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EarnFreeBitcoins.com (http://earnfreebitcoins.com)

Hey everyone, so I finally finished up and polished off a simple web app that I have been working on over the past couple of weeks. It is very similar to the popular website, bitvisitor.com (http://bitvisitor.com), but with a few more features and more more advanced options for webmasters to promote their content.

EarnFreeBitcoins.com aims to help provide a way for new users of bitcoin to get into the whole idea and actually have a little bit of money to play around with. It also provides a way for website owners and content creators to promote their content to the bitcoin community, at a very low cost (default bid per visitor is 0.0004 BTC, but you can choose any amount).

The basic idea is this:

Website owners choose the URL that they want visitors to view, how many visits they want, the max number of visits they want to occur in a given day, how much they want to pay per visitor, the number of times a single person can visit the URL in a day, and finally the amount of time the visitor is required to spend on the website before receiving payment. You only pay for visits that have spent the full amount of time that you have requested.

Visitors can simply enter in their bitcoin address, view and hang around the website for a few minutes, and then go to the next one. For every valid visit, a payment is added to the payment queue. Once this queue has reached a threshold (currently set to 15 payments, just to save on transaction fees), payments are sent out. A visitor can choose to skip a website and go to the next one, however they will not be paid if they do this.

Like Bitvisitor, we also offer a simple referral program (just send your friends a link in the following format: earnfreebitcoins.com/ ?ref=YOUR_BTC_ADDRESS). When a visitor goes to that URL and uses a bitcoin address, their bitcoin address becomes permanently tied to their referral address. Referrals earn 30% of the revenue for each visit. Visitors always get 50% of the bid placed by the website owner.

All links submitted to the service are screened personally by me. Please do not submit any URL shorteners, links to direct file downloads or malicious/illegal content. NSFW/Adult content is allowed, but will be flagged as such (visitors have to check the NSFW box to see those websites). Once payment is received and confirmed with at least a few confirmations, the URL will be activated and start to display to visitors. If for some reason I reject the URL, you will be notified by email (if you have provided one), and your payment will be sent back to you in full. Blatant spam will simply be deleted from the system.

You must register for an account in order to submit URLs, however no verification is required. Email address is optional, though it is required if you want to be able to reset your account password.

Any questions, comments, criticisms or concerns are more than welcome and greatly appreciated!

Good idea, I shall incorporate this!

P.S sorry for posting this in the wrong forum before

Still trying to figure out a good cross browser way to have a 'bookmark this site' link. Works in IE at least so far. If the bookmark function fails it just opens a new window with the website, so you can bookmark it from there.

I have also changed the social media links (twitter, facebook, etc.) so that they direct to the URL of the website you are visiting, rather than just earnfreebitcoins.com

Encountered some minor technical difficulties (total blonde moment on my part..).. to whoever has experienced errors after entering their bitcoin address, it is all fixed now :) My apologies

Maybe you could add an option to define a minimum payout, or a "pay all with the next batch" button.

Not sure if I totally understand, could you maybe clarify a bit more? :)

Sure. Add a page like "My Account" for those who have entered a Bitcoin address which contains eg:
- paid/unpaid balance
- an option to set the minimum automatic payout (eg 0.001btc)
- "sweep" button (if clicked, the entire balance will be paid)
Since you cannot change the recipient address a password isn't that important. A troll could play around, but never steal any coins. It shouldn't be too complex to add a password field though.
The reason? I wouldn't mind leaving coins in your wallet until a certain amount is reached instead of cluttering up my wallet with lots of incoming mBTC transactions.

Hmm, that could be a good idea, I will definitely consider adding to this. I already have a address lookup feature that I added in yesterday that tells you a bit of info (example: http://earnfreebitcoins.com/address/19bryXyWwczic43JEcT2dwjTAe12ABX45U) . I could probably just expand upon that feature with your ideas

Just wanna say, things are going awesome! We have brought in close to 1000 unique visitors to the website in just 4 days, and have served up and paid for over 2700 visits! Over 10,000 pageviews and average time of 15 minutes spent on the website per user.. pretty good!

If anyone is interested in making extra BTC, check out the affiliate program here: http://earnfreebitcoins.com/affiliates

When a visitor comes to the site via your referral link and enters their bitcoin address, it becomes permanently tied to your referral address. Affiliates earn 30% revenue from each visit made. If a website payed the default rate of 0.0004 BTC per visitor, you would get 0.00012 BTC every time that referred user visits that website. Adds up if you can get a bunch of them!

I've got some new features coming that will be implemented within the next week. Such as the following:

• Brand new bitcoin addresses into the system will be asked to create a simple, optional password. This password lets them access a couple settings related to their address
• Once setting a passphrase, you will be able to view how much BTC is waiting to be paid to you, an option to set the minimum payment threshold to your account (defaulting to zero threshold), and an option to cash out any bitcoin that remains unpaid to you.
• Daily draws: Each unique address that visits the site in a day is added to a daily draw. Each day at a certian time, the winner will be chosen at random and awarded an amount of BTC (to be determined still). An extra daily draw will be held for affiliates. You will be entered into the bonus draw for every visitor that you refer that day. Reward amounts also still being determined.

Iv got a few other ideas floating around to.. keep the suggestions coming though!

Currently offering 10% off all purchased visits! Sign up for an account and add your website here: http://earnfreebitcoins.com/join

Just signed up and am trying it out for spits and giggles. It looks pretty neat.

Thanks! Iv got a small handful of pretty cool features for both visitors and website owners in the works, should have them up pretty soon so stay tuned!

There's no renew subscription button to buy more ads for the same web page?

Yep, there should be! When you log into your account, it should list any websites that you have added. Where it says "Visits left:", if there is no visits left, there should be a link to purchase new visits.

Let me know if you are seeing this or not, might be a minor bug.

Ah, okay, I see, I still have a bit of gas in the tank, that might be why the option isn't visible. :) I'll wait till she's running on empty.

All good mate :p

One small complaint: the automatic session timeout period is very short. Redoing the login CAPTCHA after what seems like barely an hour is a little bit annoying.

Understandable. Il add that to my list.

We have now reached over 10,000 unique visitors since launch and have served up over 50,000 visits! Our affiliate program has been pretty successful as well, over 250 different affiliates, with the top affiliate bringing in over 740 referals.

New features and several upgrades are coming soon. We have been having a few issues lately with the bitcoin server crashing, currently working on moving it to a faster server with more RAM.

This is President Obama speaking and I approve of your site.

Minus the President Obama bit. :P

After several server crashes, finally got bitcoin running on something alot better. Website is already working faster, and there should no longer be any crashes causing it to say "invalid address". Lifes been pretty hectic lately, so unfortunately I havnt had the time to add new features/upgrade existing ones, but its coming.

Probably going to post some stats pretty soon, for anyone that might be interested in what kind of traffic/people/money these kind of websites bring in.

Any news about the minimum/pay-now option?

Also, you might want to fix your stats. It displays small amounts in scientific notation.

Just been super busy lately with work and stuff. Weekend off though, so I might be able to get that feature going this weekend actually. Il post an update soon

Update

Few new features and some changes have been added. See the following:

• When using a new address on the site, you will now be prompted to enter an optional pass phrase for that address.
• The pass phrase allows you to "sign in" to your address at any time. If you leave the pass blank, anyone will be able to "sign in"
• When signed into an address, you have the following options: Change pass phrase, cash out any current balance to your address, change your minimum balance threshold, or choose to make payouts manually
• If you choose to have payments made manually, balance will build up on your address until you choose to cash out
• The default minimum payment threshold is 0, so unless you change it, your payments will always automatically add to the payment queue
• Changed scientific notation for payment amounts to show the amount in decimal - less confusing
• Referal payments are now withheld and sent out once a day instead of after every visit. If you have a payment threshold set for your referal address, it will pay you based on that instead of daily
• On the captcha screen in between website visits, it now shows you details for your address (sign in/out, current balance, all time earnings, referals etc.)

Any feedback is appreciated, and if you see any bugs please let me know!

Thanks

Just experienced some major technical difficulties... thought we got hacked. but after some investigation discovered that an unexpected bug (arnt they all? ) had caused a stupid amount of duplicate send transactions, nearly wiping the server wallet completely clean. Good thing I have backup BTC.. Basically one of the people that submitted their sites decided to bid 1 satoshi per visitor.. Not sure how I missed that, but whenever it would send out a round of payouts, it would give the error "invalid amount". Since it was throwing an error, the website thought that the payment had failed all together, and thus saved all the payments to try again later. Except for some reason the payment would still send out, just not to the "invalid amount" addresses. Live and learn I guess

Note to self (and others).. make sure to validate minimum payments/bids etc. for services like these!

The minimum bid per visitor is now set to 0.0001 BTC

Currently looking for more advertisers to take advantage of our recent huge increase in traffic! We are currently receiving 2500-3000 visits a day, with about half being returning visitors and half being brand new visitors.

More details on some of the features we offer to advertisers:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=157164.0

To sign up, just go to this url: http://earnfreebitcoins.com/join

I had some wallet corruption and the address i use on your site got lost, how can i change it? i dont want to lose my 88 referrals i see a login feature now asking for some kind of pass phrase, it must be some new feature (not sure if it is related to changing addy or not but if it is i dont ever remember setting one up.)

Hey everyone, just to let you all know, a new version of EFB is in the works, and set to launch within the next month or so. Stay tuned! Changes include new features and ways to earn, increased minimum earnings per visit, greatly increased site performance, and more!

Any update on this yet? EarnFreeBitcoins takes a long time to load each new page so hopefully the update will fix that.

your site is always VERY VERY slow to load ...

I agree! They need switching server!

Hey can please check out what's happening with my account.
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I already dropped you a mail but no response yet.
My account shows that i have earned 0.0000570762 this much btc, but i haven't got any payment yet and there's nothing in pending payments too.It was showing before but nothing now.

Please fix this i have been clicking from two weeks.

BitcoinSites.Org had reviewed EarnFreeBitcoins faucet and it received all 5 stars!
You can check it here: http://bitcoinsites.org/earnfreebitcoins/ (http://bitcoinsites.org/earnfreebitcoins/)

i know that but i haven't received anything from them yet, and there's no response i mailed them already..

They redesigned their's sever and it must better, it might take for reload between ads but it must better! Give it a try once again!

Sorry everyone who hasnt received a reply from me when trying to contact, I get alot of emails and sometimes forget to respond to some (also always make sure you include your email for me to get back to you...)

New site is up! Whole bunch of technical difficulties I have been fighting with since re-launch, but starting to get everything worked out. Good news is that the site is working ALOT faster now. For a few months there it was getting pretty brutal.

I know this is like a month later (I havnt checked this thread in a long time, didnt know people were still posting in it ), but have you received your coin bitjack? I checked your address and it looks like your balance has been emptied.

I will be making a re-launch thread soon with more details on what has been fixed/updated as well as some new features to come in the hopefully near future

thanks

no, i haven't, after i reached my payout threshold i cashout and nothing happened. It was showing in my total earned btc but still nothing.

hmm thats strange. I will have to look into it further but hopefully whatever happened wont happen anymore with the new upgrade. As compensation i have sent you 0.0001, that cool? :P 8cf855beb2d38221f90fb7e1850b573ab319e08e480b2fa87c5221d7c770e14e

ok cool.,i think i'll give it another try maybe.thanks,.

I don't get any payout:
My address say more then 55 bit:
14LnJmHQ8egmXVTeVKYYzR8inDv2Ezrbxi
 ???

This site is pretty old, I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't work as it should anymore. Either way, the OP hasn't logged in here since 2014, so you probably won't get a reply. You can try the contact page on their website (http://earnfreebitcoins.com/contact), though for 0.000055BTC it seems like it would be a waste of time.