Can Faucets make a difference? - Pay it forward!

[Kprawn]

Can someone tell us, what % of people who use faucets for the first time, continue doing it? {Repeat customers}

It does not mean, if you have 1 million registered users, that all 1 million of them are active users.

So my calculation, will be a bit flawed. {I made provision for less active users} but I do not know, how big this percentage is.

Even if only 500 000 are active, it will still make a difference. 

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[FeelTheBeat]

I will do faucets if BTC will go to charity.

[Tammy Chan]

I think it is a great idea.
For example, Moon Bitcoin (https://blockchain.info/address/12Zdr4CqdaLCngZJgLWVLYbuWNc2NNKKk5) has paid out over 9.5 bitcoin last week and 5% of that would be almost 0.5 btc, and it is just the money for a week.

[catena5260]

Just use any best way to get money and send whatever % you want to charity.

I see many charity faucets sending the charity funds to themselvel only

[Kprawn]

Nope, you support the sites with transparent payouts.

Let's say your charity has a website, you ask them to display their Bitcoin donation address on the site, for all to see.

There will be people who misuse this, but it would hurt their reputation if they get exposed.

The sites with legitimate payouts to charities would get the most exposure and free advertizing to their sites.    

The idea is to crowd fund these donations, with very small % going to charity from lots of people, who cannot afford to make big donations to charities.

[Kakmakr]

^Whoa^ Great idea!!!

Let's hope more people see the bigger picture ^Sniff^ and the impact of this.
Good luck, and I hope to see LOTS of faucets donating soon!!! ^Smile^

I support anything to help children and animals ^Wide smile^

[misterpressman]

I think it is.. Many also make their living form faucets alone.

[cubanos]

Not make a difference. Maybe it can fill a difference. 

[Kprawn]

Not sure if there are a difference, in what you saying, but it's +1 for you 

For the people who wants to donate directly to charity, and not through faucets, it would be a added bonus. Why? - Well to show proof that the money will be going to charity, the faucet owner would be posting a link to the charity of their choice. So the faucet owners would give free exposure on their site, to these charities, by doing this.

Some people want to donate, or rather can donate, but do not have the time to search for donation information. So in doing this, faucet owners will be rendering another service, without even donating themselves. {Providing information to their favorite charity on their site}

Let's just do this and Pay it forward. {You still get 95% of every faucet payout and you give 5% towards charity} 

[omnidoge]

Depends on your target. If you just want accumulated btcs from faucets then its ok.

[Kprawn]

What target?

The objective and goal is clear.

1. Find faucet owners, who are passionate about making a change in this world, and who would be willing to change their faucet to accomodate this idea
2. Make changes to existing faucet software, to add a "charity" feature for people who would be starting a new faucet, and might want this feature.

I am already in communication with a few faucet owners, who want to do this.

Let's hope, some more people see this vision and want to support this.

[Kprawn]

I had received the best news, ever!!!!!

If this happens, LOADS of people/animals will be helped soon!

I have received the following reply, from FreeBitcoin / FreeDogecoin Support


On 7 November 2014 07:01, <#########> wrote:
Today at 1:47 PM
 
To Kprawn

Hi

That sounds like a great idea. I shall try to implement something within two weeks across both websites.
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Thank you VERY much for your reply, and may many more faucet owners help people and animals before Xmas 2014 !!!!

[silvestar]

^ That is cool. If freebitco.in is willing to add such feature, I could see other big faucet sites following up to get a good impression from their users.

[Kprawn]

Yes, they are one of the most successful faucets out there.

The fact that they seeing the potential in this, shows why they are so successful.

It would be great to see several faucets doing this and each of them, supporting different charities.

1. Helping with Poverty
2. Protection and care of animals {Rhino projects / SPCA}
3. Protection and care of children and Elderly people
4. Helping with Cancer and other research on other sickness

....And much more.

When new people are introduced to Crypto currencies, like Bitcoin, they mostly associate it, with something negative. {Silkroad / Hacking / MtGox}

Now is the time to change this and give them something good to talk about. Example { Bitcoin faucet's gave $100 000 towards protective clothing to prevent the spreading of the Ebola virus, and enabled 300 doctors from the organization ..Doctors without Borders to work with Ebola sufferers and saved several peoples lives.}

Would that not be GREAT?

What was the result of doing this?

1. Good publicity for the whole "Crypto currency" community.
2. More people become aware of faucets
3. Faucet owners support charities of their choice
4. The concept of Crowd funding with VERY small contributions from MANY people around the world, is proven.

Best of ALL ---> Everyone made a difference in someones live!!! with very little effort or expense to themselves.    

[DhaniBoy]

I think it is a good idea and very profitable bitcoin hunters, but it is very difficult for owners faucet, because they have to set aside at the beginning bitcoin once, while the cost of the ads on their website has not been paid, the payment to my advice bitcoin hunters through the faucet should be equated with the person who put the ads on the website ... 

[Kprawn]

The faucet owner do not have to put aside ANY bitcoins for this.

The 5% comes from every time a member of the faucet use the faucet. So when they use it, 5% is already subtracted and moved to a single address for charity.

NO funding for this comes from the faucet owners share of the profit, because he/she would not have had that, from the start. {Faucet users gets 5% less}

All these payouts then accumalate in the charity address and when there is enough, the faucet owner, pay it out to the charity address. {This will be shown as proof on the blockchain}

You also know, all payments done to charity or a percentage of that, can be written off in most countries towards the TAX they have to pay. {So this might be a added bonus, if the faucet owner is registered for TAX in his/her country} 

Everything else is done the same. 

If you are passionate about a charity and you have a Bitcoin address for them, please post it here, with a screen capture, where they have posted it online on a website.

In doing this, we can make it easier for faucet owners to incorporate charities into the implementation of this idea. {They can possibly rotate charities to give more than one charity a chance to benefit from this}

Hope I cleared up most of the issues, you might have with this. 

[Kprawn]

Here is a list, if you need some assistance, ask the OP in that thread :

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=758674.0

* Thanks @allgoodthings1

[Vortex20000]

I had received the best news, ever!!!!!

If this happens, LOADS of people/animals will be helped soon!

I have received the following reply, from FreeBitcoin / FreeDogecoin Support


On 7 November 2014 07:01, <#########> wrote:
Today at 1:47 PM
 
To Kprawn

Hi

That sounds like a great idea. I shall try to implement something within two weeks across both websites.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thank you VERY much for your reply, and may many more faucet owners help people and animals before Xmas 2014 !!!!

You know you could have just PMed waterpile here

[Kprawn]

Another cool take on this :

The faucet owner choose 2{two} charities and give the members a dropdown menu to choose which charity, they want to support.

Then you have a battle, between, for example the group supporting Cancer and the group supporting the SPCA {Animals}

This will have several advantages for the faucet owners :

1. More people will visit their site, to support a charity.
2. Less active users might, use the faucet more, and this will also increase traffic to the site.
3. It makes a faucet more fun, and worth doing. 

And we all know, more traffic to your site, bring more advertizers.

The advantage for the members of the faucet :

1. More exposure mean, more refferals and more refferals, mean more income for the users
2. It makes it's easier to market a faucet to someone. {You tell them it's for charity, and they still get 95% of the payouts}
 

[Cryptlexity]

This seems like a really neat idea, maybe I'll take the weekend to whip up something on my vps. Does anyone know any open source faucet for me to use a base to save some time?