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Hello crypto lovers and developers!

I created this faucet as I've noticed that there are only a few faucets where you can get testnet coins and most are only Bitcoin, so I wanted to create an all-in-one testnet faucet that has practically every coin with a testnet and is in demand!

If you would like to see a new coin or if you created a coin that you would like to see here on the faucet, please feel free to contact me or post it in the thread!

List of coins on the faucet:

• Bitcoin Testnet (https://testnet-faucet.com/btc-testnet)
• Litecoin Testnet (https://testnet-faucet.com/ltc-testnet)
• Dogecoin Testnet (https://testnet-faucet.com/doge-testnet)
• Groestlcoin Testnet (https://testnet-faucet.com/grs-testnet)
• Bitcoin Cash Testnet3 (https://testnet-faucet.com/bch-testnet3)
• Bitcoin Cash Testnet4 (https://testnet-faucet.com/bch-testnet4)

Main website: https://testnet-faucet.com

Hi Tech1k!

Can you please explain what a faucet is? Sorry I am newbie in this regard.

Maybe this is the wrong category of this forum for a faucet?

Thx and best regards
Tama

Don't be sorry - we were all newbies at one point  ;)

A faucet is a website that gives out usually small amounts of crypto to users (satoshi amounts) every hour. The crypto is usually stored in the faucet until you reach the minimum withdraw amount set by the faucet. Fun fact: the first faucet gave out 5 BTC per claim!

I posted this here as I created a faucet for the testnet and the testnet is usually used by developers to test their projects without using real Bitcoin that's worth money (testnet coins are not worth anything).

Take care and best wishes,
Tech1k 8)

Keep in mind that this is a TESTNET faucet. This means it delivers worthless coins.
The coins are useful only for people and developers testing various features.

Since you are newbie you could for example test the features of a certain wallet (but you have to start in a special mode, for testnet). There's nothing else you could use those coins for and it's nice to send them back after you've finished with the tests.


Since the testnet faucets are most useful for developers this is a very good place for a testnet faucet to be announced.



TL;DR: if you are into faucets to gather coins hoping they'll make you rich someday (which is something you'll find out later it doesn't worth your time), this is not a faucet for you.

It's a pleasure to help out other fellow developers! :)


You brought up a good point, the systems I have to prevent abuse are: recaptcha2, IP address logging, and address logging. I make it so the user can only claim once per hour. Yes, you might say, what if I opened up Tor and browsed? Fair point, but I'm going to allow tor IPs for now as I like decentralization and I know some devs like their anonymity, but if people like you said, start to abuse the faucet and I see the IPs are tor endpoints. Then I will block access to the site from tor IPs.

If you have any other suggestions or advice on how I can prevent abuse, please let me know!

On a side note, I created a testnet mining pool too! https://testnetpool.com Here is the Bitcoin Talk thread for the pool if you're interested: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5258017.0

The testnet Dogecoin faucet is online and I sent about 9000 tDOGE to the faucet to test it. It's still syncing, but will be usable soon! https://testnet-faucet.com/doge-testnet/

The faucet goes offline every now and then and that's because I'm downloading 3 blockchains at once. I apologize about this, but in a few hours, it should all be finished!

Edit: The faucet is down temporally as I'm speedily downloading all the blockchains for the other coins on the faucet. Please give me about 6 hours to get it all downloaded!

Glad to see more tbtc faucets :)

I wanted to check it out, but it's not only the faucet that's down, but your complete host (or so it seems).

As for preventing abuse, i use a combination on my faucet:

• A captcha (not recaptcha)
• an ip blocklist
• a "smart" payout script.... I bulk send payouts once per hour, and the script handling the payouts checks for a limited amount of parameters before adding payment to the bulk list. If abuse is detected, the user's ip is added to the blocklist and the payment is deleted without payout

Thank you for letting me know! The httpd server crashes from an overload and causes the whole server to temporally freeze.

Thank you for your tips! I'm thinking about doing some IP blocks on IPs that are known to abuse services. I will also take a look at sending the payments in bulk as that will help lower the amount of transactions sent which will lower the stress and memory consumption on the mempool.

That's a good idea! I've seen many self made math captchas before and that can work as my handwriting is not excellent (it's bad lol), it will surly be hard for a script to solve it!

I'm going to add Groestlcoin to the testnet faucet as it seems there is some demand for tGRS coins!

Testnet Bitcoin is now active on the faucet! I don't even have a whole tBTC, so please feel free to donate some to the faucet (I'm going to try and mine some)!

Claim tBTC: https://testnet-faucet.com/btc-testnet

If you wan't a tbtc donation it would be great (for you) to provide the address here,
so all can donate to you with tbtc.

 ;)

and yes, I would donate you a bit

From what I see the faucet is already dry. This means that you either were too generous, either somebody has already abused your faucet.
Quite sad...

You're awesome 8)! Here is the tBTC faucet address: mohjSavDdQYHRYXcS3uS6ttaHP8amyvX78

Good points, but what actually happened was the faucet was dry to begin with as I'm trying to mine and get some tBTC for the faucet lol

Currently I have it so you can claim 0.001-0.0125 tBTC/hour when the faucet isn't dry!

If you sent the tgrs address here then grs users can fill the groestlcoin faucet

Replied on Discord and thank you again for the generous tGRS donation for the faucet!

The Bitcoin testnet faucet is now online and working!

https://testnet-faucet.com/btc-testnet

I am also making a node monitor to let users monitor the status of not only the faucet nodes, but the chains themselves!

I'm adding the Viacoin testnet to the faucet and there are some issues that I am working on fixing with adding Groestlcoin. I apologize for the delays, I'll post when Groestlcoin is working on the faucet!

I might also add Dashcoin to the faucet!

I plan on having tVIA and tDGB working by the end of the day! I am still working on tGRS and tBCH, I will announce when those faucets are working!

I'm still planning on adding Dashcoin to the faucet.

Send you 1 tbtc, so now you got a bit for starting ;)
39ba1c2967893d3f3371cff94a18f4dea88708c1dc99bd97b59a84860a450ed5

good luck for your project

Thank you very much, I am very grateful for your donation! This will help out a lot! :D

It is quite sad because this coin don't have any value , it is just testnet coin , people are just crazy today!

Hello Tech1k, I send you ~1.4 tbtc, it allowed me for lighting-network experiments some time ago

txid d64d0b7083efdf46785c42a643dcdc4c473789712254de48f2e107d58a673dea

good luck  ;)

So true, it seems like people are crazy over these testnet coins just to have them for no reason whatsoever lol

I appreciate your generous tBTC donation to the faucet!

well i will tried to get some and after risend to faucet again, i like to test it , first time i will get some from faucet.

I wanted to try out your faucet... Just to see how it works.
Couldn't claim for a bech32 address:

tb1qfxfnzhqymu5vt0fv7ykkevct4g3nmyezqj47vs

Oh, whoops my bad lol, the faucet is using Bitcoin v0.15.2 which didn't have bech32 addresses! I'll upgrade the daemon to 0.20.0 today, sorry about that!

It wasn't really an error, but it does make your faucet look like it was made in pre-segwit times ;)
Let me know if you want me to try it out with a bech32 address!

I hope you are still working on that project.
To motivate you, I'll refill your tbtcs a bit  ;)

Thank you! I am still working on the faucet and I plan on adding some other coins too - been very busy lately!

Hello everyone,


I know that it's been a while, but I have some updates that should be of help to others.

To begin, I have upgraded the servers and increased the minimum payouts for tBTC and tDOGE (decreased payouts for tLTC as they were way too high). I also registered some nice domains for each faucet which you will find when you click on a faucet from the main page (https://testnet-faucet.com). Lastly, with support, I am also starting a Dashcoin and ZCash faucet for developers for testing in the coming days.


Enjoy,
Tech1k

After over 75,000 faucet payouts, I just wanted to say that I am glad and happy that my faucet has helped so many people and with that, I'll be increasing the amount given per claim (for tLTC and tDOGE - tBTC is hard to come by)! With that, if you have some Testnet Bitcoin that you don't need anymore, please feel free to send em to the address on the faucet if you want! Thank you!

Hello if you add Aevo Coin to your faucet i would certainly make a donation of the sum of 100,000 Aevo Coins for the start up of the faucet. Thanks again and please let me know.

Hi, could you please add tBCH back to the faucet. Thank you

Apologies for the extremely late reply, I have been busy with school lately, but yes, I will look into re-adding tBCH back onto the testnet faucet! Though, I will need some tBCH coins to start the faucet, if anyone has any tBCH that they are willing to donate, please feel free to let me know here or on the chat box on the website!

Hello everyone!

I have added tGRS to the faucet with support for all the testnet address types!

Please feel free to donate some tGRS if you have any to spare as it'll help get the faucet started!

tGRS faucet: https://testnet-faucet.com/grs-testnet


I'm also looking into adding tBCH or tDGB to the faucet, please let me know which one you would like to see added next!

What happend to the tgrs that I donated 2 years ago?

Sorry for the late reply, had some health issues and was away for a bit. I still have the private key for them and will reconsider setting up the tGRS faucet soon (took it down for now due to hosting costs and lack of usage).

I've updated the homepage of the site with links to some recommended testnet wallets as the faucet only supports legacy addresses at this time. Along with that, I'm working on a section for testnet information (e.g. useful services for developers) and I'm looking for some links/tools that I may add to the section, feel free to post some links to things you find helpful and I'll add them to the new section when I make it.

I have started a few new testnet faucets (looking for funding in both testnet and mainnet coins)!

(Updated) Here's a list of all the faucets I've added to testnet-faucet.com:
tBTC: https://testnet-faucet.com/btc-testnet
tLTC: https://testnet-faucet.com/ltc-testnet
tDOGE: https://testnet-faucet.com/doge-testnet
tGRS: https://testnet-faucet.com/grs-testnet
tBCH3: https://testnet-faucet.com/bch-testnet3
tBCH4: https://testnet-faucet.com/bch-testnet4

Enjoy!

Hello everyone, I know it's been a while, but I'm excited to share some recent updates to the website!

I've redesigned the entire site and started writing a blog for it. I'm planning on writing posts covering tools that developers might find useful to tips and tricks such as being able to create a raw transaction and a short introduction into the the Bitcoin Script language used in transactions and the different operators.

Check out the redesign: https://testnet-faucet.com
The new blog: https://testnet-faucet.com/blog/

Thank you for your support over the years and please let me know what you think about the redesign and if there's anything I should add or change!

I only use your faucet once or twice long time ago, but it's nice to see your faucet website remain alive and receive update. Few thoughts,
1. The new design indeed looks nice, since your previous design looks like early/late 2000 website.
2. I've read your first blog post. While it's useful, you might want to add Sparrow Wallet[1] which frequently discussed in past few months since it has so many features and being open source.
3. I don't see Bitcoin Signet[2] mentioned anywhere.

[1] https://www.sparrowwallet.com/ (https://www.sparrowwallet.com/)
[2] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Signet (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Signet)

Thank you for your kind remarks!
1. I agree, the old site did look like an old web 1.0 site.
2. Sparrow wallet is neat and I've added it to the blog post covering wallets: https://testnet-faucet.com/blog/testnet-wallets
3. I totally spaced Signet. I will look into the possibility of creating a faucet for the Bitcoin Signet. Until then, I'll write a blog post covering the different Bitcoin networks.


Update: I've published a new blog post covering the many different networks for a few cryptos: https://testnet-faucet.com/blog/the-many-networks

I am no developer in the field but I do know the scarcity of these tBTC and there are even threads where people are charging interest for using the tBTC for some period. You have done great job by launching this thread and hope so everything will work as planned for your faucet.

I am just having one question, how do you believe that everyone who is getting free claims on your site will return the tBTC to you in the future? OR you just kept it as open minded thought and care less if the coins are returned to you or not?

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Q. What is the funding source for this faucet?
Q. If someone wants to help then how one can do it? Just donate it or is there any other ways to?

I appreciate the positive feedback! Testnet coins, specifically Bitcoin testnet coins are quite scarce which is why I made this faucet as a few years ago as I found it extremely hard to get testnet coins for testing applications. I'm against people charging others for testnet coins as they are supposed to have no value other than being useful for testing applications without risking real funds.

In regard to people returning coins, I know a lot of people don't return the testnet coins after claiming them which is okay as I expect it, but it is always nice to see when someone does return the coins when they are done as it helps keep the faucet filled and keeps the testnet ecosystem alive.

To answer your other questions:
1. The funding source for my faucet was from some leftover tBTC I had as well as tBTC that was donated. For the other coins except tBCH and tGRS, I mined them on a private pool I created before I launched the faucet. If you're wondering about how I fund the faucet to keep it online, I pay around $50/month out of pocket to run the servers powering the faucet and nodes.
2. If someone would like to donate, they can here: https://testnet-faucet.com/donate I also have 1 advertisement on each faucet page to help offset server costs, but I'm considering removing it as it doesn't generate nearly enough to help offset the monthly server costs.

After a lot of work redeveloping the backend of the faucet (and a lot of coffee), I'm finally pleased to announce that Sepolia tETH has been added to the Testnet Faucet!

If anyone has some extra Sepolia ETH that they could send to the faucet, that would be very appreciated!

Sepolia tETH faucet: https://testnet-faucet.com/sepolia/

I have added Goerli ETH to the Testnet Faucet! I know the Goerli testnet will be depreciated later this year, but until then, I've added it onto the faucet to help developers that are still using the Goerli network.

https://testnet-faucet.com/goerli/

I also want to mention that I now run ads on the faucets and blog via Google AdSense. I know how much people (including myself) dislike ads, but I wanted a way to help cover hosting expenses and the ads help a little with offsetting them. I've made sure to make the ads non-intrusive, organized, and limited to no more than 3 per page. I hope you will all understand that and I will reconsider the advertisements if something else happens in regard to covering hosting expenses in the future (full nodes aren't cheap to host).

Your ads doesn't seem to load at all. For reference, i use Firefox, already disable extension which block ads and even perform hard refresh (Ctrl Shift R).
https://i.ibb.co/cJk4HcQ/b.png (https://imgbb.com/)

I am just curious.... How is this rewarding for you, if you have to spend "resources" to mine these coins? Are you doing this as part of your testing or just as a service to the community or are you funding it from something else? (surely Ads do not cover all your expenses)

In any way, thank you for this service... it is nice to play with... seeing that most other faucets are gone or they give almost nothing at all. The best one that I actually know ..is freebitco.in and it only gives "dust". (something like 50 satoshi)  ::)