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Sorry about the popup's, they are gone now.
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Bitcoin rewards are back to what they were before but minimum dogecoin rewards are still currently at 50% of previous levels. I will keep adjusting the rewards as needed over the next few weeks until revenue stabilizes.
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Sorry for the late reply guys. Adsense disabled ad serving on both freebitco.in and freedoge.co.in and took away the money both websites earned in April and May. I have been travelling with limited internet access so wasn't able to reply sooner. I called up my rep and although he said he will try to talk to the policy team there, it looks unlikely that they will reinstate ad serving for those websites.
I have had to lower the minimum bitcoin rewards by 50% and dogecoin rewards by 75% until I am able to find alternative stable sources of revenue. I am planning to increase them slowly over the next few weeks.
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Thank you for the positive trust guys.
As for adblock, nothing has changed from our end. We find sometimes that anti-viruses block all ads by default without letting the user know and in some cases google adsense is also blocked in the hosts file of some versions of windows (maybe pirated copies?).
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You are welcome. Thank you for bringing this to my attention and I am happy the matter could be resolved. Oh wow, I must apologize for what happened here. Seems like after we upgraded to bitcoin core 0.12, this transaction was created by the client but never broadcast to the network, so our wallet was showing this as sent and the money was removed by the wallet client but it was never actually sent. Going through the email history, the user sent most emails directly rather than use the contact form. As a result of this his account details could not be viewed which happens when the contact form is used. A couple of emails were sent via the contact form but they were pretty unclear and the person handling support emails did reply back asking for more details and a detailed description of the problem, but no answer was received to these emails. In any case, this was clearly our fault and a big one at that. I have re-sent the payment manually now ( https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/f0976f0c1f1839bf89a8e20ec36cc1c9b21516d8d611cf33117e6c16bcafe6aa) and have also sent an additional 1 BTC to compensate for the inconvenience this has caused ( https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/265113b993ab5c78c31a1f253db5b341c92a37f1624604cbd4769689cb8198d0). Again, I am really sorry for what happened. Looking at the transactions in the wallet, only this one seems to have been affected in this way, maybe because the transaction was too big or some other reason. Also I have now added an additional step of all payment transactions being validated by a third party block-explorer after they are sent so that this kind of problem never recurs again. it happen to me once with 55k satoshi , with an "unknown transaction" , not too long ago, i even post here in the fórum , but one or two days later they paid me . That site is very trustworthy . If your transaction is real they'll pay it
Based on the information in the video, this happened last month in early March. And if the accuser is posting about it now, then it (a) did not get resolved, or (b) did get resolved and the accuser is making false accusations. Either way, I would love to see what wetsuit has to say in response. If my money will come on the wallet, 77 BTC I personally apologize to the entire internet! I will say the kindest words about the site! But until now, the transaction is not known. Support does not answer me. I do not deny that they do not pay! I'm talking about the payment that has not passed --------- Sending message -------- From: "FreeBitco.in" < noreply@freebitco.in> To: ratier.2010@mail.ruDate: Thursday, March 3, 2016, 1:18 GMT + 03: 00 Subject: Payment from FreeBitco.in This email was sent to ratier.2010@mail.ru because you have registered an account at FreeBitco.in. To unsubscribe from future payment notification emails, please opt-out here. We have just sent a payment of 77.48351549 BTC to your bitcoin address 1GvuZBGWuakhXAQypqGydGDchRnjR9Y2id. To view the transaction, go to http://btc.blockr.io/tx/info/b4d5566c818150f4500f607df86050ec9cff49f3a9e5548d566d8b790fcddda1Thank you! You are best!!! Sorry for my English, I speak it very badlyThank you! You are best!!! Sorry for my English, I speak it very badly |
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Coins are not lost until they are a part of a confirmed transaction. The issue was that the bitcoin core wallet was just not showing the coins but they appeared after re-adding the private key of the deposit address. Oh wow, I must apologize for what happened here. Seems like after we upgraded to bitcoin core 0.12, this transaction was created by the client but never broadcast to the network, so our wallet was showing this as sent and the money was removed by the wallet client but it was never actually sent. Going through the email history, the user sent most emails directly rather than use the contact form. As a result of this his account details could not be viewed which happens when the contact form is used. A couple of emails were sent via the contact form but they were pretty unclear and the person handling support emails did reply back asking for more details and a detailed description of the problem, but no answer was received to these emails. In any case, this was clearly our fault and a big one at that. I have re-sent the payment manually now ( https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/f0976f0c1f1839bf89a8e20ec36cc1c9b21516d8d611cf33117e6c16bcafe6aa) and have also sent an additional 1 BTC to compensate for the inconvenience this has caused ( https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/265113b993ab5c78c31a1f253db5b341c92a37f1624604cbd4769689cb8198d0). Again, I am really sorry for what happened. Looking at the transactions in the wallet, only this one seems to have been affected in this way, maybe because the transaction was too big or some other reason. Also I have now added an additional step of all payment transactions being validated by a third party block-explorer after they are sent so that this kind of problem never recurs again. it happen to me once with 55k satoshi , with an "unknown transaction" , not too long ago, i even post here in the fórum , but one or two days later they paid me . That site is very trustworthy . If your transaction is real they'll pay it
Based on the information in the video, this happened last month in early March. And if the accuser is posting about it now, then it (a) did not get resolved, or (b) did get resolved and the accuser is making false accusations. Either way, I would love to see what wetsuit has to say in response. If my money will come on the wallet, 77 BTC I personally apologize to the entire internet! I will say the kindest words about the site! But until now, the transaction is not known. Support does not answer me. I do not deny that they do not pay! I'm talking about the payment that has not passed --------- Sending message -------- From: "FreeBitco.in" < noreply@freebitco.in> To: ratier.2010@mail.ruDate: Thursday, March 3, 2016, 1:18 GMT + 03: 00 Subject: Payment from FreeBitco.in This email was sent to ratier.2010@mail.ru because you have registered an account at FreeBitco.in. To unsubscribe from future payment notification emails, please opt-out here. We have just sent a payment of 77.48351549 BTC to your bitcoin address 1GvuZBGWuakhXAQypqGydGDchRnjR9Y2id. To view the transaction, go to http://btc.blockr.io/tx/info/b4d5566c818150f4500f607df86050ec9cff49f3a9e5548d566d8b790fcddda1This. This is what makes FreeBitco.in the best and most reliable faucet around, guys! Kudos to wetsuit for handling this matter promptly after being notified of it. Ratier, enjoy your new found 77BTC. If I had 77BTC of my money go missing, I would not have been as calm as you, nor would I have waited a month to do something about it lol. So wetsuit, what happens in instances like this? Is the original 77BTC just lost in Bitcoin space? Did it become permanently orphaned? Is that a cost that you have to eat?  |
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Oh wow, I must apologize for what happened here. Seems like after we upgraded to bitcoin core 0.12, this transaction was created by the client but never broadcast to the network, so our wallet was showing this as sent and the money was removed by the wallet client but it was never actually sent. Going through the email history, the user sent most emails directly rather than use the contact form. As a result of this his account details could not be viewed which happens when the contact form is used. A couple of emails were sent via the contact form but they were pretty unclear and the person handling support emails did reply back asking for more details and a detailed description of the problem, but no answer was received to these emails. In any case, this was clearly our fault and a big one at that. I have re-sent the payment manually now ( https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/f0976f0c1f1839bf89a8e20ec36cc1c9b21516d8d611cf33117e6c16bcafe6aa) and have also sent an additional 1 BTC to compensate for the inconvenience this has caused ( https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/265113b993ab5c78c31a1f253db5b341c92a37f1624604cbd4769689cb8198d0). Again, I am really sorry for what happened. Looking at the transactions in the wallet, only this one seems to have been affected in this way, maybe because the transaction was too big or some other reason. Also I have now added an additional step of all payment transactions being validated by a third party block-explorer after they are sent so that this kind of problem never recurs again. it happen to me once with 55k satoshi , with an "unknown transaction" , not too long ago, i even post here in the fórum , but one or two days later they paid me . That site is very trustworthy . If your transaction is real they'll pay it
Based on the information in the video, this happened last month in early March. And if the accuser is posting about it now, then it (a) did not get resolved, or (b) did get resolved and the accuser is making false accusations. Either way, I would love to see what wetsuit has to say in response. If my money will come on the wallet, 77 BTC I personally apologize to the entire internet! I will say the kindest words about the site! But until now, the transaction is not known. Support does not answer me. I do not deny that they do not pay! I'm talking about the payment that has not passed --------- Sending message -------- From: "FreeBitco.in" < noreply@freebitco.in> To: ratier.2010@mail.ruDate: Thursday, March 3, 2016, 1:18 GMT + 03: 00 Subject: Payment from FreeBitco.in This email was sent to ratier.2010@mail.ru because you have registered an account at FreeBitco.in. To unsubscribe from future payment notification emails, please opt-out here. We have just sent a payment of 77.48351549 BTC to your bitcoin address 1GvuZBGWuakhXAQypqGydGDchRnjR9Y2id. To view the transaction, go to http://btc.blockr.io/tx/info/b4d5566c818150f4500f607df86050ec9cff49f3a9e5548d566d8b790fcddda1 |
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Freebitco.in is definitely not the richest lol
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Is the punishment for using rotator permanent? My reward just dropped from about 900 satoshi to 150 satoshi  Does this faucet for example trigger the low payments? http://cryptodish.com/cdfaucet/It has your faucet in iframe an under it it has his own faucet. I am automatically logged in to your faucet when I see it in any iframe, does it count me as rotator user then or only if I claim from it? It's not permanent, its only for the next free play unless you visit via the rotator each time. Otherwise, after this free play, the rewards should return to normal if you use the website as usual. Also, the penalty is not for all rotators. I am automatically pulling the list of rotators used to access freebitco.in from google analytics and the penalty is only imposed on those rotators from where we get a lot of visits but hardly any ad clicks. The penalty is in proportion to how bad the CTR rate is for that rotator compared to the average. For example, the rotator you linked has CTR that is 31% of the average CTR so visitors from that rotator get penalized. This was the only user friendly way I could implement this as the other other option would be to add frame-breaking code which many might not like. |
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The minimum reward is set based on the ad revenue that the website receives from your country. Yes, I also run freedoge.co.in. I have been getting 1k satoshi as minimum prize for some time. Recently, prize went down to 200 satoshi. I have mentioned that on my previous post here and shortly after that stopped using my favorite faucet of all time. I recieved a PM from owner and he asked me if i were using a rotator. I don`t use rotaters as i have my own list and freebitco.in is the only faucet i have on bookmarks. After sending this information, owner told me that he reduced the minimum prize for those using his faucet on rotators. There was obviously an issue with his prevention. Problem seems to be solved now and minimum prize is back to 1k again. I wanted inform all who stoped using the faucet after this problem. Everything seems to be back to normal again. Thank you for the good service.
Err... do we talked about the same site? Because if I look at the prize table, the minimum prize would be (as I wrote this post) 397sat. I think its quite far from 1.000 sat.
Uhh.. Just curios, admin, does the owner of freebitco is the same with the owner of freedoge? |
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Many of our auto-payouts last Sunday got stuck due to the spam attack on the bitcoin network and are still stuck. As mentioned in the message on the FREE PLAY page on the website, if these transactions are not received until the coming Sunday, they will be added back to your balance and re-sent during the next payout run on Sunday the 6th of March.
Sorry for the inconvenience this has caused. We are just waiting for a week before re-sending to avoid payments being sent twice which would mean a loss of 20+ bitcoins for us because even though some nodes may forget a transaction, others keep relaying it (sometimes for even months after).
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A lot of the payments we sent this Sunday are stuck due to the spam attack on the bitcoin network. We are monitoring it and if it does not get confirmed and nodes stop relaying the transaction, we shall resend them with a higher fee.
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using dynamic IP got a problem, but i successfully verified my phone and able to play again.
freebitco.in turned into a scam. Awards first fell, and now account blocked. I think you should not waste any more time on it. Many abusive users had their accounts blocked or their minimum reward reset to 1 satoshi. Most of these users were from Russia and Ukraine so genuine users from these countries should see their rewards go up within a week or so. |
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I haven't set the payouts manually, it is based on the rates that we get from adsense over the last 30 days and is updated automatically. However, I have now added a condition that if a country has less than 10,000 page views over the last 30 days, it will pay the default rates. It should help for people who play from small countries.
The current rates for Russia are 72% of the default and 63% for Ukraine but it is subject to change dynamically based on the ad rates that adsense gives us for these countries over the last 30 days.
Awesome, thanks! I have noticed now that the rates are back up to above 500. I'm sure anyone from a small country will endorse me when I say that you've just done us all a big solid  No problem, thank you for bringing it to my attention. |
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Unfortunately for me the reward is reduced to less then 400 satoshi depending on the price.The only reason I still use this faucet is a lottery, although the chances of winning is very small.
Then you're lucky. Here's my current rewards, down from around 500 yesterday....  If I were to still push this site for referrals, I would have to target U.S. referrals, right? Otherwise, it probably doesn't make sense, as I get a lot of referrals from Russia and eastern Europe. I'd be interested to see the rate schedule for different countries. Unfortunately, I'm an American based out of Belize, and a lot of the faucets are low-paying for me, which means that my numbers are skewed highly whenever I try and make a recommendation or directory listing for the website I am launching. My associates in North America then remind me of how fucked up my small claims are compared to what they're earning on faucets like freebitcoin, and then I kick myself in the ass and curse the site under my breath. Ugh. Raise the claim amount for Belize. It's a tiny country, and I highly doubt there are more than maybe half a dozen users in Belize claiming from your site. The funny thing is that I actually do see a lot of advertising from local companies, so there should be no reason that my claim amount is so low, considering that you have localized advertisers for the site... I dunno. I'm just frustrated lol I haven't set the payouts manually, it is based on the rates that we get from adsense over the last 30 days and is updated automatically. However, I have now added a condition that if a country has less than 10,000 page views over the last 30 days, it will pay the default rates. It should help for people who play from small countries. The current rates for Russia are 72% of the default and 63% for Ukraine but it is subject to change dynamically based on the ad rates that adsense gives us for these countries over the last 30 days. |
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The rewards will not be higher for everyone. I have linked the lowest reward to the adsense rates that we get for each country using google's API. We have been getting a lot of abuse from some specific countries which was lowering the reward that we could give out to everyone, so the current system is a lot more fair.
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There are posts about people winning big prizes spread out over different threads in the forum, just have to look through them (some of those threads are 60+ pages long). Here is one post that quotes 3 winners posting about their winnings: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=319540.msg13146823#msg13146823The top 2 affiliates have made over 10 BTC in total commissions and have also won the lottery with their free tickets. I used to post their complete addresses before but stopped doing so after one of them asked me to remove because he felt it violated his privacy. Ultimately not everyone can win the big prizes even though everyone want's to. It is simply not possible considering the revenue we get. However at the end of the day your average expected reward per roll at freebitco.in is definitely much higher than most other faucets who claim that you can win thousands of satoshi every 3 minutes etc. Let's be honest, claiming from hundreds of faucets 24 hours a day will never match what you can win with the top few prize tiers at freebitco.in (free roll or the lottery). It is a fool's errand to think of faucets as a way to make money, imo it should only be used to get a few bitcoin to test it out if you are new or a way to try your luck for free and get lucky. |
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There are posts about people winning big prizes spread out over different threads in the forum, just have to look through them (some of those threads are 60+ pages long). Here is one post that quotes 3 winners posting about their winnings: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=319540.msg13146823#msg13146823The top 2 affiliates have made over 10 BTC in total commissions and have also won the lottery with their free tickets. I used to post their complete addresses before but stopped doing so after one of them asked me to remove because he felt it violated his privacy. |
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Users should not click on ad's that do not interest them. They might think it is helping the faucet but it only hurts them in the long run because it dilutes the value that advertisers get. Lower value for advertisers = lower cpc/cpm = lower earnings in the long run.
Asking users to click on ads, forcing them to do so and filling up pages with excessive ads will only hurt you in the long run.
I'm sure that 99% from your russian users click on your ads (they think this helps the faucet). This is a general attitude. I try to discourage users from doing so whenever I can but unfortunately putting a message on the website asking users not to click on ads that do not interest them would be a violation of adsense ToS as it would count as bringing attention towards the google ads. |
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Users should not click on ad's that do not interest them. They might think it is helping the faucet but it only hurts them in the long run because it dilutes the value that advertisers get. Lower value for advertisers = lower cpc/cpm = lower earnings in the long run.
Asking users to click on ads, forcing them to do so and filling up pages with excessive ads will only hurt you in the long run.
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