The Swagbucks Bunnies vs. Chicks challenge is now available for signup.
Once signed up here, you will be allocated to a team and you can begin earning points. If you earn 600 or more points over the course of the event you’ll receive a reward, with the reward you receive depending on how well your team as a whole performed. The Swagbucks team describe it as follows:
All members who participate and contribute at least 600 points to their team’s total will receive a SB bonus in the form of a SB Swag Up Rebate! Members of the 1st place team will receive a 100 SB Swag Up Rebate and members of the 2nd place team will receive a 50 SB Swag Up Rebate. The Swag Up Rebate will be made available by April 19th and expires on May 3rd at 7:59pm AM BST.
A couple of weeks ago I reviewed the Slidejoy app. It was bad timing for me to get involved it turns out as Slidejoy recently announced that they will be closing all non-US operations on the 1st May 2020.
For those affected any outstanding carats must be redeemed by the 30th April. Additional details about redemptions are available here.
Note: Links may award me referral rewards such as in-app points or money.
The Pi Network is a new dectralised, mobile first cryptocurrency currently being developed by a group of Standford PhDs.
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Pi, the digital currency can not currently be traded as it’s still being developed but it costs nothing to get involved and is extremely simple to manage. Pi mining is currently easier as a bonus is given to “Pioneers” (early adopters).
Sign-up is currently only available via referral – if you’re interested my referral link is here.
Sweatcoin is an iPhone and Android app which pays you in tokens to walk. These tokens can be exchanged for prizes which vary over time.
See my review for a more detailed description of the software.
Previously Sweatcoin only counted outdoor steps as their algorithm relied on using GPS for step verification. However, this is no longer the case as within the last month they have started accepting indoor steps.
Sweatcoin Indoor Steps now counted
Their official FAQ page is available here for some additional details.
To acklowledge the decrease in activity for most people due to the current Covid-19 pandemic the Sweatcoin team have decreased the number of steps required to obtain bonus coins through watching ads.
Treasure Trooper have a new contest each month, usually centering around collecting one of the currencies used by the site. This month it’s arrowheads, and the site is paying out bonuses when you collect specified numbers.
if you sign up via my referral link you’ll receive a $5 starting bonus rather than the $1 you receive if you sign up normally.
Here’s the detail from the contest page:
Earn 500 arrowheads and we’ll add 50 to your account
Earn 1000 arrowheads and we’ll add 200 to your account
Earn 1500 arrowheads and we’ll add 450 to your account
Earn 2000 arrowheads and we’ll add 700 to your account
Earn 2500 arrowheads and we’ll add 1000 to your account
Earn 3000 arrowheads and we’ll add 1350 to your account
Earn 3500 arrowheads and we’ll add 1750 to your account
Additionally, if you reach the top tier, don’t stop trying! We’ll give you an extra 20 arrowheads for every 100 that you earn over 3500. That’s a 20% bonus with no limit on how many you can earn!
Slidejoy is an app for Android which shows you adverts on your lock screen and rewards you with “carats”. Carats can be exchanged for cash and gift cards.
Slidejoy lock screen advert
Earning carats solely through the adverts on your lock screen is a slow process. It’s much faster to take part in surveys and tasks offered by Slidejoy partners (e.g. Fyber).
Earn Carats faster by taking part in offers
The app also allows you to scratch a number of virtual scratch cards each day with the possibility of winning Carats. So far it seems that you always win at least one carat per scratch card but I’m yet to win anything more substantial.
“Game of Carats” scratch card
The app seems to behave well in terms of energy usage (2% of my battery over the two and a half days) but is heavier on data (138 MB over one month when I was using the app more heavily but only about 30 MB a month recently).
Over the last few months I’ve made 1800 carats which is equivalent to somewhere in the region of just over a dollar. Unfortunately you can only claim when you reach a certain amount. For example, a £4 Amazon gift card is currently 5007 carats.
Slidejoy appears legitimate but unless you take part in taking surveys or playing games the accrual of carats is very slow. That said, I’ll probably keep it installed as it can be used completely passively. It does make unlocking my phone slightly harder though so that might be a deal breaker for some.
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