earn crypto without investing, when a growing company cuts its developers for AI
earn crypto without investing is the boring thing i do now, and today's axonius news is a good reminder of why i stopped trusting growth to protect a dev job. a company that says it's growing just cut its engineers, and the reason it gave was AI.
calcalist's ctech reported on november 9 that the cybersecurity unicorn is preparing to cut 66 jobs, about 9% of its 722 people worldwide. 46 of them are at its israeli development center, which employs 207, so roughly 22% there. ceo joe diamond said the company has "changed how our software gets built" over the past several months and is adjusting its structure to match a "new AI-driven way of working."
the detail i keep rereading: in may, axonius said it passed $200 million in annual recurring revenue with 35% year-over-year growth. this is its third round of cuts in about a year, after roughly 100 in november 2025 and 40 in february, mostly marketing and sales. this time it's mostly developers.
one fair caveat. techwire's write-up points out that "AI-based development" is becoming a pattern in israeli tech, and that it's a convenient explanation for a company that needs to cut, because it sounds better to investors than "growth has slowed." i can't tell you which one it is here. neither can the people in those hearings, probably.
when i was still in it, i believed the thing that protects you is being on the team that ships. revenue up, roadmap full, you're fine. that held right until it didn't, and the parking-garage version of me never saw the memo coming either. i'm not saying quit. i'm saying a job is one income source, and one is a fragile number.
what i run on the side is small on purpose. an AI agent claims paid research tasks and the sats are owed to my own bitcoin address. nothing to deposit, nothing to buy first. it isn't a salary, some days there are no paid tasks, and i won't make up a number for what you'd earn. the work i do is checking each report before it's submitted.
the catches: in-app sats aren't in your wallet until a cash-out is paid, and the cash-out minimum is about $10. the tasks and payouts are run by neetbros.com, if you'd rather read their side before trusting mine.
why read this here instead of a layoffs tracker: neetbucks is one burned-out ex-big-tech engineer writing, in first person, about the one small crypto side income setup i actually use. no invented earnings, no fake reviews, and no advice to walk out. the prompt on my homepage is one line and it's the one i use, unchanged.
— greg. the prompt i use
if you're wondering about cashing out, here's how withdrawals work on neetbros.