Annika Michales xcHp

We all know Pi mining rate dropped significantly a few days ago (0.0029 pi/hr default Mining rate). I see a majority of new ones mine at a meagre 0.01 pi/hr considering all bonus. Here's a few legit ways you can increase your Pi bonus and you don't even need to be an old pioneer for this (except the last one):
1. Security Circle Bonus: Depending on how many members you have in your security circle, you can get up to 100% bonus (maximum of five members). Adding more than five members to this circle won't increase your security circle bonus, however, do ensure that the five members you have are all KYC'd or have at least applied for KYC. Bonus from non-KYC'd guys won't be considered.
2. Commit to a lockup: Following the mainnet migration check, you'll be prompted to commit to a lockup. According to me and a good majority of pioneers, the ideal commitment parameters currently are a) locking 50% of the transferrable balance upon migrations; and b) Duration of three years. This configuration will give you a sweet 200% bonus and can increase based on how many days you've mined (Bonus = Proportion committed x Duration x Log(Number of days mined))
3. Referrals Bonus: I don't have to elaborate much here, but do ensure the referrals who are more active with their mining are all KYC'd or have at least applied for KYC. You don't have to worry about the KYC of ones who barely ever mine because the referrals' bonus from them will be insignificant.
4. Utility Bonus: Try to browse through Pi Browser ecosystem and Fireside ("Instagram" equivalent of Pi Browser). Depending on how much time you spend on Pi Browser surfing through its ecosystem apps, you can get utility bonus almost as high as 0.76X (This is equivalent to having three referrals in your network). I normally get around 0.3-0.4X for surfing Pi Browser for about an hour. However, I know guys who browse through Pi Browser for over five hours per day. They are the ones clocking an impressive 0.7-0.8X bonus.
5. Node Bonus: I know guys in my circle who barely ever bothered about referrals because node bonus is apparently where it's at. Depending on how long you've set up the node on your system, I've seen people clocking a sweet bonus 10-14X (almost equivalent to 40-56 referrals). However, do know that these are the guys who have run their PCs for almost two years straight 😅😅 24/7. I also have been running a node for about three weeks now and currently get around 1.75X bonus from the node alone.
However, I only run for around 16-18 hours per day. If you think that's too much, I came across a guy on Reddit who's getting a 26X bonus 🗿🗿 (equivalent to 104 referrals). He has run his node for nearly four years non-stop lol.
You can find detailed videos on how to set up a node; however, depending on how technical you can get, please ensure your WiFi router doesn't have CGNAT security (a good number of ISPs actually have this security) or else, you won't be able to establish "port forwarding" and your incoming connections will be zero, which means node bonus drops big time. I know guys who have run nodes for two months but only getting a lousy 0.75X bonus because their port forwarding doesn't work.
You may have to try a VPN service in order to establish it. Free options include Ngrok, but I can't tell how effective it is because I've only used it for three weeks, but it's the closest you can get to getting a free service for "port forwarding". If it works for me, I'll make a dedicated post next month how to set up Ngrok and port forwarding. Also remember, you only have to worry about port forwarding the ports 31401, 31402, and 31403. Others are meaningless at the moment, so don't bother about them.
Also, please only use a spare laptop/PC. The requirement isn't intensive at all but don't just abuse your system for hours or even days at a go, especially considering we have summers approaching soon enough and the last thing you want is your system to undergo a meltdown. I run the node on my laptop for around 15-16 hours on battery saver mode (CPU usage less than 30%) and then give it a break for anywhere between four to six hours.
The mining rate will only lower further in coming months as the demand for Pi builds up, so depending on what potential you see in this project, try to follow these steps religiously, and you'll see a decent bonus. For an average guy with five members in security circle and two members mining per day, you can get around 0.04 pi/hr with a bit of utility and node bonus.
VERY IMPORTANT: The bonus accrued from above methods won't be immediately updated to your transferrable balance. They go to "unverified balance", which will soon be credited to your "transferrable balance" when the core team implements the mechanism for the same.

If you're interested in Pi, I found another early-stage mobile-mining project called "Delta". It's built on the ICP protocol and is backed by Dfinity. You can download the apk from the website "delta.kim" (Just Google search "delta.kim"). Use my referral DID: D9C1NK1C7H0C4 for a 33% mining boost. They currently have over 50K users (20K achieved in last week alone).
You can also check out another project called BlockDAG (Referral Code: A4qlM83a), which I find a bit more promising and developed over Delta as they have already fundraised around $200Mn in pre-sales, but they're nowhere near as early-stage as Delta is, so the mining rate isn't as good. You can download the BlockDag 1X Miner apk through their website "blockdag.network".
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I see a boatload of nonsensical posts on #PiNetwork here on Binance, ranging from "Analyzing whether Pi will hit $314k" to "Pi Network is a gigantic Pyramid scheme fuelled by naive peasants", so I'm going to cover something of far greater significance because #picoin deserves better. The question is:

"What will happen to our unverified balance?"
This explanation will be long, but I'll try to sort everything out. Please read till the end to understand everything.

So currently, there's three elements: "Transferrable Pi", "Unverified Pi", and "Migrated Pi". For my explanation, "Migrated Pi" is not important, so I'll skip it.

"Transferrable Pi" comprises of the Pi that's accumulated through your app's default Mining Rate. The current mining rate on the app is 0.0029 pi/hr, so any given day, your transferrable balance will only increase by 0.0029*24 hrs ~ 0.07 pi/day. You can verify it every day by checking that your transferrable balance will only increase by 0.07 pi/day. I verified this for over three weeks last month when the mining rate was 0.0047 pi/hr. My transferrable balance increased by 0.11 pi (0.0047*24 hrs) every day.

What does this mean?

This means regardless of how many members are available in your security circle (KYC'd or non-KYC'd), referrals (KYC'd or non-KYC'd), and regardless of the utility bonus as well as node bonus you're getting, your transferrable balance is definitely not taking any of these into consideration right now.

This brings me to the next component, which is:

"Unverified Pi": This section consists of all the bonus Pi that you have accrued from your security circle members (both KYC'd and non-KYC'd), referrals (both KYC'd and non-KYC'd), utility bonus, and finally, the node bonus.
Since this section also consists of "bonus Pi" from KYC'd members in your security circle/referrals, this is the reason why there are pioneers who have absolutely zero non-KYC'd members in their security circle/referrals, but they still see unverified balance (ofc there is utility and node bonus as well, but a greater part comes from security circle and referrals) on their dashboard.
Currently, devs have not implemented the mechanism via which the bonus Pi accrued through KYC'd members in your security circle and referrals are immediately transferred to your "transferrable Pi". In fact, they haven't implemented the mechanism to transfer the bonus Pi accrued through "Utility" and "Node" bonus either.
However, they're keeping a track on these bonuses.

So on 14th March, if they don't postpone the Pi KYC deadline any further, all the bonus Pi that you have accumulated through non-KYC'd members in your security circle and referrals shall be transferred back to the mining pool; and all the bonus that you have accumulated through KYC'd members in your security circle and referrals shall be transferred to your "transferrable balance". Furthermore, all the bonus you accrued through utility as well as node shall also be remitted to your "transferrable balance".

That answers the question. Now, you may ask what if some of the members in my circle have pending KYC's.
This question is in the grey-zone. However, if you check the list of non-KYC'd members in your referrals list, you'll see that the members who have at least started their KYC process (First seven steps and KYC status is currently "Review in progress") are not in the list of "non-KYC'd members" anymore.
So there's a good chance that the bonus accrued through members in your security circle/referrals who have applied for KYC but their review is in progress might also be transferred to your "transferrable balance". It's not a guarantee, but there's a good chance. So, please ask your members in the security circle/referrals to at least do their part and finish their initial part of KYC process, so there's some chance the bonus accumulated through them gets credited to your "transferrable balance".