What a first year to pick, right? Let me be clear, I am a 48 year old nerd. Of course I tried to mine some on a Mac a long time ago, didn't seem to work. Instawallet, I know got hacked anyway, so anything I did mine got stolen. Eff that... but I kept myself informed. Was interesting. I remeber hearing about Ethereum and thinking I liked it better, maybe be smart to just buy some and stash it away, but I didn't do that. Officially, I bought Bitcoin, August 15ish, 2017 and then I started CryptoNinja.co which is really a blog in my exploration of how to earn cryptocurrency and get passive income. My word and my honesty is what matters on my site, and I take full responsibility for it. I got scammed.
I promoted, for a short time, FFlakmining.com, which was a scam. They had me fooled, up to the last day. I avoided Bitconnect, wrote that it was a scam before it imploded. I avoiding a lot of things now that just "might be scams" ... no way. I want CryptoNinja.co to be so safe, you send your grandma there to learn about crypto. "But don't click on any of these other things."
Of course I have also had some faucets I listed go bad. Not saying those people are scammers, but I just don't list them anymore. I do the best that I can to list honest faucets, for honest faucet users, but I would suggest never clicking on any of the ads. I'm not saying #CryptoLux is a scam ... I don't promote it.
None of those cloud mining sites that give you a "free 100 GHS" are for real. I wrote in another article, when you see that "days online" thing, you know it's the same scammers. Don't click on that garbage. My advice to all my users, never click on any of that stuff!
Also, I will never ask you to send me any funds. Never. If someone claims to be from my site contacts you and asks for funds, says you won a prize, etc., it's a scam.