My view on faucets and earning bitcoins in general

[Barnabe]

Hello everybody !
In this post I'll talk about ways to earn bitcoin (or satochis   )

I know bitcoins since 2010 and I have mined a bit at the time, but I still made some faucets and Paid-to-Click.
Now at the time, I think faucets were a bit more generous.
In my opinion, the main difference between today and a few years ago is that before faucets were maintained by generous people trying to get community (or newbies) involved in Bitcoin world.
Now faucets are a new business, there is no more donations to faucets, because their main motivation is profit. Maybe that was also caused my faucet's members who abused the system (with bots and/or botnets). Well at the end, faucets give now a much little reward.

A few weeks ago, my wallet was hacked, and someone stole the coins I made mining. I lost some money in the process, but I got what I deserved, I should have secured them better.

So I am now back in the start.

I tried to make some money with faucets, but most of them are useless, they have pages loaded with ads and have an anoying difficult captcha (I have to try 2 or even 3 times sometimes).

So I looked for other methods, but as you know there is no miracle. All ways are tough and annoying, but I managed to make a few mBTC in a few days without much work (but it required many time   )

The only sites I think are worth my time are :

• http://freebitco.in/                                                                 or http://freebitco.in/ without the referal link
• http://bitcoinker.com/faucet
• http://faucet.bitcoinzebra.com/                                     or http://faucet.bitcoinzebra.com without the referal link

• https://coinad.com/                                                or https://coinad.com  without the referal link
• http://www.bitcoinget.com       or http://www.bitcoinget.com/ without the referal link

The last one is the most important in my opinion, this site offers the possibility to do some tasks and they pay you for each task you do. It's boring and repetitive, but you can make much more doing this than going to every faucet and type captchas.

Faucets gives a average of 100 satoshis that is a fraction of a cent (0.0007$) and requires an average of 1 minute.
By doing tasks I make 5000 satochis for 3-4 minutes that is 1250 per minute. So it's 12 times more profitable.
I still do the faucets I listed for fun, but I don't expect (or earn) anything significant with it.

Don't lose your time !


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[oureptsC]

Personally I would never do faucets because the money you get from them are not worth the time in any way, at least in my country because in some countries few dollars are a lot. In my opinion faucets should be none - profit organizations just to help newbies and beginenrs to get into bitcoin because most of the people wouldn't invest in to It before they haven't tried It and when you have a free chance to try It more likely you'll buy some bitcoins In the future. I saw several threads about faucets for money but I don't understand how people could do faucets to earn money. But like I said probably only newbies do faucets to try bitcoin so that is the way It should be but even for newbies It's hard to get little amount of bitcoins from faucets so they should be none - profit in my opinion because those faucets don't earn a lot anyway.

[Barnabe]

At the beginning they were a bit like non profit organisation, but now they are a normal business.

[nickenburg]

Yes at the start of a coin the faucet's give out alot of coins to the people.
I've heard the bitcoins faucet gave 5 bitcoins away, at the start of the faucet?
I also started doing faucets at the start when I returned to bitcoin.
But I quiclkly saw, those would get you no where.
They are paying much less then minimum wages.
You're better off mining some altcoins, or starting in a signature campaign! 

[BitCoinDream]

You may like to check the thread in this regard. It lists out Free Faucets with Payment proof

[odolvlobo]

Faucets are a waste of time. You can only "earn" a few cents per day.

[BigMac]

but I don't expect (or earn) anything significant with it.

Very true.

For earning significant amount, you may sell goods or services and join sig ad program when you get to member status.

[BTCGiftcards]

Faucets are always empty or give nothing...

[Dxuz]

Faucets are always empty or give nothing...

maybe you always found a faucet that has been dried up 

[Barnabe]

Yeah there are a lot dried up these days.
I suppose their owners just don't care. They made the faucet's setup and then just waited for ad's money.

The worst part is that they probably have more profit if they just let the dry faucet online.

[CoinLearn]

Yeah there are a lot dried up these days.
I suppose their owners just don't care. They made the faucet's setup and then just waited for ad's money.

The worst part is that they probably have more profit if they just let the dry faucet online.

Not really... ad money does not come when there is no visitor on site. When the faucets first came into existence, those used to distribute CPU mined coins so that people use it and thereby increase the value of faucet owner's coins. But the scenario is no more the same now. Common fauces with a page load of ads are not giving any value to the advertiser. Those who are adding some value to their faucets except for just spreading coins will stay in the game for the long run...

[Barnabe]

Even a dryed faucet has visitors, I don't count the number of times I entered a captcha and the site told me after that there is no Bitcoins available.

[BitCoinDream]

Even a dryed faucet has visitors, I don't count the number of times I entered a captcha and the site told me after that there is no Bitcoins available.

So, will u go back to that faucet again ? No right !!! ....that makes their ad revenue to decline and ultimately they vanish...

[lyth0s]

If you guys are looking to make some free satoshi's check out this forum post here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=639353.0

I just created a forum in regards to bitcoin and gaming and EACH post, thread and reply is worth 2,000 Satoshi's. Payments are made after you collect 100,000 Satoshi's.

http://forums.geekcipher.com/showthread.php?tid=2&pid=6

Enjoy 

[mediogreFIN]

I did faucets for 3 months daily.. that way i got smtng like 0.01 btc and with that "earning" i played a bit with altcurrencyexchanges..

Some people do faucets to get "free money" so they can play with ponzies with no risk (except losing some minutes wasting life)

Now i'm having break from faucets but i still have some pages bookmarked.. I didn't market much but i got some referals.. maybe i'll gear it up a bit when i start being active about them.. because i know some dudes that have like 50 referals and they actually earn something daily

Now i focus on something that is now worth my time.. when that is done i have more time for faucets (next project seems to be more leanback)

[Este Nuno]

I remember when Gavin ran his fauset and gave out a reasonable amount of bitcoin. People did abuse it, but I can say for myself that it was the first btc I ever had.

If I were you I wouldn't hold my breath expecting modern faucets to ever come close to the generosity of the older ones. Like you said, they're just a business now like any other.

[roslinpl]

Hello everybody !
In this post I'll talk about ways to earn bitcoin (or satochis   )

I know bitcoins since 2010 and I have mined a bit at the time, but I still made some faucets and Paid-to-Click.
Now at the time, I think faucets were a bit more generous.
In my opinion, the main difference between today and a few years ago is that before faucets were maintained by generous people trying to get community (or newbies) involved in Bitcoin world.
Now faucets are a new business, there is no more donations to faucets, because their main motivation is profit. Maybe that was also caused my faucet's members who abused the system (with bots and/or botnets). Well at the end, faucets give now a much little reward.

A few weeks ago, my wallet was hacked, and someone stole the coins I made mining. I lost some money in the process, but I got what I deserved, I should have secured them better.

So I am now back in the start.

I tried to make some money with faucets, but most of them are useless, they have pages loaded with ads and have an anoying difficult captcha (I have to try 2 or even 3 times sometimes).

So I looked for other methods, but as you know there is no miracle. All ways are tough and annoying, but I managed to make a few mBTC in a few days without much work (but it required many time   )

The only sites I think are worth my time are :

a list

The last one is the most important in my opinion, this site offers the possibility to do some tasks and they pay you for each task you do. It's boring and repetitive, but you can make much more doing this than going to every faucet and type captchas.

Faucets gives a average of 100 satoshis that is a fraction of a cent (0.0007$) and requires an average of 1 minute.
By doing tasks I make 5000 satochis for 3-4 minutes that is 1250 per minute. So it's 12 times more profitable.
I still do the faucets I listed for fun, but I don't expect (or earn) anything significant with it.

Don't lose your time !

MOD NOTE:
Referral portion of links removed[/list]

I don't believe that you "know" bitcoin  from 2010.
You cannot even type "Satoshi" correctly and you are offering a links to some faucets where people can just waste their time if they haven't got thousands or refferals which you are trying to get.

You were mining but you prefer to use some faucets which are giving sh** too.

Interesting

And you told that you were hacked? How come? What was your btc address? Can you tell something more about this case to help other avoid such a nasty situations.


Kind regards.

[Barnabe]

Hello everybody !
In this post I'll talk about ways to earn bitcoin (or satochis   )

I know bitcoins since 2010 and I have mined a bit at the time, but I still made some faucets and Paid-to-Click.
Now at the time, I think faucets were a bit more generous.
In my opinion, the main difference between today and a few years ago is that before faucets were maintained by generous people trying to get community (or newbies) involved in Bitcoin world.
Now faucets are a new business, there is no more donations to faucets, because their main motivation is profit. Maybe that was also caused my faucet's members who abused the system (with bots and/or botnets). Well at the end, faucets give now a much little reward.

A few weeks ago, my wallet was hacked, and someone stole the coins I made mining. I lost some money in the process, but I got what I deserved, I should have secured them better.

So I am now back in the start.

I tried to make some money with faucets, but most of them are useless, they have pages loaded with ads and have an anoying difficult captcha (I have to try 2 or even 3 times sometimes).

So I looked for other methods, but as you know there is no miracle. All ways are tough and annoying, but I managed to make a few mBTC in a few days without much work (but it required many time   )

The only sites I think are worth my time are :

a list

The last one is the most important in my opinion, this site offers the possibility to do some tasks and they pay you for each task you do. It's boring and repetitive, but you can make much more doing this than going to every faucet and type captchas.

Faucets gives a average of 100 satoshis that is a fraction of a cent (0.0007$) and requires an average of 1 minute.
By doing tasks I make 5000 satochis for 3-4 minutes that is 1250 per minute. So it's 12 times more profitable.
I still do the faucets I listed for fun, but I don't expect (or earn) anything significant with it.

Don't lose your time !

MOD NOTE:
Referral portion of links removed[/list]

I don't believe that you "know" bitcoin  from 2010.
You cannot even type "Satoshi" correctly and you are offering a links to some faucets where people can just waste their time if they haven't got thousands or refferals which you are trying to get.

You were mining but you prefer to use some faucets which are giving sh** too.

Interesting

And you told that you were hacked? How come? What was your btc address? Can you tell something more about this case to help other avoid such a nasty situations.


Kind regards.

I feel a bit hate in your posts  
Look at my registration date in this account it says 2010  

I wrote wrong satoshi because I'm french the "Sh" in french is "Ch". When I try to write fast I always make this mistake.

I sent some referal link, but I didn't knew they were forbidden, I apologize for that. But no I think some one can still make at least 0.01 BTC from faucets if the person is very, very (very) patient   .
If like my self you cannot buy BTC this is the only way to make some money.


As I said I used to mine a bit, times were different (lol I'm talking like an old man) GPU mining had just begun, I had a 5850m and I could mine faster than 90% of people and so I did and won some BTC at the time. Now Mining requires massive investment, that's not like the geeky cool thing I did some years ago with my computer, it's a real business and I don't want to be part of it because I know I would lose money (but the idea of having a little blockerrupter for casual use is nice   ). When I did it I needed no investissement at all, now if I want to mine something decent I will have to spend at least 30$ and maybe never see them back.
These are the transactions of my wallet to the thief's wallet
http://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/a/15hJ6jEfbSunJrNk9rNBfEGsKuAgtyFxYF
(transactions 36b82159f601e048de6e90bdd1f3311fdd6a73755ac9e9c2be443cf65b54884d-000 and 998bb410b30aae07572590c234c7464307a825dcf986b08a6e1d038a4c06b745-000 )


About the hack I had an encrypted wallet, which I put in my drop box (this wallet was not up to date this is how I know the thief went to my dropbox account and not my computer). I suppose the thief had access to my dropbox took the wallet and bruteforced it. The password was 8 characters, I guess it's not enough...


Anyway I have no way to prove it

Just be careful

[BitCoinDream]

Hello everybody !
In this post I'll talk about ways to earn bitcoin (or satochis   )

I know bitcoins since 2010 and I have mined a bit at the time, but I still made some faucets and Paid-to-Click.
Now at the time, I think faucets were a bit more generous.
In my opinion, the main difference between today and a few years ago is that before faucets were maintained by generous people trying to get community (or newbies) involved in Bitcoin world.
Now faucets are a new business, there is no more donations to faucets, because their main motivation is profit. Maybe that was also caused my faucet's members who abused the system (with bots and/or botnets). Well at the end, faucets give now a much little reward.

A few weeks ago, my wallet was hacked, and someone stole the coins I made mining. I lost some money in the process, but I got what I deserved, I should have secured them better.

So I am now back in the start.

I tried to make some money with faucets, but most of them are useless, they have pages loaded with ads and have an anoying difficult captcha (I have to try 2 or even 3 times sometimes).

So I looked for other methods, but as you know there is no miracle. All ways are tough and annoying, but I managed to make a few mBTC in a few days without much work (but it required many time   )

The only sites I think are worth my time are :

a list

The last one is the most important in my opinion, this site offers the possibility to do some tasks and they pay you for each task you do. It's boring and repetitive, but you can make much more doing this than going to every faucet and type captchas.

Faucets gives a average of 100 satoshis that is a fraction of a cent (0.0007$) and requires an average of 1 minute.
By doing tasks I make 5000 satochis for 3-4 minutes that is 1250 per minute. So it's 12 times more profitable.
I still do the faucets I listed for fun, but I don't expect (or earn) anything significant with it.

Don't lose your time !

MOD NOTE:
Referral portion of links removed[/list]

I don't believe that you "know" bitcoin  from 2010.
You cannot even type "Satoshi" correctly and you are offering a links to some faucets where people can just waste their time if they haven't got thousands or refferals which you are trying to get.

You were mining but you prefer to use some faucets which are giving sh** too.

Interesting

And you told that you were hacked? How come? What was your btc address? Can you tell something more about this case to help other avoid such a nasty situations.


Kind regards.

I feel a bit hate in your posts  
Look at my registration date in this account it says 2010  

I wrote wrong satoshi because I'm french the "Sh" in french is "Ch". When I try to write fast I always make this mistake.

I sent some referal link, but I didn't knew they were forbidden, I apologize for that. But no I think some one can still make at least 0.01 BTC from faucets if the person is very, very (very) patient   .
If like my self you cannot buy BTC this is the only way to make some money.


As I said I used to mine a bit, times were different (lol I'm talking like an old man) GPU mining had just begun, I had a 5850m and I could mine faster than 90% of people and so I did and won some BTC at the time. Now Mining requires massive investment, that's not like the geeky cool thing I did some years ago with my computer, it's a real business and I don't want to be part of it because I know I would lose money (but the idea of having a little blockerrupter for casual use is nice   ). When I did it I needed no investissement at all, now if I want to mine something decent I will have to spend at least 30$ and maybe never see them back.
These are the transactions of my wallet to the thief's wallet
http://bitcoinchain.com/block_explorer/a/15hJ6jEfbSunJrNk9rNBfEGsKuAgtyFxYF
(transactions 36b82159f601e048de6e90bdd1f3311fdd6a73755ac9e9c2be443cf65b54884d-000 and 998bb410b30aae07572590c234c7464307a825dcf986b08a6e1d038a4c06b745-000 )


About the hack I had an encrypted wallet, which I put in my drop box (this wallet was not up to date this is how I know the thief went to my dropbox account and not my computer). I suppose the thief had access to my dropbox took the wallet and bruteforced it. The password was 8 characters, I guess it's not enough...


Anyway I have no way to prove it

Just be careful

What is this bitcoinchain.com buddy ? I guess this is the easier link to check => https://www.biteasy.com/blockchain/addresses/15hJ6jEfbSunJrNk9rNBfEGsKuAgtyFxYF

[acs267]

I used to use them, when they gave you .1-.07BTC. Kind of profitable, than. But then I just had to lose most of them in my old wallet.