# Web3 lessons and hints

By [Miguel](https://paragraph.com/@miguel-2) · 2022-05-29

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**Tips on how to earn cryptocurrencies without having to buy them:**

💜 Using Web3 social apps that reward users for their engagement and popularity, or allow users to subscribe to other users’ premium content via crypto transactions.

💜 Applying for jobs that pay in crypto.

💜 Cryptocurrency staking via your digital wallet staking feature.

💜 Publishing your blog articles as series of NFTs using [Mirror.xyz](https://mirror.xyz) (see the 'collect' button at the end and top right of this article); People who want to support your work will ‘tip’ you by collecting (buying) your NFT.

💜 Using move-to-earn Web3 apps that pay you to workout.

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[**NEAR**](https://near.org) **will definitely shape the new internet** - key points:

🍅 **NEAR** is a public community-run cloud **platform** for building scalable dApps (decentralized or Web3 applications) powered by the **NEAR** **Protocol** / blockchain. NEAR makes it easy to build on Web3 (as easy as on Web2).

🍅 NEAR Protocol is is a public, sharded, developer-friendly, proof-of-stake, and climate-neutral blockchain - founded by Illia Polosukhin (ex-Google) and Alexander Skidanov (ex-Microsoft).

🍅 Sharding is a database partitioning technique that enables blockchains to process more transactions per second - it is used with the purpose of scalability.

🍅 High speeds, low fees, and blockchain interoperability - ready for explosive growth.

🍅 [NEAR wallet](https://mynearwallet.com/) - in order to create one for free with a few clicks, you might wanna consider installing and trying the Sweatcoin app introduced on

[https://mirror.xyz/0x2DBF911D78815D995B05bc8FA42e378f78D7CC7b/0TnLpgkakJOfg5UbR1ojiFm4CtpprkgX1knADARO8II](https://mirror.xyz/0x2DBF911D78815D995B05bc8FA42e378f78D7CC7b/0TnLpgkakJOfg5UbR1ojiFm4CtpprkgX1knADARO8II)

**NEAR Ecosystem**:

[https://awesomenear.com](https://awesomenear.com)

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**NFTs make it possible to sell online classes in a very simple way:**

🥑 Unlike current Web2 platforms like udemy, it will be easier to sell single classes, instead of full courses, which means you can start earning sooner.

🥑 You should use marketplaces that allow you to include **UNLOCKABLE** **content** in your NFT - **What is that?** Its any file that only the person who owns the NFT has access to.

🥑 You would sell one class per NFT by including (i) a short preview of the class as the preview of your NFT (accessible to anyone), and (ii) the file of the full class as the UNLOCKABLE content of your NFT.

🥑 Whenever possible, I recommend you do not allow downloading of the UNLOCKABLE content.

🥑 I would create a series of many identical NFTs per class being sold, where buyers wouldn´t be allowed to resell the NFT.

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*Originally published on [Miguel](https://paragraph.com/@miguel-2/web3-lessons-and-hints)*
