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Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

#181

Few bitcoin Antminers. They are paying as much as I'll be earning at my new job I'm starting with the beginning of the February. I basically cloned myself in terms of income by buying them. They should pay for themselves in 3-4 months. I'm not sure if that's passive income or capital gain though.

How many do you own?

Currently 5. They should have decent output even after they paid for themselves.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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post #179

I have been running a simple career site for Marines for the last 2 years, and have now slowly grown to capture about half the Marine Corps monthly. It slowly drags in $400 a month and has been creeping up to the 5k mailing list mark. I work on it about a day a month, if that.

Link?

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

#185
I make about $400 a month quite passively by selling software with Envato. Just the occasional comment and email which takes 5 - 10 minutes a day at most. I also sell a beginners book on creating and selling WordPress plugins which only sells one or two a week.

I have a bunch of cool stuff out there but my biggest weakness is marketing. I can never seem to drive enough targeted traffic to my projects.

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

#186
post #179

I have been running a simple career site for Marines for the last 2 years, and have now slowly grown to capture about half the Marine Corps monthly. It slowly drags in $400 a month and has been creeping up to the 5k mailing list mark. I work on it about a day a month, if that.

Link?

http://www.killfoot.com

Also what kind of map-making are you working on in the travel space?

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

#187
post #133

Few bitcoin Antminers. They are paying as much as I'll be earning at my new job I'm starting with the beginning of the February. I basically cloned myself in terms of income by buying them. They should pay for themselves in 3-4 months. I'm not sure if that's passive income or capital gain though.

Yeah, but miners get obsolete very quickly, since the difficulty is growing exponentially.

Difficulty growth seems to be sort of correlated and lag a bit exponential growth of bitcoin price.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/419/is-there-empi...

Re: Your best passive income? (2014)

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post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.killfoot.com Also what kind of map-making are you working on in the travel space?

How much time did that take to build and maintain?

It went through a couple iterations, and settled on this one. Technically it only took a couple hours to make, and I spend about 2 hours a month actually providing the service. But, as with any side project I tinker with it a couple times a month.
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