Posts from @aiyumi's blog

One Year Playing Rising star! - More than 2,000 Missions Completed, and Goals for 2022! | Um Ano Jogando Rising Star! - Mais de 2000 Missões Completadas e Objetivos para 2022! | EN/PT

aiyumi — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 20:45:00 GMT

English version (versão em Português mais abaixo)

[Rising Star][risingstar] is a play to earn game here on the Hive Blockchain where the goal is to become a famous rock star, and we earn crypto by completing gig missions.

Even though I haven't posted anything in months, I've been playing this game every day, slowly leveling up and earning STARBITS ([the game's token that we can trade for other cryptos on Hive Engine][starbits]). I started playing the game in mid January 2021, which means, one year ago! I was trying to see how far I could go by playing the game without buying any cards. In April 2021, I had [reached 1,000 total missions and gotten a free card pack][rspost]. Only in November, I finally completed a total of 2,000 missions and got another free pack with three new cards. Below are the cards and the stats they increase:

R108 Ray: 125 Fans, 150 Skill, 4 Luck, 3 IM.
I46 Mid Range Kit: 10 Luck.
42 Brodie: 10 Skill.

![The three cards that I got from the second free pack](https://i.postimg.cc/jRQj1rQQ/rs-2000-missions-free-pack.png?dl=1)
**Image source: screenshot from [risingstargame.com][risingstar]**

Except for the Ray card which increases lots of stats, nothing impressive in this pack.

Before getting these cards, I had completed the "Saturday Headline" mission and unlocked the next zone. I noticed that the first mission from the new zone required at least 400 fans, which I didn't have. I was hoping the cards from the 2,000 missions reward would give me enough permanent fans to finally be able to progress in the game instead of having to keep repeating the lower level missions over and over. However, things weren't as simple as I had hoped.

The new cards got me to 363 permanent fans, still not enough to go to the new zone. After repeating a few of the previous missions, I got some temporary fans until I reached 400 fans, and when I thought I'd be able to access the new mission... I realized another requirement for the mission was to have a mid range acoustic guitar card! Well, it seems I can't progress in the game just yet... but at least the increased number of permanent fans lets me access the "Saturday Headline" mission without having to grind for temporary fans. Since this mission awards more Starbits, now I'm able to earn Starbits a little faster.

I had been relying only on the free cards I got for completing given numbers of missions. I was trying to see how far I could get without spending money to buy any cards, and it looks like this is the limit. Even if I wait another 7 months to complete 1,000 more missions and get another free pack, there's no guarantee that the cards I need will be in the free pack. So, it seemed like the time to begin buying cards had come...

Even so, I still wasn't sure about spending my HIVE on cards. Then, when the HIVE price exploded upwards above 2 USD in November, I realized that 100,000 STARBITS was worth around 30 Dollars! To some, this might not be much, but to me, it's a considerable amount. This made me think that the STARBITS can be worth a significant amount when the HIVE price is high, and that investing a bit in the game to increase my STARBITS returns might be a good idea.

As I write this post, I'm level 90, with 363 Fans, 112 Luck, 10679 Skill, 2500 Ego, 9 IM, and a total of 2323 missions completed.

So far, I've earned around 300k STARBITS in total. I traded most of them for HIVE, and am waiting for the HIVE price to go up again so that this same HIVE amount can buy more STARBITS than what I had initially. Eventually, I want to reach one million STARBITS to be able to access the "STARBITS Millionaire" mission which gives 10,000 STARBITS once every day. But for this, I need 1,000 fans, preferably permanent ones, which I need to get from cards. Now my plan is:

Read the full post

Rising star - 1,000 Total Missions Completed! | Rising Star - Total de 1000 Missões Completadas! | EN/PT

aiyumi — Fri, 30 Apr 2021 20:09:42 GMT

English version (versão em Português mais abaixo)

Rising Star is a game here on the HIVE blockchain, in which we have to try to become a famous rock star. By doing gig missions, we can earn crypto in the form of the game's token called Starbits that can be traded for other cryptocurrencies on Hive Engine.

I'm trying to see where I can get without spending money on any cards, and without spending or selling the Starbits I earn in the game. It's taking a while, but I'm making progress, slowly but surely... it's been two months since my previous post about the game, when I had completed 500 missions and was around level 32. Last weekend, at level 53 and with around 62k Starbits, I reached 1,000 total completed missions, and got a free pack with 3 cards! The cards inside the pack were:

R50 Ali: gives 100 Fans, 3 Luck, 150 Skill and 1 IM.
i34 Cheap Kettle Drum: gives 5 Luck, and increases Skill rewards from percussion lesson missions.
17 Moon Child: gives 8 Fans, 1 Luck and 3 Skill.

![The three cards that were inside the pack](https://i.postimg.cc/0x23N3J0/rs-1000-missions-free-pack.png?dl=1)
**Image source: screenshot from [risingstargame.com][risingstar]**

These cards got me to 238 permanent fans, and now I can go straight to the "Saturday Support" mission without needing to grind for temporary (drunk) fans. I got enough temporary fans to do the "Saturday Headline" mission once and was able to access the next zone, but this is as far as I've gotten because the other zone's missions require more fans. Also, both the "Saturday Support" and "Saturday Headline" missions consume almost all of the energy bar, and I think I need more Pizza Boxes (to carry energy restoring pizza). I hope to get more permanent fans and, who knows, maybe another Pizza Box from the next free card pack I manage to get. Before that, though, my next goal is to reach 100k Starbits (and resist the temptation of spending them all on the "12 card packs for the price of 10" promotion! :P ).

Versão em Português

Rising Star é um jogo aqui na blockchain do HIVE, em que temos que tentar nos tornar um famoso astro do roque. Ao completar missões de shows, podemos ganhar criptomoedas na forma de Starbits, o token do jogo, que pode ser trocado por outras criptos na Hive Engine.

Estou tentando ver até onde posso chegar sem gastar dinheiro com cartas, e sem gastar ou vender os starbits que ganhei no jogo. Demora um tempo, mas estou progredindo, devagar e sempre... já faz dois meses desde o meu post anterior sobre o jogo, quando eu tinha completado 500 missões e estava lá pelo level 32. No último fim de semana, no level 53 e com cerca de 62 mil Starbits, cheguei à marca de mil missões totais completadas e ganhei um pacote com três cartas! As cartas de dentro do pacote eram:

R50 Ali: dá 100 Fans, 3 Luck, 150 Skill e 1 IM.
i34 Cheap Kettle Drum: dá 5 Luck e aumenta as recompensas de Skill que podemos ganhar em missões de aula de percussão.
17 Moon Child: dá 8 Fans, 1 Luck e 3 Skill.

![As três cartas que estavam no pacote](https://i.postimg.cc/0x23N3J0/rs-1000-missions-free-pack.png?dl=1)
**Fonte da imagem: captura de tela do site [risingstargame.com][risingstar]**

Com a adição destas cartas, fiquei com 238 fãs permanentes, e agora posso ir direto para a missão "Saturday Support" sem precisar ficar repetindo missões anteriores para conseguir fãs temporários (bêbados). Consegui fãs temporários suficientes para ir na missão "Saturday Headline" uma vez e obtive acesso à próxima zona, mas isso foi o mais longe que cheguei porque as missões da outra zona exigem mais fãs. Além disso, tanto as missões "Saturday Support" quanto a "Saturday Headline" consomem quase toda a barra de energia, e acho que preciso de mais Pizza Boxes (caixas de pizza para armazenar as pizzas que restauram energia). Espero conseguir mais fãs permanentes e, quem sabe, talvez outra Pizza Box no próximo pacote de cartas que eu ganhar. Mas antes disso, meu próximo objetivo é chegar em 100 mil Starbits (e resistir à tentação de gastar tudo na promoção de "pague 10 pacotes de cartas e leve 12"! :P ).

Vote for HIVE Support on Final Autofaucet! | Vote pela Adição do Hive à Final Autofaucet! | (EN/PT)

aiyumi — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 20:16:06 GMT

English version (versão em Português mais abaixo)

The [DutchyCorp Final Autofaucet][finaldutchy] is a faucet website where we can earn small amounts of more than 40 different cryptocurrencies. It's currently one of my favorite faucets. In short, the website works like this:

First we perform various activities to earn their token called Dutchy. The activities include a roll game where we can collect a random amount of Dutchy every 30 minutes, click on PTC (paid to click) ads where other users promote their links, complete shortlinks (go through pages with a captcha and a lot of ads), and do other tasks like taking surveys.
Once we have Dutchy, we use it on the auto faucet. We select all the different cryptocurrencies from the (currently) 48 options available, solve a captcha and start the auto faucet. Then, we just leave the page open with the auto faucet running and collecting the cryptos we chose until we run out of Dutchy.
Surveys are the best way to earn Dutchy, and some give more than 100k Dutchy. If you manage to qualify for surveys, then you may be able to complete only one survey, and earn enough Dutchy to leave the faucet auto claiming the whole day.
As we perform activities at the website, we gain Xp and level up. The higher our level, the higher amounts we get from the auto faucet claims.
Tip: on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, all claims get a 20% bonus!

![Selecting the coins to claim](https://i.postimg.cc/XVz0jNMg/finaldutchy-choose-coins.png?dl=1)
**Image source: screenshot from [autofaucet.dutchycorp.space][finaldutchy]**

The website lets us swap between all the available cryptos, so that we can reach the minimum withdrawal amounts for a specific crypto easier. We can withdraw either to our own crypto wallets, or also to the [FaucetPay][faucetpay] and [ExpressCrypto][expresscrypto] micro wallets (websites that consolidate payments from multiple faucets).

The cryptos Final Autofaucet supports include the most popular ones like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin, Litecoin and Dash, and others like BAT (the token from the Brave Browser), and even STEEM! Soon, they may add support for HIVE, too! ... If we push for it.

I contacted their technical support regarding a bug in the captcha on the sign up page (which they fixed pretty quickly!), and took the opportunity to ask if they could also add HIVE to the list of supported coins, since they already have STEEM. Then, they released the poll for the community to choose other coins for the faucet, and HIVE is among the possible choices! The most voted coins will be added to the faucet throughout the year. There's no need to be registered at the faucet website to be able to vote, so, even if you don't use the faucet, you can vote if you want to help spread the word about HIVE. Faucets may be important entry points to beginners in crypto, and the more HIVE is known and used, the better for HIVE too. The link to the poll is [here][coinpoll]. When I checked, HIVE had less than 3% of the votes. It certainly needs a big push... hopefully we can get enough votes along the year to have HIVE support added!

Other microearnings websites

These are my other favorite microearnings websites alongside Final Autofaucet. If you are interested in faucets, you may also like them:

[Express Autofaucet][expressdutchy]: a similar auto faucet, also from DutchyCorp, but only pays to the Express Crypto micro wallet. You don't even need to sign up to claim the coins. All you need is to have an account at [ExpressCrypto][expresscrypto] (just inform your EC user ID, and the coin claims go directly to your EC wallet instantly!).
[Fire Faucet][firefaucet]: another auto faucet, with a similar concept to the DutchyCorp Final Autofaucet (activities for earning points to be used in the auto faucet, levels system etc.), and supports 9 different cryptocurrencies. Pays either directly to our personal wallets, or to [FaucetPay][faucetpay] with lower minimum withdraw amounts.
[Freebitco.in][freebitcoin]: one of the oldest and most trusted faucets around, where we can earn Bitcoin, and points that can be traded for prizes like Amazon gift cards or even iPhones (though of course that would require a lot of points!). The website also pays compounded interest on our Bitcoin balance if it's at least 30k satoshi. We can send our BTC earnings from the other faucets there to earn compounded interest.
[Rising Star][risingstar]: it's a game here on the HIVE blockchain. Not really a faucet, but is as simple to use as one! If you use faucets, then you'll probably like this game. I've written a post talking about my progress, as well as a bit on how the game works, [here][rsfirstpacks_en].

Versão em Português

Read the full post

A Note to My Hive Followers - Changing the Format of My Posts | Uma Nota aos Meus Seguidores no Hive - Mudando o Formato dos Meus Posts | (EN/PT)

aiyumi — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 01:26:03 GMT

English version (versão em Português mais abaixo)

Those who follow me here on Hive might be used to see my multi language content separated in two posts (one only in Portuguese - intended for those who don't understand English - and the other only in English - intended for the ones who don't understand Portuguese). This is how I've been posting since 2011 in [my personal blog (outside of Hive)][blog_en] which has separate sections for each language. However, I found out that here on Hive, making separate posts for each language is considered as spamming.

I haven't been posting much since 2019. Only a post once in a while, and a comment here and there, usually to reply to someone who commented on my posts. At one of these times I dropped by to comment, I noticed that a bot called Spaminator gave a 0.25% downvote on my comment. Shortly after I made another comment, the bot came again with another downvote. I didn't understand the reason. My comments were genuine and well written, and it made no sense that someone could view them as spam and put me in a blacklist. But whenever I posted any comment, there came the bot to give another downvote. I had been unable to find out who was behind the bot and who to ask about it, so, for some months, I just ignored the downvotes.

Only this week I came across [this post by @vempromundo][post1] who had been having a similar problem, and [this other post][post2] with instructions on how to try to solve the problem at the Hivewatchers discord channel. I went there, and it turned out that the reason for the downvotes actually had nothing to do with my comments at all, but with my posts! I was told that I ended up in their blacklist because of the two language versions of the same post, and that this is considered as farming rewards through recycled posts. To anyone else writing in more than one language in separate posts, be warned!

I was removed from the blacklist, on the condition that I stop making "double posts." So, from now on, both the English text and Portuguese text will have to be on the same post (and people wanting to read in Portuguese will have to scroll down the page in search of the Portuguese text). I don't know about everyone else, but I've always thought the posts get cluttered and may get confusing with more than one language mixed in the same page (both when reading others posts and when writing), but if this is the proper way to do it, then it's what I'll do. This is the first post in this new format, and also serves as a test to see how it goes. I hope it's good enough this way!

Versão em Português

Quem me acompanha aqui no Hive deve estar acostumado a ver meu conteúdo em posts separados para cada idioma (um só em Português - para quem não entende Inglês - e o outro só em Inglês - para quem não entende Português). É assim que tenho postado desde 2011 no [meu blog pessoal (fora do Hive)][blog_pt], que tem seções separadas para cada idioma. Porém, descobri que aqui no Hive, fazer posts separados para cada idioma é considerado spam.

Desde 2019 que não venho postando muito. Só um post de vez em quando e alguns comentários aqui e ali, geralmente para responder alguém que comentou nos meus posts. Em uma dessas vezes que apareci para comentar, percebi que um bot chamado Spaminator deu downvote de 0.25% no meu comentário. Logo depois que fiz outro comentário, lá veio ele de novo, com outro downvote. Eu não entendi o motivo. Meus comentários eram sempre genuínos e bem escritos, e não fazia sentido alguém pensar que eram spam e me colocar numa blacklist. Mas sempre que eu comentava alguma coisa, lá vinha o bot dar outro downvote. Eu não tinha conseguido descobrir quem estava por trás do bot e a quem perguntar sobre ele, então, por alguns meses, simplesmente ignorei os downvotes.

Só esta semana encontrei [este post do @vempromundo][post1] que estava tendo um problema parecido, e [este outro post][post2] com instruções para tentar resolver o problema no canal do Hivewatchers no Discord. Fui lá, e no fim das contas, o motivo dos downvotes não tinha nada a ver com os meus comentários, e sim com meus posts! Fui informada de que acabei entrando na blacklist deles por causa das versões em dois idiomas do mesmo post, e que isso é considerado como obtenção de recompensas do Hive de forma abusiva por meio de posts reciclados. Para outros que escrevem em mais de um idioma em posts separados, fica o alerta!

Read the full post

Solving the SPAMINATOR problem

vempromundo — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 23:53:57 GMT

*This post can also be read in Portuguese*

If you're also getting downvotes from Spaminator, don't worry, I'll fix this for you.

Or rather, I will try to help you on how you can resolve, since the owners of the robot told me that only the account owner himself can ask for the revocation of the negative vote.

https://hivewatchers.com/assets/hivewatchersnew-56764a6e2a58ea60ce231a12722ba2063bb201554776479c1b83a20db99e38c3.png *HiveWatchers is responsible for the Spaminator Bot and can solve your problem*

Where do I start?

First, you will have to access their server on Discord, which is fine because you can click directly on this link and it will open through the browser, you don't need to download anything

https://discord.com/assets/fbf72f7bfa8f2058218513942447d822.png ***https://discord.gg/YQEybPv8sT***

There you will have several channel options, but the first is the one that is highlighted in the image below. If your problem is simple, and the bot is voting for you by mistake, * spaminator-appeals * will be enough for everything to be resolved.

https://i.ibb.co/XzBRd0T/image.png

If it is more complex, you will need to visit the * queries * and * phishing * channels above.

Is it quick to resolve

There are situations that yes, mine as we can see in the image was a simple problem that occurred when I was absent from the platform.

https://i.ibb.co/W6GK6ZJ/image.png

However, there are others that are a little more complicated, and that unfortunately we cannot help, since they only allow, as previously stated, that the person himself go after knowing the reason and ask for the removal.

When I went to try to help a Venezuelan user, I was informed about, as we can see in the image below.

https://i.ibb.co/4pTc6mq/image.png

How can I help you?

Thinking of a way to help users who have this same problem and have no idea how to solve it, I will try to help by sending them my post with the step by step how to solve it.

Through Hive Blocks, I will filter out some users who may be being harmed, analyzing where Spaminator is giving low negative votes and creating a post with a table of how many users have this problem and how many we can help.

I hope I could have helped someone with this guide, and if possible reblog so that it has more reach and can reach more people.

Se você também está recebendo downvotes do Spaminator, não se preocupe que resolverei isso pra você.

Ou melhor, tentarei te auxiliar sobre como você pode resolver, uma vez que os donos do robô me disseram que somente o próprio dono da conta pode pedir a revogação do voto negativo.

HiveWatchers é o responsável pelo Spaminator Bot e pode resolver o seu problema

Por onde eu começo?

Primeiramente, você terá que acessar o servidor deles no Discord, o que é tranquilo pois você pode clicar diretamente nesse link e ele abrirá pelo navegador, não precisa baixar nada

Lá terá várias opções de canais, porém o primeiro é a que esta destacada na imagem abaixo. Caso o seu problema seja simples, e o bot está votando por engano em você, o spaminator-appeals será suficiente para que tudo se resolva.

Caso seja algo mais complexo, você precisará visitar os canais acima queries e phishing.

É rápido para resolver?

Há situações que sim, a minha como podemos ver na imagem foi um simples problema que ocorreu quando eu estava ausente da plataforma.

Porém há outros que são um pouco mais complicado, e que infelizmente não podemos ajudar, uma vez que eles só permitem como dito anteriormente, que a própria pessoa vá atrás de saber o motivo e peça a remoção.

Quando fui tentar ajudar auma usuária venezuelana, me foi informado sobre, como podemos ver na imagem abaixo.

Como posso ajudar?

Pensando em uma maneira de ajudar usuários que estão com esse mesmo problema e não faz a menor ideia de como resolver, vou tentar ajudar enviando para eles essa minha postagem com o passo a passo de como resolver.

Através do Hive Blocks, vou filtrar alguns usuários que possam estar sendo prejudicados, analisando onde o Spaminator está dando votos negativos de valor baixo e criar uma postagem com uma tabela de quantos usuários estão com esse problema e quantos conseguimos ajudar.

Espero que possa ter ajudado alguém com esse guia, e se possível reblog para que tenha mais alcance e possa chegar a mais pessoas.

Posted Using LeoFinance ^Beta

My First Two Card Packs in Rising Star, and a Question about Cards

aiyumi — Fri, 26 Feb 2021 03:22:48 GMT

As someone interested in crypto micro earnings (like from faucets), I found that the Rising Star game is an interesting way to earn some bucks in crypto.

[Rising Star][risingstar] is a game about trying to become a famous rock musician. At first, it's very simple to play. Just press a button to start a "mission" (basically a gig), and let the music play until the mission finishes. After that, we get a random amount of Starbits (it's both the ingame currency and also a [token on Hive Engine][starbits]) that we can trade for other crypto once we accumulate enough to withdraw (currently the minimum withdrawal amount is 1,000 Starbits). As we do missions, get more fans and level up, we get access to missions with higher rewards... until the artist's ego begins rising! And things start to complicate.

I began playing the game around a month ago, and right on the first day, I earned around 600 Starbits. 1 Starbit was priced around 0.1 satoshi when I had checked back then. This means I had gotten around 60 satoshi in only one day, which is actually a bit more than I get from each faucet website I use (and this was only with the lowest level missions!). I had great results the following days too. Everything was going smoothly until I reached level 15, when the ego bar appeared and became an hindrance to my progress.

The ego stat begins having effect once we either reach level 15 or gain 1,000 fans (which ever happens first), and if it's above zero, it decreases the amount of Starbits we earn on missions. To reduce the ego, we need to increase our Skill stat, either through music lesson missions or buying cards that give Skill stat points.

I had been trying to progress in the game without buying any card, and it was proving to be quite the challenge. If I don't buy cards, I have to rely on music lesson missions to increase the Skill stat. These take one full hour to complete, and 40% of the character's energy bar (which recovers very slowly unless the mission is kind enough to give us pizza to restore it). Fans that don't come from cards are temporary, and I kept having to repeat the low level missions every day to get enough temporary fans to reach the number of fans requirement for higher level missions. The problem is that each fan raises 1 ego (ego from having temporary fans is also temporary), and doing missions also raises ego. The more we repeat a mission, the more ego points it will give (and ego from missions is permanent). Since I was always having to repeat missions to reach the required number of fans, the missions permanent ego points were building up quickly.

The only cards I had were the ones I got as mission rewards for completing a given number of missions (100, 110, 120 and 130 respectively), and they were quite useful. I don't know if everyone gets the same cards or if they're random, but the ones I got were:

Pizza Box: stores a pizza slice for later (avoids wasting a pizza when we find one and our energy is full).
t6 Cheap Car: gives 10 permanent fans. May be needed for specific missions that require a means of transportation.
13 Buster: gives 10 Skill. A member for the band. Members are required to make a band, for missions that require a band.
i8 Mid Range Mic: gives 10 luck. Increases the skill points we can get from singing lesson missions.

However, only these cards weren't enough. My hope to get more cards without having to buy them was the reward for completing 500 missions in total, which is a pack with 3 random cards. I decided to go for that in hopes to get something useful from the pack, preferably something that got me more permanent fans and more Skill.

![Screenshot of my stats with only those four cards](https://i.postimg.cc/TdCsrFbK/stats-before01.png?dl=1)
**Image source: screenshot from [risingstargame.com][risingstar]**

I was at around 300 missions completed, and that number was increasing slowly because I was doing the time-consuming music lesson missions more than anything else (in order to raise the Skill stat, and increase the total mission count without raising ego). I was almost caving in and using some of my HIVE to buy a card pack, but I contained myself and kept going on, slowly but surely. Then, at the beginning of last week, when I was Level 32 and with almost 200 permanent ego points, I was lucky to win a pack from a giveaway. I opened the pack, and the cards inside were:

R30 80s Mic: gives 60 Luck. Also increase Skill gains from singing lesson missions.
16 Dorris: gives 10 permanent fans and 5 Skill. Another member for the band.
i18 Electric Drums: gives 10 Luck. Increase Skill gains in percussion lesson missions.

![Screenshot showing the three cards from the first opened pack](https://i.postimg.cc/SyXLZPHX/pack-opened01.png?dl=1)
**Image source: screenshot from [risingstargame.com][risingstar]**

Read the full post

Meus Primeiros Dois Pacotes de Cartas em Rising Star

aiyumi — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 01:53:39 GMT

Como uma pessoa interessada em "micro ganhos" de criptomoedas (como de faucets), descobri que o jogo Rising Star é uma maneira interessante de ganhar alguns trocados em cripto.

[Rising Star][risingstar] (traduzindo para o Português seria "estrela ascendente") é um jogo sobre tentar se tornar um roqueiro famoso. No início, é muito simples de jogar. Basta pressionar um botão para iniciar uma "missão" (basicamente um show) e deixar a música tocar até que a missão termine. Depois disso, recebemos uma quantia aleatória de Starbits (é a moeda do jogo e também um [token no Hive Engine][starbits]) que podemos trocar por outras criptomoedas assim que acumularmos o suficiente para sacar (atualmente o valor mínimo de retirada é 1000 Starbits). Conforme cumprimos missões, conseguimos mais fãs e subimos de level, temos acesso a missões com recompensas maiores... até que o ego do artista começa a subir a cabeça! E as coisas começam a complicar.

Comecei a jogar há um mês e logo no primeiro dia ganhei cerca de 600 Starbits. 1 Starbit valia por volta de 0,1 satoshi quando eu verifiquei naquela época. Isso significa que recebi cerca de 60 satoshi em apenas um dia, o que é um pouco mais do que recebo de cada site de faucet que uso (e isso foi só com as missões de nível mais baixo!). Também tive ótimos resultados nos dias seguintes. Tudo estava indo bem até que cheguei no level 15, quando a barra do ego apareceu e se tornou um obstáculo ao meu progresso.

O atributo ego começa a ter efeito assim que alcançamos o level 15 ou conseguimos mil fãs (o que acontecer primeiro), e se estiver acima de zero, diminui a quantidade de Starbits que ganhamos nas missões. Para reduzir o ego, precisamos aumentar nosso atributo Skill (habilidade), seja por meio de missões de aula de música ou comprando cartas que dão pontos de Skill.

Eu estava tentando progredir no jogo sem comprar nenhuma carta, o que provou ser um grande desafio. Se eu não comprar cartas, tenho que contar com as missões de aulas de música para aumentar a Skill. Essas missões levam uma hora inteira para terminar e gastam 40% da barra de energia do personagem (que se recupera muito lentamente, a menos que a missão seja gentil e nos dê pizza para restaurá-la). Fãs que não vêm de cartas são temporários, e eu fiquei tendo que repetir as missões de nível baixo todos os dias a fim de conseguir fãs temporários suficientes para atingir o número de fãs necessário para missões de níveis mais altos. O problema é que cada fã dá um ponto de ego (o ego vindo de fãs temporários também é temporário) e cumprir missões também aumenta o ego. Quanto mais repetimos uma missão, mais pontos de ego ela dará (e o ego das missões é permanente). Como eu sempre tinha que repetir missões até atingir o número necessário de fãs, os pontos de ego permanentes das missões estavam se acumulando rapidamente.

As únicas cartas que eu tinha eram as que ganhei como recompensa por completar um determinado número de missões (100, 110, 120 e 130 respectivamente) e estavam sendo bem úteis. Não sei se todos recebem as mesmas cartas ou se são aleatórias, mas as que recebi foram:

Pizza Box (caixa de pizza): guarda uma fatia de pizza para depois (evita desperdiçar uma pizza quando encontramos uma e nossa energia está cheia).
t6 Cheap Car (carro barato): dá 10 fãs permanentes. Pode ser necessário para missões específicas que requerem um meio de transporte.
13 Buster: dá 10 Skill. Um membro para a banda. Membros são necessários para formar uma banda, para missões que exigem uma banda.
i8 Mid Range Mic (microfone de médio alcance): dá 10 de Luck (sorte). Aumenta os pontos de Skill das missões de aulas de canto.

No entanto, só essas cartas não eram suficientes. Minha esperança de conseguir mais cartas sem ter que comprá-las era a recompensa por completar 500 missões no total, que é um pacote com 3 cartas aleatórias. Decidi fazer isso na esperança de conseguir algo útil, de preferência algo que me desse mais fãs permanentes e mais Skill.

![Screenshot dos meus stats com apenas as quatro cartas](https://i.postimg.cc/TdCsrFbK/stats-before01.png?dl=1)
**Fonte da imagem: captura de tela do site [risingstargame.com][risingstar]**

Eu tinha concluído cerca de 300 missões, e esse número aumentava lentamente porque eu estava nas demoradas missões de aula de música mais do que qualquer outra coisa (a fim de aumentar a Skill e a contagem total de missões sem aumentar o ego). Eu estava quase me rendendo e usando um pouco do meu HIVE para comprar um pacote de cartas, mas me contive e continuei em frente. Até que, no começo da semana passada, quando eu estava no nível 32 e com quase 200 pontos de ego permanentes, tive a sorte de ganhar um pacote de cartas em um sorteio. Abri o pacote e as cartas que estavam dentro eram:

Read the full post

CoinPot and its Faucets are Closing Down! Time to Find Other Faucets!

aiyumi — Fri, 22 Jan 2021 02:22:45 GMT

Since mid 2019, I've been using the CoinPot faucets and converting my earnings to STEEM, and more recently, HIVE. However, when I visited the faucets on the morning of January 16th, 2021, I was greeted by the sad news that CoinPot and all its seven faucets will be closing down. Their justification is that the faucets are a hobby that they don't have the time and resources to continue maintaining. The affected faucets are: Moon Bitcoin, Moon Cash, Moon Dash, Moon Litecoin, Moon Dogecoin, Bitfun and Bonus Bitcoin. What will happen is:

On January 31, 2021, all the faucets will stop working and no one will be able to sign up or claim from them anymore. The CoinPot website's lottery, VIP Rewards program and browser mining functions will also stop working, but coin conversions and withdrawals will still be possible until February 28th, 2021.
On February 28th, 2021, the CoinPot site will also stop working. So, we should withdraw all our balances before this date.

![Image of a hanging \"closed\" sign](https://i.postimg.cc/pPYhmK5f/closed-sign-4959355-640.png?dl=1)
**Image source: [Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/illustrations/closed-close-board-door-lock-down-4959355/)**

Now, my plan is:

Continue claiming from the faucets until the last day I can (January 31).
Keep the CoinPot Tokens balance until January 31 (when the VIP Rewards program will also stop), so that I get the daily interest payments until the last day the program is active.
Convert all accumulated earnings into satoshi (Bitcoin) sometime in February, before February 28.
Withdraw everything.

I like the results I got at CoinPot. In one year of using them, I got around 198 HP just from powering up the earnings from there, and if I convert everything still in my balance to satoshi (all my earnings for these last six months), it seems I can get something like 80k satoshi (which would mean around 200 HIVE right now, according to a simulation I did on BlockTrades). These faucets were good while they lasted!

I intend to send everything to [Freebitco.in][freebitcoin]. It's another well-known faucet website, and one of their interesting features is that they pay 0.011% daily interest (4.08% interest per year) on our balance if it is over 30k satoshi (it doesn't matter if we earn it all from them or deposit from somewhere else).

So, what faucets to use now?

With the high crypto prices, I have decided that I'll just accumulate crypto from faucets for now instead of buying them. Now that the CoinPot faucets will close, I'm looking for other ones.

Fire Faucet

Besides [Freebitco.in][freebitcoin], I began testing [Fire Faucet][firefaucet], which I've heard good things about. It's an "auto faucet" where we leave the page open and it does several claims on its own. Unlike other faucets where we need to solve a captcha for every claim, on Fire Faucet we solve a captcha to earn auto claim points. It supports 9 different cryptocurrencies, and we can even claim all of them at the same time. While the faucet claims on its own, it spends the auto claim points. When we run out of auto claim points, we have to solve a captcha again to get more in order to continue using the auto faucet. As we use the website, our level goes up. At each level, we get some bonus satoshi and the amounts we get at every claim also increases.

The 9 cryptos it supports are Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dash, Dogecoin, USDT, Tron, DigiByte and ZCash. We can convert between all of them to reach the minimum withdrawal amounts easier, and then withdraw either to our own wallet, or to [FaucetPay][faucetpay] (a "micro wallet" website that consolidates payments from faucets, much like CoinPot did, but for many more faucets).

Rising Star

But the star of the show (pun intended) to me at the moment is [risingstargame.com][risingstar]. It's a game here on the Hive blockchain where we can earn crypto. It's not really a "faucet," but is as simple to use as one (basically, just press a button to start a "mission" and wait for it to end. Once the mission ends, we get a random amount of crypto). They pay in Starbits, which is a [token on Hive Engine][starbits] which can be traded for not only HIVE, but also other cryptos, and all other tokens that are on Hive Engine. I earned over 600 Starbits already on the first day of playing. Curiously, when I checked, 1 Starbit was priced at around 0.1 satoshi. It means that I got around 60 satoshi only on the first day, which is even more than what I get from Freebitco.in in a day. As our level increases, we can do missions with much higher rewards too, so the earnings can get much better. I think it's worth trying this game out, if you haven't yet!

Read the full post

A CoinPot e Suas Faucets Vão Fechar! Hora de Procurar Outras Faucets!

aiyumi — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 01:33:51 GMT

Desde meados de 2019, venho usando as faucets da CoinPot e convertendo meus ganhos para STEEM e, mais recentemente, HIVE. No entanto, quando visitei as faucets na manhã de 16 de janeiro de 2021, eu me deparei com a triste notícia de que a CoinPot e todas suas sete faucets irão fechar. A justificativa deles é que as faucets são um hobby que eles não têm mais tempo e recursos para continuar mantendo. As faucets afetadas são: Moon Bitcoin, Moon Cash, Moon Dash, Moon Litecoin, Moon Dogecoin, Bitfun e Bonus Bitcoin. O que vai acontecer é:

No dia 31 de janeiro de 2021, todas as faucets param de funcionar e ninguém vai poder mais se cadastrar ou coletar criptos. No site da CoinPot, a loteria, o programa de recompensas VIP Rewards e a mineração via navegador também deixarão de funcionar, mas ainda será possível converter e sacar criptomoedas até 28 de fevereiro de 2021.
Em 28 de fevereiro de 2021, o site da CoinPot também vai parar de funcionar. Portanto, devemos retirar todos os nossos saldos antes dessa data.

![Imagem de uma placa pendurada, escrito \"closed\" (\"fechado\" em Inglês)](https://i.postimg.cc/pPYhmK5f/closed-sign-4959355-640.png?dl=1)
**Fonte da imagem: [Pixabay](https://pixabay.com/illustrations/closed-close-board-door-lock-down-4959355/)**

Agora, meu plano é:

Continuar coletando criptos das faucets até o último dia que eu puder (31 de janeiro).
Manter meu saldo de CoinPot Tokens até 31 de janeiro (quando o programa VIP Rewards também será interrompido), para que eu receba os pagamentos de juros diários até o último dia em que o programa ficará ativo.
Converter todos os ganhos acumulados para satoshi (Bitcoin) em algum momento de fevereiro, antes de 28 de fevereiro.
Sacar tudo.

Gosto dos resultados que obtive na CoinPot. Em um ano usando as faucets deles, consegui cerca de 198 HP só fazendo power up do que ganhei lá, e se eu converter tudo que ainda está no meu saldo para satoshi (todos os meus ganhos desses últimos seis meses), parece que posso obter algo como 80 mil satoshi (atualmente daria uns 200 HIVE, de acordo com uma simulação que fiz na BlockTrades). Essas faucets foram boas enquanto duraram!

Pretendo enviar tudo para o [Freebitco.in][freebitcoin]. É outro site de faucet bem conhecido, e uma de suas características interessantes é que eles pagam 0,011% de juros diários (4,08% de juros ao ano) sobre o nosso saldo se for superior a 30 mil satoshi (não importa se ganharmos deles ou depositarmos de outro lugar).

Então, quais faucets usar agora?

Com os preços das criptomoedas nas alturas, decidi que por enquanto vou ficar só acumulando criptos nas faucets em vez de comprar. Agora que as faucets da CoinPot vão fechar, estou procurando outras.

Fire Faucet

Além do [Freebitco.in][freebitcoin], comecei a testar um site do qual ouvi falar coisas boas, o [Fire Faucet][firefaucet]. É uma "faucet automática" em que deixamos a página aberta e ela faz várias coletas sozinha. Ao contrário de outras faucets em que precisamos resolver um captcha para cada coleta, na Fire Faucet resolvemos um captcha para ganhar pontos de "coleta automática". Ela suporta 9 criptomoedas diferentes, e podemos até coletar todas elas ao mesmo tempo. Enquanto a faucet faz as coletas sozinha, ela gasta os pontos de coletas automáticas. Quando os pontos de coletas automáticas acabam, temos que resolver um captcha novamente para conseguir mais, para continuarmos usando a faucet. À medida que usamos o site, nosso nível sobe. A cada nível, ganhamos alguns satoshi de bônus e as quantias que recebemos a cada coleta também aumentam.

As 9 criptos que o site suporta são Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dash, Dogecoin, USDT, Tron, DigiByte e ZCash. Podemos converter entre todas elas para atingir os valores mínimos de saque mais facilmente, e então, sacar para nossa própria carteira/wallet ou para a [FaucetPay][faucetpay] (um site de "micro wallet" que consolida os pagamentos de faucets, assim como a CoinPot fazia, mas para uma quantidade bem maior de faucets).

Rising Star

Read the full post

18 Months Using Faucets! Reached Bronze Level on CoinPot, and Trying a Different Faucet

aiyumi — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 19:11:39 GMT

After much grinding in the faucets, I've finally reached the Bronze level of CoinPot's VIP Rewards program. I gave an overview of the reward levels in [this other post][viprewards], but basically, to be at Bronze level we need a balance of at least 100k CoinPot Tokens. This level pays 0.04% daily interest on the CoinPot Tokens balance, and the tokens we get for every faucet claim increase from 3 to 4. It also gives a challenge star, but sadly this doesn't give 100 extra CoinPot Tokens like the stars from the other challenges. At least, 0.04% of 100k is 40, meaning I get 40 free extra tokens daily.

It was in January 3rd, 2021 that I reached the 100k tokens mark. As I expected, it took nearly three months to get here from the halfway point (around 50k tokens). And January 12th marked one year and a half (18 months) since I started using faucets! It's nice to at least begin 2021 already achieving some milestones.

![Image of two piles of gold coins, and a few coins out of the piles](https://ipfs.busy.org/ipfs/QmeCSQSHGsXExF1ev2xUJrVp9t4x6m5cAcceWswUaAnNEx)
**Image source: [Openclipart](https://openclipart.org/detail/175731/gold-coins)**

What now?

Now that I've reached the Bronze level, I can resume my original plan of converting my small crypto earnings from all the CoinPot faucets (including the CoinPot Tokens) to satoshi (Bitcoin), since Bitcoin is the crypto that gets more valuable faster. I just need to keep in mind that the reward levels are recalculated every day, which means I need to keep a balance of at least 100k CoinPot Tokens in order to remain at the Bronze level. So, I can convert whatever goes above 100k. Probably not now, though, as the Bitcoin price is so high that the CoinPot Token is currently worth only 1/4 of a satoshi! I'll continue accumulating tokens and waiting to convert once the conversion rates are more favorable.

With the crypto prices going up, I was thinking of converting the faucet earnings into cash and using them to help pay something from the daily life in the "physical world." I decided to hold off on that, though, after reading a post where the author - who has also been using faucets for a few years - wrote that, if he hadn't spent the earnings since the time he began in 2014 (which he unfortunately didn't do), he would have around 400k BRL (Brazilian Reals, around 80k USD) worth of Bitcoin now. With this as inspiration, I decided to continue using faucets and accumulating the earnings, how small they might look. One day, they might be worth much more, who knows... even if the opposite happens and they lose their value, I had gotten them for free anyway, so it'll mean I haven't lost anything.

With that decided, I thought it may be time to also try other faucets!

Freebitcoin

So far, I had been using only the faucets that use CoinPot to collect the crypto ([here's an older post explaining how each one works][faucets02]), but now I've decided to try out other faucets besides the CoinPot ones. One that I began testing recently is [Freebitco.in][freebitcoin]. It exists since 2013, being one of the oldest faucets around, and is still going strong (and paying). We can claim satoshi once every hour. The amounts we get vary, but currently (with the Bitcoin priced at around 35k USD) the minimum amount is 5 satoshi, and the maximum will always be the amount of satoshi equivalent to 200 USD (though obviously, we'll be getting the minimum value most of the time). With every claim, we get free tickets for their weekly lottery (also with prizes in satoshi), reward points which can be used to skip the captcha when claiming from the faucet, or increasing the minimum amounts we get from the faucet for 24 hours, or traded for satoshi (once we reach 100k points), or even physical prizes like crypto hardware wallets or smartphones (though those require millions of points!).

Another interesting feature of the website is that they pay 0.011% daily interest (4.08% interest per year) on our balance if it reaches at least 30k satoshi (either winning from them or depositing Bitcoin from somewhere else). So, it may be a good place to "hodl" the satoshi we get from faucets once we have enough, and make our earnings passively increase little by little.

Also, if we subscribe to their promotional emails, they send daily emails with a special link to spin their "wheel of fortune" to get free satoshi, reward points, or lottery tickets.

The website also has multiplier and betting games which I'm not comfortable to play because of the risk of losing satoshi.

Last but not least, there's also a different lottery where the winner gets a Lamborghini! But the tickets for that cost 25k satoshi.

This summarizes what the website has to offer. I'm liking the website so far, and may write a more detailed post about it once I have used it more and have some tips to share. [Here's the site's link again][freebitcoin] for anyone interested.

Read the full post