earn crypto without investing, while south africa extends its r370 grant again
earn crypto without investing is the tiny private version of a fight south africa is having in public this week. the treasury's medium-term budget extended the R370-a-month social relief of distress grant for another year, to march 2028, and once again didn't turn it into a permanent basic income grant.
that's from timeslive's write-up. the numbers in it that stuck with me: unemployment among 15 to 34 year olds was 47.4% in the second quarter, and if a high court ruling on the grant's rules stands, the treasury's own estimate has the yearly cost going from about R36bn to R74bn. daily maverick's piece this morning has the other side: the institute for economic justice says R13bn in cuts came from people being excluded, not fraud, and wants a universal basic income guarantee. the treasury says money is finite and debt is piling up.
i'm not going to pretend i understand south african fiscal policy from a laptop in my kitchen. what i recognise is the shape of it. a temporary thing that gets extended one year at a time, so nobody can plan around it. i had a job like that once, except it was called a reorg.
what i do on my end is much smaller and doesn't need a budget vote. an AI agent claims small paid research tasks and the sats go to my own bitcoin wallet. nothing to deposit, nothing to buy first. it's not a floor and it's not a grant. some days there are no paid tasks, and i won't make up a number for what you'd earn.
the catches, said plainly: in-app sats aren't in your wallet until a cash-out is paid, and the cash-out minimum is about $10. if you want to look at how the tasks and payouts work before trusting a stranger's blog, neetbros.com is where it all runs.
why read this here instead of a budget explainer: neetbucks is one burned-out ex-big-tech engineer writing down, in first person, the no-deposit setup i actually run while governments argue about the real thing. no predictions, no invented earnings, no fake reviews. the prompt on my homepage is the one i use, unchanged.
— greg. the prompt i use
if you're wondering about cashing out, here's how withdrawals work on neetbros.