Not anymore. Now it's only 1/3 of that.


"some users' payouts was cut in halved because they are suspected part of botnet"

That was the excuse, but it is the same for real users. The real reason was that when BTC crashed from $20,000 to $6000 it because realistically possible to roll your way to 30,000 satoshis again (and of course that minimum does NOT go down as BTC goes up). Now you can't even redeem RPs to increase the minimum unless you invest real money or gamble a ridiculous amount.

I feel exactly the same way and that is why I have decided to switch to 99bitcoins.

Not being able to redeem RPs that I've spent TWO YEARS saving up is really the last straw. freebitcoin.in USED TO BE a good faucet, but the recent changes appear designed with one and only one end in mind: to make it impossible to ever reach the magic 30,000 satoshi without putting in (and gambling away) your own money.


MM

Every time I try to use the treasure chest it says "not eligible this time". The site does not give any explanation of eligibility.

Which makes the faucet basically useless for real people like me. And no, I'm not going to deposit $50 I don't have to a site run by people I don't know.

MULTIPLY BTC ROLLS PLAYED
11,807
MULTIPLY BTC WINNINGS
-0.00041163BTC

This first is how much gambling I've done, and the second should make it clear why I've had to be more careful about it. Sometimes I get multiple losses in a row (10 or more) even when the odds of winning each are supposed to be over 30% each time, but that's another issue and there have been some times that I have had good wins, so that's not the focus of my complaint. But with well over 11,000 rolls in about a year and a half it's hard to claim I'm just "draining the faucet."

I will admit I've only bought a few lottery tickets, and that's because the chance of winning is basically none.

Finally, as for depositing real money, I prefer to keep real money in a bank for reasons of both accessibility and security.

MM

Positive: I'm glad we now have a choice of captchas. The picture ones are MAJOR ANNOYING - the pics take forever to load, and even if you get it right it asks you to try again, sometimes multiple times. That's a lot of needless time and effort for a few satoshi. I'm glad we now have the option of matching an alphanumeric string.


Negative: The lowest reward is down AGAIN. Now it's not even 1/20 of the second lowest but one or two satoshis LESS than 1/20. This is getting ridiculous. We can't take advantage of BTC being down to try to reach that magic number of 30,000. I remember the reduction (originally from 1/10) was supposedly to frustrate bots - hasn't that been solved yet? And in any case, why make things more difficult and inconvenient for the honest players?

This morning, for example:

***0 - 9885  0.00000011 BTC*** (not .00000013)
9886 - 9985  0.00000265 BTC
9986 - 9993  0.00002654 BTC
9994 - 9997  0.00026543 BTC
9998 - 9999  0.00265428 BTC
10000  0.02654284 BTC

MM

The new change to the weekly withdrawal fee is a good one. I don't think 40 satoshis is much out of 30,000, so imo that solves the problem of what goes up, not coming back down, as was the case earlier.

But I think you guys have had long enough to fix whatever the bot problem was that led to half rewards. It's bad enough trying to get up to the minimum withdrawal amount (which has NOT gone down as the BTC has gone up) with the standard reward, which at the current price is around 25 satoshi.

MM

Quin,

Thanks for the explanation.

The auto-withdrawal used to be free. The idea was if you wanted your BTC sooner you'd have to pay a fee, which is reasonable. The change was made when BTC spiked to $20K a few months ago and people started either buying or selling and that drove up transaction fees to outrageous levels. But now that the bubble has burst, the fees have gone way down, which is why I was asking if autowithdrawal could be free again. To me it doesn't matter as much as my first question which was about having the minimum at a level that takes months for an honest player to reach when it used to take a few weeks.

Meow

OK, understood about the reduction of award for the lowest prize. Hopefully it will be temporary.

I also have two other questions:

1) The 30,000 satoshi minimum to withdraw has been in place for a long time. That was the minimum when the value of the bitcoin was only in the hundreds of dollars. When I started on your site, it was in the $700s and the minimum prize was 275 satoshi, so with a little more than 100 rolls you could reach the minimum.
Now that the value of BTC is more than 10 times that, wouldn't it make sense to reduce the minimum to, say, 5000 satoshi to make it more reachable? (Of course this would have to happen after the problem of the hacking and bots is resolved).

2) Now that the recent bubble is over and transaction costs are much lower, are there any plans to remove the 3000 satoshi fee for the automatic deposit, which is now even higher than the fee for instant deposit?

MM