I know that having few dollars is a not a side business but when you have 100+ people claiming as your affiliate it becomes tens of dollars, even sometimes over hundred dollars and that is not bad, specially for me since I live in a not rich country. However I have failed my goal about the affiliates, they are very low on numbers and recently haven't played in a long time.
Not really, even having 1000 might not mean getting rich because most tend to lose interest over time, which can be caused by many factors.
Exactly, it all depends on luck. When looking at the stats of freebitco.in, the person on nr 3 has only 5 referrals but won thanks to them 22.68 BTC!
The nr 2 has won 23.9 BTC but has over 146 000 referrals...Most of the people just loose interest, but if you have luck and your referral is very active and gambles a lot, than you can receive a nice amount of money

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