So I think most people familiar with coin app know its marketed as a geominining app but it's function is much darker and the evidence is in the rewards they give. I tested all aspects of this app and here is what I found.
The first thing to note is that it analyses your behaviour on your phone. The app does not like being ignored and will accumulate videos and intensify collection of points if it is left open to bring you back in, however it anyses your use of the app to gain points and block those methods. For example, they have things called geomines which are people dropping large quantity of coins for people to collect when the icon appears on the app. The first 200 people get some of the coins. When I started, they would drop every 37 to 45 seconds. The app detected my behaviour and changed it to space them out longer so I would not get the rewards as frequently. If you do get first place, you only get 1pc if the total pot which is pathetic. They made it harder for me to get the geomines.
The second thing they do is that they never tell you when geomines become available and only show the icon randomly such as after an ad etc... This is counterproductive to the end user because geomines are generally all collected within the first 20 seconds so when the icon appears, more times than not the geomines are all taken.
Another way to collect coin is to listen to audio ads and push the mining icon. The mining icon only gives a max of. 20 coin which is rubbish but the ads will give you 2.0. max. I found when you put the mining icon on auto explore, the ads would play frequently but the app detected this and stopped it. It also cut back my video ads which would give me up to 4.0 coin. It also detected I was force refreshing the app by switching between apps so ads would play and they stopped this. This was all to stop me getting enough coin. The behaviour monitoring was very disturbing if I'm honest.
Another way to earn coin was through surveys. But unfortunately these surveys are all ages meaning that if you are over a certain age, they disqualify you but still collect the data. They also advertise short surveys which is a lie, the average survey is 30 minutes and only ever give you a fraction of coin they advertise.
The surveys do advertise large coin amounts but I never got these amounts.
There are short games but we're never available to me.
The largest coins were for surveys, ads and games and the geominining as they advertise is pitiful low coins mounts.
I tested the driving function which advertised a geominining amount at destination. Never got it. I did a journey of 100 miles one day and I only got 27 coins.
The point of all this is to raise enough coin to get a minimum of 1000 xyo coin. These coins have no value until you can swap them for actual valued items. You have to raise 10000 coin to get the lowest value item which are the xyo coin.
It took me nearly a month of constant usage to reach 10000 but I did get the xyo coin. If you use the coin app there is no charge for transfer but the caviet is that your country allows trading in xyo on the coinbase wallet which my country was not so I had to use eth wallet which charged me 167 xyo for processing.
Other things that this app does is when you select the geomines icon for drops, it will display an add to purchase their subscription prohibiting the user from selecting the geodrops quickly. Another example where the app tries to deter you from coin collection.
Some video ads purposely display blank ads that never finish so prohibiting coin collection.
If and audio ad plays at the same time as a video ad, the video ad will hang prohibiting coin collection.
I collected my 10000, took the xyo and left.
It also advertises gambling apps and fraud apps which promote gambling and theft and nothing else from videos. The audio ads are standard marketing and government propaganda.
This app rewards for behaviour analysis and data. Geominining is only a front with low rewards.
If you do want to use it, get your 10k and leave.
