Do you need a quick and simple way to Earn some Bitcoins? Look no further, this has to be the easiest way to make some money.
You know there are these hosting providers where you pay 10-20$ monthly to host your images on, and there are the free image hosting services. But now there are services that actually pay you to host your images there.
So instead of paying to host images, you are now making money by hosting images. It's a 180 degree turn, and it's fantastic.
Supload
There is a new player in town called Supload, this website will pay you some Bitcoins to host your images there. I have observed for a few weeks now that Redditors at /r/Bitcoin like to upload images there, and then post it on Reddit. A sneaky way to make money by using Reddit's /r/Bitcoin subreddit as a traffic source.
Now you can register there and start uploading pictures there, and you will get paid in Bitcoins based on how many views you will get. So by default, you can host your Steemit photos there, and use the number of views the photo makes to earn some quick coins.
I could not find out how many days the photos stay there, if inactive, or if it's permanent hosting. Neither their TOS nor their FAQ describes this, so if you plan on hosting pictures for longterm there, you might want to contact them and ask them.
Copyright
Now there might be a problem with copyright there so make sure you understand the copyright laws of your location, and let me make this clear, this is not a legal advice, I am not a lawyer:
But I think there could be a problem if you host 3rd party photos that you then link a source too. For example if you upload a photo to a free image hosting service, but which is copyrighted, but you can use it as an illustration if it's sourced, and also transformatively if your add something to it and or add the original source. So for example I can put a photo here, and talk about it, as a form of commentary and criticism and if I illustrate the source.
However with Supload, if you were to upload a 3rd party photo there that you don't hold the copyright of, might be direct copyright infringement, since it's no longer transformative work, because you directly earn money from the photo itself, and not necessarily from the article that you write to it. I am not sure if the traffic and the audience itself counts, but it's just good to keep that in mind.
So in my opinion only upload photos there that you have the copyright of, otherwise it could be plagiarism. But again, I'm no legal expert, this is just my theory.
Photo via https://supload.com