Has anyone figured out, what the "boost" does?
From missions once in a while you get "0.1% miner run boost" and there's also a "explorer boost", but I guess it's hard to tell the difference, meaning impossible to detect by watching do these boosts do.

That's a good idea.
I noticed myself, there are hardly 5 topics posted in the BTX thread per week, all having 50 replies where most of those are one liners.
That's not a campaign, that's leeching money upon minimized efford.

Just let us know ahead of time what the new rules will be, so the truly active users can adjust to it.

Well @jamboom, since you are here right now, let me mention, as I said above, I do have an offer for you that would make your site the most popular website in the faucet world at no cost at all.
I believe it's too early for you to go for it right away, but if you want a preview of what it could be, let me know.

That point is valid for ALL faucets.
There is no faucet that pays users an amount that would be worth their time, except of people like me, retired, with loads of spare time to fill with whatever passes time.
If it's for the money, ANY other activity you can think of makes more money than claiming from faucets.
You can pick up sticks for the fireplace from the park or search returnable bottles in public dust bins, absolutely everything pays WAY more value than faucets do.
This is NOT a problem of CMG alone, it's a problem of faucets in general.

Why don't you move your coins to FH before exchanging?
At FH changing any altcoin to sat doesn't cost any fee at all, only can take a while in case you want to sell a coin that many others want to sell as well.

Ransomware is not in the site, but in the shortlinks and that's one of the reasons why this site is superior to others.
While other sites force you to use a specific shortlink of their choice, on this site upon every single bot check you can choose which shortlink to use, so all you have to do is pick a shortlink that doesn't have ransomware.
If you're not capable figuring out which shortlink is best for you, that's not the fault of this site.

What happened on Reddit?
I can't post anything and I assume nobody else can either, only replies to old postings are possible.
Any attempt of posting a new topic gives the error "Post must contain post flair", but there's no option of adding any post flair.
How can we make our 5 postings a week if this persists?

No, there is no mission on level 17 (yet).
It just extends the time of virtual mining by 10 minutes and accumulates 1 more energy while you sleep.

I wish you a quick recovery and thank you for your efforts of working even when sick.

Oh cmon, really? 1000s of Lotishi?
1,000 Litoshi being worth $0.0005?
ANY faucet will pay you that and even if a faucet doesn't have its own exchange at Faucethub you can exchange almost anything you can claim anywhere to Litoshi.
I'm not going to give you links in here, after all this is CMG's topic, if you want links, you may look into my profile.

Still the fact stands, no faucet will pay you an amount worth mentioning, therefore only the entertainment factor makes the difference and that factor CMG has, while it is completely missing in plain faucets.

Not sure in what world you live, but in my world the money I'm getting from faucets is meaningless.
Since Cointiply is mentioned here so often, let me say, I'm getting roughly 100,000 sat a week out of Cointiply and I don't even play their mining game at all, I like their offerwall instead, especially their surveys, because they give me the impression my answers in surveys might have a tiny little impact on the world.
But then, what's $6.50 a week compared to the time it takes filling those surveys? In my job (before I retired) that wasn't even worth 10 minutes of my time.
As I said above, whatever else you can do in your life, up to picking up sticks in the park for the fireplace gives more value than the best paying faucet there is.

That said, you're back to square one, if the money doesn't count at all, it's exclusively the entertaining factor that makes the difference.
At Cointiply the surveys are entertaining, at CMG the whole site is.
Which one I like better I wouldn't be able to tell, but considered the time I spend on the site per day CMG clearly is the best website I know of, even before Facebook or YouTube.


If you're at premium level, you cannot dry up your crystals, at least not if you use your energy to do missions and take the daily bonus, even if you mine as much as possible.
I've reached premium with about 100 crystals, haven't done any missions for crystals since and currently I have over 2000 crystals, they just pile up faster than you can use them in mining.


A better made site requires higher expenses in creating and maintaining the site, meaning either the site would pay even less, or it would go out of business or both of that.
I've been in touch with a few faucet owners over the last 9 months since I got into the faucet world, I've seen plenty of faucets that had expenses that would have bankrupted them, even if they hadn't paid anything to their users.
That's the reason why like 99% of all faucets dry up and disappear within a month or two.
Wanna bet, when the site(s) you currently like best go belly up, CMG will still be here.

Last but not least, let me mention, threatening to leave doesn't help anyone, constructive suggestions do.
The choice of shortlink was implemented into CMG upon my suggestion some pages back here in this forum and it eliminated the frustrating experience for users as well as the owner that the whole site got stuck whenever their shortlink went down.
So it's not that jamboom doesn't listen, he just has to care for the survival of his business above all else and that not only includes the amount of popups in relation to his expenses, but also the time he can afford to spend on this site.
Give him some time, he'll get there.
I already have a suggestion ready, one that would greatly improve this site, one that would increase the amount of active users on this site way more than you can imagine, one that doesn't even cost a dime to implement, one that on first view is obvious to be a success, but it requires time to do the work of implementing it and in the current stage, with so many things on the todo list, I know jamboom wouldn't have the time for it, no matter how good it is, so I'll hold it back and wait until I believe the site is ready for it.

It just depends what you want from a faucet.
As a source of money absolutely ALL faucets are useless, picking up sticks in the park for the fireplace gives more value.
If you still want to consider the payout a valid argument, then CMG is about the very last of all faucets, there are literally 1000s of faucets that pay more than CMG does.

If you look at the entertainment, the option of doing something other than tiring hours of solving endless series of captchas several times a minute, then CMG comes out on top, because it combines the experience of an entertaining game with the addition of a tiny little payout on top.

Of course, if you try as hard as you can to make as much money as possible with CMG, then you'll be in for plain frustration, simply because you cannot make an amount of money worth mentioning with CMG, but that's not the fault of CMG, that's because you have a false impression of what CMG is.

Since I launch missions during the day, but usually don't stay up long enough to claim them, it has become some kind of ritual, that I claim 10-12 missions level 16 through 13 every morning.
Sure enough I had a few of these extra bonuses this morning, 3 to be exact.

Before the update that would have been 3 referrals.
After the Update I got twice a lottery ticket to one of those gifts that I wouldn't even claim if I won the lottery and the 3rd time I got an incredible 104XP.

I'd say that's after the update just as useless as not showing referrals were before.

Yup it does, at 1000HP, that is to say premium level you mine 20 sat an hour, but of course only at current value of BTC, if the price goes up, mining goes down.

No need to be sorry and thank you for your continuous effords.

I'm sorry for you, but you're just now learning one of the most important lessons in life.
What you're doing is identical to giving an unsecured loan, you're giving someone something and expecting to get back more of the same thing later on.
Unsecured loans usually carry extremely high interest rates, simply because they are not secure and that means, if you do not have the resources and legal options of credit card companies, you should never ever even consider giving an unsecured loan.

I hope with you, this could get resolved somehow, after all this site seems to plan on staying in business, so there's hope, but other than pray, while remaining as patient and polite as you can be in your correspondence, there's nothing you can do.

I guess I can explain that.
The site is simply out of users who do not already have a referrer.
I'm getting roughly 1-2 referrals a day through missions and about once a week I really get one, meaning once in a while I run lucky that a newly signed up user who came without referrer was free in the precise moment i claimed a mission that gave me a referral.
This is also the reason why the site cannot fix this bug, it simply is no bug, they just don't have any referrer free users.

Remains to be seen, whether they will offer us some kind of compensation for all the referrals we won but didn't get, or whether they will call it "tough luck" and leave us alone with the loss.

Fixing bugs costs time as well and paying a programmer to fix bugs costs money.
The site simply doesn't have that money.

Other sites use things like "faucet in a box" which do not require any kind of programming skills.
Look at other sites that have a programming, like freebitco.in, they pay (at current BTC course) 11 Sat an hour, with a 1 in 100 chance of getting a little more, which is FAR less than this site pays.

True, the site needs its users, but then it's a tight balance between cost and revenue, after all we're talking about fractions of pennies per shortlink.
The site owner doesn't run this for fun, he wants to make money with this site, therefore the max. he can pay out to users has to be less than the revenue he gets from ads.

Almost any professional programmer could write a far better site (I could as well), given the amount of bugs in this site, most beginners could make a better site, but then nobody works for free, meaning hiring a programmer would most likely exceed the revenue this site makes.
That's why this site has to do with whatever programming skills the owner of this site has and most likely he's in some kind of "learning by doing".
If we users would leave the site, that wouldn't make the owner pay more to get more users, it would make him close the site, simply because he cannot afford paying more.

Always at this time of the day, every day, like clockworks, so slow that the connection times out 3 out of 4 clicks.
Usually takes 1-2 hours before it goes back to normal, but that I cannot say for sure, I usually close the site when it does this and don't check it for some hours.
Might be a hint to the admin: If you want revenue from your users, why not make sure the site isn't down for 1-2 hours per day?