Open email letter to Anthony Gallippi from Bitpay

[remotemass]

Dear Anthony Gallippi,

I would like you to have bitpay enable any website to be able to set a bitcoin faucet that would give any ip address registered with bitpay the ability to use money from the faucet to a bitcoin address you entered after the link.
My example will make it clear. It would work like this:
To register an ip address you would send a monthly (or maybe daily) fee to bitpay. This would prevent people from using fake ip and abuse the system.
Once your ip was registered you could visit any website. If the website had sections that used bitpay faucet those website addresses would redirect to:
yoursitedomain.com/the-specific-link/bitpayfaucet/bitcoinaddressofthisspecificlinkfaucet
You could then delete the bitcoin address of the faucet and put any other and the faucet would send some coins to that address.
For instance, when visiting http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25219922
if BBC had that link activated to a bitpay faucet it and the address of it was
1BITPAYFAUCET24dh38jeh8ey3b4jk5mn , it would redirect to:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25219922/bitpayfaucet/1BITPAYFAUCET24dh38jeh8ey3b4jk5mn
and if you just deleted the bitcoin address and typed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25219922/bitpayfaucet/
it would redirect to bitpay faucet help page.
If you deleted it and put any other bitcoin address it would send bitcoins to any bitcoin address you put there, from that faucet bitcoin address.

Bitpay could implement this in any PHP or .NET website. And would be easy for a website owner or ip owner to register for bitpay faucet services.

Kind Regards,
remotemass

[franky1]

bitpay faucets were initially used to entice people to start using bitcoins. by giving noobs their first free coin. not intended for people to go visiting 100 pages a day as part of their daily ritual to make income.

if anything a database would be made that once a IP address got some dust, that IP would be blocked forever. with the database pre-filled with known proxy and Tor nodes this would ensure more random users got coins, instead of a group of active faucet raiders

[Sindelar1938]

Fascinating discussion

Never realised that faucet raiding was such a problematic side effect