We're not advertising anything. I said you were.


Irrelevant but I actually trade futures for my real income this is just a hobby job for the UK morning before the Wall St. open.


Licensed by whom? A government authority that inspects an RNG once a year? No thanks, I'll stick to provably fair sites where I can verify for myself if they are cheating.

For someone who claims to be knowledgeable on the matter, you seem to have missed that automatic captcha solving on a large scale is extremely resource intensive. They have hosting costs to cover.

You're someone who makes money from advertising the illusion of free money with your bot that uses very expensive captcha solvers. They pay the fees and you take the referral income. Then they lose 2x more than they claimed from the faucet gambling and you pocket the referral income on that as well. You certainly are a hypocrite to accuse us.

I'm guessing it works like everything else on the site. That's a ratio of the total from free spins against total wagered. He will have set this at a very low threshold as he said he thought it would only affect the bots and very few people would notice it.

No. I literally just received an email from wetsuit saying he has restricted the top 2 bonuses in each category from accounts that don't gamble. The botnets were using this to counteract the reduction in base reward.

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He's actually away dealing with personal life things at the moment. We're going to improve the handling of accounts that get blocked for abusing the faucet (getting caught by our automatic bot detection) when he gets back.

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Thanks for your support.

Giving regulations would be the same as giving instructions to the botters as how to avoid detection. It's not as simple as the number of times in a day, a few people are being blocked because they match the same pattern a very large botnet was using.

If they weren't real then the extra tickets would just increase the prize pool. That means the house would have to pay out larger when a real user did win so there is absolutely no advantage to doing that.


Try scrolling up the page a little to see that the week before last 1st prize winner posted here. There are three more further back in this thread.

It means they claimed the faucet so much that it looked like a feat of endurance that only a bot could manage. Blocking those accounts is a way to find out if there is a human on the other end.

You should also check their Terms of Service before you do that.

https://www.coinbase.com/legal/user_agreement?locale=en


Always go through your own wallet (that you own the private key for) when depositing or withdrawing between Coinbase and a gambling site.

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Ah, the Newbie that just bought an account, that explains it.

Here you go: How to sign a message?!

Have I done something to upset you?

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I've been logged in all morning but when I reloaded a page this started happening now I can't access anything.

Username: thequin

So we have established that the account is blocked for faucet abuse. PM me and I'll see what I can do.

I think it is often a good idea to remove outliers from statistics. Wall Observer would be a good example along with this thread and the April Fool thread that distort the OP end.

Can you try and use another IP address to find out if it really is the IP that is blocked. Mostly it means the account has been blocked for faucet abuse. Then PM me to let me know which it is and I'll see what I can do.

That's a fair point about the forum. Most people contact us via the form on the FAQ page. I don't know how many did that at the moment but I will do soon because I've been given a promotion and I'll be taking over all support not just here.

I just want to clarify that no accounts were deleted they were only blocked from using the faucet. The rest of the site continues to work for them and if they do get in contact with us they mostly get a second chance not abuse the faucet.



If that were technically possible we would, we've come to the conclusion (as have many other sites) that the only way to stop faucet abuse is to make it unprofitable for them by reducing what we give out to below their running costs.

Blocking accounts on mass like that disrupts them, causes them inconvenience, and means they probably take a bit of a financial hit on those accounts. It's not meant to be the solution in itself.
 

babygun is correct, the only way to stop them is to make it unprofitable for them. There are costs incurred to run their botnets. We could have just reduced the base reward for everybody, but by using a minimum wagering requirement we feel it targets the bots effectively. There might be a few people that get the new lower base payout but the vast majority are bots. If you look at the last lot of accounts wetsuit blocked from the faucet, out over 100k+ accounts only around 10 people contacted me.

Which makes it all the more amazing that blockchain.info and some other block explorers still don't support it fully. Since Bitcoin Core: 0.16.0 was released they really do not have any excuse now.


I'd recommend that as well. Electrum makes it very easy to keep multiple wallets, so you can have a legacy address one as well for withdrawing to from the sites that don't support bech32 yet.

I think personally it's somewhere around 50%. Whenever I've reported more posts than I've written I think it's time to take a break and do something else for the rest of the day.

The thing I'm finding most useful about the report history page is I don't have to spend time trying to find things in the modlog to know what happened. I've never really known whether what I consider to be a shitpost is worth reporting, but so far every one I have done has been deleted.

Those stats only tell half the story. The free-roll stats are the other half, the calculation is a ratio of the two things.

If you do not want to gamble then maintaining a balance in Bitcoin above the value of $50 will return you to the full base reward.

The rewards are only reduced for accounts that don't do at least a little gambling, buying lottery tickets or deposit to keep a higher balance.
The bots pay for captcha solves and when we reduced the reward for those accounts last time those botnets stopped briefly and weren't buying captchas. So the sites that sell captcha solves reduced their prices so the botnets were profitable again. This latest reduction really is the only thing we can do. It is targetted at accounts that really do nothing or very little other than draining the faucet. It is a gradual reduction by a very small % per day.