Can Faucets make a difference? - Pay it forward!

[Kprawn]

I have discussed this on another forum and would like it if someone could incorporate this option in their faucet.

Use your faucet to make a difference

Why not incorporate something good within a faucet. {This can be anything - Poverty elleviation / Animal cruelty .....}

You use these faucets to help someone else. { A small portion of your income goes towards a good cause, say 5% of each withdraw }

This can be voluntary or compulsory, you choose, when you setup your profile/faucet. {Take away only 5% from the referral commissions towards this}

Give the users a drop down menu to choose to which charity/cause they want to donate too.

Many people do not use faucets, because it's a waste of time, BUT if you know a small portion of that time/income goes towards something good, you might consider using it.  

So we crowdfunding donations to good causes, using faucets.

Freebitco.in  
28 Oct 2014
WON BY USERS
2,355.24829985 BTC {5% of this is +/- 117 Bitcoins}

*Imagine if 5% of that was paid out to some good cause? { 117 Bitcoins can make a difference }
* I can already see this in the press - Bitcoin faucet donated $50 000 towards SPCA {Insert your charity or cause here}

Pay it forward
 
My goals for this is ambitious, but I have learned, the small things make a huge difference, when a lot of people are doing it.  

Edit : Removed the site link, because some people might think, I want to promote something and I don't ..just posted it, because I created the idea there first, and it had a lot more information and meat. Hope everyone is satisfied.

[jennifer21]

Are you in any way connected with bitbiz?

[Kprawn]

I registered on the site as a member and then I volunteered as a moderator.

Site link in first post was removed to preserve this thread. It was only posted to give more detail about the idea.

If you want to know something about the site, it would be best to ask, in their signature campaign, where both Btctalk and BitBiz is being promoted.

Let's keep this thread for the idea and question I posted here.

I am a faucet newbie, when it comes to faucet scripts and I do not know, if it would be possible to implement something like this.

[El Emperador]

It would be a very good idea and I agree!
How are you moving to make this possible? Are you starting a petition?

[Kprawn]

Well, I posted it on two forums and busy with Bitcoin websites and Reddit. 

My vision for this, is to make this idea public for faucet owners to read and possibly implement it.

Some of them are paying referral commissions of 50% and more and with some slight changes, they could redirect only 5% towards the "fund" for their favorite charity or cause.

I would like someone to take this and run with it. {Create one of those graphics with a thermostat showing the progress towards their donation goal and then paying it over, showing proof on the blockchain}

People would actually use it more, if they see the progress going up for a big donation. {They might feel as if they are part of doing this BIG donation}

Some people cannot donate and will feel good about doing this, with what limited funds they have.

They might even implement more than one on each faucet and people can choose what charity/cause they want to support. {You will get some people competing to see who's charity will pay out first}

It's kind of impossible to reach faucet owners, so this is the only way I can reach them.   
   

[jarvanIV]

wait is this a site you already made? like a new faucet.. cause theres so much out there.

[Fenriswolf]

Hey Kprawn!

I would certainly use that faucet to support it, even if the payment would be lower than the average most used faucets.

Please update if it comes to reality. Unfortunately i'm not a faucet owner

[yeponlyone]

You or even we could all contact freebitco.in and make them donate to sean's maybe?

[Kprawn]

I have no knowledge on doing a faucet with this feature.

I was hoping people, who own faucets, and feel pasionate about some cause/charity would think about implementing it.

If you have a way to get hold of faucet owners, please send them a link to this thread or ask them to comment here, on the feasability of doing this.

I only know one faucet owner, and I am in the process of talking to him, to be the first to Pay it forward.

I can already see this. "Bitcoin faucet paid for 2 wheelchairs for elderly couple"  

 

[Mccoy818]

You or even we could all contact freebitco.in and make them donate to sean's maybe?

Hey man? Ive heard that freebitco.in is scam? Is there truth in it?

[tanaka]

Depends on the faucet you are using.

[Kprawn]

You or even we could all contact freebitco.in and make them donate to sean's maybe?

Hey man? Ive heard that freebitco.in is scam? Is there truth in it?

No they not, I get my "small change" every week, from the faucet and the referrals.

The are one of the oldest and more stable faucets around, and in my opinion the best faucet to adopt this idea.

Only thing is, I do not know how to get hold of them, to share my ideas.

I guess most people are not into making a difference, but more into making money. The crazy thing is, this will make them even more money, and they do not even have to sacrifice any income now. {Just offer the option to current members and set a parameter for new users, to donate 5% towards the charity, they support}

[Etanllah]

This is certainly a good idea, plus it could help to get BTC some good publicity!

[FeelTheBeat]

There are happening scams daily when bitcoin is connected, so yes, that will make bitcoin more friendly to people and they won't be so afraid of something new.

[bitkilo]

If you were using the faucet that Gavin used to run then it would have made a difference.

[ligeros]

I know one faucet that donate some money for feeding zebra:)

 Just joking. Your idea is interesting.

[ARadzi]

Nice idea. Why not try this concept on gambling sites too? I know of a gambling site that players feed a "rainbot". It would be best if they can feed a "charitybot" too.

[Kprawn]

There are limitless opportunities to make a difference.

One of the biggest Bitcoin businesses at the moment is, Gambling.

It would be great to get them in on this idea, and to see thousands of dollars going towards charities and good causes. They too have refferal bonuses and deposit bonuses.

For them to sacrifice as little as 5% towards this, would certainly help, but I doubt it.

My focus with this idea, would be to crowd-fund this through faucets. FREEBITCOIN has 903,572 registered users. {Let's say only 500 000 is active users}

Let's look at the numbers { 5% of 500 Satoshi = 25 Satoshi per hour x 500 000 = 12,500000 Satoshi --> +/- $50 US per hour! } <--- This is from 1 faucet and only 1 hour

If All 500 000 users, used it 5 times per day --> 12,500000 Satoshi x 5 = 0.625 BTC per day {+/- $250 US per day} x 7 = $ 1750 US per week x 4 = $ 7000 US per month

Now tell me, If one faucet can donate $ 7000 per month (5%} towards a charity or a good cause, what would happen, if say 300 faucets was doing this?

Small things, can make a huge difference. Pay it forward

Disclaimer : I used conservative estimates, based on guessed numbers. The faucet owners could give us better numbers to work with.

[mnporter2001]

Ok as a faucet owner I feel compelled to answer this thread.

Now whilst I think your idea is a noble one and something I am happy to get involved in your logic is flawed somewhat.

Us faucet owners DONT earn BTC we give it away, our revenue comes from advertising fee's and any other way we can think off to raise money to cover our out goings and then make a bit for us aswell.

90% of faucets use the MW script which has the referral system built in but I fail to see how you can utilise that to save a pot for charity.

What all us faucet owners do have in common that can help is a HUGE amount of BTC type traffic now your better off in my opinion abusing that in some way, but against you there, is the fact that if someone is clicking away on a faucet they clearly don't have much in the way BTC

[Kprawn]

Thank you for your reply, your inputs here are appreciated.

I have received some inputs from other faucet owners and they think this might work.

We are also busy on another forum, where we have excellent programmers, who will be changing some code to accommodate this feature. 

They will also post the final product on GitHub for other future faucet owners to use.

5% of the payouts will not make a significant difference to the income for the faucet users. Most of the faucet owners are already giving a percentage of the income to a down-line referral network for each user. {If they only took 5% of that referral bonus, and deposited it towards a charity pot, as you stated, it would make this work}

We have lots of talented people on this forum, who could brainstorm this idea.

Faucet owners, will benefit twice from this :

1. Faucets in general will get good publicity and good publicity bring more users and more users bring more advertizing income.
2. Faucet owners can support charities or good causes of their choice

We can make this work, and we can make a difference.