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[Tech1k]

 The faucet has been closed (for a while at the time of this edit) due to tax implications and other reasons and all remaining coins were distributed to other testnet faucets.

[Tamarindei]

Hi Tech1k!

Can you please explain what a faucet is? Sorry I am newbie in this regard.

Maybe this is the wrong category of this forum for a faucet?

Thx and best regards
Tama

[NeuroticFish]

Sorry I am newbie in this regard.

Keep in mind that this is a TESTNET faucet. This means it delivers worthless coins.
The coins are useful only for people and developers testing various features.

Since you are newbie you could for example test the features of a certain wallet (but you have to start in a special mode, for testnet). There's nothing else you could use those coins for and it's nice to send them back after you've finished with the tests.

Maybe this is the wrong category of this forum for a faucet?

Since the testnet faucets are most useful for developers this is a very good place for a testnet faucet to be announced.



TL;DR: if you are into faucets to gather coins hoping they'll make you rich someday (which is something you'll find out later it doesn't worth your time), this is not a faucet for you.

[mocacinno]

Glad to see more tbtc faucets

I wanted to check it out, but it's not only the faucet that's down, but your complete host (or so it seems).

As for preventing abuse, i use a combination on my faucet:

• A captcha (not recaptcha)
• an ip blocklist
• a "smart" payout script.... I bulk send payouts once per hour, and the script handling the payouts checks for a limited amount of parameters before adding payment to the bulk list. If abuse is detected, the user's ip is added to the blocklist and the payment is deleted without payout

[o_solo_miner]

Testnet Bitcoin is now active on the faucet! I don't even have a whole tBTC, so please feel free to donate some to the faucet (I'm going to try and mine some)!

Claim tBTC: https://testnet-faucet.com/btc-testnet

If you wan't a tbtc donation it would be great (for you) to provide the address here,
so all can donate to you with tbtc.

 

and yes, I would donate you a bit

[NeuroticFish]

Testnet Bitcoin is now active on the faucet!

From what I see the faucet is already dry. This means that you either were too generous, either somebody has already abused your faucet.
Quite sad...

[jackielove4u]

I'm going to add Groestlcoin to the testnet faucet as it seems there is some demand for tGRS coins!

If you sent the tgrs address here then grs users can fill the groestlcoin faucet

[o_solo_miner]

Testnet Bitcoin is now active on the faucet! I don't even have a whole tBTC, so please feel free to donate some to the faucet (I'm going to try and mine some)!

Claim tBTC: https://testnet-faucet.com/btc-testnet

If you wan't a tbtc donation it would be great (for you) to provide the address here,
so all can donate to you with tbtc.

 

and yes, I would donate you a bit

You're awesome ! Here is the tBTC faucet address: mohjSavDdQYHRYXcS3uS6ttaHP8amyvX78

Send you 1 tbtc, so now you got a bit for starting
39ba1c2967893d3f3371cff94a18f4dea88708c1dc99bd97b59a84860a450ed5

good luck for your project

[ostrogoto2012]

Testnet Bitcoin is now active on the faucet!

From what I see the faucet is already dry. This means that you either were too generous, either somebody has already abused your faucet.
Quite sad...

It is quite sad because this coin don't have any value , it is just testnet coin , people are just crazy today!

[SimpleVv0]

Hello Tech1k, I send you ~1.4 tbtc, it allowed me for lighting-network experiments some time ago

txid d64d0b7083efdf46785c42a643dcdc4c473789712254de48f2e107d58a673dea

good luck 

[ostrogoto2012]

Hello Tech1k, I send you ~1.4 tbtc, it allowed me for lighting-network experiments some time ago

txid d64d0b7083efdf46785c42a643dcdc4c473789712254de48f2e107d58a673dea

good luck 

I appreciate your generous tBTC donation to the faucet!

well i will tried to get some and after risend to faucet again, i like to test it , first time i will get some from faucet.

[mocacinno]

I wanted to try out your faucet... Just to see how it works.
Couldn't claim for a bech32 address:

tb1qfxfnzhqymu5vt0fv7ykkevct4g3nmyezqj47vs

You entered an invalid Testnet Bitcoin address!

[mocacinno]

Oh, whoops my bad lol, the faucet is using Bitcoin v0.15.2 which didn't have bech32 addresses! I'll upgrade the daemon to 0.20.0 today, sorry about that!

It wasn't really an error, but it does make your faucet look like it was made in pre-segwit times
Let me know if you want me to try it out with a bech32 address!

[o_solo_miner]

I hope you are still working on that project.
To motivate you, I'll refill your tbtcs a bit  

[mrquackquack]

Hello if you add Aevo Coin to your faucet i would certainly make a donation of the sum of 100,000 Aevo Coins for the start up of the faucet. Thanks again and please let me know.

[h_once]

Hi, could you please add tBCH back to the faucet. Thank you

[jackielove4u]

Hello everyone!

I have added tGRS to the faucet with support for all the testnet address types!

Please feel free to donate some tGRS if you have any to spare as it'll help get the faucet started!

tGRS faucet: https://testnet-faucet.com/grs-testnet


I'm also looking into adding tBCH or tDGB to the faucet, please let me know which one you would like to see added next!

What happend to the tgrs that I donated 2 years ago?

[Flexystar]

I am no developer in the field but I do know the scarcity of these tBTC and there are even threads where people are charging interest for using the tBTC for some period. You have done great job by launching this thread and hope so everything will work as planned for your faucet.

I am just having one question, how do you believe that everyone who is getting free claims on your site will return the tBTC to you in the future? OR you just kept it as open minded thought and care less if the coins are returned to you or not?

Q. What is the funding source for this faucet?
Q. If someone wants to help then how one can do it? Just donate it or is there any other ways to?

[Kakmakr]

Testnet Bitcoin is now active on the faucet!

From what I see the faucet is already dry. This means that you either were too generous, either somebody has already abused your faucet.
Quite sad...

Good points, but what actually happened was the faucet was dry to begin with as I'm trying to mine and get some tBTC for the faucet lol

Currently I have it so you can claim 0.001-0.0125 tBTC/hour when the faucet isn't dry!

I am just curious.... How is this rewarding for you, if you have to spend "resources" to mine these coins? Are you doing this as part of your testing or just as a service to the community or are you funding it from something else? (surely Ads do not cover all your expenses)

In any way, thank you for this service... it is nice to play with... seeing that most other faucets are gone or they give almost nothing at all. The best one that I actually know ..is freebitco.in and it only gives "dust". (something like 50 satoshi)