Yes, all blue now, thanks.

I fully agree with your point, after all my suggestion had advantages not only for the users but also for you.
But then, where I was using your site with btc.ms before the update, which is a pain, but at least working, right now I cannot use your site anymore, because all I get is THIS



where most of the ones shown in red I haven't used at all, they were red from start and the only one that remains blue for me (as mentioned above) has a faulty popunder (I believe) which leads to the dead end of an advertising page from where there's no way back to your page.
Count them yourself if you like, I cannot possibly have used all the shortlinks shown in red within the time since the update has been online, meaning they were red before I used them.

Furthermore, 13 options for shortlinks other than LinkShrink, where you need one every 10 minutes to refill energy plus another to launch missions means, this update helps for roughly an hour or two a day, after that users are stuck with LinkShrink, just like they were before with btc.ms.

Extremely cool, took a little afternoon nap, coming back and my suggestion is in place, even perfectly working as I imagined it.
This is soooooooooooooooooo much better, I love it.
Thank you very much for listening to me.

As a little hint aside, just in case other faucet owners are reading here: I wish other faucets would do the same.

Edit: Not so nice is that almost the whole list is red for me from start, where the only two shortlinks remaing blue don't work.
Clicksfly, the only shortlink allowing 5 accesses is stuck in loading the captcha, therefore useless.
LinkShrink, the only shortlink allowing more than 5 accesses has a faulty popup or popunder which fails reloading the original page, meaning you end up on an ad page from where there is no way back to the origin of the shortlink.

In short: Throughout the entire list of shortlinks, there's not a single one I can use right now.
Which leaves the questions:
How often are these shortlink counters reset and can be used again?
Why are the shortlinks without counter, like btc.ms shown in red?

And what prevents you from increasing the exchange rate from coins to hpower by 1.5% instead of charging a 1.5% fee on withdrawals?
Wouldn't it be the exact same result, only that you don't give coins that you later on take back in withdrawal fees?

It's a simple psychological factor, works in the economy, in politics, everywhere.
If you give someone something and you take part of it back later, people don't like that.
If you give less to begin with nobody minds, because in this case it's clear from start how much you get and it's the users choice whether he wants to make the efford of getting it.

That's not a withdraw, but an exchange.

@Hhampuz
What's the plan about the new BTX wallet address format?
Do we have to change it yet, or will you keep sending to addresses in the old format?

There are limits, not for a max, but for the minimum.
400,000 Litoshi
50,000 Satoshi
100 Doge
and from that they deduce 1.5% fee, which is identical to letting you claim/mine 1.5% less in the first place.

Only at first giving the coins and then take part of them back in fees is more annoying to users, which is why I would suggest changing that.

Thanks for all the work you're putting into this.

What happened now?
Something got messed up.

I click the "Mine" button and I get a message on top of the window saying: "You have to click the "MINE" button to start mining!"

Ermmmmmm, that's what I'm doing.

Edit: Working again now, but that was weird.

Well, THIS is the point I got to with loads and loads of other websites, including many faucets.
They have some kind of problem, I suggest a solution, they say they like it ............. and then nothing happens.
I know several dozen websites, not only faucets, that do not exist anymore, because they didn't solve a problem for which I had suggested the solution.

Would be a refreshing experience if you would actually implement it.

Not sure how much you're in for a bit of progamming work, but I'm a coder myself, also I have a load of experience with captchas from 100 faucets as a user and I can tell you what I would do if I were in your place.
Simply leave the choice to the user.

The problem is actually best shown with the example of btc.ms, because btc.ms has an extremely high difficulty setting for reCaptcha, with these incredibly slow or delayed loading images, meaning the time it takes solving a captcha isn't worth the value you're getting from that.
That's why I rarely ever refill energy through your shortlink, I just wait until energy has filled by itself.
So even if it is working, you're not getting the revenue you need from it.
I guess this cannot be in your interest.

Other shortlinks have other problems, often enough different from one user to the other and then most of them are frequently down.

So here is the solution:
Whenever a user clicks "refill energy" or "I'm not a bot", instead of automatically choosing for him which shortlink he has to use, give them a list of all the shortlink services you are subscribed to and have the user click on the shortlink he wishes to use.
This way you don't have to fix anything on your site when a shortlink goes down and hardly any user will have a problem.

Seen that and thanks ................... but ..................... now one of the links (LinkShrink) says: "Link does not exist."

Anyway, I noticed it switches now, so upon 2nd  or 3rd attempt one gets to a working one.
Not really nice, but at least better than completely down.

btc.ms (your shortlink) is down and that means your entire site is out of service, there's nothing anyone can do, other than waiting.
I would suggest you either switch to a more reliable shortlink, or at least implement a check that switches to a different shortlink in case one is down.
Or do you plan on fully depending on some other website that will drag you down as soon as they are down?

Scroll up, the answer and solution I gave 2 pages ago:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2451172.msg40410765#msg40410765

Until all the ones not currently on the list have either gotten in or given up

The thanks are all on us.
Thanks for all the work and effort you're putting into this and thanks for the payment.
Keep up the good work and if you can use some help, let me know.
I could offer translations of about anything in between English, German and Italian.

The point might be, they cannot afford giving you more.
I mean the site has to remain profitable for itself and if there were any kind of option that increases users payout without also increasing the sites revenue, it would bankrupt the site.
I believe the whole reason why this site has such a low payout is that creating and maintaining this site costs them way more than a standard faucet in a box site costs and that extra cost obviously has to be deduced from payouts.

Very cool, thanks @cchobo12

Let me add my 5 cents to that:


Absolutely ALL percentages are WAY off.
Under 1000HP you don't find crystals in missions 50% of the time and above 1000 it's not 80% either, you can be happy if you get crystals 50% of the time above 1000.
Furthermore if the reward for a mission says for example 10-50 Satoshi, the average you get isn't 30, but below 20 and if it says 1-10 crystals the average (for the 50% of the time where you get any) is about 3.


Same thing, you find FAR less referrals than the percentage indicates, on level 10 missions where you're supposed to find one per 10 missions, you can be happy if you find one per 20 missions.
Furthermore, those referrals don't pay you anything at all, IFFFFF they are actual users, then they are entirely inactive users.
I have 7 referrals from the "regular" referral program, where NONE of them remained inactive from day one, some left after a week or two, but ALL of them gave me at least a few Satoshi.
After I reached 1000HP I found 3 referrals from missions so far, and all 3 remained from day one at ZERO in all columns.
What they are worth you can tell if you try selling them, the site offers you 10 Satoshi and 2 crystals for selling a referral you found from a mission, go figure.


I'm on 1000.8HP, got there the free way, haven't bought any afterwards and virtual BTC mining pays (at current course) 21.79477594 Satoshi an hour.
The rest you can calculate from here.
I've actually asked in here for the formula, how HP above 1000 relates to Satoshi mined per hour, so I could do the math, but the question has remained unanswered and that's a red flag for me, not to invest any money, but take only the free stuff.

Still, over all, this is a faucet that does pay and it is an entertaining game.
I enjoy playing it, even if the net payout even on 1000HP is hardly worth mentioning.
I'm retired, I have nothing better to do, I sit at the computer surfing the web all day anyway, so I have a VERY active schedule on this game, almost 24/7 having ALL missions from levels 9 through 14 (for all 3 coins, BTC, LTC and Doge) running simultaneously, plus running virtual mining at least 16 hours a day and I'm getting a net value of roughly 50 cents a week out of it.
Or in short: If you're in this for the money, you're in the wrong place, if you want an entertaining game, rather than monotonous captcha solving and you accept a real low payout in exchange for the fun, this is the place for you.

reCaptcha does work, you just have to know how.
There are FOUR conditions

1) Use Chrome
2) Do NOT log in to any Google account.
3) Get a new IP at least once a day.
If you are on a dynamic IP (like most users) you'll get that automatically if you shut down the computer over night.
(If you want to keep your computer running, with most providers it is sufficient unplugging your modem for about 10 minutes.)
4) Delete cookies.
It is NOT sufficient resetting your browser data, you also have to go to
c:/users/YourName/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/UserData/Default
and delete in there the files
/Cookies
/Cookies-journal
/Current Session
/Current Tabs
/History
/History-journal

I do that every day last thing before I shut down my computer at night and that way I get a fresh start every day in the morning.

Depending on time of the day and day of the week difficulty on captchas may still be relatively high, but they remain solvable at all times and right now (past midnight CEST) they are even halfway easy.
Tough luck is only if in the morning you get an IP assigned that someone else messed around with the day before.

An alternative to doing this every day is using VirtualBox or some other VMWare.
With a virtual system fresh installed, without any antivirus or anything, with nothing but a plain browser installed, back it up, then use it until captchas become unsolvable, then restore the backup and you're good to go again.