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2026-10-30

free crypto no deposit, while korea studies a basic income for young people

free crypto no deposit is my small, private answer to a question a government asked out loud today. south korea's first vice minister of health and welfare, hyun soo-yup, said on the radio that the ministry has started researching a basic income for young people, because AI is making entry-level jobs harder to find.

the details are in sbs's write-up and the asia business daily's longer interview. the number that stopped me: by the ministry's count, isolated and reclusive young people were 2.4% of the youth population in 2022 and 5.2% in 2024. he called it a structural risk that will only intensify, and said youth haven't traditionally been the main target of welfare but now need a safety net. it's a study, not a payment. no amount, no date.

i'll be honest about why it landed. after i quit, i spent a few months mostly inside, not answering messages, telling myself i was resting. i was a grown adult with savings and it still got weird fast. i can't imagine doing that at twenty with no job to quit in the first place.

what i run on my end is much smaller than anything a ministry is studying. 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 safety net and it's not a cure for isolation. 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 see how the tasks and payouts actually work before trusting a stranger's blog, this is the no-deposit crypto side income setup i use.

why read this here instead of a policy brief: neetbucks is one burned-out ex-big-tech engineer writing down, in first person, the small side setup i actually run while governments work out 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.