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Title: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: SgtSpike on January 03, 2013, 10:00:02 PM
100 satoshi's (small fraction of a Bitcoin) per block mined or placed, even on creative!  Payouts are weekly!  Join up!

http://minecraftcc.com/index.php?threads/get-paid-to-play-minecraft.4613/


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: Darkneo on January 03, 2013, 10:06:40 PM
SgtSpike, I'm glad you offer this service. It got me into a great game


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: SgtSpike on January 03, 2013, 10:14:01 PM
Cheers Darkneo, glad to have you with us!


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: Darkneo on January 03, 2013, 10:19:26 PM
I remember messaging you on your forum when I debated buying the game :)


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: SgtSpike on January 08, 2013, 04:52:28 PM
We're back on the main maps again, with payouts for all!  Join up if you want some free BTC!

Information on getting free BTC for playing Minecraft:  http://www.minecraftcc.com/index.php?threads/information-about-getting-paid-to-mine.4613/
Server IP:  play.minecraftcc.com


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: klondike_bar on January 08, 2013, 05:53:05 PM
We're back on the main maps again, with payouts for all!  Join up if you want some free BTC!

Information on getting free BTC for playing Minecraft:  http://www.minecraftcc.com/index.php?threads/information-about-getting-paid-to-mine.4613/
Server IP:  play.minecraftcc.com

does it require full [paid] version of minecraft?


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: SgtSpike on January 08, 2013, 06:33:59 PM
We're back on the main maps again, with payouts for all!  Join up if you want some free BTC!

Information on getting free BTC for playing Minecraft:  http://www.minecraftcc.com/index.php?threads/information-about-getting-paid-to-mine.4613/
Server IP:  play.minecraftcc.com

does it require full [paid] version of minecraft?
Yes, it does require the full paid version of the game.


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: Aahzman on January 09, 2013, 01:56:47 AM
Man, is there a "get started with Minecraft" thread somewhere? i am lost!


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: SgtSpike on January 09, 2013, 02:39:35 AM
Man, is there a "get started with Minecraft" thread somewhere? i am lost!

Hmmm... probably the best is just the Minecraft Wiki:  http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Minecraft_Wiki

It has new player tutorials and the like, so I'd start there..!


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: SgtSpike on January 09, 2013, 09:47:24 PM
130 people have signed up and received payments so far..!

Leaderboard:  http://www.minecraftcc.com/mine4btc/


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: deus-ex-machina on January 10, 2013, 01:53:39 AM
Is that everyone who signed up? I signed up under kamimatsu and I'm not listed.


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: SgtSpike on January 10, 2013, 06:33:31 AM
Is that everyone who signed up? I signed up under kamimatsu and I'm not listed.
It's only everyone who has been paid so far.  So if you recently signed up and have not received a payout, you will not appear in the list until you do!


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: b!z on January 10, 2013, 01:39:03 PM
Interesting server concept. How many blocks do I have to mine to earn 1 bitcoin?


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: SgtSpike on January 10, 2013, 04:58:33 PM
Spike You ban me.... not very nice.... was I earning too much?
Nope, not at all!  You likely broke one of our rules (griefing, swearing, etc).  PM me with your in-game name and I'll check it out.

Interesting server concept. How many blocks do I have to mine to earn 1 bitcoin?
10 million blocks.  It's not a side-job level of payments, just an extra little something.  As someone who recently joined the server told me, "I play Minecraft, so why not get paid something while I play?"

I'd love to increase payments to 10x what they are now, but I cannot afford it, and not many people seem to be inclined to donate towards this faucet (13m8dAb16KqWv7v9oEsr97mYMXbynR6CoD if you do want to help!).  I do believe I may be able to double the payments soon though - I was waiting to see what actual payouts would be over a longer period of time, and it is safe to believe that double payments would still be within my budget.


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: SgtSpike on January 14, 2013, 05:37:12 PM
Now up to 153 unique users paid out from the Minecraft Faucet!
http://www.minecraftcc.com/mine4btc/


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: SgtSpike on January 19, 2013, 05:49:58 AM
Still going strong.  I'm currently paying for about half of the block activity on this server.  Lots of Bitcoiners here for sure!


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: SgtSpike on January 31, 2013, 07:54:53 PM
Just migrated to a new, much faster webhost for the forum.  It should be acting much more nicely now.  ;)


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: Bitsaurus on January 31, 2013, 08:05:59 PM
Is this game addicting?  I don't want to get sucked into a trap (even if I get paid for it haha)


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: SgtSpike on January 31, 2013, 08:52:19 PM
Is this game addicting?  I don't want to get sucked into a trap (even if I get paid for it haha)
Well, first off, if you don't already own the game, and plan to buy it to make your money back, I'd have to advise against it!  At 10 satoshis, you'd have to mine and place 10 million blocks to make one Bitcoin (which is admittedly quickly approaching the cost of the game in value).  If you mined snow with the best tool, each snow would take 0.05 second to mine, so you'd theoretically make 200 satoshis per second.  In reality, you'll be much slower - say, 5 snow pieces per second, so 50 satoshis per second.  But, you'd have to maintain your shovel (which requires diamonds to mine at that speed), offload your inventory every so often, and find new places to mine as the resources run out.  All of this takes a significant amount of extra time.  Now you might be down to 20 satoshis a second.  That's 500,000 seconds to make a Bitcoin!  Or, 139 hours.  And that's if you're solely focused on making Bitcoins, and nothing else.

Bottom line:  Don't quite your dayjob to buy the game and try to make money.  This is mainly provided for three reasons: 1) To introduce people to Bitcoin who join the server from other sources.  2) To get people involved with Bitcoin who wouldn't otherwise use it.  3) To provide an additional faucet for those looking for free token amounts of Bitcoin to play with.

Now, to more directly answer your question, yes, it can definitely be addicting.  There is no better sandbox game.  I had to step away from it in 2009 while I was still in college.  I don't play too much anymore, just mainly deal with the administrative side of running the community and providing a place for people who do still play a lot.


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: itai3856 on January 31, 2013, 09:09:03 PM
i tried to log in yesterday and it didnt let me


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: SgtSpike on January 31, 2013, 09:13:31 PM
i tried to log in yesterday and it didnt let me
On to the forum?  We were in migration at that time.  Onto the game server?  Not sure what to tell you... it may have been down for some reason.  It's up right now though!


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: itai3856 on January 31, 2013, 09:59:38 PM
its was up with 14 players but told me bad login


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: SgtSpike on January 31, 2013, 11:51:37 PM
its was up with 14 players but told me bad login
Do you have a legitimate copy of the game?  Or is it pirated?  If you have a legitimate copy, try googling that error... I haven't come across it before, so I am not sure what the fix is for it.


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: FinShaggy on April 19, 2013, 05:08:02 AM
Is this still going on?


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: SgtSpike on April 19, 2013, 03:57:39 PM
Is this still going on?
Absolutely!

EDIT:  Updated the OP with new payout information.


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: Lanzer on April 19, 2013, 04:06:30 PM
Is this still going on?
Absolutely!

EDIT:  Updated the OP with new payout information.

Do you have and schedule for maps change?


Title: Re: Free Bitcoins for playing Minecraft (The Minecraft Faucet)
Post by: SgtSpike on April 19, 2013, 05:30:13 PM
Is this still going on?
Absolutely!

EDIT:  Updated the OP with new payout information.

Do you have and schedule for maps change?
No set schedule, but we try to keep maps as long as possible.  I hate losing work as much as the rest of the players do.  We're switching two of the maps to new ones soon, but they have been on the server for more than a year.