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Ok, so I'm a newbie, I've been trying for months to start investing in cryptocurrencies, and, so far, nothing even remotely good is happening.

Just to be clear, I'm well aware of what most think of crypto faucets. It makes sense, for somebody living in the US or any other developed country, to not "waste their time" on them, as you can make a lot more money just by trimming your neighbour's grass, if needed.
But some of us aren't that lucky. In my particular case, I have been unemployed since April 2020, and I'm really scraping the bottom of the barrel here. Meanwhile, even the chance of me getting a crappy job (which at this time would be a blessing) at my age and in a country which has been economically ravaged by the pandemic is slim in the best of cases.
To make things worse, even if I did get a job, the law here only allows internet transactions to be made with credit cards, so I could have a truckload of money, and still would be unable to use it.

So last week I started reading about crypto faucets. Got into Cointiply, and since last Sunday I have managed to raise a grand total of $2.14 ( ;D), which is very little by any means, but it's much better than nothing.

So this thread is intended to get some information from you, more knowledgeable guys, as well as to help other newbs that may be in a similar situation.

The question is: Which faucets do you guys recommend or not?
I'm looking for reliable information on honest sites where I can make a buck. I don't mind working for what most would consider "peanuts". What I don't want is to waste my time for nothing, or to get to those "deposit $$$ to get $$$$$" scams.

I have come up with this site: https://cryptofaucets.cash/2021/02/01/best-free-bitcoin-faucets/ (https://cryptofaucets.cash/2021/02/01/best-free-bitcoin-faucets/) that lists 27 faucets as "the best ones". How trustworthy is it? Do you have any experience in any of those faucets?

Thank you all in advance.  :)

Truth be told faucet is a simple definition of waster of time, you will waste your precious time which could have been used investing on yourself but faucet will left you with no choice but unending surveys which will also require your data and thirdly after efforts been invested you get peanut or nothing at the end because some result to scam.

It is only advised that novice who don't have the knowledge can make use of faucet which serve as a demo account or warming up before launching into the real world of crypto, although some times back, faucet have been said to be a little reliable but gone are the days. I will advise you to source for fund and invest in crypto provided that you have the knowledge, its now up to you on how you can earn the start up capital either by menial jobs or by seeking from family and friends and start investing or trading.

$2.14 x 4 weeks = $8.56, can you survive that amount? I just hope that it's enough to cover your electricity and internet costs.

Faucet sites are widely shared on "Micro Earnings (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=212.0)" board, but no one recommends any of the best. As you have said yourself, the main reason is a waste of time. People will advise you to offer your skills/services which at least can provide higher income and efficiency than faucets.

Thank you both for the replies.
As I said, that's not what I'm looking for.

I'm doing my best to add to the forum, but my knowledge of cryptocurrency is limited. When I started, I read a blog by somebody that claimed he had joined a signature campaign as a newbie. That didn't happen. Ever since, Signature campaigns seem to be getting ever more scarce, ever more demanding, and paying less by the minute.
I'm learning python programming. But the course's name would've been more accurate if instead of saying "all you need to program in python" said "all you need to print shit on the python shell". I love it, but I'm far from ready to start working on it.

I'm also bilingual. Tried to start translating (English-Spanish), but that didn't work out either.

About the "waste of time" thing, if the alternative is to spend your time doing nothing, then working for what you consider "peanuts" is far from wasting anything.

Can I survive on $8.56 a month? No, I can't. But I can wet a pinkie on the crypto pool, and right now I can't, and couldn't do it if I was a millionaire.

PLEASE: I need to know which faucets are good/bad/scams. I already know they are, RIGHT NOW, the only suitable option I have.

I didn't know about the Micro Earnings board. Sorry about that.

The point of having faucets is not to have free money but to get the feel of bitcoin and how it generally works.... you can not get rich from faucets but if say you picked up some free coins off a faucet over 10 years ago, you would agree with me that those free coins would be worth a fortune at todays rate as getting 0.001btc was super easy.

Freebitco.in is pretty much the only one I remember that still exist today that is legit as far as I know.

As for faucets being a waste of time, yea.. I understand what you're saying because I'm also currently in a 3rd world country. But with that amount of money earned I'd rather just get hired as a virtual assistant instead; or a encoder, or a translator, or heck, I'd rather work at McDonalds. Pretty much any job/gig is better than faucets lol.

Thank you, that helps!
As far as getting hired, I'd be happy if I was hired to keep the fires of hell going right now. But I have been actively looking for pretty much anything that pays, and haven't had a single interview in more than a year and a half, so I'm not holding my breath.
This gives me a chance to do something, bad as it may be, to at least start.

I got what you meant from the start. And what I'm worried about is that the faucet will further make your monthly bill increase while you who are unemployed constantly turn on your computer to claim income that will not be worth it. If you are employed, the first thing you need to expect is that the income from your work should not only cover the costs of doing so, but also have more left over as your profit.

I found a casino site that gives a faucet every 5 minutes if your balance is empty here (http://bch.games). You can use it to play and increase your balance until you reach the withdrawal limit. To be honest I've never withdrawn and don't know if it works without a deposit first.

Thank you noorman0, I'll check it out.

About my internet bill, I'm good. I don't have internet. ;D
Every day I come to a nearby Starbucks store to use their connection, so Internet and electricity are free. I'm somehow "working" while I'm here, thanks to a friend who's lending a hand. That's (barely) paying the bills. What faucets afford me is money I can't spend on food, and at the same time money I can get crypto with, which is the other major hurdle I'm facing.

It's really pathetic reading through your comment. I empathize with you. Only those who've been through hard time will understand this. Luckily for you, I can see you're ranking up speedily and soon you should be able to get yourself into a BTC paying campaign. Don't lose hope, keep the faith up.

Straight off, I must tell you that faucets aren't really encouraging. You may not feel the pang if you just play it like a game, casually. But if you rely on it to earn a living you will realize that it's a waste of time and data. I bet it took you over a week to even get the $2.14. What's the withdrawal requirement from that site? I bet you may not even be able to withdraw until it gets to over $20 and that could take you over two months. It's really tasking, going the way of faucets.

Despite what you say, @BernyJB, I suggest you spend every free moment learning something useful, such as programming, or learning more about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Keep upgrading your account here at the same time, as it is obvious that you will advance quickly. You have already achieved the Member rank, and you will soon become a Full Member as you have already earned the required number of merits. This will give you more opportunities when it comes to signature campaigns. A signature campaign is a much better use of your time than a faucet, because you will not only earn more, but you will also gain new knowledge and learn something by participating in the discussions.

Thank you Mpamaegbu. Yeah, it sucks, but I don't waste my time complaining. I'm trying to find a way out.

Actually, it took me 3 1/2 days (I'm up to $2.16 now. ;D) and the minimal withdrawal is $5, so I'm hoping to withdraw, maybe, at the beginning of next week? Good thing is it pays directly in BTC, so I save the transaction fees...

Fatfork: yeah, I'm planning on doing all that. But right now money is getting tighter, so to spend all day staring at the ceiling is just not a good option for me.

I'm kinda hyper, people say I live in a constant sugar rush, so this is also a way to release some steam. I just don't want to get scammed...

Faucet is not bad since it's free and the reason why it's bad is it will take a long time before you can accumulate a decent btc before you can sell/convert it to fiat. I have tried many sites before like having a $5 minimumewithdrawal amount or a $10 minimum is that I reached the minimum but in the end, I didn't able to get it out from that site. Just visit legit stes that have faucets like freebitco.in where you can get free btc per 1 hour. Before, faucets are a thing but now, it is no more.

Have you heard of GPT sites?
Look it up on Google. A few years ago they were very popular. And today I also see their activity. But I can't recommend just one paying site, as it's desirable to participate in most of them and have some tricks that people use to increase their payouts. In any case, you need to try.

Joining crypto faucets isn't bad, unless if you'll get nothing from them. But yeah, we can't expect them it gives us much, not much as $1. if were not deemed doing complaint of receiving small amounts then, that's good. Maybe within a year of doing this, you can earn more...

https://cryptoprofits24.com/crypto-faucets-list/

I'm not sure how these faucets works, maybe someone had even try one of them.

Thank you all!
Nakamura12: well, I'm on several faucets already, including Cointiply (I'm up to $2.49 already! ;)), so my intention is to cash out as soon as I reach $5. We'll see...


Well, I hadn't. Reading up on them now. I'll probably end up signing up on a few, see how they go. Thanks for the tip. 8)


Couldn't open the link... :(
I'll work on it in a moment...

I know faucets well, and I can tell you that as an ordinary user you will not collect anything more than dust, and I mean the fiat value of what you get. You can earn a little more if you own a faucet that you know how to monetize, or if you find a faucet that has a generous ref commission and start collecting referrals.

In addition, it's a very dishonest world with a lot of scammers - and the recent exit scam came from the very popular microwallet service ExpressCrypto, which reportedly had a hardware failure without the possibility of repair.

I somehow understand what you are going through, OP. You are at least leaning on the fact that faucets may yield you BTCs (or $$$) just by clicking. Though it is relatively slow compared to most methods available, at least you get to earn some. But like what most have mentioned, it is definitely waste of time and energy as the time you click, spend energy and earn outweigh all the costs that comes with it.

While you may have the patience and determination to earn, I highly suggest that you channel it into a different method which is more convenient, rewarding, and easier on your end. Being hardworking does not necessarily equate to being successful- try exploring other methods this time OP since you know better! Good luck!

You don't have to thank me. I hope the faucets you visited are legit and you can cash out the once you reached the minimum needed which as you said that it is 5 dollars. I did use faucet on freebitco.in but I didn't visit it much so I only gathered 300 plus satoshi but I stopped since it will take a lot of time before I could reach 30 000 satoshi to withdraw it from freebitco.in. Anyways, good luck on maming it to 5 dollars and see if you can withdraw it though it is not what it used to be before.

Bestchange, the one I’m wearing on my signature, has also a faucet. You could try theirs, too.

What I don’t understand is your insistence on faucets. Let me be a broken record, you will more easily find a job that pays better even in you current situation than earn well in faucets, unless you intend to stick to this faucet thing for years.

Don’t celebrate with your $2.49 just yet; it couldn’t even pay for the fees.

Reading your posts, it seems to me that you have what it takes to write a more than decent news article, essay, review, or whatever content. There’s probably a lot of online writing jobs out there which pay you fairly.

I feel sorry for what you’re going through right now. I wish you all the luck in the world!

Try hive.blog - make an introductory post, interact with other people. You will likely make more than faucets.

Everything starts from a small and that depends on how sure you are with what you do.
I see you want to use free ways to earn crypto as many people did.
It is not wrong if you still want to play with the faucet but you should not feel tired about what you did day by day until you reach the minimum payout.
Your lists on that site are good so you need to focus on collecting every reward from every faucet site because I am sure someday, you will have a chance to make more money.
It is better to earn a small amount than join a program that we do not know if they will pay or scam us.
Keep it up @OP while you still have time to get it.

I think the best advice in the thread was given to you by FatFork, but I'm not sure you understood it:


You seem to write well. If you have time to go to Starbucks and play faucets with their free connection, as well as to write posts in this thread, you could use that time and energy to write for a signature campaign. That doesn't mean staring at the ceiling, I don't know where you get that from. You are still a member but from full member I think you can easily make $30-40 a week.

Take advantage of the time you are going to Starbucks to write in the forum use faucets temporarily, as you have been told, in many cases you will not be able to pay even the fees with those amounts. However if you work on your Bitcointalk account you can earn good money. I earn $100-125 a week with my signature campaign... What would yo do with that money? Couldn't you live with that?

Think long term.

Thank you all for the replies!


No insistence. I'm using a faucet right now, it's a way to make a buck while I don't have another option. In any case, I don't intend to earn well, and I definitely don't intend to stick with it for years.
About getting a job, I've been job hunting since mid 2015 (yeah, even while I was working), and didn't even get a single interview. getting a job is not that easy everywhere. 


That I don't understand. AFAIK, fees are a percentage of what you invest, and in some cases they may be pennies. But OTOH, the faucet I'm in lets you withdraw directly in BTC to your own wallet (they do have a fee), so no exchange is involved.


Thank you. The problem is I don't even know where to start, and I'm getting antsy.
I know 5 bucks is not gonna change much, but it's a start. I keep coming here every day, and talking about things I'm not doing, and it gets frustrating. When I just joined the forum I read a blog from a guy who joined a signature campaign as a newbie. I can't argue about that, but today, even for full members, signature campaigns are scarce.


Thank you, I did get it.  :)


Thanks again. I'm not intending faucets as a full time job. I'm working towards joining a signature campaign, but as I can see it, I have another month (at the very least) before I rank up. The way I see it, even if cointiply ends up being a scam (I'll find out soon enough), it's just gonna be 5 bucks, and no actual money is coming out of my pocket.
We'll see... 

There is one signature campaign that you could join (I'm not taking into account SCAM1xbit). Here you can follow them:

 Overview of Bitcointalk Signature-Ad Campaigns [Last update: 22-Jan-22] (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.0)

The WINZ.IO signature campaign (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5362856.0) had an open spot until recently. Keep a close eye in case another spots opens or another campaign starts accepting Member. You are not going to earn much but you will earn more than with faucets, and you will also gain experience. Later on, as you will be in a campaign, when you rank up it will be easier for you to start getting paid as a full member without having to apply or anything.

Don't even think of getting into the 1xbit campaign because you will be promoting a scam and you will be red tagged for it.

Thank you, I'll check them out.
Yeah, I know about 1xBit. Wouldn't touch them with a stick. ;D

I have 2 questions maybe you can answer:

1. Can I run more than one signature campaign?

2. Once I joined a SC, can I leave it and go for another one, or I'm stuck with them?

The general rule is, 1 account == 1 Signature campaign. You can't advertise two different services/product at the same time especially if the campaign requires the use of the Avatar and Signature space. You can still advertise other campaign though, if and only if avatar isn't required as pre-requisite for entering.

Yes! You can message and explain the reason to the campaign manager that you are leaving. However, just don't be a signature campaign hopper because sometimes a good payrate doesn't always mean a valid reason for switching campaigns.

I can confirm that I have received several payments over the years from this site, but it should be borne in mind that exit scam can happen at any time. If you are not already in the signature campaign, why not invest a few $ and hire someone to make a personalized signature, and in it you can advertise your referral link - because as I already wrote, the only way to earn something through faucets is by collecting referrals or making your own faucet (which requires an initial investment).

Not bad but it's a complete waste of time this days, I think the best coins that should have faucets are those in massive supply like shiba inu, in 2016 faucets was actually good because the value of coins like BTC and ETH even doge was very low

Thank you! That's exactly the kind of data I was looking for: straight and to the point.
My biggest issue now is that most signature campaigns I see require posting on gambling boards, and I don't gamble. But it's a start, the rest is just a matter of working on it.  8)

For the record, I just reached the 5 dollar mark on Cointiply, so I can cash out, which I expect to do today. Time has come to see whether it works out or not...

You will only make few cents per day using faucets it's better to spend your time on airdrops you will get better result compare to faucets, try coinmarketcap and airdrops.io, you won't win every time cause of many scam projects but it pays more than faucets

You've got options! Not every signature campaign requires participants to post mostly in the gambling section; some merely require a certain number of posts in a week to be eligible for BTC payout. That's why reading and comprehending the terms and conditions can help you in determining whether or not you'll be a valuable asset to the casino or other services.

That's the simplest rule you can follow to maintain an organic and healthy discussion. So yeah! READ A LOT!

faucets sites will only help you to consume your internet,Phone battery & wastage of time nothing more .We can’t say all but most if the faucet sites end up with all this ,it’s better instead here join some bounties.

Many airdrops are also waste of time, I have put this behind 2 years ago when it was not profitable but there are some that can pay. The disadvantage of airdrop is that many people are using it for scam purpose, to scam people that are participating in the airdrop.

Faucet is not like mining that can consume battery, make phone hot without mining anything good, facets do not consume phone battery but it is absolutely waste of time.

Alright, as of now, I'm waiting on my first 5 bucks to be credited to my Electrum wallet. I know it may take a few hours. It feels like years, though...
In any case, if I do receive the coins, it'll be the very first crypto I've ever owned, so I'm very excited, to say the least. As for the time it took, it was 8 1/2 days until I could reach the 5 bucks minimum withdrawal requirement, and no fees will be charged (other than a transaction fee by cointiply), so I expect to get the full 5 bucks in my wallet. I'll report back when it happens. 8)

Faucets is actually paying but in "very small" token as you said..
I understand what you wanna achieve and your level right now; if it's okay for you, go for the best faucet and register then gather these coins in one durable wallet( these is after you've gotten something else to do that will get you alot of cash ) If not, you're still gonna push yourself to a tight corner because this fringe benefits cannot earn you anything to support your up keep.
Freebitco.in is also paying I think; according to mk4

I still think faucets are a good thing for beginners and crypto noobs. (of course, the serious ones that really pay off, even if it's dust). It is a good way to learn the basics of crypto, deposit, withdrawal, transaction etc...
Also, maybe it's dust now but who knows for a year or two. I remember when I own a few faucet websites, I spent around 1BTC on users. they could earn 5000 satoshi's in one claim and every hour (BTC worth $100-$200). today it is not dust (if someone has managed to save it)
I suggest you try the official Horizen faucet, you will be paid instantly. In 2020 he is worth $3-$6 then they offer bigger rewards and in that time has been possible to earn up to 1ZEN per claim. In next year he touched at the moment $150 (if I remember correctly) so it is probably cost-effective in the long run.
I have cashed out something earned through referrals and I am more than satisfied. From dust.

BernyJB, how long does it takes you collect daily rewards from all 27 faucets? From your point of view, how real it looks to raise minimum withdrawal amount on these faucets without having an army of referrals?

Why do you name your article "best free bitcoin faucets", when there are faucets in the list that give altcoins? You can add two MATIC faucets to this list then https://macncheese.finance/matic-polygon-mainnet-faucet.php and https://matic.supply/. They dont have minimum withdrawal and instantly send a little bit of MATIC to your wallet. It is said that these faucets are help for those who is short of MATIC for one transaction. So if you want to claim it many times, you need to move received MATIC to other wallet every day. Because you will get a message "you have enough MATIC on your balance" when claiming next day if your balance is >0.

Its a waste of time, the only tokens worth faucets right now are those meme coins with gigantic max supply like safemoon, shiba inu, saitama, doge dash and others, the only faucet worth my time in the past is doge coin faucets

HELL YEAH!!! 8)
As of 25 minutes ago, I'm the proud owner of .00013858 BTC! My first million is on the way!


Thank you! I'll look it up.  8)