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This statement was actually a quote from someone in a Telegram group.  Apparently some tokens promise to pay you crypto as a reward for doing stuff, like watching videos or ads. Sounds great, right? However, sometimes it also involves you downloading an app/program, which could give you malware and steal your cryptos!

Do you think crypto faucets are a great way to get free tokens or is it a total scam?

I do not think that way.
Before I download an app, I usually search for his review first.
That is my precautionary measure. And as well as registering Using backup email.

Not all faucets, much more pay but it is only a small amount. So the only advice I have to you is to join the campaigns here at bitcointalk. It's definitely worth the effort to dedicate it to it.

If i need to download something for faucet, I will think about it carefully, doing some research, using different account etc. Just a precaution. But usually that's only happened in smartphone type faucet, isn't it? So i think it's kinda safe to download from playstore (after reading the review and stuff).

So to the answer to your question about it is a great way to earn free token? the answer is yes, but not so much not anymore, if you doing faucet a few years back, maybe you can gain something, but from the gain that's almost all market get like now, it's almost like dust earnings.

Not every faucet are scam, everywhere are scams but here is there are not many of them.

Anyway i do not like this way to get money, better and safeier option will be invest in crypto, ico, or join to bounty campaigns

doesn't matter. most of them give too little tokens, or require too much effort to get it anyway.

i dont play faucet anymore since i become a trader.
IMO not ALL faucet are scam, but it  just gives us small amount so it's not worth. (just wasting time)

I have played with faucets in the past.  Haven't run into any scams yet.  Then again, I have never needed to download anything before. 

Most work on a simple principle.  Which is that it's not worth your time and effort.  Places like Google ads may pay $0.005 for every view of an ad on a webpage (I don't know the exact number).  And the owners of the faucet page are giving you a small part of that like $0.001.  So you watch a few, and earn a few satoshis ect and think, that is pretty cool, you are making money for doing nothing.  Until you notice you dedicated 2-3 hours of your time, and managed to earn $0.02 for your efforts. 

That is absolutely true ! Most of such ads and such attractive offers are just scams . Have you ever heard about PTC ads ? Pay to click ads or sponsored ads , they actually get paid after you click o their "attractive" ads . Most of such ads are just hunting for the users who are really desperate to earn simple money and they usually end up making a fool of themselves at the end.

yep, I also observe that.. I don't know but for all the faucet I joined I didn't get anything from them

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With so many pop up while you are using that service and it's not recommended way to do. There is a lot of scammers in these days. To do various activities on the faucet site is not worth anything. That's just another useless kind to waste a lot of our time. It is totally scam because the possibility of the owner will be putting the malware.

It takes too much time and the payment is too small. It's not worth it to do. It's better to find a better job!

People who are aware of security risks, generally don't expose themselves to them, while those who are not, and knowingly so, does.
Consider how much trash people download and run without any concern - there's not really much that can be done in this aspect.
It's stupid in the first place to keep any sort of crypto access on a hackable device.
Buy a hardware wallet if you're unsure of how to keep yourself safe - there's sooo many ways to get access to someone's crypto, even if you don't have a virus on your computer/phone..

I joined a lot of free faucets, only a few actually paid for activities such as watching videos and downloading apps. The faucets caught doing the capcha job never paid me

Nothing is for free in this world  ::)
I have never attempted using them.

Not all. In fact I never encounter a non-paying faucet. Most of the faucets I used in the past paid me but it's almost unprofitable(you cover your withdrawal fee) and very time consuming.

Not of all faucets are scams. Faucet was the first thing i do to earn money online and crypto and most of them were paying but i don't do that anymore as it's not worth the time. To avoid getting scam, you should find legit faucet site that has proven to pay their worker. b*tter.io and earncrypt*.com were faucet site that i had joined and they were paying (i don't know whether they are still legit or not).

I am still surprise that peoplestill participate in faucet, IMO, I don't think faucet is still rewarding, there was a time that you can earn close to 100ksat per hour just doing faucet but that is not possible again because the value of BTC has grown up. All the faucet I participated in then were paying the only issue I had then was that one of the  online wallet I was using end up being a scam site

My advice to you, intead of been bothered about fake and fraudulent faucets
why not invest your total time to invest in airdrops and bounties on bitcoin talk forum ? it pays more, with time you can earn over 1000$ in months,
But if you insist on faucets, there coinpot.co; you can pm if you want more enlightenment 

not all faucet is a scam, some others even pay a small amount, but i do not like faucet because this is a tedious job with very small gift, i have to wait for months to collect ico given, and i have no patience therefore

And their still who the visits? I have long been a favorite faucet which I collected satoshi. But when they began to increase the amount for payments I forgot about him. Now a lot of people are chasing after cryptocurrency and scammers have profits from people who want to get cryptocurrency without doing anything and without investing anything.

That is not really a great way to protect yourself, the reviews that you are looking could be false and be fabricated by malicious people, your best defense is to not risk it, if you have enough coins already then there is no point in risking the coins you are already holding just to get a few more tokens, do not download anything from the web from which you have the slightly suspicion it could contain virus.

"Do you think crypto faucets are a great way to get free tokens or is it a total scam?"

I do not think it is a great way. It is probably the laziest thing to do. Participate in bounty campaigns instead where you get a higher success rate of getting paid for your efforts.

These faucets are always such peanuts they aren't worthy of spending your time on.  I will probably make more money just by posting this post for a bounty campaign than any faucet around.  ;D  As one of the previous posters said: do bounties and choose wisely.  One good bounty will get you more than 100 faucets...

Of course, such statistics are very frightening, but unfortunately this is true and I will have to agree with this, indeed a very large number of projects are being closed very quickly today, because they just do not want to work or can understand that their idea is not really will normally develop, maybe something else, I do not understand yet, but the statistics are really terrible.

I totally forget faucet claiming because its not worth the effort. I'm sure that as a beginner, you will really find it attractive, but as you gain experienced a long the way, you will also abandoned it because it will take you a lot of time just to get the minimum amounts of withdrawal.

But it looks like scammers have also exploited this system as you have pointed it. That's why everyone should really stay away with faucets because of this incident. So to answer you, its not a good way to get free tokens. Just joined bounties and you will get more than spending all the time claiming faucets for tokens.

That is true, it is worst than airdrops because i do tried it when i was a newbie,faucets and airdrops which definitely worthless things to do when you are new to something you will get fooled by these websites.You should be doing something more valuable like joining bounty campaigns which can be profitable as you are doing bounty campaigns.

Tell this to the people who claimed 3-4 BTC for some clicks with the first faucets in the early stage of BTC and crypto. :D

I don't think they are scam, but waste of time on current price and market cap levels.

I started from faucets. Not all of them require to instal soft. Some of them are atually developed in order to give crypto for experiments with sending/receiving tokens, but not many of them.
I am not a fan of faucets and I think it is much better to take part in bounty and support project you like.

Only newbies are joining faucets and airdrops because that is what google is saying,to earn free cryptocurrencies,if you googled free bitcoins you are going to redirected to those faucet websites which wont pay your efforts,you should be more focus in bounty campaigns which you can earn a lot buy completing the tasks you are asked to do.

You shouldnt be joining these faucets,because its like airdrops too which will only waste your time and effort,you could have done better ,do bounty campaigns instead because it is more profitable than any shit things that you can do,and you wont need to invest any amount to start earning unlike to mining and trading which you will be required to have big initial investment.

Something free will never be profitable,that is why you should be avoiding these shit websites,because its morelikely airdrops which are less profitable! bounty campaigns are a lot more better ! because you are literally working for the ICO,which your efforts will be paid according to your efforts from the whole campaign and im sure you will get paid if you completed the tasks.

Most of them are scams. Even though some of them may not, but it is not worth for the time you invest

Maybe not 99 percent, but most FAUCETS are really a Scam. I highly recommend you not to receive free tokens this way.

There is a big risk of getting malware on your PC, or accidentaly give somebody an access to your Wallets, and loose your money at the end, so I would be highly accurate with those.

The time for crypto-faucets ended three years ago.
Now you already do not get anything on them without special software.
I advise you to completely forget about them.
It is better to go to work in McDonald's and to earn money to buy liquid currency.

I never heard faucets a long time ago,but im sure and clear that these are just wasting your time and effort as i have been participating that when i was a newbie to the cryptocurrencies,people often researching in google which is why these faucets are being used by those people who doesnt know anyting yet.You will never get your rewards from these website so dont bother to join any.

Faucets ? never heard it for a long period of time,wayback 2015 i joiend a lot of them and no single website has paid my efforts.Which is why i stopped participating that bullshit a long time ago,airdrops too are worthless not unless the drop is from the legit coin that has a lot of potentials to grow do not waste your time and effort to these activities,focus in bounties instead.

When you are already downloading stuffs online just to get a small portion or amounts of token then better to stop it while its still early because those things aren't really worthy thing to do and you are just risking your entire security or you are just compromising your own pc which would lead up to possible hacking incidents later on. Faucets in captcha is different to those kind of things which you can claim tokens after a specific task.Be careful anytime when it comes to downloading stuffs.

The cryptocurrency space is evolving, gone are the days when faucets pay well, presently it is purely a waste of time to be involve in it, preferably get involve in Bounty campaign, it might take a while to earn but it is a sure path to earn real good.

I started here but stopped after a month because it's useless and just a waste of time so many ads, so many redirects and you can only get $0.0001 no wonder only newbies do this, it's better to do clixsense or neobux than this worthless faucets.

Faucets are worst than joining airdrops,because in airdrops you will still have a little chance to get profits,while in faucents you wont have any,that is why i am more focused in bounty campaigns,than joining these things,websites that asking to download or watch anything is morelikely scams because they are just using people for their own benefit.

Cryptocurrency keeps increasing as well as blockchain so if you going to us me why there's alot of faucet then probably they want to give freebies to advertise their coins. but first comes first you should be more vigilant on your private keys and your data on computer, coz if somebody access your computer all your money will lose. so i don't recommend faucet participate more on bounties or airdrops.

this is what greed gets you : most of the "free stuff" are just traps and hacks.

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Yes it is,do not waste your time with these website because you wont get paid ,it is worth than joining free airdrops because airdrop tokens can still have some value compare to these faucets which wont pay you not unless you worked for years and you've got plenty of rewards,spend your time to bounties to get big rewards in exchange to your effort.

Not all faucets first requires one to download any app. Some are just the captcha solving faucets. But the point is that faucets don't really pay one anything. I can boldly say this from experience. And most times also at some point while solving the faucet, it will tell you that your ip  address changed and you lose everything you've gained so far and be back to square one.

Back in the early days of bitcoin till year 2016 faucet are the best way for newbies to learn how bitcoin transaction work but it has been corrupted this days and genuine faucet are not profitable I.e it a waste of time. However, 99% of faucet provider or someone who promised to reward for doing stuff, like watching videos or ads are scam this days.

I'm going to take whatever comes after this with a grain of salt. Anonymous/random users in some undisclosed Telegram group are not regularly a reliable source of information.


Not "apparently", some of them genuinely do. Is your accusation that there is no such thing as a paying faucet? There are plenty of legitimate faucets, so to answer your question and respond to the quote, No they are not scams. They just are not worth anyone's time. Don't download programs you don't recognize and can't verify, problem solved?


Faucets back in the day used to give out multiple Bitcoin, so if you had held onto them then you can imagine it would've been very profitable. At their current rates though, and without tremendous change in the price of Bitcoin or cost of consolidating inputs then faucets are basically just a waste of time. Often times the amount of coin you receive from a faucet is going to end up costing you money, because it is an extra input into your transaction. You have to really manage your inputs, and faucets are horrible in exactly this area.

not all faucets are scam, because there is also a faucet that can indeed give you a valuable gift. but should be more detailed in seeing it, because very few successful faucet.

When I tried faucets months ago, I was so disappointed because there are so many things and tasks to do with so little payout. I think you may be right too, there are also those malware always.

Yes a lot of faucets are scammed, but some of them are not, faucets are used for you to earn crypto in the easiest way, but when a faucet ask you to download anything then you need to check, don't got hacked and get infected by virus, usually when I saw a faucet ask me to download I will skip, I won't jeopardize my account with the little money from the faucet

How about 1% it's LEGIT?


Lol I think not all Faucet are scam. You must be diligent to make profit from it. It's very wasted time for someone which are too lazy to do this kind and they will not get profit from that. But I still prefer Bounty. It's more profitable.

i think the percent is only 30% scam, 30% for projects not enough ablity to promote, and reamainings are good project

It is a part of a journey in the crypto world where most of the newbies participate in faucet to earn free bitcoin or some other coins. I have done the same thing and quickly found it to be a waste of time.

You can read my "old" 3d here, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2549332.0 the faucets on this list are 100% legit and they pay, you can transfer money from the microwallet to your wallet.
Other faucer are very scammy and risky. Those are the only enjoyable/safe in my opinion.
And yeah NEVER INSTALL suspicius wallet on your pc, if you really want doing so, install a virtual machine, a free one can be found here -> https://www.virtualbox.org/, in this way if you will be scammed, only the virtual machine will be infected and you can delete it and install a new one.

sir i think its a great way to get free coins in some legit or lets say nice faucet, but when i try it.. it give a mite every single hour.. and the profit is very low and its not worth my time, then when you say it scam i agree also to it sir.. coz some of my friend were investing in a faucet to increase their hash rate.. and at the end the site has been closed.. and that way they were scammed.. better you should do some research 1st before you try to download something.. in the end ur the one who will have a future or youll be the one to be lose.. thank you so much sir.. good day and God speed...

I don't see why this faucets exists when they are just scams. I think nobody ever wanted to block them for good. It sad how people are tempted to pay for a larger btc reward which results into nothing. People are sad about it by this sites still keep existing. Hope they will stop at their own will because they knew they were not doing good.

I also try to join in faucet when I was a newbie but yes that's a waste of time ,it's better to trade your money just study all about trading than waste your time with nothing.

   I think so because I have never heard that anyone got bitcoin or any other currency from these faucets. People just waste their time in such sites. The best to make money is only this signature campaign. But here you will have to give time and be patient for a long time. I don’t believe in any faucet. I don’t want to waste my time after these scams.

Faucets are a total waste of time and I agree with the statement that 99% faucets site is scams. Years ago I tried some faucet, but after researching a few hours I got the game. I left the faucet alone for other hungry users  :) Anyway, you can try faucets only if you don't have any other skills to grab cryptos and have a lot of free times.

I can boldly say this from experience. i think its a great way to get free coins  in Bounty campaign, it might take a while to earn but it is a sure path to earn real good.

When I first started out in cryptocurrencies back in late 2013, the term faucets were very common.  Faucets back then were pretty generous.  They weren't scams but a way to promote the coin by giving away some.  I don't think faucets are as generous as they use to be, the amount you receive are very small and people don't even bother using them anymore. 

not all the faucet sites are scams, there are faucets but they pay little but the big ones are really surprising that other faucets are just getting viewers on their web site to sell their advertising. Right now the faucet is no longer recommended for you to buy and I'm sure you will appreciate it because you're your investment.

Watch out for the faucets at playstores apication because malware and viruses have the ability to steal your files.

if you are still playing faucet, then the step you should take is me review the related platorm
if you want to invest, try with a small amount
stay patient and never get bored in doing the task

Is it even profitable to use faucets? Asking because I didn’t try to use it, not even once. How much BTC/similar may be earned using faucets? Maybe some abstract numbers

Some faucets are legit but way too small, usually, faucets are not meant to be your source of income anyway. And definitley most of them are just swaying you to drive traffic in their website. They earn money by visitng their website. Or they earn money from you wasting your time in their website. They earn from referrals too and ads. The best legit faucet I know is Rinkeby Test net Ethereum faucet, it gives you 1 ethereum so you could test your smart contract on ethereum network test net.

Not all faucet scam, I've tried it in faucethub.io/ and rainpool.io it proved to pay me when claiming a task. But the faucet is wasting my time, the higher your level than, the higher the pay. I do not recommend about the faucet

Anyone who throws out an emotional, and clearly exagerrated/guessed, percentage are total scams in themselves.  To proclaim and then believe such thing shows a significant disconnect from reality.

It is 98%!

I think you wanted to say airdrops because those are the ones that require you to do different tasks in order to receive some tokens. Faucets usually send your bitcoin(because as far as I know about 80% of them pay in satoshis) directly to a microwallet and from there you withdraw all earnings to your wallet.

Most faucets require you to just complete some captchas and that'd all. There are additional tasks to do in order to win more satoshis but those are tasks redirected from other offers website. You make then only if you think they are safe. I would personally never download an app which looks suspicious just to earn lower than 1$.

I also tried some faucet sites and most did not pay or the payment was so small that it would have been a year or more to to reach the minimum payout amount.
The only faucet I find good is the coinpot faucets. You do not get rich, but at least you get a small amount and they pay.

Yes 90% of them are scam. Am done with faucets for now.

Participating faucets wont give you any,participating in airdrops could give you some few pennies! best thing to do is to have bounty campaigns so that you wont be wasting your time and effort.Bounty campaigns are the safest way to get some free coins ,thru promoting an ICO which you will be only required to use your social media accounts,translating , etc.

Yeah I have been participating in BWEX ICO (Exchange) - turned out to be scam, so I agree and think it is better to wait listing of the token other than investing in ICO, at least I have decided to go this way. Scammers everywhere.

Why are you wasting your time and effort joining these worthless things? you cant even cashout with these websites,faucets airdrops and other shit things arent going to give you any good outcome,focus on bounty hunting as it is very profitable as of the moment,you shouldnt be doing shit things so that you arent going to waste your time and effort.

I can not call all faucets scammers. My first earnings were from them, although it was quite miserable and not worth the time spent on it. In addition, a large risk of infection, no matter what the virus is of course present. It is much better to work with bitcointalk.org

Why the hell would you waste your time with faucets qand get like 1 penny.

I don't think 99% of FAUCETS are scam :)). The problem is if you don't get great number of referral, you'll never can be able to reach to the min pay amount. Beside, for now price of Bitcoin is really high so it's almost impossible to reach to minpay if you don't have referral. I still remember the early of last year when I still can reach to minpay of any faucet in 1 week without having any referral :))

Yeah those days are gone, while I was not around to see it I have seen some older members of the forum posting that back in the day some facets used to give a whole bitcoin obviously that was when bitcoin was very cheap but can you imagine receiving a whole bitcoin from a faucet? Someone that claimed just for a few hours back in the day could be rich right now.