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Hello,  I'm a computer engineering major at Texas A&M university and as a part of my studies I have started a website which will give new users some free BTC to get going.  My site is very similar to the Bitcoin Faucet website established some time ago, but there are several key differences.

• Bit by Bit can be used to receive .001 BTC for free
• Bit by Bit can be used daily, meaning you can get up to .007 free BTC a week
• Bit by Bit also features a Lottery Drawing once a week which offers the chance to win .25 to 1 BTC.  The more people supporting the site the higher the Prize is.

I am currently attempting to stress test the site, so please tell anyone and everyone you can to try it out.

For more information please check out the site Bit by Bit (http://www.wesmeredith.com/bitbybit)

Looks very nice.

Not so important for this, but for more serious stuff it isn't good to ask people to claim a payment/donation after it's sent as anyone could watch the chain via blockexplorer or similar and make a bogus claim.

Yeah, I am currently working on an implementation which would eliminate this problem.  Almost got it done, just debugging it now.  Thanks for taking a look!

I played around with it and it seems I always get the same captcha when I first load the submission page. Clicking the "different image" link does give me a unique captcha though...

That's an interesting bug I can't seem to duplicate.  I'll take a look at the code tonight and try and figure out why it's doing that.

Just nitpicking here, but there's a typo on the submissions page.

"To receive your free butcoin please fill out the following form in its entirety."

Looks like a great site!

Oops, thanks for pointing that out.

Nice.. thanks

Looks good.

Interesting idea...  Not sure if 1 cent will keep my attention, but we'll see what happens.

Just wanted to update everyone that the site will go down for a few minutes as I update some backside scripts.  If you can't get on keep trying, it'll be back up soon.

Oh, and the lottery doesn't have very many people yet, so it might behoove you to enter.

Thanks,

Wamo

Looks very interesting i'll give it a try:D

Its actually a school project.  I am a Computer Engineering major and we had to develop a system which used what we have studied (MySQL, HTML, PHP, LAMP Stack Servers, various cryptography practices).

There are a few ads on there to help offset the hosting/mining costs, but I'm not looking to quit my full time job :).

Cool site, you just made it into my sig  =)

Interesting....

Great service, I love the idea of a bitcoin lottery.  Make sure you submit your site to btcmerchants.com and I'll upgrade you to a featured listing.

Will do, thanks for checking out the site.

Where do you seed your bitcoins from?

Be aware that people will abuse the system at some point. I have dynamic IP for example. I can get a new IP just by pressing a button.

But the site looks nice. Congratulations :)

thank you. had registered to your site  ;D

Just an update,

The first 24 hours of beta testing went extremely well, only minor bug fixes were needed.  I anticipate keeping the website up for a few more days before taking it down for major back-end changes.  It should be up within 24 hours of being down.

Anyways, thanks to all the beta testers that helped out already, look forward to seeing you again.

PS.  The Logs have been wiped, all participants can once again submit BTC requests for the next 24 hours of testing.


Wamo

Why does the "by" in "Bit by Bit" link to the page it is on? Also the "me" in "Contact Me" and the "drawing" in "Lottery Drawing"

edit: Also cool idea, especially since I used my ip address to send bitcoins into the void using bitcoin faucet the first time.

BitbyBit is still off.

Any ETA on getting back up?

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BitbyBit never came back.