Overall Rating:
Earning Potential:
$15-$30/month with minimal effort, $50-$100/month if you play games pretty actively
About ZBD
Zebedee was founded in 2019 by Simon Cowell (CEO), André Neves (CTO) and Christian Moss (Head of R&D) in Hoboken, NJ. Their idea was to build a place where game developers and gamers could create and share values in and out of the game environment. This app is great for anyone wanting to “test the waters” of getting into crypto without having the use their own money.
Their app has “native” apps that pay out continuously in “satoshi” which is essentially a portion if 1 bitcoin. 100,000,000 Satoshi = 1 bitcoin. As of the writing of this post, bitcoin is hovering around $60k, so 100 satoshi are around 6 cents. Some native games on the app include Bitcoin Miner (FumbGames – 2022) reached 1 million downloads at Play Store, followed by SaruTobi (MandelDuck – 2014) and Club Bitcoin Solitaire (Thundr – 2023) with 100,000 downloads. I’ll do some individual reviews of these apps later.
Right now they have lots of games, a podcast player (Fountain), a Chrome extension that pays you to look at ads (Slice), and a gamefied ripoff of TikTok (PopReel) for those who aren’t into games. Everyone can find a way to get some sats with ZBD. Cashing out is super simple. If you wish to keep the sats as “crypto” you can transfer to coinbase, cashapp, and various other wallets that support lightning network. If you want to just get some money and not mess with the crypto b.s. there is also a “redeem for gift cards” options that requires zero understanding of crypto currency.
How to signup
Click the following link https://zbd.link/hcHi/invite?af_sub1=G2SH0V
Download the app via android or iphone (the link should take you there, if not, search “zbd” in the respective app store).
When you first open the app, you will be prompted for a referral code. Feel free to use mine, G2SH0V (the 0 is a zero, not the letter O). This will give you access, as well as “link” our accounts and I’ll do some special giveaways in the future for linked accounts.
And that’s it, easy peasy and you’re ready to start earning.
Pros and Cons
Design
Pros: I love the interface. You start on a screen showing your current “sats balance” and a conversion to a dollar amount so you don’t have to “know how much a sat is” to understand how much you’ve made.. I love how they organized all the buttons and important features on the home page. You have a separate tab for your wallet, games, other ways to earn (surveys, social media, referral codes), and the social area of ZBD. Games is where you’ll find all of the zbd native sat token paying apps as well as the “pay to download” popular non sat games (candy crush, games like that). Earn has a neat section called “playtime” where some games pay per minute(s) played. These are nice if you’re working or doing something you need to pay attention to, you can just leave your phone running off to the side and make some easy sats. The send/receive buttons let you send to friends you have on the app via their lightning address which is a neat feature. The Cash out options either let you redeem for gift cards or send to a wallet if you’re into cryptocurrency. You can also “keep the sats in this app” and they’ll fluctuate with bitcoin pricing, so you’re technically “invested in bitcoin” without even sending to a wallet.
Cons: No cons really, some people don’t like how “big” it shows your balance because someone sitting close could see it, but honestly nobody is going to see your $37 balance of satoshis and try to rob you for them, you’ll be fine.
Games
Pros: Lots of games for you to choose from! From games designed specially for ZBD to some well-known games from the Play Store. It’s a nice way to boost some indie game developers. And ZBD also has a streaming platform that monetizes live streams with Bitcoin, helping even more the game community.
Cons: Some of the ZBD native games are fantastic (bitcoin miner is my favorite, click the link for the full review) but a few of them feel really “rushed” and “amateurish” as far as design. Bitcoin pusher for example, while it pays decent, is an obvious ripoff of coin dozer but feels way less “polished” and lags a lot.