Help me understand - Who uses Faucets? , and why?

[ranochigo]

wouldn't some people have botnets too to get a little extra bitcoin from faucets? i'm sure some bots would be able to crack capthcas on some of these faucets. i'd imagine they'd make a good amount of bitcoin by running a botnet on bitcoin faucets.

this is a good theory , and something i'd actually belive cause i have a hard time beliving there's people spending countless hours doing the captcha's :>

OCRs have very low accuracy, they take sometime before it solves the captcha. The ads in the browser could cause computers to slow down and become noticeable. Most faucet uses either recaptcha or solvemedia which is close to impossible to solve using OCRs right now. Think about it, if owners knows their captcha can be solve by OCR s, they would likely to change it as repeated viewing would yield less profits.

[MEPHuk]

My point being , there's so many other much more profitable ways to be earning bitcoins can someone explain to me who the people using these are ? and why.

Lots of people dont have the money to invest into btc (ie buying BTC with $). Faucets are a very quick and (imo) excellent way for poor people and noobies to gain some satoshi's, so they can then start trading and, hopefully, earn some really good amounts . I myself still use faucets to this day

MEPH

[ronaldo40]

beginner players, and people who need
and people who are not so good at anything, who always want to get the easiest way

[Kprawn]

Even, if it can be solved... it would not break the bigger faucets. You just implement second tier validation. {Popup with questions} or you increase the time between payouts.

Back to the OP's topic. - People are suckers for anything labelled as FREE. We tested that theory at a market once, and gave out FREE "Lion piss" in bottles. {Obviously it was fake, but it was meant to test a theory} We had 135 bottles and gave away EVERYTHING within the first hour. {We then approached these people and asked them why they took the bottles .... and the majority of them said.... "IT WAS FREE"}

Nobody bothered to ask, how we managed to "farm" the lions piss.  

[steven.G999]

I was a user faucet

[najzenmajsen]

I noticed that it's better than mining for (absolute/lazy n00bs). I still prefer pools.

sure , mining is even a bigger waste unless you have a asiic i guess , but if you can do faucets you can do signature campaigns rite ? :>

[najzenmajsen]

Not exactly as there are good signature campaigns for newbies too and one can make more than they earn in faucets: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=615953.0;topicseen

When you keep posting here, you can achieve the next status soon and then can apply for a better signature campaign.

Yes, but like someone said, newbies are sometimes unable to make constructive posts, and the only way to truly understand bitcoin is to send some around. Newbies make 60 satoshis per post in a signature campaign every 4 minutes. (Due to the time limit, newbies can only post every 4 minutes) While faucets give 100 satoshis or more every 30 seconds. Newbies might make an account here, but they will also go to faucets, as faucets have better pay then their own signature campaign.

Also, in future, quoting someone elses post and editing it looks weird. I look like I'm making a point to myself, lol.

newbie signature campaigns pay out 0.00005 BTC / POST which is , quite alot more than what a faucet pays out

Oh yeah, I misread, my mistake. So 5000 satoshis every 4 minutes. Some newbies find faucets easier though. Not sure why. Then again, if you can somehow get tons of referals at faucets, you can get a decent amount of satoshis.

you'd need a shitton of refeerals

[najzenmajsen]

wouldn't some people have botnets too to get a little extra bitcoin from faucets? i'm sure some bots would be able to crack capthcas on some of these faucets. i'd imagine they'd make a good amount of bitcoin by running a botnet on bitcoin faucets.

this is a good theory , and something i'd actually belive cause i have a hard time beliving there's people spending countless hours doing the captcha's :>

OCRs have very low accuracy, they take sometime before it solves the captcha. The ads in the browser could cause computers to slow down and become noticeable. Most faucet uses either recaptcha or solvemedia which is close to impossible to solve using OCRs right now. Think about it, if owners knows their captcha can be solve by OCR s, they would likely to change it as repeated viewing would yield less profits.

yup , indeed i doubt there's bots solving them which makes it weird that faucet owners profit at all from people using these facuets.

[najzenmajsen]

My point being , there's so many other much more profitable ways to be earning bitcoins can someone explain to me who the people using these are ? and why.

Lots of people dont have the money to invest into btc (ie buying BTC with $). Faucets are a very quick and (imo) excellent way for poor people and noobies to gain some satoshi's, so they can then start trading and, hopefully, earn some really good amounts . I myself still use faucets to this day

MEPH

may i ask why you use faucets? seeing that you're a full member and probably in a decent signature campaign , you'd have to use 10-100 faucets to get the same that you would from ONE post

[najzenmajsen]

beginner players, and people who need
and people who are not so good at anything, who always want to get the easiest way

sure , but if you're capeable of using a faucet you are capeable of joining a signature campaign and get money from it.

[najzenmajsen]

Even, if it can be solved... it would not break the bigger faucets. You just implement second tier validation. {Popup with questions} or you increase the time between payouts.

Back to the OP's topic. - People are suckers for anything labelled as FREE. We tested that theory at a market once, and gave out FREE "Lion piss" in bottles. {Obviously it was fake, but it was meant to test a theory} We had 135 bottles and gave away EVERYTHING within the first hour. {We then approached these people and asked them why they took the bottles .... and the majority of them said.... "IT WAS FREE"}

Nobody bothered to ask, how we managed to "farm" the lions piss.  

you'd be able to sell that bottle of lion piss to a wild farmer for like 10 bucks tho  :>

[najzenmajsen]

I was a user faucet

Tell us more please ?

[Muhammed Zakir]

beginner players, and people who need
and people who are not so good at anything, who always want to get the easiest way

sure , but if you're capeable of using a faucet you are capeable of joining a signature campaign and get money from it.

I disagree. For getting Satoshis from faucets, you just need to know how to type English alphabets. To earn from signature campaigns, you need to know rules of this forum, about English statement and patience to read.

I was a user faucet

Tell us more please ?

He is just telling he used to earn from faucets.

You ought tobe careful, friend! You should quote the posts you are replying to one post instead of making many just to increase the post count and thus to earn more money. You may get a temporary ban(insubstantial posts+signature advertisement).

   -MZ

[najzenmajsen]

beginner players, and people who need
and people who are not so good at anything, who always want to get the easiest way

sure , but if you're capeable of using a faucet you are capeable of joining a signature campaign and get money from it.

I disagree. For getting Satoshis from faucets, you just need to know how to type English alphabets. To earn from signature campaigns, you need to know rules of this forum, about English statement and patience to read.

I was a user faucet

Tell us more please ?

He is just telling he used to earn from faucets.

You ought tobe careful, friend! You should quote the posts you are replying to one post instead of making many just to increase the post count and thus to earn more money. You may get a temporary ban(insubstantial posts+signature advertisement).

   -MZ

i have no idea how to quote many posts at once :l , my posts are manually counted so my sig campaign doesnt have to include all of them if it doesnt want to

[Muhammed Zakir]

i have no idea how to quote many posts at once :l

If you are using 'Quick Reply'^[1], you can click 'quote' as many times you like. If you use normal reply^[2], i.e., when you click quote, you go to a new page with icons and text fields, you click 'Insert Quote'^[3] to insert as many quotes you like.

[1] http://flic.kr/p/ra2cvL
[2] http://flic.kr/p/ra2pRN
[3] http://flic.kr/p/qUJMuY

my posts are manually counted so my sig campaign doesnt have to include all of them if it doesnt want to

But mods don't want to hear 'how payments are calculated' but... as you didn't know 'how to multi-quote', they may not do anything about the posts you made till today.

   -MZ

[ranochigo]

wouldn't some people have botnets too to get a little extra bitcoin from faucets? i'm sure some bots would be able to crack capthcas on some of these faucets. i'd imagine they'd make a good amount of bitcoin by running a botnet on bitcoin faucets.

this is a good theory , and something i'd actually belive cause i have a hard time beliving there's people spending countless hours doing the captcha's :>

OCRs have very low accuracy, they take sometime before it solves the captcha. The ads in the browser could cause computers to slow down and become noticeable. Most faucet uses either recaptcha or solvemedia which is close to impossible to solve using OCRs right now. Think about it, if owners knows their captcha can be solve by OCR s, they would likely to change it as repeated viewing would yield less profits.

yup , indeed i doubt there's bots solving them which makes it weird that faucet owners profit at all from people using these facuets.

Faucet owners profit by users visiting their page and a view would be counted by the advertiser and a portion of money is paid. Faucet owners are more likely to profit by unique view instead of continuous views from same IP.

[MEPHuk]

My point being , there's so many other much more profitable ways to be earning bitcoins can someone explain to me who the people using these are ? and why.

Lots of people dont have the money to invest into btc (ie buying BTC with $). Faucets are a very quick and (imo) excellent way for poor people and noobies to gain some satoshi's, so they can then start trading and, hopefully, earn some really good amounts . I myself still use faucets to this day

MEPH

may i ask why you use faucets? seeing that you're a full member and probably in a decent signature campaign , you'd have to use 10-100 faucets to get the same that you would from ONE post

True, but every little helps, specially when i keep buying damn coins at the high end, then the price falls, lol. Plus, this is only my 2nd week of sig campaign, so i am still new to that.

MEPH

[wakka622]

My point being , there's so many other much more profitable ways to be earning bitcoins can someone explain to me who the people using these are ? and why.

Because it not cost like mining or to pay anything, just need vps (cheap) buy script. Ez but earn not much then another ways

[Banjiro]

My point being , there's so many other much more profitable ways to be earning bitcoins can someone explain to me who the people using these are ? and why.

Because it not cost like mining or to pay anything, just need vps (cheap) buy script. Ez but earn not much then another ways

can you explain more about script how it work and where to buy script and rent vps?

[najzenmajsen]

i have no idea how to quote many posts at once :l

If you are using 'Quick Reply'^[1], you can click 'quote' as many times you like. If you use normal reply^[2], i.e., when you click quote, you go to a new page with icons and text fields, you click 'Insert Quote'^[3] to insert as many quotes you like.

[1] http://flic.kr/p/ra2cvL
[2] http://flic.kr/p/ra2pRN
[3] http://flic.kr/p/qUJMuY

my posts are manually counted so my sig campaign doesnt have to include all of them if it doesnt want to

But mods don't want to hear 'how payments are calculated' but... as you didn't know 'how to multi-quote', they may not do anything about the posts you made till today.

   -MZ

thanks for helping out , gonna try to get started with that
also guys , i found a bot that actually does captcha's tried it on faucets with succes called " rumola " its not free tho. but this means , that most people using faucets are probably abusing them with bots :/