I did an experiment on faucets for about a month. Since I'm online most of the day anyway, I tested it out whenever I got a chance to waste some time. And it was time wasted indeed. After using various faucets and filling out countless captchas for about a month I made around .60 USD.
Definitely only worth it for the faucet owners making money from ads.
What about alt coin mining if your normal PC is a gaming pc? I'm on a MSI GT70 with VGA Nvidia GeForce GTX 675MX. Waste of time and security risk (I use this pc to access servers I manage and client websites) or worth a shot? Any thoughts?
Hmm I have a non-cloud based VPS that's sitting there doing nothing. This method is not limited to Digital Ocean and would work on any VPS with root access via SSH, yes?
Do these faucet sites really work? A few days ago I tried visiting one (don't remember which) and my malware program blocked it as potentially malicious. I'm all for getting some free coin but not at the risk of my pc.