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Dont know if this is the right section for this but yeah are faucets profitable? I know they use a lot of ads in order to get some money back but there some faucets offering a somewhat big amount of btc and they are pretty famous so i was wondering how can they resist

I have been using faucets and they were my gateway into the bitcoin world. Faucets have now become less lucrative owning to the falling price of BTC (although, it can be argued that some faucets have increased their payouts with the price fall- case in point is freebitco.in). For me faucets are profitable only if you have a loyal bunch of affiliates who will use your ref link and do their thing every day, i built up a good referral list initially through some giveaways. Even if i don't do them myself, they do pay out some thing every week which typically takes care of my tx fees.

All in all, if BTC rises and you have been collecting dust from faucets, that dust could be worth its weight in gold, but without a proper affiliate backing, making enough is always going to be a huge challenge.

Good luck either ways!

Edit: You might be better off getting into a signature campaign. Beware not to scam the boards though or you might get banned / negative feedback. Check this thread for active signature campaigns:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.0

If I understand it correctly, OP is asking about the profitability of operating a faucet site rather than claiming satoshi from faucets.

Hmm... to me it looked like they wanted to do faucets. I think more clarity needed from the OP. A newbie typically would ask if a faucet was profitable though. Lets wait for clarity.  ;D

He is obviously talking about making a faucet ''I know they use a lot of ads in order to get some money back''

I think if you good developer with faucet like make your profit ads and reward earning is balance, that's profitable :D
yes many more famous faucet there, but becareful to "faucet scam".


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I agree with most of comments here.
Faucet can be profitable. You need nice layout, you need good hosting, you need some bitcoins to invest and you need some marketing.
You can profit by ads. I saw many of faucets getting nice money monthly paid from ads.
But also do not expect to gain a million. As it's named "faucet", you're giving a little, so you should expect a little profit. If more, better for you.
As any project it needs a time. You cannot make it famous in a week.
Invest and wait, but don't just wait, work on spreading a word about it to gain some visitors as you depend on them.

well , all he needs to do is have a website in similar colors as the black and blue dress and he'll get thousands of people visiting the website because they need to know the mystery of the color.

xD  hehe   Excellent idea but that whole fad will run its course in a few days or weeks.

Im thinking of making one that has a multiplier like freebitco.in pretty much like a dice game inside the faucet, im pretty sure they make good profit with that

they are profitable only if you can promote them well and get a good amount of users
thats the most important thing , promotion of the faucet

The profitability depends on a few factors. Your rewards, hosting, advertising for your faucet and advertising on your faucet etc. Chances are, from a faucet site alone you won't be rolling in the big bucks.
From personal experience and other faucet owners I've talked to, profit mostly comes from referral programs on other faucets/GPT programs.

If i ever make one, the rewards should be somewhat high to really atract people

I can't tell you.

I did a lot of "fauceting" in 2012 and I got a small amount of money, but this small amount of money grew in 2013. Now, I'm rich I have more money, but most of my BTC funds come from BTC works, so I recommend you to visit the services thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0
Maybe You can find a small work for you, and You will earn more money.

If you can get a lot unique visitor from your faucet, most likely it will be profitable
that's why some big faucet still online till now, they depend on ads (usually adsense from google) to pay their visitor
be careful somebody will try to cheat you! they claim your faucet using bot and your deposit/wallet will drain quickly

I dont think thats possible because of captchas even if they use a captcha solver wont be worth it, am i wrong on this?

I think there are bot which can bypass captcha, especially simple captcha.
i saw this on faucet owner's complain why their deposit in faucet drain quickly. That's why captcha change every period of time. To avoid this trick maybe

I have always thought of faucets being waste of time. They are obviously profitable, but not at all worth the time.
Even running a faucet isn't much profitable anymore,as there already exist a lot of them , and not a lot of people now visit them .

Yes that is a good idea and the idea of integrating a dice in the faucet itself its pretty good aswell

Yes exactly, freebitco.in is one of the oldest faucets and they pay a good amount of bitcoins. Im planning to do one like that but maybe with some altcoin, but i dont know wich one

do it for DarkCoin (DRK)
many people using that and it's price is good

Ye i was thinking about darkcoin, novacoin or feathercoin

NVC and feathercoin is good too, since their price is stable enough compare to another altcoins
hope your faucet working well

I have earned about 0,15btc from faucets. the beginning was enthusiastic, but to get these btc it took one year.. also my wallet was filled with dust, so i had to pay a big transaction fee in order to send them to another address.
Conclusion - faucets are waste of time, maybe they are good for beginners, but for few plays.. use signature campaigns instead

Im talking about making one if you didnt read anything here...

i have read only the topic, which has two sides. sorry

I agree that faucets can be profitable to the owners, but that in the long run they're not all that great if you're looking to make a noticeable amount of bitcoin. The only way you could pull that off is with a lot of referrals, but I wouldn't know since the most I've had on any faucet is like three. If they weren't profitable, then they would shut down. I can't imagine a site like Moon Bitcoin going down anytime soon since they have about 20-25 ads on their site, it's ridiculous how infested that site is. Plus that sometimes ads with sound come on for no reason, just to get you to look at the page again in order to shut it off.

How about you put more in your site. Not only faucet but rotator, games, giveaway etc

In my experience when I ran freebieco.in ( It is closed now ). I ran this with marcotheminer. We were in profit everyday.
It was 0.07 profit / day roughly. We stopped this as one of our partners were screwing up the payments.
We used Google AdSense, Adbit.co and A-Ads. It was also a simple microwallet faucet.

What is the maximum amount any faucet offers to claim one time ?

You need to a high payout to bring people to your faucet, and advertisers will only come if fee is low because click rate is honestly extremely low. Balancing this is a difficult game. I do not believe faucets are profitable now. They used to be when bitcoin price is low.

Net profit 0.07/day ? That really good income you have there

well if you are like i think even something around 0.4, but don't bet on that too much

usually they are worthless, unless you do some cheats via bot

It was great and then our partner had to screw us up the ass. ( Sorry if that's a bit graphic ) But It was great income.
It had 200k visits a day according to Google's statistics.

Freebitco.in gives 200$ as max profit

$200 i never see there that amount won by any user, much hard to hit that.

maybe that why its closed now lol

It was our partner that fcuked up. I would love that income everyday. But it's closed now :(

Do you know all the users on the site?

I still wonder, why people still try faucets. There are other ways to earn much more btc than by getting amount from a faucet.

That is true. But faucets require a little bankroll which appears to most. A dice site require a big bankroll. But I see what you're saying.

What other ways are you talking about? As far as i know you can only get free btc from faucets

GPT (Get Paid To) sites can give you free BTC, like PTC sites or sites where you get paid by offerwalls.

As far as i know sites that give you btc to do tasks like solving captchas or view ads dont give you that much btc, i dont know if you know any that is really good but so far i havent found anything

THere is a lof of differece between the faucets.
It's a little bit looking for those who give a bit more than most of them.
For a few sat. BTC i don't use them every hour.
But it's great when you see from time to time a small amount entering you wallet.
It depends on how much time you want to spend to got to the faucets, solve the captcha...
From time to time i like it.

Thats a good point. Most faucets pay from 100sat to 1.000 per hour. What if i make the faucet pay every 24 hours but a bigger amount like 5.000 satoshis maybe 10.000?

Well, my faucet paid 19200 satoshi / 24 hours. And that faucet did really well.

But your faucet didnt pay every 24 hours did it?

I think it was every 15 minutes. Not 24 hours.

If its every 15 minutes it didnt pay 19k per 24 hours since no one used it every 15 minutes for 24 hours, most likely it paid like 3-4k in a day

usually not
some of them, maybe, if you have to much free time..

I just feel faucets are waste of time, for people to get some btc to try out.
I really don't see why would people spend too much of their time on them.

A lot of people uses faucets to get bitcoins to gamble with them, you dont need a lot to gamble, 10.000 satoshis even is enough, other people probably use them to invest them somewhere else, in a month you can get 0.05 btc easily if you spend time on faucets each day

If you spend as equal time posting for Bit-X you will 1.3 / month :)

Wow really? Dont they have like a post limit or something?

And how much time would that be ? Can easily take upto hours to make that amount

to make 0.05btc? hell no...its really hard getting money off faucet
10k sathoshi you can earn in about 10 - 15 mins depends how fast you click on faucets
but 0.05 is too much,you need lots of referrals and couple of other stuff!

no they are not profitable

Do you have anything to back that up? My faucet was profitable. And if the op wants I can walk him through setting his faucet up. ( If he wants )

if they are not profitable then why they still operate, and why people still open them and even offer faucet creation as a service ???

peoples are doing 100+ faucets per day...which means a lot of hard work...and peoples who opens faucets are generally getting the ad revienews

Well that would be really helpful if you could help me with the payment system and such

Do you want to talk about this over skype? Here is my name: EquinoxxBitcoin

Yes using a faucet rotator, you can use 100 faucets per day and get 0.002 - 0.003 per day with hard work

OP is talking about running a faucet. Not about claiming faucets. But really do you think you could earn that much?

He is right there are about 30 faucets that i know of that pay min 500 satoshis per hour, using only those every hour you would get 15k satoshis, and as the other guy said people use even 100 so you could be getting 40-50k each hour if you went through all the faucets, doing it for 3-4 hours a day could earn you 0.002 wich is still not an incredible amount but it is something

Again, Astargath if you ever need help, I can help set up and teach you how to run it. For free of course. I used to offer this service but it was crazy popular and I couldn't focus on other things so I stopped it.
I might reopen it and say like 2 faucets / week or something.

Profitable yes. Worth it, no. Unless you can figure out a way to run bots to do all the work for you, its best to stay out of them .
Running them however might be worth it, if you can get a lot of traffic

It's not that hard to get traffic to be honest. In my experience, the more stable you are and the higher reward (obviously) equals more traffic.
On the first day of my faucets launch for example, we ended getting 50k visits. and the next for days totaled up to 500k+ ( 130k / day )