For those who think their balances are going up or down with the price of BTC. They are not. The balance in your account is stated in Cointiply coins, you then get the value in dollars, and then in BTC. You need to pay attention to the value in Cointiply coins the amount of them goes up as you claim the faucet or do offers or play games on the site. The amount of BTC will go up or down based on the current price of BTC. An easy way to think of this is to realize that 35,000 Cointiply coins have a value of $3.50. When you claim you will get either more BTC or less depending on the price of bitcoin when you claim but it will be BTC that is worth $3.50. The site is not a scam. I have withdrawn at least the minimum every week since January, and it is usually more than the minimum. 

RE Your Latest news. It might be a good idea to suggest to the people who can't link their address to get another address from their wallet and use the new one with all of their faucets. This will allow them to link the new address and prevent the person who linked the address from getting any benefit from doing so.