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I hear the term Bitcoin faucet a lot.  What does it mean?

It is a site, that gives away bitcoins to anyone, that just gives their address.

There is a comprehensive list of faucets and free BTC giveaways in this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=90718.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=90718.0).

http://www.freebitcointips.co.uk/ :P

Hope it helps!

Andy B

a faucet is commonly used to refer to a tap or valve, in this case that starts and stops the flow of BTC :)

Where does that money come from? Ads on the faucet site?

nothing is for free. maybe a sight that will blockchain your address and see what you are up to? to see how many coins you have??? nothing is free in the world people. but go ahead and get those "free" coins.

What information do I provide when I use a faucet? It's all in the blockchain anyway and I never say any faucet where I have to register with my home address. Well. Maybe for mapping IP/browser fingerprint to a BTC address, but you shouldn't reuse BTC addresses anyway.

That's helpful. Thanks for sharing.

Yes a faucet is a way for patrocinate one new coin.

Sounds like a waste of time.

As for now, it is history.

Where u can mine coins

http://i.qkme.me/3tltpb.jpg

You can, however, earn some bitcoins with relative ease from BitcoinGet (see signature) by watching videos or doing simple tasks. You don't need to provide any information other than your Bitcoin address.

It's a good thing

Try this one ... you can win BTC every hour and also try your luck with a game on the site or cash them out   ;D

Freebitco (http://freebitco.in/?r=2495)

Or any of these ...

Bitbook (https://bitbook.biz/?referer=2kljdf234kjsaj)
MMOClub (http://mmoclub.com/?id=80713)
Freebtc (http://freebtc.pw/SignUp.php?ref=267)

a crypto nipple :)

Free bitcoins but worthless...they don't even give a penny...

I use the bottom link in my signature. So far I've earned 0.007 BTC. It's not much, but it's still free money. The site also has a higher/lower game where you can double (or even higher multipliers) your earning.

Bitcoin faucets are for all intents and purposes dead right now.  They give you the equivalent of a digital penny, but it costs a digital quarter to send the payment.  It's just not worth the time.

Buy and sell your goods and services in the marketplace for BTC.

If you want freebies, go enter a bunch of online contests and if you win something sell it for BTC or convert the fiat to BTC

It's not free if you value your time.

Newbie just visit this site all faucets are in one page without surfing

http://bitfaucetup.us

something not worth your time ;)

bitfaucetup.us

Facuet websites just give you free bitcoins. They generate revenue from the ads on their website. There are many faucet website and you can visit them to get free bitcoin.

I check the faucet list at this website http://www.coinvisit.com/faucet.php (http://www.coinvisit.com/faucet.php)

http://ltc4you.com/?r=25225 (http://ltc4you.com/?r=25225)

hey noob try this all btcfaucets,dogecoin,litecoin & devcoin faucets in one page no need to surf

@OP Normally it's a way to get some BTC to each visitor furthemore that's totally free to use.

Old ones used to give 1 btc

Faucets right now seem not to be so worth as they don't give as much.But it's your decision if you'd like to try them out or not-they may be useful as there are some good ones.

I signed a burner email address and wallet address up to aload of this sites and straight away i stared receiving so many spam/phishing emails to that burner account.

Alot of emails about people losing their password and need help, with download links to a so called wallet.

Yes,it is possible to occur problems like this and that contributes to the fact that faucets right now aren't worth trying so much.As well as a lot of other factors,too.

@Cerleo It's maybe right however you will earn a bunch of BTC by fast.

A BTC faucet is a donation run website that gives out BTC (very small amounts for free).  If you want the best ones out there I use http://coinreaper.com/  this site is a collection of 28 of the best BTC faucets and combines them all into one site for easy access, you enter your BTC address and then press the next button and then fill capctcha pics and get paid anywhere from 10uBTC to 60uBTC every 30minutes.   The best part is once you've completed running through all the faucets it takes you back to the main page where it has a timer count down for each site.  The money gets stored at another site and once you hit a certain amount it will automatically pay out to you BTC address.   Love it to death. 

Message me if you want to know more sites like this, i've looked/researched and found several that pay even better.  Also for any BTC help for setting up an account or linking accounts to pools and using miner software don't hesitate to message me. 

Yeah,it's a fast method and you can use it if you want to earn some bitcoins.So it may be a good choice,as well.It depends on what you search for.

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Sigh..I should have joined the bitcoin world back in those days. :D

Earn 1mBTC/month from faucets today. Hold it till end of 2015. Each mBTC will cost more than 1000 USD then.

Good idea, but it takes soooooooooo long to get a little bit from faucets.

This one pays out within seconds and has a support channel on Twitter:

PikaPay's Magic Bitcoin Fountain at https://www.pikapay.com/bitcoin-fountain (https://www.pikapay.com/bitcoin-fountain)

Seriously, 1250x for less than 2 years?
Though I have full faith in bitcoin, I don't think this will happen lol. :P

Hmm we can't deny if it can go up from US$1 = 1,309.03 BTC to 1BTC=1,300$ it can sure go to any extent not in one to year but may be in 10years to 50years..

I believe it will go up, but not that much and that fast.

I was researching about faucets in this forum and I came across some new poker site that's giving out .4 bitcoins a week in a series of half-hourly freerolls, I've done some research about faucets and it seems like the consensus around the forum is that it has all but dried up. Perhaps this is another avenue for people to explore if they want to get into bitcoins. I know some gaming entities like to give out bitcoins through games of chance like slots, roulettes and lotteries, but this is poker we're talking about, which is a game of skill. The links are down below.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=484082.20
https://www.facebook.com/groups/groundskinner/

Is the the new form of faucet, perhaps?

Actually the price of btc is dropping dramatically

faucet - free bitcoin giving websites. Most of them give you free bitcoin every hour. You have to register your bitcoin address first.

this might help

https://sites.google.com/site/bitcoinfaucetsource/

Digging up some old threads?

Yeah. Basically you fill the faucet and hope your ad income is going to make a little profit. I seriously doubt it's anything
substantial though, with maybe an exception for the largest faucets.

A bitcoin faucet is where you can get bitcoins for free. A good place for  beginners to gain bitcoins :) you can visit http://zggfb.com there are lots free bitcoin info. ;D

dont even bother with this.

a long time ago thing that gave good amounts of bitcoin lol.

people who do it are just people who dont value time.

Used to gives bitcoins out for free to each visitor. IP addresses that receive bitcoins were recorded, so that bitcoins were given only once to each address. It was operated by Gavin Andresen, however it is not functioning as of Jan 30 2013.

A site where you are given small amount of btc (satoshis) for solving captcha. Amount of satoshis depends from site to site also the ways you can earn them with. Also, faucets are not recommended as a way of profit (not saying that you can profit in some way, unless you own some big faucet) but as a starting point for the newbies.

Those, who says it's useless, has not mastered the art of using them and/or have enough money/btc to not have to use them. So they see it as a waste of time.

When the Bitcoin price dropped the payouts at faucets went UP. Some of the faucets pay out, up to 550 Satoshi per hour.

When the price of bitcoins was at it's strongest, faucets was worthless.

If this is the only way for you to get any income through BTC, you just have to bite the bullet, and drink from them.

They will not kill the thirst, but it will keep you alive. ^Doink...doink...doink...doink...^

Yup, Gavin's faucet used to give out 5 btc to every IP. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=183
It sounds crazy now, but don't forget bitcoin was worth nothing at that point lol. :P

A song came to mind 000OOO Those were the days my friend, I thought it never end...

Just imagine, you sucked on those faucets and you kept all those coins.

I guess, we might say the same, in a few years from now, when 1 Satoshi will be valued at $1 ^I wish^

Faucet waste your time, you should just get a part time job and use that to buy bitcoin directly.

Good description.

The hourly rate for solving faucet would probably be about 0.02$/h. Definitely a waste of time, and the faucets owners make conciderably more money off the visitor's back with the ads and possible scams.

faucets is bitcoin bitcoin faucets that provide free or free of charge, many bitcoin faucet providing there that are 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours or even one day once faucetnya provide bitcoin, and can only be cashed at certain times only :o

Trade your precious time for a tiny amount of btc... not a good bargin I suppose  :-[

the faucet is satoshi free for you...
but you can use this satoshi only for bet in the site where is this faucet!
sorry for my english XD

With some faucets you can earn that bit every 20 minutes though, not like you're going to get rich but a good bit to start with.
Try Bitcoinz Faucet (http://bitcoin.eu5.org), you may win up to BTC0.00003 every 20 minutes.

So the bitcoin faucet its a way to get free bitcoins?

Yes, but the amount you can get is very small.
Basically, the faucet owner earns some ad profit from your visits, and then share part of his ad profit with you.

Not really. I couldn't get satoshi sent to me.  I went to the site you suggested, and to the site upstream of this thread, and filled out the Capchcha, and saw the ads, and then got this: "150 satoshi was sent to your Microwallet.org account."

Not to the Bitcoin address I told them.  I don't want to open an account with Microwallet.org... what to do?  I have no BTC and the BTC I ordered is a week away...but beggars can't be choosers!

TonyT

You don't need to open an account on microwallet.org.
You will get the payment in a few days to your personal address (the one you entered on faucets), as long as you have accumulated at least 5825 satoshi.
You can at any time click https://www.microwallet.org/?u=YourAddress to check how much you have accumulated.

I see.  When you solve the Capchcha's what is the purpose, I guess defeating the anti-bot provision?  And viewing the ads on the page is what they want you to see?

Edit-- too slow, it will take too long to get to their minimum limit to withdraw.

Ok thank you for your opinion  :)

More like "free micro-fraction of a Bitcoin".

Unfortunately, it isn't worth it.

Yes and yes.

If you get 150 satoshi every time, use 20 different sites, and click 10 times each site every day, you will just be able to get 30000 satoshi (=$0.1) a day. So you shouldn't waste your time on faucets.

bitcoin faucets is a place where you can get free bitcoin in an amount not too much but given routinely during the period, there are on every 15 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours and others ...  ;D

theres so many of them, not sure why people bother with it.

Bitcoin faucet its a way to get free btc but its very a little amount

Yes its way of get free btc but if you do hard work then still you need years to reach 1 bitcoin I have just 6 mBTC in a month