OP, that's interesting.  I've heard about steemit on this forum but don't really know much about it.  Earning anything from writing is very cool.  I guess you could say signature campaigns are a way to do that, but it's not quite the same thing.

I *generate* bitcoin by the above and buy it with earnings I get from my job.  I don't know much about mining, so I leave that to the whales to do.  Definitely nothing passive, though I get the appeal of that.