now added as I click through site 117 toward my 12th pool share as a TPO2 advertiser, again, nothing out-of-pocket for what I am doing!)

December 13, 2017 Marilynn Dawson Rants

Minor Rant: What Happened to Effort and Commitment?!

For some reason, as we get closer to the Christmas season with only 2 weeks left before Christmas Day, the collective need for more cash is cropping up around the ‘net. People want cash for Christmas shopping. People want cash to pay down credit card debt racked up because of Christmas shopping. But something very strange is showing up along with this. . . People want the cash, but they don’t want the effort required to obtain the cash, and don’t seem to have the commitment required to get it either. This seriously has me scratching my head!

Around this household, what you can’t pay for with cash, you pay for with effort. My health is not the greatest, so sometimes the effort needed to provide for myself or to earn the cash tires me out quickly. It isn’t fun to head up into the hills to go foraging and then come down to find myself zapped the rest of the day. But that is my reality. This past summer it was made worse by forest fire smoke in the hills. Allergic asthma means trying to filter out as much of that smoke as I can, but on hot Okanagan days, that means breathing in hot air and on a hike, that’s not fun. The long term rewards for my efforts however will last through the winter months and hopefully into the spring when plants start to grow again. We didn’t get as much as we wanted of some plants this year because of a) floods and b) forest fires hampering my breathing, but we got most of what we need for personal hygiene products, medicine, and teas. We broke down 8 large, heavy pumpkins into pumpkin puree to freeze as a winter vegetable, and roasted several tubs of pumpkin seeds which contain an ingredient highly important for managing my condition! My winter nibbles are more than welcome as a result!

In addition to writing about the family foraging lifestyle change, many articles over the course of 2017 related to another venture known as my bitcoin experiment. That experiment now has roughly just over $100 CAD in bitcoin sitting over at Freebitco.in. I can’t spend it just now because miners’ fees have skyrocketed to the point where believe it or not, that amount is just under the fee required to move those funds anywhere! So it sits there earning daily interest instead while I try to add to it. Faucet earnings have tanked with the stratospheric rise of trading value of Bitcoin. But I found another way to earn BTC back in August that I am amazed is having so much trouble getting off the ground!

For people like myself who are computer-savvy, but stamina and energy challenged, this particular venture almost seems like wasting one’s time for an hour while building a potentially-sustainable income! The simplicity of the system blows my mind, but what blows it even more is how difficult some people make it out to be!

For starters, EVERY computer or laptop these days needs antivirus software that’s kept up to date, whether the person is computer-savvy or not. Secondly, most mindful users will now need an anti-porn blocker on whatever browser they have chosen to use on their device. Having Spybot Search and Destroy’s Immunization feature updated on a regular basis further helps block out harmful websites from trying to access one’s machine via advertising. It doesn’t hurt to have Malwarebytes running either. Basically, have your system and your mind protected when you are online. Other tools exist for this task as well, but these are the ones I use.

But when those two things are looked after, the rest of the system seems to boggle people. I’m honestly scratching my head wondering what is so hard about two clicks every 15 seconds for up to an hour every day. So many people want the results of work without the work. When I was younger, it was a joke to tell each other you wanted to find a desk job where you got paid the big bucks to sit around and do nothing. This is almost THAT job! Seriously! You can even do something else while remembering to click that little coloured box and the rectangle “continue” button every 15 seconds. I do that. I have another BTC pay-per-click site up, well, two actually, that I click through while doing my 1hr per day. One of those PTC’s has paid me 3 times already. The second will pay me soon, but took far longer to get there. Having more than one monitor helps with the multitasking because I for one, don’t like sitting around bored. I need to keep my mind busy. To that end I even have a traffic exchange loaded onto my Blackberry Playbook and will click through it’s allotted 50 sites per day as part of my advertising efforts.

These tasks are NOT difficult! What makes them difficult is a combination of mindset, lack of willingness to self-educate and own the tasks at hand, lack of drive or reason to be involved in the first place, lack of commitment, and refusal to work! Clicking every 15 seconds can hardly be classified as work to be honest, but it is something that must be done if that particular system is going to work.

The system in question is InfinityTrafficBoost.

They are a traffic exchange first, and have built a solid earning opportunity for those willing to put in the time and finger-clicking effort. I am looking for four people willing to put in that time every day. Just four. In an age where it seems work causes an allergic reaction, this shouldn’t honestly feel like work. Most people sit and watch ads on TV all the time and never get paid for it. This site pays you! But you have to be willing to put out even just a little work and a little time. One hour per day. Is there anyone out there who thinks they can even do THAT much??? Humour me for 51 days in a row. If after 51 days you don’t want any part of it, you at least completed the experiment.

I’ll keep trying to find these people. When I do, I’ll let everyone know what happened 51 days after that fourth person is found. Just four people doing one hour of clicking every day is all I’m looking for. I had no idea it would be so hard, particularly leading up to Christmas. I thought people would want to finish the season debt-free, but apparently not. At least, not if it even remotely sounds like work.

September 22, 2017 Marilynn Dawson Reviews

When One Thing Leads to Another And. . . Business and Ministry Collide???

As anyone who follows this blog now knows, I began a blockchain experiment back in February, outfitted my day-job’s website to accept Bitcoin as payment for services in May, and began a new business venture in late June. More recently in August, I found a marketing platform that has potential to earn a decent monthly income once I can find 4 people to copy me on that platform. I have 9 immediate referrals in that program and two more referrals under two of them, but so far no one is following my lead despite weekly team mailings. I’ve set up a support group on Facebook hoping to get the team members over there to share tips and tricks, but so far no one has taken action to join the group.

While the lack of action in this marketing platform is a little disappointing, I have run across another user somewhere around the world who is using the platform in a very surprising, encouraging, and uplifting manner. Two others are using another marketing platform I am part of, for similar purposes.

Imagine using your primary source of income to share the hope of the Gospel with people?! It is my hope that this marketing platform will become a significant monthly source of income, and I came to that conclusion early in August when the income-generation side of it was first made clear to me. Here we are almost at the end of September now, and this ministry opportunity is staring me in the face!

It’s interesting that I’d come across these users’ methods of using these platforms this week. I’d realized after a tea with a friend earlier this week, that not everyone who might want to use this platform to bolster their income will have anything to promote. The platform is a marketing method, so you do need something to market to others. If I run into Christians who could use this system of income, I now know what to suggest they promote: None other than the Gospel of Jesus Christ! The Salvation message! The current user doing this has created a page called The Four Steps to Salvation, complete with Scripture, video, and links to more information. Another user on the other platform has a picture of Christ and John 3:16 under it before carrying on with sharing their business opportunity. That user has created quite a gap on their page between the salvation message and the biz opp.

Earning commissions on advertising sales while sharing the Gospel of Christ is probably the best merging of two worlds I’ve seen so far! I am a huge proponent of the fact that the Internet is the final missions frontier. I had never thought of using existing marketing methods as a way to spread the Gospel, but stop and think about it a moment. . . Other business owners, other affiliates, other networkers, other opportunity seekers are signing up to use these services. They see your site just like you see theirs because they want to get their own message out about their opportunity. However, in the process of getting their own message out, they run across yours – the Gospel message. Opportunity seekers are often desperate for financial help. Affiliates are trying to augment household income, and business owners are looking for traffic as well. But while their goals may be somewhat different from each other, they ALL need Jesus. Once again we see another opportunity to use the tools of the day to spread the message of hope and healing, provision and eternity. Talk about tent-making! If Paul could make tents while preaching, we can earn sales commissions while sharing too! So far as I can tell only three people are doing this on two platforms, but hey, the door is there. . .

Now I know why I created the FB group image the way I did! (see image at top of post) It captures several things all at once: Technology (the bitcoin), teamwork (team songdove), and the Holy Spirit (the dove). My username (songdove) incorporates music too, because singing has always been my love language between me and God. Whether music plays into the business venture I don’t know, but the other elements now all make sense.

August 27, 2017November 19, 2019 Marilynn Dawson Uncategorized

“To Infinity and Beyond!” In a Way You May Not Expect!

So far in my “after hours” quest to find ways to actively accumulate usable levels of Bitcoin, it’s been quite an adventure. Part of that adventure has been the rise and fall of the BTC value when compared to the US dollar. Earnings now on Faucet Alley are significantly lower on a per-claim basis since BTC swung past $2k, $3k, and now in the $4k range. However, it is still possible with my daily schedule to be earning 0.00015 satoshi roughly every 5 days or so, which I’ve learned after 30 days is enough to cover my HP Connect InstantInk monthly subscription. All this JUST with a few remaining faucets still making earnings possible AND useful!

Xapo made things more interesting in the late spring by deciding to have members pay the miner’s fee when doing external transfers to or from Xapo. This made me wish I’d sent ALL my xapo earnings over to Freebitco.in before this change took place, as now I have .001 BTC stuck in Xapo because to move it would eat up most of that amount, leaving me with maybe .00008 left over to earn any interest with.

Moonbit and Bonusbitcoin have both moved over to coinpot now as well, which makes it easier to accumulate satoshi for moving over to freebitco.in. I’ve added bitfun to that mix as well, so between the three of them, I am earning satoshi, then moving it every .00016 (paying a small fee resulting in 0.00015 in final deposit) to freebitco.in to earn interest. I will be adding bitfun to the faucet alley shortly.

I’ve run across another xapo faucet however that doesn’t seem to have redirects or popups, but also has a site-connected app you can run on your computer. My computer’s processing power isn’t enough to make it meet the site’s claim of being six times faster, so I don’t run it much, but otherwise this faucet is earning roughly 64 satoshi per hour, which is more than freebitco.in’s base roll amount of 46-49 satoshi per hour as of the time of this writing. I’ll be adding that to the safe section of the faucet alley.

I still plan to keep my xapo account, because once I have enough BTC to purchase their debit card, I want to use it at the grocery store. I still plan to go through with that portion of the experiment. Currently, Xapo is one of very few wallets that have their own BTC-connected debit card. All other BTC debit cards online are pre-loads. The card I am using to pay HP is a preload for example. It is virtual only, so fees are cheaper than the cost of purchasing and having a physical card shipped to me.

The BTC experiment has taken another turn in the adventure. I’ve discovered that some traffic exchange websites will not only give you so many views for so many clicks, but they will also PAY you for those clicks!

The best site for that so far is InfinityTrafficBoost. In August, they released an earnings plan where, with just 4 active referrals under you, in 51 days you can earn 3.24BTC! It takes 51 days because first you have to earn you way to the bottom traffic boost purchase, which takes 30 days at roughly 30-45min per day. After that, if your four active referrals do what you are doing and you all upgrade together using the BTC you earned in the first 30 days, you earn commissions on their sales, and you enter what ITB calls their “fast track”. If your four referrals have their own 4 referrals actively surfing, and all of you carry on with the plan, 21 days after that first purchase you will have earned the 3.24BTC, or currently over $12k in US dollars! The above banner ad is one I created and had approved by ITB, and I’ve linked it to a splash page showcasing a video they made and a PDF they put together. I read the PDF because I prefer to read than watch videos. But the plan as it is laid out there, has me hooked!

The trick of course is finding those 4 referrals who want to follow the plan themselves. I have 7 referrals in ITB now, but none of them are currently following the FreeWay Plan as ITB calls it. I myself have enough BTC to equal 21 days in the plan already, so I had a 10 day head start when the plan was announced. In 9 days from the date of this post, I will be able to enter the “fast track”. Whether it is “fast” or not will be decided if I get 4 active referrals under me or not. But $12k USD would go a very long way to getting bills paid around this house right now!

It takes me roughly 45 minutes to surf the 100 sites necessary to do the daily task for the first 30 days. Technically-speaking, at only 15 seconds per ad viewed, it should only take 30 minutes, so advertising states only 30min of your time is needed. In reality, there is a captcha every 5 ads which will take you a few seconds to a minute to do, as well as two clicks between each ad, adding at least another second or so per ad viewed. So when you do the math, the 30min of ad surfing is augmented by the time it takes for the other clicks to take place as well. The 30 min is not a lie, but it is part of a slightly larger time block. The speed of your Internet connection will also determine how fast those 15 seconds do or don’t pass per site. So how long it takes to do your daily task for those first 30 days could be quite fluid. But if you want a relatively brainless way to earn some BTC without putting your own money into it, and if you have a site or sites you want to promote, InfinityTrafficBoost is the way to go.

Imagine this scenario then:

51 Days with 4 active referrals equaling 3.24 BTC being paid into my freebitco.in account. I take half of that and send it back over to Xapo, apply for the debit card (which is in US, not CAD) and wait a month to get it. During that month, my earnings continue to be earned from commissions under me (that’s how sales work) and sent over to freebitco.in to earn interest. Once that debit card arrives, bills start getting paid down and a form of income has been uncovered that I can do at any time of day as time and health permits. But I had to slog through that first 30 days of 100 sites viewed per day to get there. Who do you know could benefit from that kind of work? Perhaps sign up and try it out yourself before answering that question so you know who might be a best fit for this portion of my experiment.

Life has so many twists and turns. The world of BTC is no different. What I like about it, is being able to break into this new currency without spending any of my own!

August 17, 2017November 19, 2019 Marilynn Dawson Uncategorized

Earn 3.24BTC in Just 51 Days Without Investing More Than Your Time!

I shared this on the Facebook page already, but have to share it here too! Not everyone is on FB, and this is set up to spread it further than merely FB and Twitter.

I am terribly excited about a brand new method of using a traffic exchange I recently joined, where in the process of advertising, I also earn BTC. This site is a traffic exchange that gives your site one view for every four sites you surf. Every 10 sites you surf earns you a BTC pool share that gets paid to your TE account at midnight. The site’s name is InfinityTrafficBoost, and last night at midnight, they released a brand new way to use their site! This brand new method of using InfinityTrafficBoost will earn me 3.24BTC in just 51 days!

Now as you know, BTC has been rocketing in value and is now in the $4000 USD range. This is making faucet earnings more difficult, although there is now a faucet that pays you interest if you leave more than 30,000 satoshi there. Freebitco.in pays you 4.08% annual interest, in daily compounding increments on your running balance. My affiliate url is; https://freebitco.in/?r=3872765

The 3.24 BTC earned at InfinityTrafficBoost however, will have a rough USD exchange value of over $12k!!!

That’s assuming it’s value doesn’t keep climbing! (and also assumes you didn’t transfer your balance over to freebitco.in either, to get the compounded interest)

All for just 30 minutes of your time every single day for the first 30 days of the plan!

I am currently stone broke, so discovering such a workable way to earn so much BTC without any money out of pocket is HUGE! When news broke about this method of earning BTC, I had already earned myself 10,300+ satoshi, so according to the PDF linked above, I’ve got a 10 day head start on the process. If I can find just 4 other people who want to give this a 51 day test FOR FREE, then I can complete my own experiment using this venue as well.

As far as my BTC experiment in general is concerned, I am now using a Uquid.com pre-paid VISA BTC debit virtual card to pay my HP Connect InstantInk monthly subscription. I will be transfering more funds to this card soon to ensure August’s payment is covered. They have physical cards too, but if I get this 51 Day plan to work, I may still put funds into XAPO and get their card although it’s more expensive, because it is linked directly to my XAPO account and doesn’t require topping up periodically. Apparently Uquid is looking at direct-linking, but that’s still in research stages.

EDIT November 2019: Uquid developed trouble after Wavecrest shut them down and then moved to a ICO model, so I left the company and am still trying to find another card for Canadians.

So my BTC is already being put to good use. 3.24BTC would go a long way to curbing the current financial challenges I face and then start me down the road to savings and debt elimination! That’s the long term goal.

So I encourage you to check out the Freeway Plan here:
https://infinitytrafficboost.com/FreeWay.pdf or log into your dashboard after signing up here: https://infinitytrafficboost.com/songdove-t-musings to view the video instead.

Hope you’ll join me!

August 4, 2017August 4, 2017 Marilynn Dawson Products

When the Digital Intersects with the Offline World

It isn’t quite how I envisioned it. . . I’d dreamed of taking out my cellphone and opening the camera. I saw myself change the settings to video and then hand it off to my daughter as I prepped to open the envelope. My dream had me talking on camera excitedly about the trip to the store I was about to make, then we hopped in the van and ran off to the store. My dream continued with me picking up a few items then going to the self-checkout where the camera’s video function was turned on again. I dreamed of that moment when I punched in the card’s PIN and pulled out the receipt, triumphantly announcing that I’d just bought groceries with my BTC debit card!

No. . . it’s not going to be that way. Instead, in order to keep my HP Connect Instant Ink subscription going, I am needing to obtain a debit card that has a virtual number rather than strictly physical as is the case with the XAPO card I wanted to get. As of tonight, I have begun a slow transfer from freebitco.in over to the wallet of this virtual card. We’ll see how that went by morning. If successful, I’ll be able to order the virtual card tomorrow morning and then update my payment settings over at HP Connect Instant Ink to maintain my monthly subscription. Doing this makes the cost of ink so much more manageable and the printer gets used for everything from resumes to printing to music.

On the plus side, thanks to the meteoric rise in value of BTC, the faucet earnings I’ve accumulated since mid February’s experiment began will be enough to pay for at least two month’s worth of this subscription as well as fees for use of the card and exchange rates from USD into CAD. So it’s nice to know I have accumulated useful coin that can have a real-world benefit to this household even if it isn’t a bag of groceries at the store. Still looking at that keychain flashlight I posted about earlier as well, but ink is a little more important at this time.

Hopefully, if all went well, I can post an update to my FB page saying HP Connect InstantInk is saved by the bright, shiny new world of Bitcoin!