This faucetlist gets more and more bizzar. Why are low paying faucets at the top? And why doesn't faucetbox show the average user payout because a load of them reward 1 satoshi despite saying e.g. "1000 satoshi sent".
I don't know if you remember that, but we did show the average user payout earlier. And faucet owners massively abused it by making fake payouts to their own addresses, which made this stat totally unreliable. How much a faucet pay doesn't matter anymore on the list. We only use user's up and downvotes. Unfortunately we don't have enough manpower to keep this list clean. But FaucetBOX.com isn't a faucets list, it's a payment cache. You should use much better 3rd party faucets lists instead.
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They are using Tor Browser. I downloaded a list of Tor exit node IP's and put them in the banlist in the faucet's admin.
I also enabled Nastyhosts.
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Unfortunately it's taking a long while before it gets listed again on Faucetbox and scanthebox (read: my ad revenue stalled).
Tor exit nodes change frequently, so a single copy-paste-forget isn't a good way. However Nastyhosts already blocks Tor. It uses this list
https://check.torproject.org/exit-addresses and refreshes it every hour. A quick check using a random address from the list shows that it's working:
http://v1.nastyhosts.com/176.10.99.208 .
If you're depending on FaucetBOX.com's list for traffic and revenue, then you're missing most of it
. I estimate that only ~30% of users use that list.
Blocking ips and tors is that real solution ?
I guess that's not a real solution just add some new protection features .
I personally like xapo faucet where a email is required and we can easily detect a bad user.
Email wouldn't change a thing unfortunately. There're hundreds of 10-minute-mails that bots can use. They can also just use aliases, for example on gmail if you have
myaccount@gmail.com account, then you can add whatever you want after the plus sign and it will work as well, like myaccount+bot1@gmail.com, myaccount+bot2@gmail.com etc. So instead of endless game of blocking ips and tors you'd have an endless game of blocking mail providers.
Also FaucetBOX.com is all about users not having to register, that's what brings lots of traffic. Users get discouraged quickly when you promise them something for free, but only after they register. And if you also require their phone number for SMS verification... I know I wouldn't use such a faucet
. However that's something that can be implemented in the script, it doesn't have to be done by FaucetBOX.com. Just make a faucet with registration and SMS verification. If you can't code, I think that it wouldn't take longer than a weekend for someone for a small fee.
I myself tried it using Tor Browser, I saw the faucet, could solve the captcha, but after clicking the reward button I get a white page, which shows up as a 500 error in my logs. And the reward was not paid out.
That was probably Nastyhosts.com doing it's work
