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I am pleased to announce the launch of a new bitcoin faucet/micro-payment service, captchacoin.com (http://captchacoin.com). All you have to do is enter your bitcoin address, hit enter, and begin solving captchas. Users are paid 5 micro-bitcoins (uBTC) for each captcha they solve and need only solve 11 captchas before receiving their first payment.

A quick comparison to other faucets:

• With CoinTube, watching a video gets you 10 uBTC. You can earn the same amount by solving 2 captchas at CaptchaCoin.
• With BitVisitor, spending 5 minutes on a page earns you 10-30 uBTC. This equates to 2-6 captchas at CaptchaCoin. But BitVisitor limits you to around 10 pages a day whereas there are NO daily limits at CaptchaCoin.
  

Note that those faucets require you to solve a captcha anyway. So really 1 video + 1 captcha at CoinTube is equivalent to 2 captchas at CaptchaCoin.

Anyways, if you're interested, give it a try and tell us what you think!

I gave it a try, not a big fan of the background or the text color.

As far as the captcha goes, I dont like the fact that its case sensitive, letters like 'V' look the same in both cases...

otherwise, neat idea

so ~0.50$ for 1000 solved

I'm guessing you are reselling

afaik prices for selling 1k captchas vary from ~1$ to ~10$

I wonder for how low are those solvers willing to work?

AmDD, would you prefer a solid background color instead? It's unfortunately rather difficult to make a webpage look nice when the only content is a single captcha.

And PrintMule, yes - we have a deal with an anonymous captcha provider. The leading captcha-solving services like deathbycaptcha can solve 1000 captchas for $1.39 and by the time they take their cut, not a lot of money is left for the people solving those captchas (I don't know their exact rates).

It wouldn't be too hard to extend CaptchaCoin to allow people to upload and pay for captchas they want solved, which could potentially increase the payments to our users, but I imagine the demand for this is low and it would not be very useful until the site has more traffic.

Exactly, how long does it take for balance to update?

It should take no longer than 5 minutes for your balance to update. Though note that you won't see the updated balance until you submit another captcha, view a different page, refresh the page, etc

Pretty interesting! I tried it for a few minutes and I have some reservations about the % success rate. I swear I got all those captchas right, but its only showing a 32% success rate. Not encouraging!

i just solved like 80 captchas and my balance only shows 11

Is this website legal? I read on news some captcha sites are used for spam or botnets.

Sounds like a good idea, will try it out and get back to you on it.

EDIT:
Well I tried it out and it's a pretty nice website. Like every other faucet you have to put your work in to get paid but the captchas are easily said and done. I even got my first payout of 75uBTC. The only complaint I have is that I ran out of captchas a couple times during the test run.

Hi guys, here's also my opinion about the site ... while it's a nice simple design which I appreciate, I'm facing the same issue about the Accuracy ... 38.92% after 1k+ resolved it's for me hard, very hard to believe

Have to tell you that I do have some experience in solving captchas, all kinds, and I'm deffinitely above 95%...  so, let's not say a scam site because still pays for what it shows but, let's be real!

So I understand it's a reselling captchas after all and that doesn't bother me, but at least be fair with your visitors and give them the correct revenue.

This solution of updating the balance later (because there are ways to make it realtime), it's also createdcreate distraction, to make it difficult to follow what you're sure of being solved correctly (because most of the captchas are clear without possibility to make confusion) ... and after solving let's say 10 pcs and park to 'stats', when you refresh the page you barely get a balance update of 1 to 3 points after 10 mins. (Btw, my job is as software tester and I know testing procedures)

So then, thank you for the decent amount of BTC you offer by reselling but at least be fair vith your visitors)

I have this same issue with this website, so I find it extremely hard to use.
I hate that the captchas are all case sensitive but have many letters such as V, O, P, Z, X, & C which make it extremely difficult to know when they are capitalized or not. Overall I find that my accuracy is extremely low and it takes me on average 3-4 tries to just get 1 solved.
I don't recommend this site to anyone as it ends up just becoming extremely frustrating.

this is on the same level as altcoins  ::)

The captchas are not case-sensitive, in all I've tested there I used lower-case only as well as upper-case only and case-sensitive solving...
In all 3 cases the Accuracy is there, very low...

So, I still have winnings (tested only the default blue-captcha which it's always upper-lower case) using lower-case only ...

The conclusion is that you are not actually get paid for what you resolve correctly but for around half of it, and you are misled by the delayed update of balance.

I assume that the website owner is increasing his profit by reselling the captchas, giving away half of what he actually promised, 5 uBTC.

i liked it up to the point i did 5 Captchas and got paid for 1...

If this is true, people should seriously just not be using this website. It's not worth solving 4+ captchas to only get credited for 1 captcha. Not only does it take a considerable amount of effort compared to other faucets but the site owner is taking our BTC.

Yes this might be one solution even though I don't like the idea of spoiling someone's business but it would be nice to have CaptchaCoin.com here with a reply, have a chance to defend the above arguments and do the necessary changes the proper way ...

At the end we are keeping his business running so we need to count on his fairness.

I work for few time but stats not showing correctly seems to be a scamm :-[

I try it... but only 36,59% accuracy

Stop for me!

I done and all showing wrong not stats and not accuracy

Yes, CaptchaCoin does resell captchas. I would promise you that I do not tamper with the accuracy, but there's no way to prove that, so it doesn't really mean anything. I believe that my captcha supplier is the dishonest party here, especially because he has not paid me in 4 days. The fact that it takes a few minutes for the balance to update is also caused by the supplier I'm using.

I'm in the process of implementing an API to allow anyone to submit a captcha they want solved to CaptchaCoin, which should fix these issues. But realistically, I don't know how many people would actually use the API.

I'm sorry that most people's experience with this site has been less than satisfactory.

I want to do work on this and I have one try after solving 50 its showing just 11 and and accuracy just 23 so I was shocked because I done work for some companies and my accuracy is 95 to 98 if you will improve this then may be few peoples work

my accuracy is ranging from 35-40%. Its not bad however sometimes it takes a bit for the next capcha to show.

and what about stats all coming ok

IT seemed about right to me I did not count every single one but it was around the same ballpark.

giving this a quick try, so far 6 / 22 have been confirmed , i'll leave the tab open & refresh every few mins :)

Definitely not paying for ALL correct captchas. Did at least 10 and did them case sensitive. Not ONE credited. Waste of my 5 minutes, thanks.

one question before starting/trying this:

What is the purpose of solving these captcha's
Likely this will be used by spammers to bypass captcha checks??

Hopefully topic starter can clear this out a bit?!

Of course they are. But reselling them to other captcha buyers is more likely in this case.

its a big business and many big companies doing this I think just because of this he is also doing this and change is just payment method which is bitcoin I am doing this for last 2 years he is frist who giving this payment but rate is low

My accuracy range was also very low, low 30's% over a not so large range.  It's odd how everyone has such a low accuracy at this site.

well i did get my payment :) but not worth the time for me personally :>

It would be worth it if most of the captcha's were not impossibly hard to solve because they are case-sensitive. I can never figure out if certain letters are upper or lowercase. I believe this is what accounts for such low success rates, as well as including the possibility that the supplier is not paying us for say 1/6 captchas we solve.

If any one want to do captcha work for bitcoins can send me pm I can also give payment in bitcoins

I've just published a super easy-to-use API (http://www.captchacoin.com/api/) for the website, for anyone who would like to submit captchas to CaptchaCoin. This should make it easier for the website to connect to quality captcha providers, eventually fixing most of the problems you guys have reported, like the accuracy.

Accuracy: 34.00%

Even though I've tried to figure the case sensitivity into my typing...

Accuracy: 28.46%

OMG!
I'm not blind,
this site is the worst of all faucet!
Just wasting your time on this site.

for all you captcha lovers - just visit primedice

Captchacoin is pratically dead now.

I loaded the webpage, entered my wallet address but it kept saying:
"No more captchas available! Wait a few seconds and then try clicking the button above to get another captcha."
So maybe theres a problem?

same here

not a good work rate is ver low and sometime have bug and counters also not working ok dont give this a try

Captchacoin seems to be dead by now as I said earlier in this post.

No more captchas available! Wait a few seconds and then try clicking the button above to get another captcha.

still no new captchas avail.

Nice bump there. I believe I saw somewhere that this service has closed.

LOL

Yep, the service has shut down

any success with withdrawal so far ??? cuz I know these kind of program's do show money getting added to your account but there is always a limit to make withdrawals which bever happens in end so that's the main concern! !

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Still no captcha available.

 No more captchas available! Wait a few seconds and then try clicking the button above to get another captcha.
 :(

A few months ago when this service was open, I received lots of payments from here. ;)

The min. withdrawal amount is 69 captcha, with each captcha being worth 0.8 uBTC. Payments were sent automatically 2 times daily, there is no request withdrawal button.

I can confirm I also have few payments from here for solving captchas but this was closed few months ago now some one again bump this

Joke payment I don't wanna go blind just to earn $1

Its already closed some time newbies bump this

this site is very close to scam. not recomending.

I finished subscribing... and confirmed... now what? what do I do now?

THERE IS A NEW SITE FOR CAPTCHACOIN.com AND NOW IT IS NOT A CAPTCHA SOLVER BUT A CAPTCHA ALTERNATIVE AND CONTENT LOCKER.

ACCEPT BITCOIN PAYMENTS THROUGH A PAY CAPTCHA WITHOUT REGISTRATIONS AND LOGINS NEEDED WITH EASY INTEGRATIONS WITHIN YOUR WEBSITE.

SEE: https://www.captchaco.in/