Earnabit: Get paid to answer questions!
Similiar to for example Yahoo Answers, but for actual bits instead of “points”. Another way Bitcoin ability for microtransactions opens up new business models and tipping. Today is the launch day of Earnabit as well, the first 300 users will get a 1000 bits on signing up as well! I noticed that a lot of very technical or very niche questions on sites like stackoverflow.com often get ignored. You really can’t expect someone to spend hours of their time helping a stranger for free if it will only benefit one or two people. That’s when I thought that it would be nice if users could post....
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