These weird mining methods are all the brainstorming of the project owners in the bear market.

When we talk about miners, this image may come to mind.

They dug coal in the cave day and night, covered in dust and darkness.

Or it could be the tragic lower-class group with a sense of fate in the movie "Blind Shaft".

However, modern miners are different, and their working environment is like this.

One person manages tens of thousands of computers, but these are not ordinary computers, but mining machines with powerful computing power, which mine Bitcoin, Ethereum, and even other altcoins 24 hours a day , and sell them for high profits. In the bull market, one Bitcoin was as high as more than 100,000 yuan. At that time, if you set up two mining machines at home, you can get your money back within a year, and even half a year when the price of the currency is the highest. If you have enough funds, you can even open a factory and use mining machines specifically for mining, realizing what countless people dream of: making money while lying down. Therefore, being a miner in a bull market is a job that is sure to make money.

This new type of mining is actually a new way of making money that has emerged with the rise of blockchain technology and its tokens. It is called mining, but it is just an analogy. It is essentially an economic model based on a specific network. Users participate in the network contribution and receive a certain proportion of economic income.

The definition of this network contribution is very broad. For example, when you contribute your own data and obtain corresponding tokens, it is data mining; when you contribute your own computing power and obtain corresponding tokens, it is computing power mining; when you contribute your attention to watch advertisements or read content and obtain corresponding tokens, it is attention mining, and so on.

In this article, BlockBeats has collected a large number of blockchain mining methods for you. If 10,000 currencies are issued, there are 10,000 mining methods, and everything can be mined.

A router that mines while surfing the Internet

Router mining refers to earning profits through router mining. This type of router is not an ordinary router, but a more advanced smart router, such as the famous new router 3 (Newifi). According to official announcements, this high-end smart router can realize mining at home and has the world's lowest threshold mining machine. It can convert users' idle upstream bandwidth and storage into virtual digital assets "digital gold" and can be exchanged for Bitcoin.

However, this router, produced by Chengdu Diting Technology and invested in by Lenovo and JD.com, was later complained by netizens for containing mining traps. They said that the rules were constantly being revised, and many restrictions were set for the exchange of Bitcoin, and that high handling fees were required.

In addition to Newifi, similar products include Lenovo Lecoo "Gold Digger", 360 Shared Cloud Router, Beijing Jike Geek Technology Ji Router, Phicomm K2 and other "Router Mining".

Attention mining can make money by watching ads

Ad-mining, as the name implies, means that you can get rewards after watching an ad. This is a model promoted by Brave browser and its incentive token BAT, hoping to transform the entire digital advertising market. In this mining model, it is assumed that human attention is limited. When users use Brave browser to watch ads and high-quality content, they spend their attention (that is, waste time), so they get corresponding rewards, that is, the platform token - BAT (the abbreviation of Basic Attention Token, translated into Chinese as Basic Attention Token).

This behavior of consuming one's own attention to obtain BAT incentives is a typical model of behavioral mining. This is similar to the traditional Internet model of earning a few cents by clicking on ads, but the cheating and volume-boosting behaviors are difficult to control.

Reading is mining in the context of content consumption

Reading mining, reading an article is equivalent to mining, you can get certain rewards, and then the rewards can be exchanged for corresponding goods. Its representative models are WaChain.com and Zhidian Community .

For example, the WaChain app is such a model. Users read the content in the WaChain and obtain corresponding WaChain power. The WaChain power is automatically converted into the platform token WT in the evening of the same day. WT can be used to exchange for goods in the platform mall, thus realizing the process from reading to obtaining rewards.

As a communication and collaboration community focusing on blockchain investors, Fulcrum also uses the token incentive mechanism in the blockchain and releases the value token PVT. It encourages the interactive experience and activity among community members through mining models such as content mining, behavior mining, governance mining, and event mining .

The dead short video reward mining

Video reward mining is the incentive model of Huoniu Video. When users finish watching a video, they can get the platform currency - Huo Zuan FB through reward mining (get rewards). At the same time, Huo Zuan FB holders can get 80% of the platform's dividends. Of course, in addition to this, you can also mine through video uploading (creating content) and video sharing (spreading content).

This mining model once set off a craze on social networks. At that time, tens of thousands of people participated in short video mining to make money, and many people entered the market to consume and wait for dividends. However, in the end, the project party arbitrarily modified the white paper and rules, which led to the suspension of the Ponzi scheme of Huoniu Video.

Recently, Huoniu Video was accused of arbitrarily modifying the rules and white paper, and maliciously issuing additional fire diamonds to harvest users, causing user income to drop by a thousand times, causing economic losses to users. Some users also pointed out that the platform was suspected of pyramid selling. BlockBeats reminds you to cherish your life and never touch this kind of capital plate.

Selling personal privacy for mining

Personal data mining is essentially the mining of personal data and privacy , that is, users can obtain platform coins by selling their privacy and data. Currently, the main products on the market that provide such mining services include Gongxinbao and NetEase Planet.

GXB is a decentralized exchange based on blockchain technology that enables peer-to-peer data transactions between buyers and sellers. After KYC certification, individual users can sell personal data in multiple dimensions, such as Alipay information, education information, etc., and obtain the platform token GXS, which can be used to exchange Block City products or directly cash out on the exchange. In addition, the platform has also issued a token GXC for corporate customers, which is used for settlement and payment in the data trading center, and maintains a 1:1 exchange ratio with the RMB.

Another one is NetEase Planet . The blockchain product Planet Base launched on February 9, 2018, introduced Force Mining, which means that when users complete a series of tasks (mainly to improve their personal information) and import other related platforms (ID card, travel, health, education, social credit, entertainment, shopping and other information), they can mine and obtain the platform token Black Diamond. Black Diamond can be used for consumption and exchange on Planet.

Other weird mining

If the above mining modes designed to incentivize certain user behaviors are considered normal, the following mining modes can be said to be bizarre.

Mining heaters that keep you warm

We all know that mining consumes a lot of electricity. At the same time, mining will emit huge heat, which tests the heat dissipation function of the computer. The clever French combined crypto mining with heating equipment, using the heat generated by mining as the heat supply for the heating system, and created a heater that can mine. In this way, you can make money from mining and heat the room. It is a win-win situation, which is perfect.

This QC-1 crypto heater was developed by the French company Qarnot. It has two Sapphire NITRO RX580 graphics cards built in for cryptocurrency computing at a speed of 60MH/s, and can mine ETH by default. However, this thing seems to only work in winter, and the time to make money is only a few months, which is a bit of a loss.

On and off, door handle mining

If heater mining is not too much, then this more bizarre mining will definitely surprise you: door handle mining. Yes, it is door handles! Oh, what has the bear market done to people?

Cat toys can also mine

Make use of all idle resources, even pets can be used to mine. After all, the bear market is not easy, and it is time for cats and dogs to make money and support themselves.

The cat in the picture above is wearing a GPS toy developed by XYO. The XYO Network is dedicated to building a trustless, decentralized GPS system that helps smart contracts enter the real world by using its ecosystem of network devices to determine the exact location of physical objects at any given time.

XYO Network has developed a mining toolkit and plans to install various beacons around the world to track everything from lost packages to keys. One of these beacons is used to confirm whether a tracking point in the XYO system has arrived at a certain location, and anyone who carries this beacon will be rewarded with XYO tokens.

So, whether it's a cat, dog, or even a lizard, you can mine with XYO GPS . Yes, you just connect them to the XYO GPS network, and when they move around, they trigger beacons in the network, and in exchange, you will receive XY tokens, which means your pet can mine (zhuan) and feed itself.

Mining is done by placing an order on the exchange

A while ago , a domestic exchange launched the "Place Orders and Mining" activity, where orders are placed to share platform coins, and the daily share is 10% of the daily mining target output. During the activity, the exchange sorts the orders that meet the requirements according to the principle of price priority and time priority, and randomly snapshots once every minute; according to the snapshot results, the top 30 orders that meet the conditions for buying and selling orders of each trading pair are calculated and accumulated, and the top 100 accounts are rewarded.

However, due to problems with parameter settings, the token economic model collapsed too quickly, and FCoin, which once set off a mining craze, has itself gone to hell.

Mining is mining

Mining is mining, which sounds a bit confusing, but it has actually happened. Huobi Mining Pool and ViaBTC Mining Pool have recently released their tokens. Users holding tokens can get part of the mining pool's income, and users' mining machines can get mining pool coin rewards by joining the corresponding mining pool.

In this way, miners are actually mining while mining at the same time, achieving the so-called "double mining".

In fact, many of the popular "xx is mining" are essentially a more advanced form of airdrop, which attracts people's attention to their products and services, gives users some profit incentives, and also allows users to contribute traffic and daily activities to their products.

The rules of many mining models change every day. Investors find that the mining activities they spent a lot of time, energy and even money on have contributed daily activity and transaction volume to the project party. However, when you want to get back your hard-earned money, you find that the project party has already run away.

BlockBeats reminds everyone that investment should be cautious. Mining is also an investment, an investment of time and energy. If you must choose mining, you should choose an open and transparent platform, stay away from platforms with opaque rules and unreliable teams, and stay away from projects that promote mining benefits to the sky.

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