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Title: Donations to freebitcoins.appspot.com needed! Post by: Gavin Andresen on July 12, 2010, 07:15:46 PM The Bitcoin Faucet is handling the slashdotting really well... except that I'm running out of coins to give away. over 5,000 have flowed out of the Faucet since I refilled it last night.
Any of you early adopters who generated tens of thousands of coins back in the early days, are you willing to send a few to the Faucet to be given away so more people can try out Bitcoin? I know that most of them are likely to be lost (I suspect there a lot of slashdot lookey-loos who won't stick around long enough to spend their 5 bitcoins), but if that's the case then that'll just increase the value of your other bitcoins, anyway... Fountain donation address is: Depending on donations and how long the slashdotting lasts, I might have to start giving away bitnickels... Title: Re: Donations to freebitcoins.appspot.com needed! Post by: Gavin Andresen on July 13, 2010, 01:57:24 AM Thanks for the donations... whoever you are who donated!
The Faucet has about 2,000 coins in it at the moment; I just deployed a new version that will automatically start giving out bit-nickels if the balance falls below 500 (but allows anybody who gets a bit-nickel to come back later and get the 5 bitcoins "they deserve" if/when the Faucet is refilled). Title: Re: Donations to freebitcoins.appspot.com needed! Post by: XaviorPenguin on July 14, 2010, 01:05:41 AM You can have the 5 you gave me back. I just wanted to see how this all works and all and hopefully, I will have some coins popping up every couple of days. :)
Thank you for running a great program/incentive! I appreciate it! Title: Re: Donations to freebitcoins.appspot.com needed! Post by: Gavin Andresen on July 14, 2010, 01:04:32 PM Thanks Xavier!
To everyone else: the Faucet is now giving out bit-nickels; it just went under 500 BTC. I've got just under 2,000 BTC left to refill it, but I think I'll start letting it drain a nickel-at-a-time and keep it above zero for as long as I can (refilling it to just under 500 if it gets near zero). Title: Re: Donations to freebitcoins.appspot.com needed! Post by: BitLex on July 14, 2010, 03:30:03 PM i send my 5 coins back right after i got them,
was a great way to check our system and still is a great way for new "potential customers", to test us. regrettably i havent been around back in those early days, but i'll gladly send all incoming 5coin credits back to you. 8) Title: Re: Donations to freebitcoins.appspot.com needed! Post by: satoshi on July 16, 2010, 02:02:07 AM 5 BTC seems like a lot these days, maybe the normal amount should be 1 or 2 BTC.
This is an important service so new users can at least get something if generating is too hard. Title: Re: Donations to freebitcoins.appspot.com needed! Post by: PulsedMedia on July 16, 2010, 11:45:18 PM Sent mine 5BTC back aswell.
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