{"id":327,"date":"2026-07-08T23:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bonjourgeorge.org\/?p=327"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:09:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:09:32","slug":"earning-1m-through-crypto-the-small-earnings-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bonjourgeorge.org\/?p=327","title":{"rendered":"Earning \u00a31M Through Crypto: The Small Earnings Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you don&#8217;t have piles of cash, small earnings matter.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s where a lot of people start in crypto, earning $1 or a few cents from GPTs, airdrops, and faucets.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been thinking about what I decided to name &#8220;the small earnings dilemma&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media4.giphy.com\/media\/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExZnNwMHI5YTJmN3R6MG10eGZldjhjdjZiMWR4YnM1enJhOWJoYnJkNyZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw\/TpLfalAKqsld0b7gMS\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"giphy.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve already pointed you to the three places I use (ref links, obvs):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/cointiply.com\/r\/kRg7J\">Cointiply<\/a> for tasks, surveys, playing games<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/deservve.com\/invite\/KFF3WCEV\">Deservve<\/a> for book reviews, surveys, social media things<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/trustdice.win\/faucet\/?ref=u_generalo\">TrustDice<\/a> for the no-betting-required high-paying faucet<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Let&#8217;s assume you&#8217;ve earned a small amount &#8211; say, between $1 and $10 &#8211; on a faucet or GPT somewhere.<\/p>\n<p>What can you do with that little bit of crypto?<\/p>\n<p>And no, I&#8217;m not insulting your earning by calling it small.\u00a0&#8220;Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves,&#8221; as my father used to say.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media2.giphy.com\/media\/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExc2JrNXkzeWpkY2RkZnhpMm1uaWhleXprOTVoMG5jOXRoMDhiemg3NiZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw\/4fMHkzzoBliDAxSVkj\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"giphy.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Trade It<\/h2>\n<p>You may be able to trade it, depending on exchange limits.<\/p>\n<p>Bigger exchanges often have a $5 minimum on trades, especially on the major pairs like BTC and ETH.<\/p>\n<p>However, you might be able to trade in smaller-cap markets and start profiting.<\/p>\n<p>Know nothing about trading? Join the club&#8230; but there&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ig.com\/uk\/ig-academy\/the-basics-of-technical-analysis\/introduction-to-technical-analysis\">a free technical analysis course<\/a> over at IG that might help you start.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t have enough for the big exchanges,\u00a0the low-volume <a href=\"https:\/\/stakecube.net\/\">StakeCube<\/a> might work, trading SCC or shitcoins. Be aware of the debt history before you trust them, though. Don&#8217;t just take my word for it.<\/p>\n<p>The Web3 exchangers &#8211; PancakeSwap, Uniswap and so on &#8211; might work, too, though I suspect that will depend on what you want to trade. I don&#8217;t do Web3, so I can&#8217;t help much there.<\/p>\n<h2>Copy Trade It<\/h2>\n<p>Copy Trading&#8217;s out because MEXC&#8217;s minimum is $50 now.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s mostly shit, anyway, so no big loss!<\/p>\n<h2>Bank It<\/h2>\n<p>Banking might work &#8211; especially if you&#8217;ve done KYC &#8211; but, again, most places want a minimum of $10 (or ten times that for BTC or ETH).<\/p>\n<p>SOL usually has lower limits for both banking and staking, often at around 0.1 SOL, but that&#8217;s still at the higher end of our $1-$10 earning.<\/p>\n<p>MEXC&#8217;s &#8220;Futures Earn&#8221; gives interest on held USDT and USDC, starting at $0.10. Bear in mind that they&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publish0x.com\/earning-a-million-through-crypto\/earning-pound-1m-through-crypto-mica-imminent-mexc-forcing-k-xmgxxee\">forcing KYC<\/a> more often than I like.<\/p>\n<p>You could trade your earnings for a staking coin, move it to your own wallet, and stake it there. You&#8217;d have to run the wallet 24\/7 unless your chosen coin does cold staking (e.g. SOL, PIVX). There&#8217;s rarely a minimum stake from your own wallet, though you&#8217;re likely to get very small returns because whales get more hits\/stakes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media3.giphy.com\/media\/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExcHFmdmJuMjh4dGlsdjFncGNjaXVxbjllZXkwb2V6d3hkaTIzNTZibSZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw\/PjrUleMZYETG93oIkj\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"giphy.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You could trade your earnings for a staking coin, and move it to StakeCube. They started as a staking pool and still do it. Again, very low earnings because the pool&#8217;s big&#8230; but you don&#8217;t have to run your own wallet or wait a month to get a hit and earn a stake. You get daily earnings on held coins with no lockup (assuming the coin&#8217;s in their &#8220;Earn&#8221; list, of course). I&#8217;d go for DASH in this case: easy to exchange, very cheap to move, earns stakes, coin&#8217;s not gonna disappear.<\/p>\n<h2>Bet It<\/h2>\n<p>You could also bet your earnings.\u00a0Most places have a crash or hi-lo game built into their site, so there are potential winnings there.<\/p>\n<p>This is obviously the riskiest of choices.<\/p>\n<p>I did this with an account that was miles away from payout on a site I wanted to drop recently. Did 3 crashes in a row at 2x plus, won them all, cashed out, closed the account. Nice.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t happen often, of course.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s more likely you&#8217;re burn through your earnings and hand it all back to where it came from.<\/p>\n<p>Sports bets are also possible, though again it&#8217;s risky. Even riskier, perhaps, since it&#8217;s real-world stuff rather than a predetermined algorithm.<\/p>\n<p>I have a system I use on TrustDice where I find sports matches with no draws (tennis, soccer, badminton, basketball, baseball, etc.) and a really close matchup that has live betting. The same odds on both sides is best, usually at 1.82 or 1.87 (European style odds).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t care what the sport is or who wins because, well, I&#8217;m a computer geek and I don&#8217;t give a hoot about sport.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media2.giphy.com\/media\/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExNzQ0dHk4cWx4MGIxdGQxbThzajVyZnViaWdvcnZnZnI3dmR2MXplMiZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw\/7XuEPLre9ggXKZGmra\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"giphy.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then I sit and watch the match on their doohicky that shows what&#8217;s going on without being video.<\/p>\n<p>When one side goes over 2.00 odds, I throw in a bet. Then I wait for them to fight back and for the other side to go over 2.00, throw in a bet.<\/p>\n<p>One each side, both earning more than 2x, can&#8217;t lose unless one side dominates and never goes over 2.0 but at the worst I can catch that at around 1.75 and not lose too much.<\/p>\n<p>Minimum USDT bet is $1. Minimum BTC is 10k sats. That&#8217;s quite a range. They also have casino and table games and stuff if that&#8217;s your bag.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t knock it. It gives my brain something to do that&#8217;s less expensive than screwing with my main setup!<\/p>\n<h2>Save It<\/h2>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to cash out as soon as you hit the minimum.<\/p>\n<p>Places like Cointiply will give you 5% interest on your earnings if you hold more than $3 (paid every Sunday, I think).<\/p>\n<p>The downside to that is that you&#8217;re effectively holding cash\/dollars, not crypto.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media2.giphy.com\/media\/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExaXpoM3ZsbHRyY2RuYm55dnB2ZWsyYnZmd3RiNmExaG83aHRqdmYyYyZlcD12MV9pbnRlcm5hbF9naWZfYnlfaWQmY3Q9Zw\/3o6Zt3AX5mSM29lGUw\/giphy.gif\" alt=\"giphy.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So you don&#8217;t earn when prices go up. Though you don&#8217;t lose when they dip, either.<\/p>\n<p>You can hold your earnings until you reach a bigger number, then fit it into one of the other options.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How about you? Can you think of other choices with small earnings? I&#8217;d love to hear them!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you don&#8217;t have piles of cash, small earnings matter. That&#8217;s where a lot of people start in crypto, earning $1 or a few cents from GPTs, airdrops, and faucets.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,8],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-midweeks","tag-faucets","tag-gpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonjourgeorge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonjourgeorge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonjourgeorge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonjourgeorge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonjourgeorge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bonjourgeorge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/bonjourgeorge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonjourgeorge.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bonjourgeorge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonjourgeorge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bonjourgeorge.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}