Idle·Ledger
Some links here are referral links and pay me if you sign up. It does not change what you pay, and it does not decide the order of the ledger, which is sorted by measured payout. Apps I removed for underperforming stay listed, with the date I removed them.

Setup guides

One guide per app, each written against the same host, so the steps and the numbers in the ledger describe the same machine.

Before any of these

Two checks worth doing first, because both of them are easier to do now than to undo later.

Read your ISP's terms of service. Many residential agreements prohibit reselling or sharing the connection, and that clause is what these apps do. Enforcement is rare and usually amounts to a warning, but you should make that decision knowingly rather than discover it.

Decide what machine this runs on. Anything continuously powered works, and the whole economic case rests on the hardware and electricity being sunk cost. Buying a mini PC in order to run these apps does not pay back on any sensible timeline, and any page that tells you otherwise is selling you the mini PC.

Guides

Honeygain

Desktop and Docker install, the one-device-per-IP rule that invalidates most advice about adding devices, and the difference between the $20 standard threshold and JumpTask mode, which restructured in August 2026.

Grass

Wallet setup, desktop node versus extension, how the Uptime and Network points split has worked since the Epoch 11 rebuild, and the three anti-sybil rules that will zero an allocation without appeal.

Storj node in progress

The longest and most technical of these, and the one where a record running through the full nine-month withholding period is genuinely hard to find anywhere else.