😉 We're back

GM everyone. This is 2036, the crypto newsletter that pays you.

Here’s what we’re serving up today 🍲: after a short break, paid tasks are back at 2036! We’re super excited about it - and today’s inaugural task will be a classic👌.

Let’s dig in.

🥔 Today’s meat and potatoes

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Memecoin summer is here.

And for the first time ever - it’s not happening on Ethereum or Solana. It’s happening on Bitcoin.

We’ll write a detailed tutorial on bitcoin memecoins soon. But to participate, you’ll need - you guessed it - bitcoin.

Getting some bitcoin is step 1 in everyone’s crypto journey (along with red wine & green tea 🍷 🍵 ~ 15/85 ratio).

Bitcoin’s underrated. Unlike most other cryptos, bitcoin isn’t a technology company. It’s an element, like digital gold.

I know it feels boring compared to your 100X coin. But it's also your gateway drug to DeFi, NFTs and Web3.

And for the first time ever - we have decentralized applications on bitcoin.

And they could become huge.

If even a fraction of all the apps on Ethereum gets replicated on the bitcoin blockchain, it will be BILLIONS in value creation.

And it all starts with getting some bitcoin.

That’s why we’re re-introducing Wallet Wednesday - a 2036 classic.

We’ll pay one of you $25 to:

• open up a bitcoin wallet

• send us your public address

And if you already have a bitcoin wallet, you can send us that too. We don’t discriminate against OGs here.

You can buy bitcoin on Coinbase or Binance, or any other exchange. Which one you choose doesn’t matter.

You’ll soon need a dedicated wallet to buy bitcoin memecoins and NFTs.

But in the meantime, if you’re looking to secure your bitcoin, here are the best wallet recommendations out there:

• For offline security backup: Ledger combined with Cryptotag (despite the recent turmoil surrounding Ledger, we’re still comfortable recommending them)

• For simplicity and security: Coinbase

• For desktop: Electrum

• For Android: Samourai

• For iPhone: Blockstream Green

• For a web wallet: BitGo

• For privacy nerds: Joinmarket 

• For security nerds: Casa

So let’s get right to it.

📝 Task

Earn $25 in BTC for a simple crypto task

Today’s task is simple. It’s our classic Wallet Wednesday:

We’ll tally all the participants in a Google sheet and mathematically choose a winner at random who’ll receive $25 in BTC.

For transparency, the sheet will be viewable by all and sent out to you in Friday’s email.

🍨 Dessert

Stories to read if you have FOMO

1/ Bitcoin NFTs are surging

2/ Ledger’s new rollout is put on pause

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