Kaito’s Crisis and the One Way Paid Content on X Still Makes Sense

Yesterday, it was announced that X had updated its API policy for developers. Applications that pay users for posting were cut off from the API.

About a year ago, I wrote an article about one such project: Kaito. It rewards content creators, and the main - and almost the only - platform taken into account when calculating rewards until yesterday was X itself. But it turned out that once you start paying people for activity, they begin generating garbage at an industrial scale. X explained its new policy precisely as a response to this problem: the platform is overflowing with AI slop and spam bots.

After this news, I expected a sharp drop in the KAITO price. When a project runs into serious trouble, as Kaito is doing now, traders usually rush to dump its tokens. Yet despite what is essentially an existential crisis - the project's core development path has become impossible - the price only fell roughly in line with the overall crypto market decline over the past day.

By the way, it is still possible to earn rewards for posts on X. And not in some obscure tokens or points, but in real bitcoins. I recently mentioned the Bitbit wallet - which lets readers send satoshis to authors they like in a single click - in my article on the Bitcoin 2025 year in review. Nothing has changed for solutions like this. They continue to work as before.

If you need a bit of bitcoin to reward authors you enjoy, you can exchange any other cryptocurrency for BTC on rabbit.io - at the best rates and without registration.