Using a robot does not kill the faucet, does it? The faucet host is paid by page views (at least), right? Would the bot not count for page views if they have to go to the page and engage the claim reward button to work? I think the faucet hosts are still getting paid...it's the advertisers that aren't getting any awareness of their project, that's the rub.

Correct me if I'm wrong...

You're stupid!

Kidding, of course.
Free coins every hour are cool, but it's totally misleading to call it coins...you do mean satoshi, free satoshi every hour - or every 5 minutes at xapo (check out the link in my profile).

Has anyone won a major lottery or pay from faucets? I've been getting 90%+ bonuses but no big jackpots. Anyone make it to 10,000 rolls on freebitco.in?

Chin up, man, Bitcoin is the world's currency feel free to use it as you wish!


I think we blew Mr. No Juice's mind...he hasn't been back. Hopefully he's been too busy buying/mining/fauceting/spending bitcoin!

Clunky for sure. Why so many pop up ads when we load the page? If I wasn't testing it I would have closed it immediately. All the ads make it hard to claim a reward conspicuously through out the day. How's the view on a phone?

I tried to claim an add but the button just opened up another screen of ads...keep working and good luck!

Great find! Thanks for sharing this. I didn't realize it was a thread that had many, many links to bitcoin documentaries. The thread you link to should be "stickied" in the New to Bitcoin thread on the main board.

Hi, welcome to Bitcoin and this Forum!

Great question, there's a lot of information here and on the web about mining, but I can give you some starter information.

Mining is how new bitcoins are generated. You don't need to mine bitcoin to get paid in bitcoin. Once the bitcoins are mined they are available to the entire economy, to be passed around in exchange for goods and services (just as paper currency is after it is minted/created).

Mining bitcoin has become very expensive to generate even minor amounts of full coins due to the size of the economy that exists today. This was intended...the more that are mined the harder it becomes to mine more. Additionally, every few years the amount of bitcoin released in a "package" that's mined gets cut in half. Currently a package of bitcoin is 25 bitcoins, soon (predicted to be the start of 2016) that package will be halved to 12.5. The trigger is the number of bitcoins mined so no one knows for sure when it will occur.

The decision on whether one wants to mine bitcoin comes down to how much the have to invest and how much time they are willing to mine before obtaining a return on their investment. There are huge operations in China that are mining significant amounts...but there is a lot of money invested and electricity costs are CHEAP in China.

I'm happy to answer more questions (as are many others on this Forum), here are some other resources...

Bitcoin Wiki on Mining: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Mining

Bitcoin Mining: https://www.bitcoinmining.com/

Mining Board on this forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=14.0

There's a Project Development board that would be perfect: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=12.0

Also, if you're looking for funding you could do so on that board, or in Goods or Services (depending on your project) or in Lending.

Good luck to you, i'd enjoy hearing about your project...I look for it over on Project Development.

https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech

I found a BETTER option...it's FREE...and it's from Princeton.

Coursera offers free courses from major Universities.

Course Syllabus

Intro to Crypto and Cryptocurrencies
Cryptographic Hash Functions
Hash Pointers and Data Structures
Digital Signatures
Public Keys as Identities
Simple Cryptocurrencies

How Bitcoin Achieves Decentralization
Centralization vs. decentralization
Distributed consensus
Consensus without identity: the block chain
Incentives and proof of work
Putting it all together

Mechanics of Bitcoin
Bitcoin transactions
Bitcoin scripts
Applications of Bitcoin scripts
Bitcoin blocks
The Bitcoin network
Limitations & improvements

How to Store and Use Bitcoins
Simple Local Storage
How to Store and Use Bitcoins
Secret Keys
Hot and Cold Storage
Splitting and Sharing Keys
Online Wallets and Exchanges
Payment Services
Transaction Fees
Currency Exchange Markets

Bitcoin mining
The task of Bitcoin miners
Mining hardware
Energy consumption & ecology
Mining pools
Mining incentives and strategies

Bitcoin and anonymity
Anonymity basics
Overview of Bitcoin deanonymization
Mixing
Decentralized mixing
Zerocoin and Zerocash
Tor and the Silk Road

Community, Politics, and Regulation
Consensus in Bitcoin
Bitcoin Core Software
Stakeholders : Who’s in Charge?
Roots of Bitcoin
Governments Notice Bitcoin
Anti Money-Laundering Regulation
New York’s BitLicense Proposal

Alternative Mining Puzzles
Essential Puzzle Requirements
ASIC Resistant Puzzles
Proof-of-useful-work
Nonoutsourceable Puzzles
Proof-of-Stake

Bitcoin as a platform
Bitcoin as an append-only log
Bitcoins as “smart property”
Secure multi-party lotteries in Bitcoin
Bitcoin as randomness source
Prediction markets & real-world data feeds

Altcoins and the Cryptocurrency Ecosystem
Short History of Altcoins
Interaction between Bitcoin and altcoins
Lifecycle of an Altcoin
Bitcoin-Backed Altcoins, “Side Chains”

The future of Bitcoin?
The block chain as a vehicle for decentralization
Routes to decentralization
What can we decentralize?
When is decentralization a good idea?

I confess I did not watch the videos. The Khan Academy is interesting, these seem like intro videos to get someone to subscribe to their service. Have you watched them? Is the information a really basic overview of commonly known bitcoin basics or does it really share valuable information?

Here's a better option through Coursera: https://www.coursera.org/course/bitcointech

• From Princeton University
• Course is FREE as are most of the courses on Coursera...it's kind of their thing

Uber Doge.

There's a lot of research that shows that people on welfare will not look for or engage in work if the pay for that work doesn't exceed the welfare. We need to match the two...welfare should be paired back to not provide more than minimum wages or minimum wages should increase. The problem with minimum wages increasing is that it motivates prices (and the cost of living) to increase as well.

If welfare isn't linked specifically to the objective of getting people that can work back to work, it will never be successful.

Of course disabilities and addictions need to be handled differently but there should be much more surveillance over the appropriate use of government money...some rights should go away when one welfare.


In NED, what are the income qualifications or unemployment qualifications to receive the welfare? I'm curious where the country sets that bar.

This is old news, man, the update is that he was sentenced but he was caught and convicted last year sometime.

To me, this isn't even news. Using bitcoin is no different than using Dollars or Euros (cash) and if he used his computer to send payment then it would be easy to link the payment to him. Bitcoin is anonymous only at the address/blockchain level. All sorts of additional information can link an address to a person, which falls outside the scope of he bitcoin ecosystem.

This discussion is hilarious.

All the "funny details" to support the hoax are easy to explain away. I won't go into all of them, but here's a few on the recent claims: The anniversary could have been for the first session hanging out (rather than the first romantic date), or all of us might not know exactly how long they were dating (which is much more probable), wearing the same thing for rafting is probable because these people may not go rafting often (anyone who has gone rafting knows that are are specific, dedicated shirts and jackets (he's wearing a rafting jacket in one photo), who doesn't where the same hat over and over again, and the "C" on the raft is similar because they probably went back to the same rafting service for the anniversary.

As for the "smile" - the boyfriend isn't smiling in this screenshot of the same interview:


Plus, the boyfriend is trained to be on TV and the relationship was young and new...you don't know how deep the feelings really were. It's possible that in a time of tragedy the love for someone can seem greater than it may have actually been (completely speculating here), especially if they weren't talking about it much to anyone. P.S. the guy standing next to him is the Station Manager not the woman's father...get your few facts straight.

The only thing that's logical here is that people will come up with whatever excuses and rationale they need to prove their theory...and I include myself in this category.

Fortunately for me and everyone else that realizes this is a major tragedy is that we have video proof that this mentally ill terrorist shot the female reporter and pointed the gun at the cameraman. We also have the support that people giving up their lives for some yet-to-be-determined motive to make a hoax out of this is incredibly illogical.

You all should be ashamed for pouncing on this as an opportunity to get some attention. Go back to the 9/11 truther's threads...

This is kind of a brilliant idea..."everyone loves kitten pictures" or least that's what they say.

Have you found any clients on here through this offer?

But Meta posts aren't excluded for the Bit-x campaign, fortunately for you...what a good samaritan.

Here's the Bit-x campaign thread to remind you of what you get paid for: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=877765.0

EDIT: Sorry man, I just re-read the campaign rules and realized that these posts aren't paid by Bit-X...sorry for the personal accusation!

In fact, posts to Meta aren't excluded from most campaigns, which is why I bring it up. It's definitely a troll or spam move to lurk here and just quote the addresses posted to earn, especially if the volume to this thread is great enough not to need the help. BUT, if the volume here isn't that great, maybe you folks that are trolling for paid posts are doing something valuable.

I'm sure the mods would have a solid opinion...

This one quoted never got quoted from the first few posts of this thread, back in March.

Here's Possum577's bitcoin address: 1Exx48BUTb57hPND67Mt5WwPXiTA9CjoEs

P.S. there's a great trend, recently, of members with signature campaigns coming here just to quote the most recent address posts. A clever way to earn some coin while helping the community or a clever new way to spam? I'll let the rest of you decide. Most of the posts getting quoted do not have signature campaigns...a rather obvious trend.

So are you saying that the time spent on faucets ruined your life?

#earlybitcoinadopterproblems

Not exactly.

People that play the faucets do the work they get paid for, i.e., look at a web page.

People that run faucet websites do the work they get paid for, i.e., create online real-estate to have ads and find people to look at those ads.

Don't confuse the two. Everyone involved is doing their own work to get their own pay.

If/When that happens, let's make sure we find out how much they made...we can post there service thread or something. Then ask them if they get more or less than Xapo.

And they probably do something with the funds they hold to make them some more money...investing in bonds with fiat or something. They have so much in deposits they have to be doing something with a small fraction of that coin.

Nik, so you're using faucets to make up the difference betwee 0.09975 and 0.1? That makes more sense...you're looking for 0.0002500? That's definitely possible in a day...I get it, thanks.