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Quote from: m2017 on May 22, 2024, 07:08:08 AM

Were there faucets that paid 1BTC (or several bitcoins) at once, because I didn’t catch that profitable times?

Tell us in a little more detail, how much bitcoins was given on average per one-time action and per month?

Oh no, I started few years too late to get such generous rewards

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When I started with faucets rewards were like 500-1500 Satoshi with timer usually between 5 minutes to 1 hour. Maybe it doesn't looks impressive considering Bitcoin value back then. But there was so many faucets and claiming was so easy that it didn't took long to make some significant amount of BTC. Captchas were easy, there weren't many annoying ads - most of faucets were monetised with Google Adsense. Though, I remember already then people were calling it waste of time.
And when I started promoting my referral links, my earnings from faucets were higher than what I was getting from signature campaigns. Managed to get quite a lot referrals. And I can only imagine how much owners of most popular faucet lists were making from referrals because they had thousands of them.

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Quote from: LTU_btc on May 21, 2024, 03:48:04 PM

Yeah, I miss these old good faucets, memories about it gives me nostalgia from my early years in Bitcoin. I not only got introduced to Bitcoin through faucets but also made really big money from it. It got my initial capital in such way and didn't had to put my own money into Bitcoin.

Were there faucets that paid 1BTC (or several bitcoins) at once, because I didn’t catch that profitable times?

Tell us in a little more detail, how much bitcoins was given on average per one-time action and per month?

Quote from: LTU_btc on May 21, 2024, 03:48:04 PM

In later years faucets started to pay something like less than 5 Satoshi and when they have 30k Satoshi payment treshold, it can take year to reach it. Doesn't sounds very attractive.

At Bestchange faucet, the accrued payment varies between 1-100 sat., which, in principle, is not much different from the 5 Satoshi you indicated (on average), because I personally have only seen two-digit numbers a few times (that’s my level of luck), but for actions that require 10-15 seconds of your time (at once), it doesn’t look bad. You can save enough for withdrawal in about a month (minimum limit of 1000 sat.).

Obviously, it is not possible to earn much capital on modern faucets, and this can be assessed as a small activity to accumulate a symbolic amount of satoshi.

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Yeah, I miss these old good faucets, memories about it gives me nostalgia from my early years in Bitcoin. I not only got introduced to Bitcoin through faucets but also made really big money from it. It got my initial capital in such way and didn't had to put my own money into Bitcoin.

Quote from: CoinMin3r on April 26, 2024, 01:57:54 PM

Faucet things are now " Good old days" type of thing now. At that time BTC was in early stage and have less users. So faucets offered new users some free sats and encourage them to use the network. Now you can see it came mainstream making it no need to promote plus high fee thing in transaction make faucet almost unconvenient.

It's not just about mainstream and introducing new users. Only few first faucets were about introfuction and weren't commercial. All other faucets was attempt for owner to make some money from ads. When revenue from ads didn't covered expenses, faucets died. Also, big factor is high Bitcoin value. In later years faucets started to pay something like less than 5 Satoshi and when they have 30k Satoshi payment treshold, it can take year to reach it. Doesn't sounds very attractive.

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Quote from: SatHunter on May 14, 2024, 02:57:47 PM

I have been away from Bitcoin for quite a while.

This is going to sound ridiculous, but I never stopped using faucets. I found 6 or 7 that I really trusted, and I kept on claiming from them. I keep them open all day long while I'm working (I'm self-employed, not ripping anyone off), and when I have time, I claim from them.

They have all got a fair amount of satoshis in my balances. But now what do I do with them? I have just discovered that my BlockChain wallet won't accept money from TPPPs, which I assume includes my faucet balances? Maybe even FaucetPay. Can I actually spend Bitcoin on useful things?

Are you very attached to your wallet? I use Mycelium Wallet and receive payouts with no problem.

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I have been away from Bitcoin for quite a while.

This is going to sound ridiculous, but I never stopped using faucets. I found 6 or 7 that I really trusted, and I kept on claiming from them. I keep them open all day long while I'm working (I'm self-employed, not ripping anyone off), and when I have time, I claim from them.

They have all got a fair amount of satoshis in my balances. But now what do I do with them? I have just discovered that my BlockChain wallet won't accept money from TPPPs, which I assume includes my faucet balances? Maybe even FaucetPay. Can I actually spend Bitcoin on useful things?

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Quote from: scoobs303 on April 24, 2024, 03:19:54 PM

I'm glad Bitcoin has become so main stream, but I do miss the days of being able to type your BTC address into a random website and then *POOF* some BTC pops into your wallet. I should have listened and kept my coins off the exchange but here we are. Just happy to be back in the space again Cheesy

I miss faucets so much either. They were simple, clean and fast to claim. You just needed to solve a captcha (which didn't take longer than few seconds), click the claim button and the satoshis were already sent to your wallet. There were 5, 10, 30 minutes, hourly, 6, 8 and 12 hours faucets. Two faucet runs a day and you were already done! 100.000 satoshis in your wallet without a high of effort and commitment! It wasn't that much in dollar prices back then, but pretty enough to start a solid journey in crypto universe from zero for a young person full of energy, willingness and optimism!

Then we had the "investments" opportunities, which ended being scam ponzi and hyip schemes aiming to steal the money from the micro earners. I remember losing money to those fake cloud mining services, which generated income in real time or once in a month (I think there was one which paid every 3 months as well).

Oh, but the faucets were so good, and there were so many of them. Some were pretty original and unique on their features... I will always remember about those days with a lot of nostalgia.

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Faucet things are now " Good old days" type of thing now. At that time BTC was in early stage and have less users. So faucets offered new users some free sats and encourage them to use the network. Now you can see it came mainstream making it no need to promote plus high fee thing in transaction make faucet almost unconvenient.

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Quote from: scoobs303 on April 24, 2024, 03:19:54 PM

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Hmm, it was a pretty good day. Tongue

I remember pretty well that there are many faucet sites that give some Satoshi per capita. This is really one of the best memories for me, My crypto journey also started on these Capta Or and Facut sites. But time is a matter of time, at that time we used to be happy by selling even at a low price. But today it is not like that, every small amount of satoshi also gives you high value.

But anyway, there is no use in taking it now that it would be good if Bitcoin was at a low price. My brothers who were going to buy Bitcion at that time, that is, those who were serious, grabbed Bitcoin, and even those who believed, did not hesitate to grab Bitcion. Buying Bitcoin depends on the user's desire to buy it. In the previous bear market, the weak hearted people, when the price of bitcoin reached $15,782, those who were opportunity grabbers filled up their bags and those who used to make lame excuses started making excuses. So it depends on you that if you are serious about Bitcion, then you will definitely grab the opportunity and if not, then your job is only to regrate.

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Quote from: BABY SHOES on April 24, 2024, 05:18:54 PM

What year is the BTC faucer profitable? Maybe when the price is still low the fees are not that high? I didn't experience any memorable faucets when it came to getting sats.

With faucets, people almost don't have to do anything too heavily so what they spend is only their time.

Profitable faucets? All faucets are profitable because you don't spend money for faucets. If you have time, claim faucets. However if you spend too much time with faucets, and don't have time to do other things which can help you to gain knowledge, get a job, receive salary, it's not good.

What I know from a person only needs to roll once every hour, if you are diligent, the sats from the faucet will increase a lot.

It's just a one click claim so it doesn't take much time so anyone can still gain knowledge with other jobs, unless there is a heavy task to do in claiming the faucet but I don't think it's heavy that I know.

Let this be the past for those who feel it.

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Quote from: scoobs303 on April 24, 2024, 03:19:54 PM

I'm glad Bitcoin has become so main stream, but I do miss the days of being able to type your BTC address into a random website and then *POOF* some BTC pops into your wallet. I should have listened and kept my coins off the exchange but here we are. Just happy to be back in the space again Cheesy

Do you kept your Bitcoin on exchange and something bad happened? Your Bitcoin is safer in your Bitcoin wallet than the crypto exchanges, they can get hacked at any time or the team can decide to do some very bad things behind your back like FTX did.

Bitcoin faucets lasted very long, it's been years since I last claimed some free Bitcoin through faucets and I don't even care to hold, I normally sold after few weeks to subscribe for data plan and this always keep me online for a month at least.

There was a faucet that gives 0.3-05 BTC every 4hrs after solving it's captcha, those were great early days of Bitcoin, and it happened because Bitcoin value was very low, to claim Bitcoin faucet today isn't going to get you anywhere and I even doubt if there is any Bitcoin faucets running till now.

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I do remember the faucet days and how much I have read that it's not so worth to do it continuously. With the price of BTC being so high, I think it's still worth it you know? I think that's how it can be but we cannot change anything now. It's best that we move forward and buy BTC continuously now.

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Yeah, I miss the faucet too. Back when Bitcoin prices were still very low, I played the faucet to get free satoshis. At that time, it was very easy to earn 100k satoshi and collect it in our wallet. And when we had collected a lot, we could sell it at the price we wanted.

It was a very pleasant past experience that allowed many people to accumulate a lot of satoshis. The faucet allows them to learn about crypto in more depth and collect other coins. This allows them to continue seeking profits from crypto because the coins they previously earned can be sold, and they can start trading.

We can only remember those memories as memories from the past. But we should keep trying to have more Bitcoins. Make it a memory that we can remember forever.

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Quote from: adaseb on April 25, 2024, 12:17:48 AM

I remember hearing about a website that gave you an entire bitcoin and all you had to do was just solve a captcha and it was sent to the wallet.

Someone shared link about here on this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.63989690
This was the first ever bitcoin faucet and was created by Gavin Andresen

Quote from: hugeblack on April 25, 2024, 04:04:06 AM

There are many free airdrops and altcoins worth less than $100, yet no one wants to invest in them.
If you go back to the past, you will definitely not buy Bitcoin. Therefore, forget the past and focus on what is coming, as Bitcoin may reach the price of $400,000.

There are still free airdrops for altcoins but majority has already given up on bounties and Airdrop since majority are just scam projects or paying little or nothing on task completed. Being paid in bitcoin or investing in bitcoin seems more like the easiest way of accumulating more bitcoin now.

It's just like how getting Gold was much more easier in the 90s and way back than now.

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Welcome back, that's been a long time ago but there's still have some website that offers faucet but you need to watch a lot of ads first before you'll reach at least $1 and if I am not mistaken the threshold to withdraw it will ridiculously high due to the current tx fee.

Well, I do also miss the old school faucets but if you are mostly playing in online gambling sites, most of them offers faucet or users sending rains to other users (which is more like a faucet too) you'll mostly experience this so for me I think it doesn't really go away.

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Quote from: scoobs303 on April 24, 2024, 03:19:54 PM

I'm glad Bitcoin has become so main stream, but I do miss the days of being able to type your BTC address into a random website and then *POOF* some BTC pops into your wallet. I should have listened and kept my coins off the exchange but here we are. Just happy to be back in the space again Cheesy

Faucets are still available till to date.

But I agree, good old days, the time when you can receive a lot of satoshis. I still remember the days the first time I was introduced to crypto, faucets is one of the activities I learned. I really give my time and effort doing faucets in the past until I end up getting bored as I feel like doing useless thing. But if I also kept my earned satoshis in the past, who knows what would be its value by now.

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Quote from: scoobs303 on April 24, 2024, 03:19:54 PM

I'm glad Bitcoin has become so main stream, but I do miss the days of being able to type your BTC address into a random website and then *POOF* some BTC pops into your wallet. I should have listened and kept my coins off the exchange but here we are. Just happy to be back in the space again Cheesy

Just click here , enter your bitcoin address (at the very bottom, on the left) and "*POOF* some BTC pops into your wallet" so you don’t miss the good old days.

You can read more about this faucet here.

In general, check the Micro Earnings section more often, where new faucets sometimes appear.

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Quote from: tbct_mt2 on April 25, 2024, 01:56:27 AM

Profitable faucets? All faucets are profitable because you don't spend money for faucets. If you have time, claim faucets. However if you spend too much time with faucets, and don't have time to do other things which can help you to gain knowledge, get a job, receive salary, it's not good.

Even then, I had a similar feeling. Waste time entering a captcha and receiving incomprehensible amounts with several zeros in front. Yes, there were a lot of faucets, and people used a lot of software to automatically enter captchas. But I wonder how many of those inventors who tried so hard to get a freebie kept their bitcoins. For some reason, it seems to me that there are none at all. Since, logically speaking, people needed pennies, they were unlikely to leave them for many years.

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There are many free airdrops and altcoins worth less than $100, yet no one wants to invest in them.
If you go back to the past, you will definitely not buy Bitcoin. Therefore, forget the past and focus on what is coming, as Bitcoin may reach the price of $400,000.

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Quote from: Mrbluntzy on April 24, 2024, 05:55:23 PM

Quote from: seoincorporation on April 24, 2024, 05:20:17 PM

But what we all miss is those days when faucets used to pay huge amounts.

It seems it was a lot of members that missed that opportunity, I don't expect that an old member like yourself would have missed such opportunity of earning huge amount of Bitcoin back in the time that faucets was rewarding so badly. I have missed the opportunity too but I look forward to other opportunity that may come in the future. Earning free Bitcoin now is not so super easy like before.

To be honest, the bitcoin from faucets had started to become worthless around 10 years ago. It was back when BTC had almost no value that people were giving away large (in today's prices) amounts of it. Once BTC hit around the hundreds or maybe thousands, then the rewards had become peanuts by then, according to what I've seen around the internet.

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Speaking of the Bitcoin faucet, for me, it is "good ol' days" and it will never happen in the Bitcoin network anymore.
The essence of faucet is will never happen again especially now that we already have a lot of people using Bitcoin and transaction fees already high, it is not convenient anymore.

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