If your good intention is 'more sports in 2018', we have good news for you. This app gives you that little bit of extra support to go to the gym, and even your steps are counted when you are outside, so you can even skip that treadmill. Sports is often not a problem once you are busy, but of course a big reward always helps. Meet the mobile app called Sweatcoin. That pays you money for your steps.
This smart idea is from Oleg Fomenko, he has greatly facilitated the idea of trading or mining a coin by getting an excercise or tad of your ordinary daily footsteps for which you can easily earn money by exchanging your earned coins for paypal credit. or a new iphone. It is a similar app that everyone already on the iphone has the "health" app, which also records your daily footsteps, only you do not earn any money here. The Sweatcoin was founded in 2014 and now has around more than 5 million users in the past year. There are more than 2 million weekly active users online and growing, making it one of the fastest-growing fitness apps on the App Store.
Make easy money
Sweatcoin ensures that you do not have to invest any money. Instead, you earn coins by sweating. The app for Android and iOS counts your steps every day. At the end of the day those steps are neatly converted into a digital currency called Sweatcoin. A kind of coins mines, but then environmentally friendly and healthy. The app is free, but there is a catch: you must always have it active in the background and allow your GPS data. Only then can you get credit for the number of steps you have taken. This can be a hell for your phone battery, but to solve that you can put it in the energy position via the app that will work great.
With the earned Sweatcoins you can then also buy products. Think of Paypal credit, so actually exchange your coins to paypal or to your bank. But also smartphones like the iPhone X. The app is also completely free. There is, however, a catch: you must always leave the application in the background. The same applies to GPS, because Sweatcoin has to map out your steps. In other words, your battery will drain a lot faster. Fortunately, in the app is a more economical mode, but then you earn less coins.
Good to know
Steps count only when you are outside. The conveyor belt or all your sprints up the stairs do not count. The app says you can only earn these coins by walking outside so it theoretically doesn’t count if you are walking on a treadmill at the gym, though the app on my phone seems to count steps inside my apartment, as well. That’s at least something, its also a great way for some extra side income. But how much do you deliver? According to enthusiastic users, you get about 1 Sweatcoin for every thousand steps. With 10,000 steps per day you can, for example, purchase $300 Paypal Credit (United States Dollars or Euro's) or a FitBit Flex within two months.
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