I've been using Coinpot and it's affiliated services since before Mid November. I find that claiming every hour, once a day, or every 3-6 hours produces best results.
I have lost my daily bonus streak before, as well. I've noticed recently that it's gotten more lenient for some reason, as I had got 36 hours since my last claim one day and it let me keep my 2 month long bonuses. The other day I was 26 hours since the last claim, and I again got to keep my bonuses. Perhaps unfair, perhaps giving some leeway as to not completely frustrate users when they can't make a claim.
I super duper highly 110% recommend Coinpot as well! It is certainly my favorite way to earn free Crypto. I've also been using the Electroneum Mobile Miner for about 2-3 weeks and have mined 40.5 Electroneum so far from an old OnePlus One and my daily ZTE Axon 7. The 1+1 mines 24/7 while the Axon has 4-8hr bursts every day or other day.
I've also had big luck using the following Mobile apps for Android for earning BTC and most recently, ETH:
Claim Free Bitcoin (sounds sleazy but it's Legit)
Wheel of Satoshi
Satoshi Slots
Ethereum Emoji
Free Bitcoin Spinner
Faucets Bitcoin
The first 4 apps are all by the same people/group/biz Claim Bitcoin Network @CCryptoNetwork and @CBitcoinNetwork
They are fantastic apps which let you claim every 15 minutes, and with the "star icon" or "heart icon" by clicking one ad in the app you get more rewards when claiming. Each app is different. The ETH Emoji let's you choose up to 3 emojis out of 9 on a 3x3 layout and try to claim the largest of your 3 picks. Satoshi slots is exactly as it sounds, except picking one number at once (which is lame imo).
The other 2 listed are by separate companies. The Bitcoin Spinner is wonderful, have claimed well over 20k Satoshi. You can watch short 3-30sec ads to get 3k energy to spin the wheel. Either 3k or 5k energy spins each time. You get energy pretty decently fast over time. 50k is the max you can store. The trick with this one is to watch ads in quick succession by watching the first one, letting it sit idle in the app for a few seconds to buffer or some jazz, then click the watch ad button again. If you do the process too quick it'll say no more ads available and could cause it to stop feeding your energy machine. Eventually it will run out of ads but you can rack up a good amount and try again in 6-12 hours (cheating the energy, you can claim whenever you have energy).
The other app is meh. It'll give you a semi random claim every 30min of 8-15 satoshi generally for me. The strategy with this one is simply use the math games tab. There's a section that let's you do 15 math problems each day for a range of satoshi, 6-20 in my experience per problem. Do that every day for a however long and boom there's some extra little satoshi for maybe some cheap alts.
To answer the question in the post, I think the coinpot tokens are weird, sound scammy but I like having a new thing to earn and play with. I like new ideas, expansion on the site, more development, more engagement. Seems like the only way to win the lottery is to dump thousands upon thousands of tokens in the lottery and hope you're percentage is big enough. Maybe do it at a certain time of day, or on a specific day when less are playing? The value seems odd, is like to learn more about that. With my fx8300 in 6 hours at 53/hs I got around 80-100 tokens. Not sure the real or long term value but for play its neat. Won't be putting my earnings into it though, just collecting them on the side.
*Edit- Mistakes
Yeah, I've noticed they can be a bit lenient sometimes with the bonus, BCH and Dash seems to be particularly kind, I don't think I've lost those bonuses even when I've lost it on BTC Doge and LTC. I'm not gonna complain!
Does that mean you've been running the ETN Mobile Miner on both devices at the same time? I had someone asking me about that, and I did wonder myself. I'll give it a go this afternoon with my old Nexus 4. You've got some good results there, I've been getting about 10 a week since it went live on my Nokia 5.
I did try one mobile app that promised to pay out 500,000 satoshi but I never received a payout. That really was too good to be true. I did end up getting a lot of spam email afterwards though. Have you had payouts from all of them? If you've had a positive experience, I'll have to give them a go. I might set up a dummy gmail account though as a spam catcher.
Yeah I know what you mean about the tokens, although I've claimed ~130 since yesterday morning and converted that into just under 3 doge, which is a decent little bonus really. I haven't even bothered looking at the lottery to be honest, I'm quite happy with the free little drips I'm getting. Like you say, they probably don't have any real long term value, but as a daily bonus it's all good.
Welcome to Steemit by the way! I'm two parts into a three part beginner's guide in case you'd find it helpful. Hopefully chat to you a lot more on here!Peace!
Edit: Forgot to link to the guide, here it is: https://steemit.com/steemit/@johngreenfield/steemit-posting-curating-voting-and-rewards-a-beginner-s-guideOh yeah bro, the moon BCH and DASH is very forgiving in terms of keeping your loyalty bonus. Having said that I've also seen more than once the entire set of 5 "coins" keep the loyalty bonus passed the 24hr mark before.
Yes, I do run more than one Electroneum miner at once. All you have to do is authorize it through the app/email or some deal, it'll be apparent when you download the app on another device and log into the same account. Enter the pin, hit mine. Just be sure to turn the miner off before you leave the house or your workplace/ect, or it'll "run" in your pocket and disconnect the other unit at home you want to keep running. From my limited testing, you can't really mine at different locations on the same account, but perhaps it's possible I just need to give it some more attempts. When I've given that ago, like mining on my daily (Axon 7) while at work with downtime over LTE it would desync the accounts and give an error. If you get an error that the miner stopped, just click the more details button and right in front of you will be the reset, just enter your country and the type of location (workplace, home, public) and do the captcha and your given the greenlight to mine.
Here's the deal on mobile "mining". From my experience, anything that says mining is BS, full bullshocky. Only the Electroneum Miner and Coinpot via chrome have ever produced results or actually mined. I too tested that same app with the massive payout but decent enough mining rate and earning potential. I quickly learned it was a fraud. Just ad revenue for them. Some apps do actually run a bunch of background processes of some kind and who knows how malicious those could be given the Facebook debacle in recent light.
My advice is stick to the stuff I've recommended and shove the rest. Not to be elitist or whatev, but everything I've listed thus far is legit, and has paid out consistently and without hitch. I can even provide screen grabs from each service if people need proof.
Getting back to the Electroneum Miner, I really like it so far. I don't really know the background or it's goals but it was recommended to me as a potential big earner in the future and I was like sure man I'll watch it and see where it goes. I've had the app for months, and just recently they finally activate the mining portion but I didn't get notified making me way late to the party so I've been going ham.
The miner itself is great. Stupid easy to use, and doesn't completely destroy your system. I can do anything on my phone, multiple things at once with it running in the background. I don't even have to leave the screen on for it to work or stay in the app. I leave the phone that's permanently mining with its screen on but that's super mega low brightness and used mostly as a quick look to check progress. It's also an experiment, seeing if being in app matters. Too hard to tell what my results are consistently as they don't provide any sort of information on it say like Coinpot when you get earnings.
I have realize that maybe Coinpot has implemented the token system partially to bring people back more often. I have been claiming any chance I have a few spare minutes at work or when I think about it at home instead of like twice just to keep it going. It definitely helps earnings for what you're claiming too, but certainly makes your token number increase.
With the massive dip going on in crypto I may pull out some BTC and buy up some alts even though I've been reading lots of smack and hate on the coins I buy. We'll have to exchange which coins were staked in and help give me some extra options to look at. Like, why Doge? I personally like it cause it's Doge, bro, but it's poor 1 penny or less is meh, makes me go for Dash, LTC or Cash. Maybe I should start collecting more of it though. Who knows, maybe it'll be worth 10¢ some day. I'm sure there will be a guy that explains to me why it never will but that's cool I could use a refresher.
And thanks by the way, I've been enjoying the site so far. We'll hopefully be seeing each other around indeed! Your guide is something I really do need to read, I'll check it out. Take it easy brother!
*Edit- Fixed Ethereum Miner to Electroneum Miner
The ETN Mobile Miner is just a simulated experience to help introduce newbies to cryptocurrency, without risking damage to hardware or needing any technical knowledge. I've been covering Electroneum since the blockchain went live in November, and post a weekly news roundup which you might find interesting. I've already covered the mobile miner in a few posts, this one covers why they're doing it: https://steemit.com/electroneum/@johngreenfield/electroneum-mobile-miner-first-impressions
If real mining is something you're interested in, I'd recommend checking out MinerGate. They have a desktop and mobile app, as well as CLI tools. Definitely a good place to start.
My latest weekly news post covers a leaked document that Electroneum prepared for prospective investors and partners, it gives a good oversight of what the project aims to do; https://steemit.com/electroneum/@johngreenfield/electroneum-weekly-news-roundup-special-electroneum-uncovered
To be perfectly honest I don't really have the time to put into faucets these days, only really claiming from the ones mentioned in the original post once a day purely because I've been using them for so long (it's always go on, one more payout). I mostly trade on exchanges these days with quite a few different currencies and tokens. I was lucky enough to back the Electroneum ICO so I got a few thousand from that, and then I CPU and GPU mined using my Alienware laptop for the first month doubling my holdings. It's so painful to see the current prices, but practically every other coin is hurting right now. I've got faith in Electroneum's long-term viability.
I'd recommend not selling your Bitcoin just yet, we're currently at the bottom of a dip and to be honest no-one really knows which way the price is going to go next. Everyone's hopeful, but with the threat of regulation this year, it could be the last days of the wild west of cryptocurrencies. ICOs are now at fever pitch, with new scams popping up every single day. I'm expecting one final boost in the price of BTC around May time, and that, in my opinion, would be the best time to liquidate. If the bubble is about to burst, a lot of coins could go under. I'd recommend looking for crypto projects that have some real-world purpose, next-gen crypto projects that are a solution to a real-world problem.
My portfolio is quite diverse at this point, but I've been thinking about doing a follow-up post on my holdings after one I put up a few months ago. Steem has become a massive part of my portfolio now, overtaking even Electroneum and I've found it to be the most profitable way of earning some cryptos without a big financial investment. I also believe in the projects long-term potential.
Enjoy the site and if you ever have any questions, fire away! Peace!
Here is some images I just screenshotted showing claim verifications. Coinbase doesn't allow screenshots on mobile apparently. I'm too lazy to take a video and screenshot that.
Also there's my referral code for anyone that uses Satoshi Slots or Claim Free Bitcoin, obviously optional but if you check it out then hey there it is.
I also have a link here to be my referral on Free Bitcoin Spinner. Just like the others it can be found by entering that in the Playstore.
http://coinspinner.me/c/7FIAC2
Can confirm, using Bonus Bitcoin and Bitfun also gives you Coinpot tokens as a faucet claim. So if you aren't using those already, get on it! Bitfun gives more than normal Moon Bitcoin, and Bonus Bitcoin is giving an average claim of 48 every 15min with current BTC pricing.
It looks like you've put more effort into this comment than I did the original post, and it deserves a proper response, so I'll get back to you in a couple of hours once I've done a few chores!
Thanks for stopping by and I'll catch you in a bit.