Furthermore, if anyone has any other suggestions, tips, or new methods for earning some crypto... I could use some ideas. I'll continue to search around the forum in the meantime. Thanks

I'm just going to say that if you want to be a Coinbase player, you have to play by their rules, and there's not much else to say. If you don't like their rules, you just have to look elsewhere and Binance is the only one of the big ones that doesn't require KYC up to a certain amount.
As for other ways to make money in the crypto world, you have a few choices :
- try to get involved in some signatures campaign that pays for BTC, which of course requires you to be active in the forum and to try to be useful to the community in some way.
- if you have some skills (programming, graphic design, marketing ...) you can offer them to forum members.
- do you have anything you can sell for BTC and what would be interesting to members of the forum?
- maybe you can start a website, advertise some popular services/products through your referral/affiliate links?