Back when fiat was my focus¹, I spent a decent amount of time scrounging for "beer money." This is a technique where you use sites that offer rebates and money for watching videos or sites like Prolific that let you participate in academic studies for money to make extra cash on the side. It's not meant as a way to make a living, but as a way to bring in $50-100 extra a month for beer or whatever small things someone might want. It's not totally dissimilar from basic sat stacking -- getting a few bucks worth of rebates from Ibotta instead of getting sats from the Bitcoin Magazine app.

I'd been away from it for a bit even before getting more and more into BTC, because there's only so much time in the day. But the mindset has helped inform me as I stack those sats.

But I've realized that I've been shortsighted here. I should still be going after the beer money, because that extra ~$50 a month can be traded right away for sats. It's not part of the fiat I need for housing and other costs, and leaving it on the table is a waste.

(Not all of the beer money ecosystem pays cash -- one app gets me gift cards at my grocery store, but reducing my fiat output is also good for shifting to sats.)

So yeah, had this tool to help stack sats right in front of me, and am definitely going to start re-embracing it. So far, have just stacked a few thousand sats this way (started at the beginning of the month, and it takes some time to build a good engine for this), but my goal is to see if I can get to 100K in a month, if not in March, at least in April. If you're in a position to do this, don't overlook it as an additional source of stacking.