Bitcoin Yay Growth Campaign - 80K+ App Users by Muhammad Issa UmerBitcoin Yay Growth Campaign - 80K+ App Users by Muhammad Issa Umer

Bitcoin Yay Growth Campaign - 80K+ App Users

Muhammad Issa Umer

Muhammad Issa Umer

Bitcoin Yay is a mobile mining app for BTCY, the micro token of Bitcoin, built on the Indexx ecosystem. When I came in as Global Marketing Director there was no acquisition system, just a product and two empty app store listings.
I built the growth engine end to end: positioning, channels, referral mechanics, campaign design, and the funnel from ad to installed app to active miner. Zero to 200,000+ users on under $5,000 in paid spend, which works out to roughly $0.025 per user in a category where crypto app installs routinely cost $3 to $8.
Bet smart, Mine more
Bet smart, Mine more

The Stats

200,000+ users, from zero No existing audience, no seed community, no influencer budget. Growth came from referral mechanics and campaign loops rather than bought installs.
Under $5,000 total paid spend About $0.025 per acquired user. The comparable benchmark for crypto app installs sits between $3 and $8, so paid was used to seed loops rather than to buy the user base.
2 app stores, iOS and Android Full launch on both, with QR download paths on desktop so web traffic converted instead of dying at "download on your phone."
4 chains, 1 token BTCY deployed across Solana, Tron, Ethereum, and Binance, which widened the addressable audience to holders already living on any of those chains.
10,000 BTCY, the withdrawal gate The threshold that turns a curious installer into a returning one. Every retention mechanic on the product is built around closing that distance.

Referral loops, not ad spend

Growth is engineered into the product rather than bought. The Mining Station leaderboard ranks owners by active referrals and refreshes weekly, with the top spots sitting in the low hundreds, so the competition stays visibly winnable rather than dominated by whales. Public ranking turns acquisition into a game users run themselves.
Leaderboard: ranked weekly by active referrals, and visibly winnable
Leaderboard: ranked weekly by active referrals, and visibly winnable

Mining power as the universal currency

Every campaign pays out in the same reward. Follow the socials and upload a screenshot, get two weeks of turbo mining. Place a bet, get seven days. Subscribe, mine up to 6x faster. One reward across every mechanic means every campaign compounds the same behaviour instead of splitting attention.
every campaign pays out in the same currency, mining power
every campaign pays out in the same currency, mining power

Three tiers, three intents

Free mining for the curious, Power Mining for the committed, Quantum Mining for anyone who wants tradable BTCY without the grind. Three entry points meant the funnel monetised patience and impatience at the same time.
Three mining tiers: free, 6x faster, or skip the grind entirely
Three mining tiers: free, 6x faster, or skip the grind entirely

A closed ecosystem loop

BTCY is mined on Bitcoin Yay and spent on Indexx, one account created automatically across both, with Lotto, Shop, and future trading all living on the other side of the withdrawal gate. Users are acquired into an ecosystem, not just an app, which is what made retention cheap.
Indexx ecosystem block: 10,000 BTCY unlocks the wallet, and the whole ecosystem
Indexx ecosystem block: 10,000 BTCY unlocks the wallet, and the whole ecosystem

One line that explains the whole product

1 Bitcoin = 1 million Bitcoin-Yay. The petty cash of Bitcoin. A single comparison does the positioning work that a whitepaper would otherwise fail at, and it's repeatable by every user explaining it to the next one.
Download section: two app stores, QR paths so desktop traffic still converts
Download section: two app stores, QR paths so desktop traffic still converts
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Posted Aug 20, 2026

Led acquisition for a mobile crypto mining app from zero to 200,000+ users on under $5K in spend, across two app stores and four chains.