Yechiel Kalmenson

Posted on Jun 30, 2020

How Much Have You Made Off Of DEV Monetization?

#watercooler #discuss #monetization

It's now over 2 weeks since DEV announced that it added Web Monetization:

DEV is now Web Monetized

Peter Kim Frank for The DEV Team ・ Jun 10 '20

#webmonetization #gftwhackathon #coil #meta

I thought it would be fun for us to show off how much money we've all raked in!

Personally I decided to point my content at my Bitcoin ledger, so I can finally say I own Bitcoin!

As you can see, I'm currently the proud owner of about ฿0 (accurate to about 4 decimal places).

Clearly I have a ways to go before I can quit my day job.

How much have you made so far?

Latest comments (24)

Bogdan Covrig • Jul 7 '20

Although I did not post anything in a while, I got my share this morning – from the old posts I guess!

Jason C. McDonald • Jul 1 '20

Nothing at all. :(

Tangentally, I already had an Uphold because I actually do use Brave Rewards, but since most sites I use don't accept said Rewards, I get them back. I've made about $30 just from letting Brave show me anonymized ads. XD

Alvaro Montoro • Jul 1 '20 • Edited

I've made $0.005 (half a cent) 😅

All in the first 24 hours... then nothing for the following 16 days (I haven't been too active lately.)

Facundo Soria • Jul 1 '20

0.0.0.0 😆

Jacob Colborn • Jul 1 '20

I've got my incoming coming into USD and right now it's at about $0.0018 and ticking. This is only from my older articles since I have only written 1 post since adding the web monetization link.

Jean-Michel Plourde • Jul 1 '20

I really want to know how much the Vaughn, Bostian and Spittel make on dev.to. They are always posting out very interesting articles that attract a lot of traffic. I'm really curious to know how's it going for the most notorious writers here.

Yechiel Kalmenson • Jul 1 '20

I'm more curious to see what the generic DEV payment pointer is getting!

spiritupbro • Jul 1 '20

0.03

Tim Downey • Jun 30 '20

It's funny, I'm pointing mine at a BTC wallet as well for the same reason. I own 1E-5 of a Bitcoin now! 😂

Or like 9 cents. 🤑

This bit from the Coil FAQ is interesting:

The payout rate starts at $0.36 an hour. This amount tapers to a lower rate once you've streamed $4.50.

It's a bit surprising that payments from Coil are front-loaded to the beginning of the month. By the end, most Coil users would have burned through that... hence the fractional pennies. 😅