I see that more and more investors are interested in a passive income that comes from cryptocurrencies. But, I am a little bit afraid that all these concepts: staking, crypto lending, and all form of income that is generated from nothing will end up sooner or later. When you compare mining, you have to buy mining rigs at first, then you need to pay electricity, so you spent a lot of money to mine a Bitcoin and that makes it valuable. What about staking? What you sacrifice to receive new coins?
some cryptocurrencies that are based on Proof of Stake Blockchain, require investing in the form of the project coin itself for the continuity of the Network. these investors get rationed coins reward if they break the block of transactions, maybe this is known as passive income. in some projects it is very worth it like Dash coins, but sometimes many projects end up with a scam. we must be good at analyzing and monitoring the progress.
For Bitcoin, we indeed have to invest in a device to mine coins and get coins from sharing income if we mine in the Pool. Both of these investment activities have the same objective, only to get profit.
Currently, there are other sacrifices to gain profit, namely the sacrifice of time and intelligence. one of them is a proof of person based project, you only have to have a computer and an internet connection, you can mine coins just by completing the flip picture challenge. you don't spend any money even you get income from it.