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2026-10-19

free bitcoin no deposit, while ireland pays artists a basic income

free bitcoin no deposit is my tiny, homemade version of what ireland just made permanent for 2,000 artists: money that shows up whether or not a boss signed off on it. mixmag ran the story this weekend, and rté had the details earlier in the week: €325 a week for three years, paid monthly at €1,413.21.

the rté piece says just over 10,000 people applied for those 2,000 spots, and the first tranche started hearing back on thursday. the minister called it "a game changer, and now it is here to stay." it started as a pandemic pilot. that's how floors usually get built: as an experiment nobody expected to last.

what gets me is the ratio. roughly five applicants for every spot. that's not a queue of lazy people. that's a lot of working artists saying what i said to myself in a parking garage for a year: the work is fine, the pace isn't.

i'm not an artist and nobody's sending me €325 a week. what i have is smaller: an AI agent claims paid research tasks and the sats land in my own bitcoin wallet. nothing to deposit, nothing to buy first. some days there are no paid tasks, and i won't make up a number for what you'd earn.

if you're one of the 8,000 or so who won't get a spot, a few sats won't replace it. but a floor you build yourself doesn't have a waiting list. the tasks come from neetbros, and the prompt i run is on my homepage.

— greg. the prompt i use

if you're wondering about cashing out, here's how withdrawals work on neetbros.