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June 27, 2014, 05:06:33 PM
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So was anyone around at the start here, I just have been doing this for the last 7-8 months or so, has been great fun for me!

My question is how did faucets used to work?  I know know you roughly get between 30-50 satoshis per half hour at most sites...etc.

I would like to know if at one point .01BTC were given out for faucets, or were they always like that?

Any stories where someone got a lot of BTC early in the game just from faucets?

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June 27, 2014, 05:13:55 PM
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Back in the 10,000 BTC pizza days the faucets would give 1 or more bitcoins at least... good times
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June 27, 2014, 05:37:52 PM
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Back in the 10,000 BTC pizza days the faucets would give 1 or more bitcoins at least... good times
Man, that's crazy. Wish I'd been around back then...

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June 27, 2014, 05:40:36 PM
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Back in the 10,000 BTC pizza days the faucets would give 1 or more bitcoins at least... good times

So how often could you claim those faucets?  I mean could you seriously get like 10-20 BTC per day from this??
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June 27, 2014, 10:15:54 PM
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not that much as i recall

Back in the 10,000 BTC pizza days the faucets would give 1 or more bitcoins at least... good times

So how often could you claim those faucets?  I mean could you seriously get like 10-20 BTC per day from this??

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June 28, 2014, 12:22:40 AM
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Unfortunately I wasn't around at that time but I can recall reading somewhere that Gavin himself had a faucet giving away whole BTC's.

Maybe someone can confirm this?
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June 28, 2014, 01:41:18 AM
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There was Gavins Faucet back in the day
Before I was around but it made me a bit jealous
http://www.likelyanswer.com/328211/The-Story-Of-Gavin-Andresen-Bitcoin-Faucet-And-Clearcoin-Meet-The-Trader
Hmm noted that most were down
So just says Gavin created one that gave a full BTC back then
Around 2013 it was 0.00005 on average early in that year 0.0001

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June 28, 2014, 06:15:36 AM
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a pizza that worths 5970000 lol, you better get some serious toppings and premium grade crust with that.
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June 28, 2014, 08:10:11 PM
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Back in the 10,000 BTC pizza days the faucets would give 1 or more bitcoins at least... good times
This was when the purpose of faucets was to help get people interested in bitcoin. Today the motive behind running a faucet is purely profit.

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June 28, 2014, 08:22:23 PM
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There was Gavins Faucet back in the day
Before I was around but it made me a bit jealous
http://www.likelyanswer.com/328211/The-Story-Of-Gavin-Andresen-Bitcoin-Faucet-And-Clearcoin-Meet-The-Trader
Hmm noted that most were down
So just says Gavin created one that gave a full BTC back then
Around 2013 it was 0.00005 on average early in that year 0.0001

Gavin's faucet gave ฿5 away at a time. If was for educational purposes and you could put them back when you were done.

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June 28, 2014, 08:26:39 PM
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Any stories where someone got a lot of BTC early in the game just from faucets?

It was 5 BTC when I first used it. I moved the funds to a mybitcoin.com wallet. They were lost forever.

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June 28, 2014, 08:34:08 PM
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Are you serious? One whole bitcoin faucet? Considering you could mine 50 btc every 10 minutes using a cpu, 1 btc is not that much. I wish I knew about bitcoin earlier, it is not too late now I suppose.
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June 28, 2014, 08:44:01 PM
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Are you serious? One whole bitcoin faucet? Considering you could mine 50 btc every 10 minutes using a cpu, 1 btc is not that much. I wish I knew about bitcoin earlier, it is not too late now I suppose.
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June 28, 2014, 09:42:11 PM
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Back in the 10,000 BTC pizza days the faucets would give 1 or more bitcoins at least... good times

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June 28, 2014, 11:40:18 PM
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Back in the 10,000 BTC pizza days the faucets would give 1 or more bitcoins at least... good times
This was when the purpose of faucets was to help get people interested in bitcoin. Today the motive behind running a faucet is purely profit.
Exactly. Now people giving their friends bitcoins have essentially replace the Andresen style faucets. It's not about the amount of money...it's about giving people a reason to care and to go through the process of learning about Bitcoin, establishing a wallet, getting a means of purchasing & selling ฿, etc.

That said, what motivated me to do all that was far less than what I have to give away to get friends interested.

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