earn.com joins Coinbase

Paid email is already one of the first truly useful applications of the blockchain. With Coinbase, Earn.com can prove that at scale.

As of today, earn.com is being acquired by Coinbase! The earn.com product is going to get bigger and better as a consequence of this deal. earn.com allows senders to pay users in digital currency for replying to emails and completing tasks. Relative to the status quo, the introduction of payments benefits both normal email users and large-scale senders of commercial emails.

earn.com users complete tasks on web and mobile to earn crypto.

If you’re a normal email user, you can now earn money in your free time simply by replying to emails. You can keep the money you earn, or donate it to charity with one click. You can also use the prices of inbound emails as a signal to rank them by importance. And you know immediately what the sender wants from you in a reply, as they’ve made their payment conditional on the completion of a very specific task. Hundreds of thousands of users have earned digital currency with Earn.com so far, earning millions of dollars in their free time.

Senders use earn.com to create paid email campaigns and surveys.

Conversely, if you’re a sender of commercial email, you can use Earn.com to pay one user or one hundred thousand to get them to quickly reply to important messages. Thousands of senders have sent millions of dollars worth of paid messages through Earn.com for recruiting, fundraising, and marketing their products. Empirically, we find that earn.com senders get 30–70% response rates within 24 hours for $1–10 incentives, even for messages with many thousands of recipients. This is extraordinarily high relative to the typical 1.7% response rates for cold emails. As such, any business that sends cold email or conducts surveys can benefit from Earn.com.

The blockchain is a fundamental enabling technology for Earn.com, because it allows us to accommodate senders and users anywhere in the world. In particular, we can effectively compensate a user in any country with a small amount of money for replying to an email or completing a simple task, even if they lack a bank account.

earn.com also has many other features, like a search engine where you can find users through their public profiles and pay them to reply, lists that users can join to make more money, a Gmail integration which allows you to bounce commercial emails sent to your address, and a shareable task feature which allows you to outsource work to your business’s Twitter and Facebook followers. And Earn.com also extends beyond simply replying to emails, because we also allow senders to create surveys, tasks, and multi-stage pipelines that combine more than one digital task.

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