Skepticism is good. There are a couple of reasons I am planning to sell the faucet.

1. I do not have enough time to manage.

2. With the increasing bitcoin price, the ad networks that pay in fiat is not profitable.

3. I have a deadline on February 23 to pay back a loan. I am not expecting this faucet to be sold and pay the loan, but that would be a bonus.

Like I said the profit is around 0.001 to 0.002, like $1 to $2 per day and then around $10 goes into hosting per month, and I do not have the habit of holding on to bitcoins so sometimes when the faucet is dry (bitcoin ad networks pay instantly), but other ad networks have a threshold and then I  have to convert rupee into BTC (fee included). The profit would be more if I increase the rewards and decrease the timer to 5 minutes.

Like the OP said it would be ridiculous to sell the faucet at this point especially since got approved by major bitcoin ad networks so I will wait till tomorrow, if the offer is good I will sell it or keep on running.

0.06 BTC, the auction would end on Feb 9.

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Faucet list updated, February 7

http://btcfaucet.io/list.php

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Faucet list updated, February 6

http://btcfaucet.io/list.php

I have decided the BIN yet, the auction will run till February 9. The last bid was 0.05. Currently negotiating with a couple of people so will post the BIN tomorrow or maybe day after tomorrow.

If you had run a faucet you would not have mentioned Russian traffic. Every faucet user or admin knows around 90% of faucet traffic is from Russia. I had run a faucet earlier, but it was a blog and then included faucet, http://bitckerz.net, you could compare the stats between these two. The point is  the domain name says what it is, it is a BTC faucet, zero content, only ads, getting natural traffic from putting some SEO efforts is still not worth it because it is a BTC faucet.

Domain, user database, faucet script (ePay, FaucetHub or Xapo option) everything included. Thank you for starting off.

I just changed the rewards three days ago, or was paying 210 satoshis every 60 miniutes, around 0.006 BTC pr day, and with additional pop ads around 0.001 to 0.002 profit per day.

Hi, I am selling http://btcfaucet.io, it is a bitcoin faucet with a simple design.

Total users: 35953 (about 10 to 15% of these were proxy/bad IP users, so banned some IP's, if unban them then the traffic would increased by 20 to 30%, these are human users using proxy IP's, profitable to website, but unethical in the sense why one user should get all the satoshis)

Registered at Namecheap (I had bought this time domain for $33)
Expiry: August 19, 2017
Premium DNS

Traffic sources:

Since I have been running this faucet for a few months now, it has been added to all major faucet rotators.

https://www.similarweb.com/website/btcfaucet.io

Analytics: August 23, 2016 to today



Revenue sources:

1. Mellowads (pop up)

2. Coinzilla (pop up)

3. Coinmedia

4. A-ads

5. Popads.net (optional)

6. Short.est (optional)

If you are willing to take risk then btcfaucet.io is not adsense banned and you can use adsense on the faucet.

What will you get:

1. Domain

2. Faucet script with users database

3. Faucet list (I also have a faucet list on this domain which is somewhat popular, http://btcfaucet.io/list.php)

I have not yet decided BIN

Btcfaucet.io bitcointalk thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1089607.0

If you have any questions feel free to ask

I am planning to sell the faucet if I get a good price. Till that happens keep on claiming, added funds. The faucet would be sold only after all users have been paid, be it even 100 satoshis

Edit: Auction posted here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1777164.0

I changed the rewards and timer once again , 20 to 60 satoshis every 5 minutes. There are a handful of faucets using this minimal timer method and still making good profit, might be because apart from mellowads and coinzilla they have coinad. This is just an experimentation, hope I would not end up shelling $20 to $30 bucks out of my pocket in a couple of days

I have made a drastic change to the timer, first of all I do not have enough time to manage the faucet and with the increasing bitcoin price maintaining a faucet is not profitable anymore.

Increased the rewards to 355 satoshis, increased the timer to maximum 1440 minutes

Increased the referral commission to 10%

Removed all non bitcoin related pop ups

So claim 355 satoshis every 1440 minutes (every day)

Since I have not experienced this issue before on YoBit campaign thought I might have been kicked out so yeah going to lock this thread. One week wait is okay.

With the increasing bitcoin price and having a shit load of ads on my faucet giving 210 satoshis every 60 minutes is still turning out to be a loss for me , would be maintaining this reward for the next couple of days or would make some changes.

Claim 210 satoshis every 60 minutes

Hi, for the last 3 days I have been trying to transfer my YoBit sig campaign earnings to the wallet, but "send to my BTC balance" is not working.

Their sign campaign thread is locked, but hilariousandco has mentioned.


I have a low balance there so if the wallet is dry that ain't an issue, would withdraw when it gets refilled. I was just wondering if I got kicked out of YoBit campaign . If someone in YoBit signature campaign could confirm this it would be really appreciable

Today when I logged in I had the same issue, guess my password was weak, glad the admin changed it, received mail instantly with a new password. All my referrals and balance is intact.

No problem

Claim 210 satoshis every 60 minutes

Facebook, Twitter, Steam, Localbitcoins, Paxful, cloud mining accounts, gift cards, collateral cannot get better than this

More than a couple of years ago I had asked a loan as a newbie and got painted in red by vod. I did not had any intention of scamming when I asked the loan at that time, but the point is decentralization brings too much anonymity with it, even it takes some time to build trust with an identifiable object, and just jumping into lending section and asking 1 BTC loan does not scale anywhere on the trust factor. Now I have repaid half a dozen loans on BCT, it took couple of years to build some trust in an anonymous environment, but still worth it ...So newbies if you just have "accounts" as collateral do not bother posting a loan request and be a bait for sig spammers

Lol, then everyone should have been running a faucet, there is only marginal profit and sometimes the admin has to pay out of his own pocket and for a big faucet like ceto beto paying out of pocket sometimes can be too much. I am not vouching for donald, some faucet users had bad experience with his faucet in the past so if he does the same with this faucet then definitely it is unprofessional. First of all he needs to pay the users who have upgraded their accounts and then the free accounts. I would suggest that he lower the rewards and keep on running the faucet, remove additional features, keep the faucet alive, why pay out of your pocket when your faucet have 10000+ users, just lower the rewards, keep the faucet running and pay your users gradually.

Today, when I logged into my Xapo account I had a message from them especially for faucet admins/users. They are a popular bitcoin wallet provider and there are not many faucets that use Xapo, but still they do care about these faucets. First of all, from the time they were launched till their new fee policy they had provided fee less service, minimum 5500 satoshis to any bitcoin address without fee, was it possible with Blockchain wallet or Coinbase, no. Now with the increasing bitcoin price they are left with no other choice, but to add fee.

But when they finally decided to add fee they thought why not charge a fee for incoming transactions also , 0.00025013 BTC. The fee limit is also low only 0.00037519, if someone really wants to send you less than 0.00037510 BTC to your Xapo account then he would to pay a fee and then you would also have to pay a fee to receive funds, too cumbersome process. As far as outgoing transaction fee is concerned it is 0.00025013 which is acceptable so now Coinbase is the only wallet that does not charge a fee for outgoing transactions.

And as far as Xapo faucets are concerned this fee policy is not going to affect them in any way, still Xapo to Xapo is free