I tried to deal with this offlist but that is not good enough for BitCoinDream who no doubt thinks I am being evasive and
trying to hide, what he considers, my scamming.

I started the newbie lotto 'partly' to keep the Free Bitcoin Sites thread active and on the first page of posts, sure,
big and terrible crime right there folks. Me and others have always felt that thread should be stickied to have a trusted
place which lists verified free bitcoin sites for newbies... I have already explained why I think this is the best way to
protects newbies from scams and to keep the forums more spam free.

It was/is also is good way to give more freebies to newbies, using their address in my daily checks of these sites rather than
using my own address. Like I said I am not trying to get rich by collecting the fractions of pennies one gets from these sites.

This post, which I have to re-post from time to time, explains what I am trying to do with the list:
What good is it if one only gets very very small amounts?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=74046.msg1088930#msg1088930

There are not many free bitcoin sites that give out non-dust amounts anymore which I can use to give a daily payout to the daily lotto winner
( most sites now require one to build up a minimum balance over time... and so that doesn't work for a daily lotto. )
But there is still one site owner [ a, perhaps, rare free site owner that cares about helping newbies more than trying to
make a quick buck ] that set up a form for me to use just for the lotto ( I won't post the name of the benefactor or the url
for that form to keep someone else from finding it and abusing it. I can tell the mods if they deem it important ).
So the daily winner will always receive at least 0.00013 BTC.  

Like I often say that is not much at all, but it is a free draw and the better thing is the Bonus drawing which I do once a month
or two. Every entry in the newbie lotto is eligible for that.

This next link below kinda explains the genesis of the bonus draw and what can be expected if one wins:
Khal donation:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=90718.msg1582471#msg1582471

And I also emphasized to BitCoinDream the details, which can be seen in the OP of the free bitcoin sites thread, of
the sponsorship thing.


To repeat, a sponsor can only be a site which would be in the list anyway, and what they give to move their site to the top goes into the bonus draw.
( does not every newbie who checks the list go through the 'whole' list rather than just using the top link? )

I welcome anyone, like I did the author of this thread, to go through the posts of the free bitcoin sites thread to see the tx details of all the bonus draws.

If the moderators have a problem with me having that sponsorship thing, with the proceeds going to newbies in the bonus draw, I will end it and pay back the BTC to the current sponsor.

If the moderators of this forum have a problem with me using referrals links in the list, the proceeds of which again go into the bonus draw, I will end that.

If the moderators of this forum have a problem with me running the newbie draw I will end that too.
( I keep my own record of the amount in the bonus fund. 1.8480 BTC currently. That should keep the bonus draw going for a while,
unless the mods want me to end that as well and give that money to some charity or something. )

The moderators are also free to delete the whole Free Bitcoin Sites threads if they don't like it or think I am doing something wrong.

Is this good enough for you yet BitCoinDream or do you want to dismiss 'this' as crying foul as well?  

They are off the list for inconsistencies in paying out. Sometimes they payout and sometimes people fail to get a payout and still get their balances cleared out.
I have been monitoring them and am getting close to a payout. I may give them a second, or actually third, chance and put them back on the list if I am successful in getting a payout. If they fail again after that they will be off the list for good.

Thanks for the report.

Balance carried over as well. Thanks for the report.

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Added:
CheSiMangia
Satoshis 4 Us
Bitcoin Tap

Removed:
Redcoins.co ( gone )

Well good luck with that. But remember in order to be considered free and to get included on the list you need to make sure you don't make people jump through a bunch of hoops and annoy them in other ways. The point is to help newbies and make using Bitcoin a positive experience.

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Added:
CheSiMangia
Satoshis 4 Us
Bitcoin Tap

Removed:
Redcoins.co ( gone )

I didn't bump it, even though one is allowed one bump per day, which I may just use since you are being like this...

I am not allowed to respond to what people post?  

And why are you posting this here if not to push this post up?

Unfortunately in the wild west world of Bitcoin one 'does' needs to be very cautious.

As I was saying elsewhere, I have seen very very many Bitcoin scams on this forum and elsewhere since I joined here in 2011.

This is why I feel a maintained and community-verified list like this is very important.  

If any site asks you for more than a Bitcoin address to send the free Bitcoin to, think long and hard about it.
And even if that it is all they ask for, still be careful.  We do the best we can to make sure only legit sites
get added to this list, but any of these sites can change at any time so it certainly isn't 100% safe.  

Do check out these sites, if you want, and if you, or anyone, finds anything that doesn't seem right please
let us know and we will remove any offending sites from the list. Please feel free to share any information
you like about your experience with these sites, or let us know of other ones you have found.  


Thanks

Thanks for the feedback.

I have been here since mid-2011. Lurked for a few months before joining. And in that time I have seen a lot of scams...
more than I could count... The mods take care of a lot of them but they can't go and check out all the sites that people
offer links for. My interest is in helping Bitcoin users, especially newbies, try to avoid all that by maintaining a thread
on this forum ( which as I said is watched over by not just me but the mods and everyone in the community that
wants to participate, and there is a lot who follow the free Bitcoin sites thread ) where people can feel reasonably safe
in trying the system out... getting a few non-dust satoshis to add to their new Bitcoin wallet or account.

Of course it is not all unselfish on my part. Helping out newbies and making sure they don't get scammed and turned off
of cryptocurrency helps out the whole Bitcoin economy, of which I am a part.

I post in threads like this 'not' because I am trying to build up the satoshis with referrals ( which doesn't add
up to very much, but helps me keep the newbie bonus draw going, along with the occasional donation ) it is because
I feel we don't need more than one free Bitcoin sites thread, and if we have one it should be one that is proven due
to the long time it has been here and the scrutiny it has received in that time.  

It can get confusing to have a lot of threads doing basically the same thing, and it is not always easy to know if
some new thread that pops up is on the level.  I am sorry if that upsets someone like the OP of this thread
who himself is perhaps only trying to help. If he or anyone wants to help newbies find the best Bitcoin sites and
to avoid scams etc. they are free and welcome to post in that thread.

I like to feel it is not my thread but the community's.  

Believe me I have been buying Bitcoin since I heard about them in June 2011...  I don't need the money.  
But I still want to see as many people get into as possible. I firmly believe Bitcoin will change the world in
a very positive way.

Thanks

I would suggest that if you are only running the faucet to make money then you should find another line of work that pays better.   

This list is to help newbies get started with receiving and using Bitcoin, not to help website operators make money.  Sorry.
 

For the record this thread does not recommend gambling. But some people do like to do that; it is their free choice. The only gambling sites in the list are ones that give out free Bitcoin with no strings attacked... i.e. one is not required to gamble at their site in order to withdraw the free Bitcoin they get. I don't recommend anyone join any BTC gambling site just to get the small amount of BTC that may be given for free there, but if someone likes gambling and is going to join such sites anyway then the 'gambling' category of this list shows which ones give out free BTC.

Having a link to the thread in my sig is pimping?  Having one thread that has maintained and verified links and is watched over by the community and the moderators helps protect newbies from all the scams that take place regularly on these forums and elsewhere. You never encountered malware or any scams? I would suggest you haven't been checking free Bitcoin sites as long as I have.  

And about your other point, as I said, I offer the tx details of every newbie bonus draw after each one happens.  

None of the sites in the Free Bitcoin Sites thread* pays out dust. The list is checked everyday and If any site has changed and is now paying dust it is quickly spotted and removed from the list.



*See my sig. or the newbie version is here:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=90718

I don't run any of the sites in the list. 

The referrals in the list are not spam. Spam is people posting the same links over and over in different posts through out the forums here. This list has been here for a very long time ( one of the most viewed non-sticky threads on these forums ) and because it is here, and has built up the trust of the moderators and the community, we don't need any more lists of free Bitcoin sites. The list helps keep down the spam of people continually posting their own lists of free Bitcoin sites.

For a long time there were no referrals as part of the list but it was the community that suggested I include them. Many people have expressed their thanks for this list since it helped them get into Bitcoin, and they thought, I suppose, that I should get something for the time I put into maintaining the list. I thought, why not? The very small amount of BTC I get from these referrals goes into the Newbie Bonus draw, as part of the newbie lotto. I post the transaction details of these bonus draws when they happen.

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Thanks for the reports.

I tried to sign up with them but they never did send me that confirmation email.  I checked my junk folder and there is nothing from them in there... oh well.

What site are you talking about?

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