1729 will be a newsletter that pays subscribers, giving out at least $1,000 in Bitcoin prizes daily for completing tasks.

Judged at end-2021. Delivered means the 1729 newsletter launched and paid subscribers Bitcoin prizes for completing tasks, totalling at least $1,000 a day over a sustained period. TRUE: records show daily prizes of at least $1,000 in BTC paid to subscribers for tasks. MOSTLY TRUE: paid task prizes in BTC ran regularly, with only small shortfalls in the daily amount or the odd missed day. MOSTLY FALSE: only occasional or token payouts, or payouts that ran briefly and then stopped. FALSE: positive evidence (e.g. 1729's own archive, or reports on the project) shows it never paid subscribers prizes for tasks, or that the scheme was abandoned before any payouts. The subject's own statements must be backed by the published task and winner announcements or on-chain payment records.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Learn to Make a Discord Bot with Replit balajis.com (1729 task post, by Replit) · 26 May 2021 Own record

   “Five submissions received $100 in BTC for their Discord bot made with Replit. The grand prize winner for the best bot received $1000 in BTC.”

2. E2 Proof-of-Workout: Fitness Dashboard Edition balajis.com (1729 task post) · 23 April 2021 Own record

   “Our earlier experiment with proof-of-workout worked! Hundreds of people exercised and sent in their proofs, and one hundred of the best were selected and got paid $10 in Bitcoin each.”

3. E3 Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178 My First Million (podcast episode page, third-party summary) · 5 May 2021

   “Free newsletter that pays you in bitcoin. Regular bitcoin bounties for tasks and tutorials”

4. E4 A Newsletter That Pays You balajis.com (1729 launch post) · 25 March 2021 Own record

   “It has a regular feed of paid tasks and tutorials with $1000+ in crypto prizes per day”

5. E5 Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178 myfirstmillion.wiki (third-party transcript/summary of the My First Million podcast) · 5 May 2021

   “I got one recently — basically you can earn $3,000 in bitcoin if you create memes that promote crypto adoption in India.”

6. E6 Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178 myfirstmillion.wiki (third-party transcript/summary of the My First Million podcast) · 5 May 2021 Own record

   “One thing I did at 1729 is “proof of workout” — you submit proof of a workout, we give you $10 in BTC if it’s in the top 100 that day.”

7. E7 Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178 myfirstmillion.wiki (third-party transcript/summary of the My First Million podcast) · 5 May 2021 Own record

   “Free newsletter that pays you in bitcoin. Regular bitcoin bounties for tasks and tutorials”

8. E8 A Newsletter That Pays You to Make Newsletters balajis.com (Balaji Srinivasan) · 26 March 2021 Own record

   “Ten newsletters received $100 in Bitcoin for their coverage of technological progress. Check some of them out!”

9. E9 Create Afrofuturist Art for Bitcoin balajis.com (Balaji Srinivasan) · 9 May 2021 Own record

   “We’re looking for ten amazing visualizations of an optimistic African Future. 1729 will provide a prize of $1000 in BTC for the best 10 works of art ($100/design).”

10. E10 Fun With Incentives norswap.com (personal blog) · 30 April 2021

    “My submissions got selected on some of these tasks and I got ~220$ out of those that have been awarded so far.”

11. E11 Fun With Incentives norswap.com (personal blog) · 30 April 2021

    “During this past month, I had a lot of fun with 1729.com, a newsletter that pays its members in Bitcoins for performing tasks — which are typically interesting and will teach you something useful.”

Independent accounts confirm that the 1729 newsletter launched and paid members in Bitcoin for completing tasks. A participant reported earning about $220 over the first month (E11, E12), and a third-party podcast summary describes regular Bitcoin bounties (E3). Winner announcements on the subject's site report paid task prizes of about $1,000 or more in BTC per task between March and May 2021: ten $100 newsletter prizes (E9), one hundred $10 workout prizes (E2) and $1,500 for the Discord bot task (E1); a further art task offered a $1,000 prize pool (E10), but no payout for it is reported. However, the evidence does not show that payouts reached at least $1,000 every day or that they continued through end-2021, so the verdict is mostly true rather than true.