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Hi,

I have a question regarding your own BTC faucet. Is it profitable to run it in 2017?
I was thinking to run it via WordPress.
What initial investment is needed?

Yes. If you use the right methods, then you may be able to earn a lot more in (advertisement) revenues when compared to the expenses. Keep in mind that you need to set a slightly harder threshold. If your faucet is giving 0.001 mBTC at a time, then make the threshold 0.1 mBTC. The user needs to visit the site 100 times, before he can withdraw the payment. Only a very few are going to have that much patience.

A faucet can always be profitable for a owner if he knows how to run it. All you need are visitors to your faucet and it should probably attract them so that they should come back again. And as told earlier by someone, set a threshold of quite high amount so that they come again every time to reach the threshold before getting their bits so that they don't run away after coming 2, 3 times.

Correct. but this is only good for the beginner in this world. Like what you said you withdraw 0.1mbtc you needs to visit the site 100x, well that is really tiring and waste of time. Yes you earn but small amount of satshi only. In short its not profitable.

I'm not sure if there are plugins that can turn wordpress in to a faucet, but you'd probably be better off using some custom built software. Wordpress is widely used, so it is a bit target for hackers and any exploits they find will affect your setup. Nobody can really define how much it will cost to fund a faucet, but you need to cover any funds that are earned until the advertisers pay you

For a short term, the answer is a big "NO" but for a long term, you might see profits after some time. It's getting harder and harder to make profits in a honest way from a faucet owner's perspective so don't expect good results nowadays.

It depends on how the rewards going to be, the time interval between claims and up to what extent you'll be limiting the claims in a certain time.

I've seen some faucets that were built on a WordPress platform although not sure if it was with a use of a plugin or purely by coding parts of it.

The problem with running a profitable bitcoin faucet is that google ad sense wont accept your site if you are running a a faucet as they think it is against their terms of service and before that it was a profitable model and look out for hackers who try to drain the wallet .You can still start a faucet site but never expect the profit in the beginning.

If you are going only with faucet then its may be profitable as you want but if you will try to go with some unique idea like game or something else which is new then may be its give you some profit you can check freebitco.in its going with Hi Lo but surviving for long time

Would highly doubt it would be a profitable venture based on the sheer fact of the amount of bitcoin faucets there are in the small bitcoin community at the moment (probably thousands) and the inability for people to use google adsense which was paying them a pretty hefty amount for ads on the site.

Now you're stuck using some bitcoin specific ad company which only pays a fraction of what google adsense would pay, easily destroying your business.


Unique idea is a must, if you're going to be doing some sort of faucet box or a generic site it'll never work so just don't try it.

I don't think building a faucet and having it available to the public would make you rich. Sure you might make a couple of dollars, the amount that you make from it will be used for the maintenance of your faucet so I don't think it's worth building. Of course you will have to try it yourself to be 100% sure of the outcome because we don't know everything. Trial and Error will give you success if you have a plan.

If you want to make some money with your faucet, you should strive to be the most popular Bitcoin BTC faucet online. Then you will be banking.

It depends on your faucet and i know if you run faucet you are legible and required to pay i am not sure if it is hosting but you will pay it monthly as your faucet site declared .My friend creates a Faucet site but unluckily his site is not known so he only lose money for that. So make sure if you want to run a faucet you can make it known to people who use to claim on faucets .

Running Bitcoin faucet this year is still profitable but the problem is the way you promote your faucet to gain more traffic and users.

Yes it is still profitable but that depends on how you can get attract a lot of visitors that will claim satoshi to your site.

And probably 1 BTC is sustainable already to build your own faucet and that amount is already good for staring your own site.

Just set things out and do something different to attract claimers, you can also advertise it alone.

i think its profitable if you can make attracting design and not only make simple design, you can make reward little bit higher than other sites, don't take too long to roll, but for higher rewards, you need to careful because in out there, we can see there is a bot that will cheat the system so you need to keep an eye for your faucet site otherwise you will get empty to fast.

Considering the large number of faucets in circulation, I think any user willing to learn would be able to make one, but I think the biggest problem will be with marketing. You will have to use a good marketing strategy, so that your website stands out from the rest.

You must know if your site will have a good traffic and thanks to god. your faucet will be profitable but if your faucet will have gained a little traffic and it's not profitable for you and you must retire from its business. Too many the dead faucet site in this time. they can't encourage enough traffic to keep his site is life.

Bitcoin recently have quite high value , it means that you need spend quite high fund to operate the faucet
Just make sure that you able to cover operation cost ( hosting and faucet payrate ) and the right place to operate the faucet or you will got less even no visitor

I think 0.05 should be enough as starter !

I don't think that 0.05 BTC is going to be enough computing all the expenses, hosting and other scripts that you need. Make it half bitcoin or 0.5 BTC I think that is already sufficient for him to make his own faucet with wordpress or you mean that 0.05 BTC to be in his faucet excluding all the expenses as his starting balance.

technically you need much less to start a crappy faucet, you can even do it on free hosting sites as start and then move on to a better place, and besides the hosting that you use for a faucet doesn't have to be great since there is not going to be much traffic anyways.
people these days aren't going to spend lots of time for a stupid 100 to 1000 satoshi reward!

With 1 bitcoin is just more than enough, but be sure to keep changing the rewards to the possible lower without making you lose the visitor's interests. There's also something you will eventually get in touch to, and it's about faucet cheaters and bot, you need to improve your faucet security to prevent from getting cheated by people otherwise you will only losing your bitcoin without getting reward

Investing in website or faucet is still provitable. When your faucet get thousand views everyday you can monetize your site from many sources like affiliates, PPC ads , native ads, pop under ads and you can sell your ad space on your own. the key is how to bring traffic to your site. I run some blogs and I put PPC ads with bitcoin and Google adsense.

I would argue that you're pushing your luck quite considerably, however it is possible that you can earn your money back plus some via a faucet system being set up on a domain that you own. it might have its own challenges, like bots and everything, but you can probably set up some business agreements so that you are able to make money regardless of that.

The answer is no. Unless you own a big site like freebitco.in, you will never earn anything from the faucet. Try to do something else which is more realistic and profitable. If I were you, I would open a bitcoin casino whenever I have enough money for it. More and more people are interested in the cryptos world and therefore, the number of cryptos gamblers also increases.

Make a faucet sites initially will have little traffic because it's new and not many people know. So had to do promotions or other means to develop the faucet site that was built. Indeed you are right a lot of faucet sites die because they do not have a good traffic so it does unattractive. Create a faucet site can still be profitable at this time because there are many who use the faucet to get a free bitcoin. Perhaps make a faucet sites by showing a lot of advertising will help because the advertisers who will pay you. Or creating a faucet with a gambling game will also make it attractive for someone who does not have the money and want to gamble will use the faucet to get capital for gambling. The point should be make faucet sites more attractive to attract people.

Faucet for bitcoin not any more but for altcoins yes, in first 2 or 3 years there was small numbers of transactions so faucets were helping with mining bitcoin but not now that we already have block size problems. there are already fair numbers of txs for miners to include, now that you've got the hint you should move on from this topic.

That is the point. It is not at all beneficial for the visitors. But the site owner can make money out of it, through the advertisement revenues. If 1,000 individuals visit this website every day, just 4 or 5 will have the patience to continuously doing it for 100 days.

I guess there would be few significant differences between bitcoin faucets and altcoin faucets. But initial set up costs would be same but we can run a faucet with relatively low capital (in equivalent USD value) if we choose altcoin faucets. If you pay 0.001 in altcoin it will attract many users whereas bitcoin faucets are hardly paying 200 satoshi.

Creating a faucet is both profitable and not. It is profitable if you create a large traffic that will make sure that you will earn huge profit. But if there are no traffic then the sites you advertise will not give you a penny and all you have is expenses without income. Before you launch your faucet make sure that you already have a marketing strategy to attract people to visit and claim in your faucet so there will be a good traffic flowing in. Next is you must also have a good system that is both an advantage for you and for the users. If you already have thought about it and has good plans then you are ready to go.

I think it is very likely you could make a profit, if you have innovated on the faucet and have a good strategy. so you can have a site like freebitco.in. Of course you can make a profit from the faucet

Yeah it can be profitable but you only have satoshi a smallest value and like what I am having faucet on mobile phones only run mobile faucets which has very slow satoshi earning balances. The small satoshi amounts earned will waste my time and I don't think that profit would be sustainable for a long time.

Running a bitcoin faucet might be profitable if you use a free hosting site to host your faucet. If you did not host your faucet using free method, it will not be very profitable since you need to pay hoating plus the visitors you get when entering faucet that would be hard to do unless you have good income from advertisements shown in the site. If you really want to start, I guess you need to look for a free way to establish your own faucet domain.

but make sure you have great advertising that pays you for cpm and click. because the reward and fes for user would be great if you already have a big faucet site. and Do not just rely on advertising for revenue #imo

It depends on how you market your faucet website but i dont think that it would be profitable since most bitcoin users would not tend to waste of their time on collecting very small amounts on faucets and if you do have lots of visitors then double the source of income which you could place ad slots.

I think.. No, It is not profitable if you run a bitcoin faucet this year because the amount of faucet users are getting smaller because some of them realized that it is not profitable anymore and it's just a waste of time. So in conclusion, i think it is a bad idea if you pursue your bitcoin faucet. Find another kind of investment or site that will help you to make more money rather than doing bitcoin faucet.

If you are willing to spend "LOTS" of time and putting a "DECENT" amount to risk to take care of anything else then it should be profitable but don't expect too much at your early phase. First you need to make something that is not present in other faucets to make it attractive and people will spend some time claiming at your faucets again and again. Traffic is really important since it's the one that will give you a revenue.

Today there are only few faucets that still standing strong up to today, if you really want to become one of them, patience is the key as in the past those faucets are not that popular too.

But honestly for me, there are other ways instead to earn more that will be worth to the time and effort you will spend to make your faucet become popular. Yours to decide and goodluck.

Run it via WordPress? Oo
Well dude, I use Wordpress a lot that's for sure...
But if you manage to run a faucet with it and keep it secure...
Please teach me master xD

I think it is still profitable, as the earlier replies said.  It depends on the strategy on how you will monetize your site.  Setting a threshold can maximize  your expenses since they need to visit x times before paying them out.  Aside from that  free sites and domain is available everywhere.  So depends on how well verse the owner of the faucet on getting the most out of his site, monetizing site with the use of faucet is still profitable.

Yeah, it might be profitable for the ones who really how to manage all the things effectively, because making a faucet requires first an amount that you can afford and like you need to pay hosting every month which is about $30 and then you need traffic and something that makes you different than the other faucets to make you stand up.

Monetizing is not an easy task for any content still free bitcoins might get you some assured visitors. Yet, making them keep on visiting would be the prime field, we need to focus for the success of a faucet business.

I think it could become the greatest opportunity to start your own business. Faucets are attracting many people who have free time and wish to make free bitcoins. I think such site will have success, of course if the interface will be nice and easy to use. Wish you luck.

As a starter the owner can use free domains and free hostings or if he wanted to have his own domain and hostings, around $20 can make up for the whole year of domain + hostings.  you can add another $10 if you want SSL certs for the site.  You can check the pricing here (https://www.namecheap.com/).  And I do agree that monetizing a site is not an easy task but at least you have some tools to attract visitors.

But I believe this where the profits and hence the entire success of running a faucet lying. There would be no point in choosing a faucet business without having any proper plan on attracting users. Most faucets do get their visitors for the first round and failing to keep them rechecking the faucets. At the same time, a faucet cannot pay big amount of satoshi to make the to keep on coming back. Really the management oriented decisions needed.

Other than this, the owner needs to focus on proxy checking and bot detection because fake visitors usually eat up all the funds of faucets to enforce them to dry up so quicker.

If you are asking about BTC faucets, I cannot deny to myself that is profitable.  But by doing it in the long term I think not. The only person can benefit on it very much was the one who made the faucets. Why not think of another  options where you gonna invest your capital, much good to invest in buying bitcoin or create your own coin in crypto if you can afford to do it. :)

It all comes down to Traffic and the Advertising Network you choose. Right now the best way to earn in a faucet is having a large traffic together with the ad provider you choose. I barely know any knowledge into it but in order to even break-even you need to be generous with your faucet and also keep track with your statistic to know what you are doing is right.

Not at all, don't go create a shitcoin because you only gong to fool yourself since nobody will ever invest a penny in the coin, faucets times are over people have found other ways to earn more than the dust faucets were giving, though you could try to operate a faucet 8 years from now with the same claiming rewards as now :D.

profit, and lose it depends on where you set all that you do. it was obviously very profitable, if you have set up all you'd do. perhaps by utilizing advertising, and put it in your faucet. provides several features that can bring benefits to you, and much more. but, most likely, will come to the site faucet is just a beginner.

Bitcoin faucets I know is good for newbie only, and for the old member here it is only a way of fun while not busy in their daily life. ;D
But in reality you can only earn bitcoin faucets for only small amount of satoshi it wouldn't help us much in terms of earnings big in Bitcoin, let say 0.000003BTC for every hour x 12 hours=0.00036BTCx30/days=0.00108BTC in this total amount what will happen to you, its not good in long terms. Much good to use your investment in buying bitcoin or Eth,ltc, etc.

I think there are lots of faucet in the internet and the most visited is said to be having a big giveaway.
I think the people want to earn fast but through faucets it must really take time and patience. I think there must be somewhat like bonuses that will really make bitcoin users visit your faucet.

For me, using faucet is a waste of time and energy. The Bitcoins which you get from faucets are not free. You have to type captchas, and in some faucets you have to visit certain webpages. And the reward which you get in the end is too minuscule.

Faucet owners need to be optimistic and made plans for long-run in order to start filling their pockets!
First necessary step is adequate funds. One must sustain handsome amount as reserve before starting the faucet! Its not like having 0.05 BTC and think of reimbursing 0.05 in a week with ads!
After adequate amount, one need to focus on selection of right ads. Adsense can be handy to earn high short term profits but most of the faucet owners see Adsense Ban more or soon. So better indulge in right ads for start because ads are only lifeline for faucets.
Third and most important, as I discuss in first line. Don't rush for quick profit. Let the faucet be settled, let it be famous and then think of earnings.
Minimum recommended capital - 0.5 BTC

Yes, you should because bitcoin in this year 2017 is more expensive and increase its number year by year you should do it the chances are you will get more profit from that you will have to spend time with it a month or more by it but be wise on your decision because faucet i needed to be optimistic and made of plans for a long run in order to gain and you will have to wait for it because it has a lower amount of income its great for a starter but once you will find something more profitable and gain more bitcoin you will just leave that faucet of yours. :D

Thank you everyone, who shared your answers and suggestions. I appreciate your comments. I think that I will give a try to run a faucet this spring. Starting budget is 1 BTC. We'll see how it goes.

After adsense banned faucets, i don't think it is profitable anymore to run such site

It is only profitable I think for the owner of the creator of faucets. But for the community like me I think it will only be good to me for the starting only but as time goes by it wouldn't good as much.

Yes ,many bitcoiners want to earn many bitcoins in a faucet. But on the owner side it is hard because he needs to fund the hosting to run due to its faucet income per click and maximum claims per day he needs big capital for that .What if the faucet is not that to known and not visited as always he is the one who suffered . Why not if you want to take risk . A faucet will only profitable to the owner if he have many visitors and players on his site. It is just like a gambling house ,more players more income .  :D

Faucet sites are really good if there are lots of visitors or people who claim but most people do gain knowledge in the longer runs that's why they will surely realize that claiming faucet amounts is too small and won't be worth for your time.

The idea is good but if people have no such patience who will watch your ads? Your crane will just be ignored. Now even the number of cranes decreased because bitcoin is very low cost and there are many sites in traditional currencies where the pay is higher.

Faucet can be still profitable if your website has many visitors or many collectors and depends on your methods and ads that you apply on your faucet i created my own btc faucet but i can't handled it because im always busy at school so idecided to sell it.

I'm not running a faucet myself, but just today I checked that freebitco.in transfered over 0.13 BTC, and that's for one week only, to their users. I think it's profitable if they are doing this for years already.

I think the amount of your initial investment depends mostly on how much your faucet will be giving and on how many users you will have. The more users the more you have to pay, but on the other hand you can make money on ads on your site if you have a lot of daily visitors.

I am not sure if running such websites can be profitable, but i think it is a huge waste of time. When adsense banned faucets it has been since more and  more hard to monetize those sites. Some are still trying using others monetization possibilities like pop up, ect. Another problem is the huge amount of cheaters using bots, VPN/VPS proxies. No advertiser is interested in fake traffic. Some faucets like Freebitcoin/Mooncoin (not sure if the name are exact) are profitable because they have a huge members base already. Faucets come and disappea daily online so you can guess it not really works for the owners

most bitcoin users would not tend to waste of their time on collecting very small amounts on faucets,so it would not profitable.

I do not agree with you. Bitcoin is becoming popular day by day. And new users prefer to get Satoshi free. And they are beginning to do it is often in such services

For new users, there is a great possibility that they will be looking at getting free satoshis. However, like you said, bitcoin is getting more and more popular. The prices of bitcoins is proportionally increasing along with its popularity. Hence, the value you give away in faucets also goes up and then that means you are spending more money buying views. Faucets are actually view buyer.

Bitcoin users nowadays are aware that bitcoin faucet are total waste of time. Even if you are running the best faucet site out there, you still wouldn't earn that much compared to how much money you should be earning if you chose to learn how to trade altcoins instead or if you choose to get an actual job. Maybe for someone who already knows how to set up a bitcoin faucet site and put advertisements in it, bitcoin faucet can be profitable because he didn't invest that much time studying how to do so and he doesn't have to spend much time creating the website itself. Otherwise, you're better off doing other things. There's tons of opportunities online, don't limit yourself on the very basic ones.

I did not see anything from your statement. they are trying to get bitcoin for free. but based on the current condition about the bitcoin faucet and it's not profitable. too many the faucet site already closed caused by his can't keep his life.

In my view, nothing related to faucets (rotators, lists, ownership, claiming) is worth your time.  If it's a really good faucet with tactically placed advertisements, several cleverly utilised ways to make money, lots of traffic etc, then it will make a profit (otherwise they wouldn't exist, right?) but generally starting a new faucet won't be worth it because unless you're one of the most established faucets out there (moonbitcoin, freebitcoin, elenafaucets etc) you won't make much or any money and it takes more effort than it's worth to reach that kind of status.

These days I dont think bitcoin faucets is really profitable only if advertisement on the site is bringing some level of decent income and even these days where bitcoin is now over 1k dollar then I see faucets sites giving 5 satoishis every 24hours because of running it might be too high. At the same time if it can be directed towards Newbies coming into the crypto-world I guess some people might be interested and no matter how since its free, its still worths it...

If you are talking about experienced users, then that may be true. Very few of them will be interested in the faucets. But noobs are not like that. I have seen new users spending (or wasting) hours of their time on various faucets. And the saddest part is that in 90% of the cases, these users will not have the patience to keep on clicking until they reach the payment threshold.

Indeed but sometimes even experienced users visit a faucet.  That is if he is bored and have nothing to do and wanted to earn satoshi in his free time.  Once a habit is always a habit.  Others tend to get satoshi ina faucet while they are trading. And I have a habit of doing it myself.

And how exactly are you collecting your faucet rewards? You know that habit of collecting dust on your wallet is not good.
Ultimately you may end up paying higher transaction fee than all your faucet profits combined.
It will bite you in the ass in the and especially now, when main wallet of every wallet user - Xapo, is no longer offering a fee-less transactions.

There are still a decent number of people who are still relying on faucets . I saw a bunch of groups in social media sites like facebook and twitter where the members are focusing on HYIPs, Faucets etc. Though you might feel guilty about it because you should be guiding them to the right path not the wrong one .

Nope . Wordpress is not a good one . Better look for another . You have to buy a domain and look for a web hosting service . You can find a bunch of cheap ones . Just search for them . Also think of some unique ideas because faucets these days are really similar . They just differ on rates .

I don't know if that is true, less and less people are using faucets, in the past it was an easy way to get some additional satoshis, but now faucets have so many security measures that even claiming anything from  them has become very difficult so anyone wanting to learn something about bitcoin from faucet will be turned off by it.

The problem isn't only the many security measures, but the low rewards that we receive after completing all the security measures. Without Adsense it became impossible to run good default faucets. Only creative and original faucets can still survive, with extra mechanisms the faucet owner introduce to let their users receive a higher reward. But to do this it's necessary a lot of informatic and programming knowledge.

running a faucet is "Always" a bad idea and is a pain in the ass. because it is not only one thing that is hard but everything about this thing is hard.
for example the first thing is to find advertising networks that both pay good and don't restrict your account because it is a facuet.
the other thing is fighting the bots and the adblocks which everyone these days are using and will prevent you from making money.
and the third one is getting traffic and people to be stupid enough to waste their time on a faucet for earning dust.

Yes bitcoin faucet will always be profitable in the year 2017.if u have to be honest and dont cheat on the others ,it will run smoothly.when u create a faucet,give the right advertisements and make interesting offers where people will get more attracted to it .

True, even for those beginners faucet is a good idea but we don't know about they are cheating your timer (Changing IP, or multi account) for fraud activities. It makes run a Bitcoin Faucet is kinda like a bad idea to do.

realy youre can get much profit create faucet site, this now bitcoin price is high
if youre faucet site reward under 100 satoshi is never visitor visit youre facuet
you can write link youre faucet site, and report calculation youre pay visitor and return profit from advertising network

I guess it depends on how attractive your faucet is.
Because faucet is profitable to the owner only it is just like paying those visitors at a time they click on the website.
Just have a great attracting site and reasonable satoshi so people will come  back.

It is still profitable but there's no free lunch, you have to set the payments high and the rate of withdrawals and amount should be flexible in order to please more people to keep coming. You likewise need to get the right advertisements on your website and with a well paying advert company like Google I think it should come out profitable.

Another thing to remember is that the faucet owners should protect their sites from hacks and wallet robberies. Experienced users can create bots, which can empty out the faucet in a matter of days.

I couldn't agree more with you. Faucet ia not bad idea until nowadays, because it will bring many profit for developers. Sure Important point is make your faucets interest and build the trust to everyone that you legitimate to pay. Apart from all that, if we can not make a good security system we can cooperate with someone we already know that it can work for it. And pay him equal they deserve.

For me its really a bad idea as of this days yes its okay to build a faucet but as of this day faucets are too saturated and people dont have any interest already on faucets because we do all know that claiming faucet money is very small and very time consuming.

In the last year maybe faucets could keep profitable, nowadays without adsense support, its hard to pay well and keep the claimers interested and active. But there are few bitcoin networks paying with bitcoin, there are too many rules and restrictions, and you have one extra problem bots, soo to have a good faucet you will need around 0,25-1 btc to start and try to keep alive, since you are competing with others and you need to balance income with payouts, but if you lucky you can maybe earn 0,05-0.10 btc montly.

Yeah that's right adsense was the main source of income but there's nothing we can do now. In order to start your faucets you may need minimum investment of 2 btc and I would recommend you to pay 50-70 saroshi every 5-10 min as that will give you more views to your ads. And in terms of network until you don't reach 100k alexa rank you will mostly be in loss after that you can apply for melow ads.

The thing is that looks impossible to keep such reward for tinny time, long faucets wont pay more then 200-400 satoshis daily, but people wont use them if they can earn 800 daily with those 4-10 minutes rewards, but the faucet will die instead keep sharing health. Faucets wont resist further atleast is the way i see those, the gold moments has gone for admin and supporters.

I think no, even faucet's reward is too low (below 100 satoshi) you can still get visitors to your site but not that much from higher paying faucet one.
If you say never, I think you should try it for prove your sentence.

yes if the rewards is higher than every other faucet sites, you can also promote your faucet site like some weekly raffles to users , I myself sometimes visiting faucets with high rewards or having some jackpot bonuses to users it will attract more visitors.

Bitcoin faucets are still profitable, but popular alternative cryptocurrencies have enabled people to promote their sites easier as well as push more volume with advertisments.

It's quite simple to make with a variety streams of revenue, although there's much left to search for that'll boost performance overall.

Yes true, anything can be beneficial, depending on our mind. but I think, the faucet has not been effective because a very small payment for the user and for the advertiser does not make a lot of clicks.

You have a point dude.
Combination of Bitcoin and Altcoin faucet is more profitable today.
But I think Bitcoin faucet is for long term than the altcoin faucet.

But what makes you think that new users will use your faucet or when they could easily find the older ones that are more popular, you need to really study the situation and calculate the profit.

Building up new faucets will not be a big challenge but promoting it would be a big head ache till you make it a popular one.

yeah, there may be some visitors only. because the reward is not too big. especially nowthere are many faucet sites in internet and mutual competitiveness to get more visitors and earn a profit

I disagree. First, there are many kids these days who want to have thier own coins and they use faucets because they are the only chance to get BTC for those kids. And it doesn't matter how old the kids are if they are generating enough traffic for a site to sell places for advertising. Second, I heard some people manage to collect a decent amount of Satoshis per day using bots. So, bitcoin faucets will be always popular to some extent.

I think that is a problem not pda amount of reward on the faucet but innovations are you doing on your site so different from the others. and of course you have to find advertising that is profitable and pays with a great rate

it depends on how many advertisement you have on your Bitcoin Faucet and how many people are going to use your faucet but I don't know what number of visit is needed for you to consider it profitable and as far as I know many users are nowadays are not getting interested to use a faucet so probably it is not going to work successfully unless you will offer a good reward different than other faucet sites .

You're right, in order for this project to be profitable, you need to attract a lot of advertisers. In addition, you need to come up with a good environment that will attract users

Although I think it is not profitable any more, but it can generate some revenue, because some Bitcoin earners are still interested in Bitcoin faucets, those mostly are the newcomers to Bitcoin. From other side, if you would like to run a faucet, you should wait until Bitcoin price stabilize.

If you are planning to give away higher awards make sure you get the revenue back with proper advertisement and with faucets we get things limited because google is not interested to work with faucet which is a blow for every faucet owners who had their major share of profits through google.

Of course it is. Make sure that you use seo on that and advertise it with good social engineering skills , make your design good not only design but of course your method on how people will have some interest to visit and get satoshi on your website. Wordpress i read something on it wordpress hacked right?

P.S
Find a good ads where they are paying high and make sure that you can get your revenue back with some good profit :) GOOD LUCK.

it would still be not profitable, you cannot make the rewards too big because you would get no profit of the adds while at the same time if the rewards are the same no one would use your faucet.

one people that makes users happy to visit a faucet site because the faucet is have a great reward and a simple design and minimalist. so do not put too much ads if you want to get a lot of users

The hardest part, to make your own faucet, is to invastigate a lot of resources on advertising. To build a new faucet that's not a big deal , the most difficult side of that work is to promote and bring people to your site.

I think the hardest thing in running a faucet is to keep the bots out.
Bots steal your money and they create bad traffic. That reduces your already low income from ads, because nearly nobody wants to pay for bad traffic.
In my eyes faucets are a failed experiment.

Newbies are really happy when they are visiting faucet and getting satoshi on it and then uses that into gambling hahaha this is my attitude when i was a newbie i was remembered what i just did. Faucet that has good reward good affliate program can gain visitors to earn on faucet websites.

you are kinda right about it, but in order to attract people onto your website you need to have a decent pay rate and for that you need to put a lot of ads in the website and if there will be a lot of ads people won't like it, that's like a vicious circle.

I understand i was just giving an idea and if you see in long run it may work or it won't work at all. If a site gives this much of course many users will visit the site or let's change the time to every 20 min. When many people will visit you can get some good rates for advertising. But i do agree with you that faucets are dead even the famous ones, and after google adsense i think it is technically over for them.

are you planning to use 99's wordpress plugin for your faucet?
his plugin is great.but now you will have to adjust the payout almost everyday
bitcoin is volatile as hell and we never know what happens 9th of March,it could go either way
starting a faucet in such an unstable environment is not advised

yes you can make some profit from a faucet still,but you MUST have adsense on your site,
otherwise your earnings will be substantially reduced-bitcoin ad networks cannot cut it yet (unless you can bring hundreds of thousands visitors to your site)
in general faucets don't bring enough money to be a source of income and take up loads of time to maintain

Yes, just need some costs, but then it will generate passive income. The main interest of advertisers, who will place ads on the site.

Yes it is very much profitable for the community like me who is a beginner only. I don't have any idea about in word press, just the things I know which is much profitable was to save some bitcoin for now then do the trade and buy some few altcoin.

i have several faucet sites few years ago , it was full of benefit . you got a good audience and also better ads rates with tiny amount only as a capital , really worth that time . but nowadays i don't know if the situation remain the same , even with the higher bitcoin price , the faucet owner might have to adjust the rewards from faucet. really have no idea if there is still a lot of people interested in faucet?

Most of those who visit these faucet sites are relatively new users. Experienced users seldom visit these sites, as they know that doing so is a waste of time and effort. So if Bitcoin is able to attract a lot of new users, then the faucet owners will be able to earn more money. If not, they will never get ROI.

Agreed. But Bitcoin is attracting more and more new users these days, so IMO faucet sites, especially if they are original in a way, might become very popular and thus bring money to the owners.

Yes it is profitable for the owner many newbies visiting faucet site because its free and easy to earn small btc. just make an idea that can attract more visitors and if you can afford put high rewards to make them come back by your special features.

There was a time when I visited faucets a lot, and even had one of those scripts ready to launch.
But I decided finally not to activate it.
The reason was because I saw so many others fail. From What I can remember, their faucets were drained by hackers over and over again.
I would be surprised to hear if a method was found that keeps the hackers out, but still leaves the faucet easy to use for the customers.
So no, I don't think there is profit in faucets at this time.

The recent spike in the prices is attracting a lot of media attention. Media attention means that a large number of new users are now starting to collect Bitcoins. Now for those who don't want to buy Bitcoins with their fiat, the only option is to get these coins from various faucets (they may not be aware of the other options such as sig campaigns).

Yeah, you are right, faucet has a lot of attraction on it. Because in the start, i also did faucet, and i see every newbie do faucets, and as i know faucet's owner always get profit, but he need more users, so make advertise to get more users. 

High rewards will help but you must prioritize first the promotions.
Promotions will help Bitcoin faucet attract more members to come on the site and  can gain more traffic to the site.

No, its not, unless you're a great businessman and have a web designer willing to keep your site up to date with the best anti-bot scripts available without making your site horrible to use. Bots are the death of these sites. There are already so many, and it's really hard to compete with sites like freebitco.in which have such a big userbase and bankroll.

Yes it is profitable to run bitcoin faucet in 2017 because there still a lot of bitcoin users who uses faucet sites in terms of addition to their earnings. Make sure that you have a stable website and you are paying such a decent amount of bitcoin to sustain the loyalty of your bitcoin faucet users.

It still profitable to run faucet, you can convert visitor to get revenue as long as it's not anoying for your visitor. Especially if you can give reward for faucet miner depend on some indicator, for example if you have huge visitor you will give more reward for faucet miner.

Yeah as long as there will be a huge number of visitor,
We all know that the owner would only earn through the visitors of the site.

But it looks like very difficult to get a lot of the visitor, with an evidence too many the faucet site is dead, because they're not having enough visitor to make his circulation is always running. So i think its idea is very risky in my mind.

To be honest i don't think its profitable to run a bitcoin faucet anymore. The competition is way too high. Look at the micro earning section. It's filled with faucet link.
You have to provide something unique to stand outside and survive. You also need to make spend enough time to make sure no one abuses the faucet. Not worth spending your time.

I think the only way to make money through a faucet is to open your own faucet and get money from commercial on the site. I have tried to make money on faucets, but they pay almost nothing and very boring, especially now, when bitcoin's price raised, the payment on the faucets is like a zero.

I think that even now the owner of the faucet will not be able to make large profits. Due to the very strong competition, the owner will have to invest a lot of money to attract customers and advertisers

yes although it is profitable, no doubt about this but the most difficult job is to attract visitors that is also a fact that most of the faucets are fail because they cannot succeeded in attracting visitors. so the important job in faucets is to attract visitors.

In order to make your bitcoin faucet profitable you have to first find a way for people to know it and use it instead of the other faucets, before you even start one you have to calculate how much you are going to earn and cut the hosting fees and the money you give in your faucet, I suggest that you first start with a simple website just to see how much ads will get you.

Yes,this is the only thing that faucet owner make profits but basing on the actual situation as of these days I think no one would do faucets except for total newbies because whenever they gain knowledge they will surely leave faucet in the end.

Ever think of doing something like a few out there currently where u combine faucet with offerwalls?

I think in somehow yes, if you are typical kind of community as a beginner in this industry it will be surely profitable, especially to those person who are can't afford to buy bitcoin directly. But not in a long term earnings.

In 2017, when the price of 1 btc is more than a $1000. I wonder how much cents in Satoshi you want to be giving out every hour or minutes depending on how your site is configured couple with the number of people around the world that will be claiming all round the clock 24 hours, but it will be profitable to me if compared with the revenue that will arise from such endeavor is more than the cost aside that, I guess it does not worth it at all.

Making money off a bitcoin faucet is much harder than people make out. First of all, you need a balance between too many ads (which annoys people into leaving, although earning you revenue short-term) and too few (meaning no revenue). You also need to decide how generous you are going to be, are you going to be well-paying and if so, how often will you pay out? The investment required is little but it's hard to make meaningful profit, since you need a very large amount of visitors, and there is a lot of competition.

Well it is still possible to be profitable to run a bitcoin faucet, from your reply there are ways to generate traffic.  For a newbie maybe it will be a waste of time but for those who have master the art of click baiting then it will be very profitable for that person.

Solving annoying captcha codes and other anti-bot mechanisms is boring as hell, even for some free satoshis. Faucet nowadays needs to offer a bit more entertainment to generate traffic - I mean some interaction like mini game when you can gamble your win, a lottery or decent loyalty system. I wonder if faucet runners still risk with using google ads? As far as I remember, 2-3 years ago if you do not have google campaign, it was almost impossible to make your site profitable.

all popular faucets have done exactly that (offer more entertainment in a form of either a minigame or even a full monty economic/strategy game or a simulator,simple "enter a captcha and get your satoshi" sites can no longer cut it)
as for the Adwords Google ads,it is stated clearly in Google's TOS that they do not accept incentivised traffic
your faucet could last a month or two,or even several months,like donaldcoin did,for example
the end will always be the same-they freeze your account and you lose your money
there are much better bitcoin based ad providers nowadays than it was two years ago:mellowads,a-ads and similar allow webmasters to get
some profit,but it is never the same without the Adwords,sadly

An easy way to protect yourself from those attacks and this is something that is also effective no matter who you are is to have only the necessary funds to run the faucet and nothing more that way if a hacker gets access to your wallet the damage is going to be minimum.

It will only become profitable if you got lots of visitor. But at this time, I guess its hard to get a lot of visitor because of competition and also how many bitcoiner do you think are still into faucet. I guess there are only few of them unlike before.

Currently I guess not profitable at all. because I've stopped looking bitcoin faucet with a method for spending to buy internet quota is not comparable with that I get with bitcoin per day. unless we have a lot of referall. This may be very profitable

indeed that is true that more visitor more earnings for the faucet owners and huge visitor doesn't guarantee will profitable especially with the current price so high i think build new faucets the cost will more expensive and as far as i know that earnings bitcoin with faucets is wasting time because not in accordance with the effort

Right now, it is still profitable to have bitcoin faucet as you can see a lot of faucet out there, just imagine they won't waste their time to create bitcoin faucet if it won't give them a good profit. Try it especially now that a lot of bitcoin users depends on collecting faucet, because a lot can't afford to buy bitcoin.

As much as they're worthless for users, they can be profitable now since there are a lot of new people interested in bitcoin. It will be profitable as long as there are new people coming.

I think it is if it got a apropriate payout, and if you promote it accordingly it should work out for you  :)

If he is promoting his faucet in those people who are already earning a good income from here then no one will join his faucet because I know faucet owners give much less to the members but if he start to promote among those people who are low earner at PTC and GPT sites then they may take interest in that faucet.

That is commonsense. People who earn good salary from elsewhere will be least interested in the faucets, as they are a waste of time and effort. But newcomers to the Bitcoin scene will be interested in them, as they have very few other avenues to earn BTC.

Its not only about having new people coming to the site but also people who will stay and still use your site. Having a well planned layout will make your faucet site successful from having thresholds it will make claimers claim all the time just to reach the goal which means more traffic, also having a referral system will work as long as it won't run dry your faucet. Goodluck many faucet sites fail within a month because of not having a good strategy.

Faucets have been really unsure about whether or not they are profitable or not, it is all depending on the owner if he is willing to offer his time and effort into promoting his faucet so people could use his faucet, then he could make profit out of it, but that is not easy, and don’t expect to earn a lot if you are not willing to work hard for it.

Yes, it seems we need to manage many things so that we could make profits from the faucets. So far I just remained a faucet user after seeing many useful suggestions on this topic, I believe I also could become a faucet owner. In my view, owning a faucets also a good business if we perfectly manage them.

it will always be lucky if you have a good strategy to attract a number of users of the Internet. Well, there are always new users in the world bitcoin, and it will make them look for bitcoin from all sites faucet. you just need to make them choose the Website.

why not make something constructive?
you are already spending your time and money on this, and in the end you are left with something useless that people barely use and if they do, they want to exploit it or use once and never come back.
so instead try to spend that time and money to build a website that offers something that brings people back, is constructive and makes you real amount of money not just dust.

Yes, of course. It's profitable until now because of the demand for bitcoin. You must know how to handle your bitcoin faucet and know how to manage it to get a good feedback from others. I don't know yet the initial investment but you must do a research about it.  ;) You have a fruitful mind so use it for the goods, not for bad. Ask for those people who run their bitcoin faucet.

IMO, bitcoin value is on high value which I'm think too risky if you want to launch faucet at the moment. You should wait until bitcoin value decreased or you need to re-calculate your initial fund to operate the faucet. In mean time, many people at my place is yelling about faucet ( unfair value )

It seems to me that it is not very profitable right now. Bitcoin price is very high and few advertisers will agree to pay in that currency. Besides, now a lot of these sites, and a lot of competition. There is no guarantee that you will have visitors

There are other things to make an opportunity to have a bitcoin and with the high price like this, people will surely ignore those micro earnings in faucets and began studying those methods that can give them a good return of bitcoin that will be worth their time.

Only faucets that is running and operating for a long time now is the one who are making good money today since they already established a good name in the world of bitcoin faucet.

I think yes its profitable to have own faucet. Maybe you need more budget from that because creating a own site is very expensive and you need to learn it first before you go in that way. Faucet better now because bitcoin is very high.

Running a bitcoin faucet for really profitable last year and if you compare that it is not that worth because you cannot monetize with google as it was the main source of revenue but you can still create and try with the limited advertisement but it wont be that profitable like we once had.

I think so, do not set a threshold at measly satoshi too to attract more faucets hunter (newbies). If you get higher traffic on your site everyday, than some ads will be more beneficial obviously. Any kind of great effort on internet will be profitable in my opinion as long as you are serious maintain it.

I think it is profitable, because newbies usually don't do the math and Bitcoin is a new technology, so there are many newbies. They see something for free and take it, even if it's a worthless penny.
This means a faucet can get a lot of traffic and traffic is money. You can use the site to advertise or simply wait for it to gain value over time and sell it.

By looking @the current price of bitcoin it seems not a good idea to run faucet  ..
Because the ads will not give enough to recover your investment

to be the site of faucets famous and profitable you need to get a lot of visitors and to get it you have to make your site known. Of course you have to work hard doing promotions, etc.

But it is quite hard to make money from faucet sites due to these high bitcoin prices. Becuase you give 100 Santoshi or less for each claim many people will not go to those faucets but if you pay more than that then site owners can't make a profit. It is not so easy just with faucet site to earn money but if you can add some games to it then may be profitable.

Well the site and ads will depends on your faucet balance and how many accumulated faucet claimers / visitors in your site. So it all depends on your faucet site claimers to gain profits . Its more ideal if you have a big network or rather than a faucet site built a more applicable site that visitors may have an interest like Altcoin wallets storage or bitcoin exchanges .

I think faucets time is pass. If u can, make gambling site. Chess, Backgammon, rummikub i didnt see those games bet for btc. There r lots of dice games, sports betting, lottery but Chess, Backgammon and rummikub isnt.

Also people can spend lots of times in site with these games. If i can i will not wait a second. You can have more profit then faucet. I think lots of people tired for faucets. Dont add new one.

Profits don't matter with faucets. Look at some forum topics where people are asking how to earn some coins and others are replying "i'm getting mine from faucets" or "i'm earning by doing captchas"
Small unprofitable jobs will attract people anyway and when they stop it's a sign that you should increase the rewards a bit. I still think faucets are a great way to increase traffic and value of your site.

Well making a gambling site requires lots of money to start compared to a faucet site. And you will need to compete against famous gambling sites.
Those games you've recommend are somehow not good for a gambling site since you will need to open up people's greed to earn money.

I agree with your opinion. Now people are not so actively spend their time on faucets. Especially because the faucets do not give a lot of profit. Now this idea is not relevant

i don't think you will get easy time with a bitcoin faucet  with your hands on it, most people try to use bots and all to snatch more and more coins from the faucet they can, of course you have to keep good track on all the thinks and perfectly setup advertisement and all that can work well. and by the way yes bitcoin faucets if nothing goes wrong then they are profitable too

Getting visitors to any website is always the hardest part, you need to offer something they want so they stay on your website, for more than a few seconds, faucets use economic incentives, but the truth is those incentives are very low at the moment so for many of us it is simply not worth it.

I use faucethub, looks like community there is very active. It's not easy to run profitable faucet, and just few of them survive more then couple months.
Take for example freebitco.in, from just little faucet they now accept deposits because people play dices there. Faucets that offer more then just one prize have more visitors and higher profit.

Yeah, it sure is profitable if you"re the owner of faucet slash dice site freebitco.in , that guy is making a shitload of money everyday, The house edge is insanely too high but people are using it anyway, I bet my ass that that guy already saved some "little" money for his retirement.

i do not think that earning bitcoin from faucet is such a good idea of making money, because from there you cannot make such a good amount of bitcoin it is just the wastage of time.

It will be profitable either way if you somehow manage to get people visit your website as most of the faucets pay such small amounts of bitcoin that it just can't be not profitable for the owner. However the fact that it is just a waste of time nowadays will mean that you will not get a lot of people thus you will not be able to make a living out of it. As for the initial investment 10 dollars should be definitely enough.

It will be interesting to see some faucets with new concepts, but most of the ones that create faucets don do it to prove a concept or anything they do it to make money out of ads and that is why they keep trying the proven formulas that seem to work for other owners of faucets.

Getting money from the faucets requires a lot of time and effort. Sometimes you have to fill in the captcha, and you need to visit the webpages. I made some calculations in 2015. According to it, the average pay from faucets is around $0.10 per hour.

Faucets may be a good idea for casinos or exchanges but when someone thinks of creating a faucets they are thinking of profiting from the faucet alone, and not to create a casino or an exchange with a faucet, so to raise the rewards is a lot harder for those that just want to have a faucet.

In 2015 I was able to make 0.001 BTC daily without effort, only using the good faucets twice a day. There were faucets with 1000-8000 satoshis reward and some of them offered like 10K-50K satoshis if you were lucky. On that time my profit was about $0.40 daily. Good return without effort and in a small time period. Now it's impossible to get the same amount proportional in dollars.

At the current market scenario, it is not possible to get those rates in faucets, though one can earn nearly similar if one have good amount and active referrals. I know some peoples who are earning a quite decent amount from faucets, even without claiming anything, just from their referrals.

So, it's profitable to run the cranes, but it will take a lot of time and resources to develop.

Running your own Bitcoin faucet will become profitable only if many of the community are using it from time to time. But if the community of bitcoin will just ignore it and only few only are using it of course that is not good anyway.

There will be no traffic if your website is suck. The payout must be affordable for the people to play and enjoy. There are many faucets which can not survived for at least a month. Be wise when you decide to join the ad world. It is not as easy as you think. Cheat will make it easier but i wont recommend this way. Making money in a legal ways helps you a lot in develop yourself and increase reputation

its hard to gain profits from faucets nowadays since cheaters are always around those rapers from faucets collection will suck every sat you have and with earnings traffic is really hard now since claimers is no longer interested from wasting their time. so better to think twice before investing your time and money with this industry.

In order to have a lot of visitors, you need a lot of money to invest in advertising your faucet. It is most important. But, unfortunately, not everyone understands this. And then they wonder why they do not have visitors.

I think the question is a benefit from to make faucet site itself and earn revenue from ads that you put on your site? I think it would be beneficial, there are still many faucet sites that is still running

yes one can make a very little amount of money from faucet that is why it is just wasting the time. i think if a person have some bitcoin and he know about trading then he has very good opportunity to make good profit form investing bitcoin in trading, even from a very small amount of bitcoin he can make a good profit form bitcoin.

Yeah i agree with you, because of faucet reward very small so everyone leave faucet. and i think its not profitable to run faucet service again

Ofcourse it is profitable but in my opinion it is not much easy to get success at very starting .
Earlier it was much easy to make earning from newly build faucet site but in the current time it is much hard to get visitors , so you need to give more reward and more refer commission  In this way you can make a big earning if your site visitors are in millions .
If you have unlimited visitors then surely you will get sponsor to view add for particular site .

I started on faucet initially because I'm thinking it is fastest way to earn bitcoin. However, I learn the hard way that is it very hard to earn bitcoin from it that's why I stopped. Plus you will need a lot of time in it and as a result you get tired so not worth. Maybe when you are beginner and you don't not a lot about how to earn bitcoin you will go to faucet but as you go through in the crypto world you will learn a lot of possible ways to earn bitcoin outside of the faucet system.

Is it good enough in my opinion, as newbie will try to earn bitcoin through faucet, even though it's hard to achieve decent amount.
When your site traffic increase, then offer ads service will be great. I guess for brand new site, you need at least BTC0.5-0.1 to cover the cost. Faucet site is a simple work with good opportunity to develop, take it as a first step.

You guys have no idea how many people still use them, even though they pay so little.
The only problem currently might be that payouts are practically impossible due to the high fees.

I'm sure that there are still enough faucets out there that are profitable for their owners

Crypto currency is now very interesting to many people and so I think that this will be interesting to many. But you need to attract many advertisers to your site. And clients

You don't really need to attract advertisers, you can just pick and choose whatever advertisings you want, unless you want to make specific deals for your faucet.

I'm guessing that some advertising networks aren't compatible with faucets, because they're against their TOS, but you'll still have many to choose from.

Most of us will feel that faucets are a "waste of time" but that hardly means that their time has passed. We say it because we're not new to it.

I'll always feel slightly nostalgic about faucets. Take a look at PTC sites. They've been around for more than a decade and pay about as much per click/view as faucets do. Still going strong if they have a good business model!

Faucet was booming awhile ago, when Google Adsense looked the other way, but these days, they have been read the riot act and fauceting is seen as incentivized traffic. For same reason, the network sites that tolerate faucets, pay very little thus making faucet owners hardly able to offer rewards that could engage people and not see it as waste of time.

To generate extra revenue, you may want to consider promoting your own affiliate links from programs with potentials, the very popular ones are likely to be saturated already.

As bitcoin costs more than $1k now, I guess people won't be interested in such faucets. I think it is better to make a faucet for some cheap and popular alt like litecoin. Thus people will be able to earn quite a lot and will be more attracted. And you will thus be able to earn money for the advertisements on your site. You just have to make a really good faucet. No registration (just the coin adress), lottery-based sum of faucet etc. Good luck!

For me, its not profitable to run bitcoin faucet in 2017 because I think there will be no more people will be  interested on faucet because its very cheap and its wasting much time just by collecting mbtc or satoshi. But if you run a bitcoin faucet that makes attract to people maybe there are some but you didn't profitable but its up to you, we don't know what real happen.

That is true and that is one of the reasons why there is a risk for people who run faucet to get less profits than before because people now are practical and they didn't want to waste time in such a website that pays low rate because we all know that people right now are always hungry for earning big amounts of money so you can try other options but not faucet for being smart in getting profits.

I wonder how the faucet owner earn from it? ??? Well for me, faucet is not profitable anymore because they are already learned because of it only gives a micro earning, it is not worth it to stay in a faucet and just claiming whole day, its a waste of time. Maybe newbies can still do that and it so hard to establish a site with a good traffic.

Well there still live some old faucets, soo that  for me is enought to give a try, im willing to start a faucet even knowing that looks like a dead market, but a good reward and good traffic is the key to sucess. Sure i wont be rich as faucet doesnt allow such, but i believe its possible to earn something with them.

As I can see in faucets it is still profitable, if this will the focus activities of the individual here, but biggest effort you made in it, is the the few satoshi you gain only. That's means before you earn big bin faucets, you waste a lot of time in your daily life.

Yes, I have long ceased to make money on similar sites. It is very slow and not profitable. But if you make your own faucets, it can make a profit. The main thing is to attract advertisers

You are 100% wrong. Everyday, thousands, if not tens of thousands of new users are being gained by Bitcoin. Many of these new users try to get their first Satoshis from the faucet sites. If you could maintain a faucet site properly, then you can earn decent amounts of money out of it.

so OP didn't even bother to answer... meanwhile the discussion is raging
there is a very good wordpress faucet plugin by the author of the bitcoin blog
you can find it here: https://99bitcoins.com/ ( it is not mine)
so I was wondering if there was anyone who was using the said plugin and what was his experience like with it

faucet can be profitable if you know what are you doing,but it is not efficient time/profitwise
and I would suggest you to try and do something else-too much of a headache

Excuse me? where's the source of data and is it reliable? as far as I know that there are none of the methods until now that is proven to be relevant in order to gain the specific and real amount of new users every day.
Even we're now struggling to know the exact amount of bitcoin users around this planet.

Money is necessary to advertise any website but on the internet is way better to know how to promote your product than to throw mountains of cash and expect good results because if your website is any good people will go and visit with frequency.

You don't need a source of data to state an opinion.  They are right that a lot of new users get their first Bitcoins via faucets - the prospect of free money, no matter how small an amount, is an interesting concept and shows the purpose of Bitcoin as a payment system.  While it is true that faucets practically give dust, this won't stop thousands of people using them every day.

From the start of your opening statement, I saw that what you are righting is a matter of opinion and that you don't have really any evidece that running a faucet isn't profitable anymore. Basing it on statistics faucets are still profitable you just need to have the right management for it to be profitable.

The big issue is you can open your faucet but you will need your workers, community to help you to get a good traffic as well support, the most captcha people just focus into making extra satoshis and forget the other side need they support to keep faucet alive and even raise the share.

yes i think faucet works only for a newcomer who lazy and don't want to spend their fiat money even for $10 just to try how bitcoin/digatal money works for worldwide transaction , so far it was not good enough , those people realize after that , it was wasting time.

better to spend $5 or so rather than have to collecting dust to know the bitcoin concept.

yes that is not such an easy job, it need a lot of hard work and experience, you also need the support of so may other people you can evey hire some people for helping your in running faucets.

There is no way to know the amount of user of bitcoin we have right now, how could we know the amount of users that get into bitcoin every day, besides even if you are right many will realize very fast as most of us that claiming form faucets is a waste of time.

Profitable. Only you need to think carefully. With the right approach and good advertising, you can get a satisfactory financial profit.

If you run any site its always profitable via Google earnings and other sort of services by advertising it. Same like how epay.info doing it. This site simply good for newbies and you guys can make satoshi in regular time period and payment has been processed on every Wednesday.

That is another way to promote your site through advertising but it would incur additional cost just for hoping that it will increase your site's traffic. I would rather focus on the quality of the site than advertise my site right away. The faucet game is getting harder and harder because a lot of them fail early on because of wrong decisions.

I really doubt it is profitable to run a bitcoin faucet this day, especially since adsense banned such sites. You can maybe monetize the traffic with pop ads network but i am still not sure it will cover your cost to operate a faucet. Sites like freebitco.in and moonbitcoin are able because they now have a good members base so they can sell cpm traffic. Also another problem with this type of traffic you get is you receive many hits from proxies vpn vps and no one is interested to buy such traffic as this never convert to anything

Depends on how many visitors are you getting on your site. It all boils down to the number of unique advertisements watch and daily traffic for you to get something from your faucet, otherwise you are just wasting money down the drain to pay for hosting and whatnot.

That is true once new users get their first bitcoin with bitcoin faucet, every day is sure there are always new users who want to know about bitcoin, they get it for sure by using the tap because they haven't learned the many ways to get your bitcoin.

Now a days faucet-users are not making money out of faucet but the faucet runners making money out of faucet-users. It is far better to stay away from faucets for at lease bitcoin-related.

Crypto currency is now very interesting to many people and so I think that this will be interesting to many. But you need to attract many advertisers to your site. And clients

It will be profitable only if you do it properly and right system for it. But I wonder, why Bitcoin faucets? there are other things here that you can build using bitcoin. But anyway, good luck t your plan about this things.

I think you can start without any investment, but without success.
If you invest some money, like for advertising the site and for buy a normal hosting (not wordpress) , maybe you can earn something

I have learn that faucets are good like freebitco.in if the value of bitcoin is low because they have fix amount of prize so when bitcoin value is low and you were able to play faucets and keep your earnings in the long run after some quite time you can convert them into fiat and when the value of bitcoin increases you will have a good profit out of it.

It depends on how you manage your faucet and techniques to attract visitors. If you would increase the bitcoin that can be claim and shorten the time to claim it I will assure you it will become profitable, and only few will ignore it. And maybe, this year 2017 can become a big help, because a lot of newbies joined and will join and soon tried faucet to earn while they are not earning through campaigns like I was before. And make sure your site will be more attractive than others. But it will be going to be quite hard I guess. Good luck.

There is already a lot of people knows what is bitcoin and that is why most of the newbies doesn't even try faucet sites because most of the old bitcoin users made them realized that bitcoin faucet is such a waste of time so the profitability of faucet site for bitcoin is really low or even a negative profit because even though you will increase the rate but it is not enough for them to use your site because they can earn more bitcoin from the other site rather than yours.

Faucets are really waste of good time I mean. It takes one time yet not profitable. Many faucets site are crap and for btc, you might not hit the target set before withdraw. Faucets are not it & so, not a better way to acquire btc coin nor any other crypo

I don't think bitcoin faucets are as popular as they once used to be about two or three years ago. I agree even newbies don't find them worthy of spending hours on faucets only to earn a few satoshi so it's no longer a profitable activity to run a faucet these days. I have a friend who used to run a btc faucet till a few months ago but he had to permanently shut it down because he didn't find it to be profitable. The expenses incurred don't match the revenue gained from these faucets through ads.

anyone run faucet here?

When you’re starting out with your very own faucet you should be focused on making sure “the money machine works”. Meaning, if you put in traffic on one end, money will come out of the other end. You also want to test this out as quickly as possible, and the best way to do that is by using 3rd party code. So if you’re just launching your faucet I still suggest using Faucetbox. But as you grow you have to move away from them.
Keep in mind that hosting your own faucet isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. It means you’ll need to create your own management system (and that costs money). You’ll also have to take care of the payouts yourself, protect the faucet from scammers and secure the funds you are using for your payouts.

With so many bitcoin faucets site shutting down monthly, I don't think it is really profitable to run a bitcoin faucet site considering the time and effort the site admin would have to dedicate to the site. If the amount of satoshis reward is too low per claim, attracting visitors to the site would be another huge problem for the admin.

Not too much of an effort - free hosting, wordpress, plugin - you have your faucet site running like in 10 minutes.
Although promotion - is different issue...

I think this is not profitable for you, you can buy ICO you can trust to add your bitcoin assets, if you make bitcoin faucet this year I think it is not very profitable.

Your content must be consistently interesting, attractive and retentive of course, there is no way you couldn't get those ads clicks when traffic is sufficient. I came across many faucets that just completing a plain captcha, or a simple activity that pays you dust what do you expect from such quality? Oh those pages are filled with 90% banners as well. The best suggestion i can give other than converting traffic is by integrating gamification/ UI - very important for retention, maybe introducing some new systematic ways that could grant your visitor more with rewards. Finally obviously is to do your math before running one, Definitely i still faucet is still profitable considering the increasing value of BTC.

So now we're in 2018. I see mixed messages in regards to launching a faucet. What do you think? With more users entering the crypto-markets, do you believe in profitability of faucets? (as publisher)

It depends on how you manage your faucet and techniques to attract visitors.. I agree even newbies don't find them worthy of spending hours on faucets only to earn a few satoshi so it's no longer a profitable activity to run a faucet these days.