I have tried almost all the above methods of earning income. There are lot of scammers online saying that you give them some btc and then the would allow you to withdraw your mined btc...as you said I have tried some online mining free contracts but return is very very less and they are not worth our time. I have tried cloud mining from ebot . It's GUI is tempting but it pays you nothing. Only economical if you have good number of referrals and they should be active. I have migrated account I guess. But those demanded me to buy some contracts which I cannot do at this stage because I'm a student and I'm just trying out free things.

Then coming to free faucets....I have 20-30 free faucet accounts and you know the problem with them. You have solve the boring captcha in order to claim free Satoshi and over time I realised that it is also not worth time. What not!! have tried several other things but I forgot. Finally I landed up here in this beautiful community and happy that my time is worth spending time in this platform. I have won some SBI shares and getting rewarded for good comments, made some great frieds, seen amazing articles and great writers. This is a complete package.

Anyways , one of my keen observation is that if you are active on social media, and you are pursuasive and have made some pretty good followers then You will be earning a lot from your referrels.....I know one of our steemit friends here...he is stackin. He has 1000s of followers and seen that every time he post something about a project which has a referral program, lot of people respond to his referrel links and register from there.