[ANN] Paytoshi: Micropayments & Faucets

[limonka78]

Why not reach paid? You specify tranzactii - but the money did not reach main wallet(((

Do you see this text? If yes just wait 48 hours.
"You are eligible for payment: your balance is above the withdraw threshold.
In 24/48 hours your satoshis will be transferred automatically to your address."

That is, if they are already automatically taken - still have to wait 48 hours? after all, the conclusion was but there was no parish

[krishnapramod]

Parish...new term for me...will add in my vocabulary...every micropayment system has a window period of 48 hours...minimum threshold reached = payment withing 48 hours...automatically taken?

@Holdaaja, 10 claims were made with the same IP within 10 minutes...Paytoshi does have a weak anti-bot system...hope the admin will add some new features

[Holdaaja]

@Holdaaja, 10 claims were made with the same IP within 10 minutes...Paytoshi does have a weak anti-bot system...hope the admin will add some new features

Way more than 10, just couldn't fit them all in one screenshot.

[krishnapramod]

@Holdaaja, 10 claims were made with the same IP within 10 minutes...Paytoshi does have a weak anti-bot system...hope the admin will add some new features

Way more than 10, just couldn't fit them all in one screenshot.

Bots are damn irritating...taking all the satoshis from the users who deserve it...the advantage of paytoshi is no fee for admin, but if you have a paytoshi faucet with high rewards then be prepared to get raped from bots..recaptcha and solvemedia are cakewalk for bots...I have nil knowledge about PHP, twig, and coding...I am sure if admin and  members like minfrij could put some effort into anti-bot system for paytoshi then it would be one of the best micropayment systems.

[Paytoshi]

It is impossible to keep faucet because this happens every time you fill your balance...

Hello Holdaaja,

actually these are web requests and we can imagine that your faucet (as every faucet) is swamped with them due to bots trying to get rewards.
However, there's no guarantee that these requests generate real micropayments (ip check, captcha, time limit, ....).

Can you please tell us if you are behind a proxy?

Thank you,
Cheers

They sure did generate real micropayments, they emptied my faucet balance completely.
I am not using proxy.

Here you can see the claims are successful (time is same, just different timezone):

Hello Holdaaja,

this is rather strange, we have no other report of this kind of activity. We will investigate your issue.

[Paytoshi]

We just released a version 11 of our faucet script.

This release adds:

• Cloudflare support out of the box
• Fix for connection-starving or non closing properly (due to a Buzz issue)
• Better ip checking for user hiding behind proxies
• Support for future API error codes
• First script tests and code coverage (dev only)

We want to thank our customers for the significant feedback we are receiving.

About the error codes update, expect news by the end of the week.

Cheers

[Paytoshi]

Morning news: just updated our frontend and core backend.

The main addition are the API error codes, as requested by toecutter.
We improved the API docs and published the entire error code table.
Developers interested in using our API are advised to use the provided error code to build (and possibly translate) their own error messages.  

Updates to the error list will be notified on that page and on this forum thread.

Thank you once again for the great feedback,
Cheers

[Paytoshi]

Just released a quick fix of our faucet script aiming at compatibility with PHP 5.3.

If you experience this kind of error

Argument 4 passed to Looptribe\Paytoshi\Service\Ip\IpService::__construct() must be an array, null given, called in PATH_TO/src/Looptribe/Paytoshi/App.php on line 180 and defined

please update to the latest version (v12).

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Thank you,
Cheers

[toecutter]

Morning news: just updated our frontend and core backend.

The main addition are the API error codes, as requested by toecutter.
We improved the API docs and published the entire error code table.
Developers interested in using our API are advised to use the provided error code to build (and possibly translate) their own error messages.  ;)

Updates to the error list will be notified on that page and on this forum thread.

Thank you once again for the great feedback,
Cheers

Paytoshi, thank you very much! With that, we've finally implemented Paytoshi payouts.

I have a minor suggestion/question regarding the wallet check page. Currently, to see your wallet, you have to POST a form, which means we can't create convenient URLs for our users (i.e. "payment sent to your _paytoshi.org/check?w=BTCWALLETADDRESS_ address"). Is that by design, or do you think you could add something like that in the future? Would be very nice :)

(Oh, and maybe something like that already exists and I missed it? Sorry, if that's the case)

[Coin888]

Hi Admin

I'm Lucas from the Coin888.com. I checked your site for contacting you this was the only way.
I just contacting you today to request for adding my site to your faucet.
There are many new features and services available on my website.
I would like to collaborate with you and I thought together we are going to achieve a lot of success in our activities.
Please let me know if additional information is needed or if I can answer any questions.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thank you,
Kind regards
Lucas

[netplus]

thank you  because you have deleted faucet adul ads
users not like faucet with adult ads

thank you admin

[KnightTrader]

Hi Admin

I'm Lucas from the Coin888.com. I checked your site for contacting you this was the only way.
I just contacting you today to request for adding my site to your faucet.
There are many new features and services available on my website.
I would like to collaborate with you and I thought together we are going to achieve a lot of success in our activities.
Please let me know if additional information is needed or if I can answer any questions.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thank you,
Kind regards
Lucas

That would be huge boost for Paytoshi. Paytoshi is already growing like mad, impressions on my faucet on them have increased over 300% last week and I think those are not bots, or not at least aggressive bots.

[Paytoshi]

Paytoshi, thank you very much! With that, we've finally implemented Paytoshi payouts.

I have a minor suggestion/question regarding the wallet check page. Currently, to see your wallet, you have to POST a form, which means we can't create convenient URLs for our users (i.e. "payment sent to your _paytoshi.org/check?w=BTCWALLETADDRESS_ address"). Is that by design, or do you think you could add something like that in the future? Would be very nice

(Oh, and maybe something like that already exists and I missed it? Sorry, if that's the case)

Hello toecutter,

does the URL https://paytoshi.org/_ADDRESS_/balance suits your needs?

Thank you,
Cheers

[Paytoshi]

Hi Admin

I'm Lucas from the Coin888.com. I checked your site for contacting you this was the only way.
I just contacting you today to request for adding my site to your faucet.
There are many new features and services available on my website.
I would like to collaborate with you and I thought together we are going to achieve a lot of success in our activities.
Please let me know if additional information is needed or if I can answer any questions.

I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thank you,
Kind regards
Lucas

Hello Lucas,

thanks for contacting us.

What do you mean with adding your site to the faucet?
What do you have in mind in terms of collaboration?

If you wish you can contact us in private too.
Looking forward to hear from you.

Thank you,
Cheers

[Paytoshi]

thank you  because you have deleted faucet adul ads
users not like faucet with adult ads

thank you admin

Hello netplus,
we are happy for it... but we never actually deleted any faucet or ads.

It may just be that a faucet owner changed it.

By the way we have a report feature on our todolist but in the meanwhile if you think a faucet is abusing the trust of the users, please report it here.

Thank you,
Cheers

[Paytoshi]

That would be huge boost for Paytoshi. Paytoshi is already growing like mad, impressions on my faucet on them have increased over 300% last week and I think those are not bots, or not at least aggressive bots.

Hello KnightTrader,

we are very happy to hear that.

Of course we noticed the increase in popularity and transaction, buy hearing first-hand by a faucet owner is always nice 

Thank you,
Cheers

[toecutter]

Paytoshi, thank you very much! With that, we've finally implemented Paytoshi payouts.

I have a minor suggestion/question regarding the wallet check page. Currently, to see your wallet, you have to POST a form, which means we can't create convenient URLs for our users (i.e. "payment sent to your _paytoshi.org/check?w=BTCWALLETADDRESS_ address"). Is that by design, or do you think you could add something like that in the future? Would be very nice

(Oh, and maybe something like that already exists and I missed it? Sorry, if that's the case)

Hello toecutter,

does the URL https://paytoshi.org/_ADDRESS_/balance suits your needs?

Thank you,
Cheers

Oh, absolutely! I guess I missed it after all. Thanks again!

[Paytoshi]

One Year with Paytoshi

As always Year-end is a time to look back at the past and make new plans for the future.

We had quite a busy year here at Paytoshi since last December, when we launched with only 3 active faucets.
Since then we handled more than 11 millions micropayments from almost 400 active faucets.
That resulted in ~40BTC paid to over 160k users.

During this time the building blocks of our service changed quite a lot. Here is a quick recap for you:

• Core backend infrastructure: enhanced security, maintenability, hardening and high test-coverage (May-Sep.)
• Frontend website: redesigned and simplified based on user feedbacks (Aug-Oct).
• Faucet script: many new features and many many fixes. It's still open-sourced.
• Support: we handled over 300 support requests, in addition to this forum thread and social channels, achieving a response rate of 99%.
• Performance: greatly improved speed and tuned to reduce timeouts.
• Api: balance api added.
• Security: we had a major security hole in the faucet script, in February, that was closed in 24hrs with NO loss of funds.
  In addition, our latest updates (better captchas, cloudflare support and improved proxy detection) should greatly lessen the impact of bots.

We have lots of exciting ideas for the future that we would like to launch one step at a time.

Our next milestone will focus on faucets and faucet list.
We are working hard at a new faucet script (based on Silex), to give our faucet owners a more modern, trusted, fully tested platform.
At the same time, we want to benefit our faucet users by improving the quality of our faucet list.
We plan to enhance the ranking algorithm and allow users to vote and report.

We really look forward to have another year this exciting.
In the meantime, thanks to all our customers, for the trust and feedback.

Thank you,
Cheers

Paytoshi Staff

[toecutter]

Our programmer sent you some patches over github. Feel free to ignore, but we hope it'll be useful to you. Thanks for great service and good luck in the new year.

[Paytoshi]

Our programmer sent you some patches over github. Feel free to ignore, but we hope it'll be useful to you. Thanks for great service and good luck in the new year.

Hello toecutter,

thanks for your contribution. We merged your pull request in our library codebase.

By the way we are changing the library quite a bit to avoid duplicate code in it and the faucet script.

Keep in touch 

Thank you,
Cheers