Bad news: Sadly there's been fraud at Alien Faucet
Good news: We've solved it, and we're removing the cheaters, no one else's claims/balances/payouts will be affected.
Better news: On Monday 24th November we will be
increasing the payout rate AGAIN!Firstly, I will absolutely pay out all fair claims made this week - which is 99.9% of people, however we have 7 or so users who have mathematically claimed more than is possible to claim. I will give the full actual example of how we found it using the biggest cheater.. well call him "Cheat"
So the maths: We can obviously see FULL stats and a breakdown of how much earnings have been made from referrals, and how much from personal claims. Right now "Cheat" is on 0.09btc total.. when we started investigating it was approx 0.08 (8million satoshi). And the breakdown was that only 80k satoshi was earned from his referrals, whereas the remaining approx 7,920,000 was personally claimed.
Now we are a 100 average payout faucet, every 10 minutes, its 600 an hour.
"Cheat" joined us 3 days ago, so IF he made 10 minute claims, on the dot, non stop for 72 hours straight, then this would be: 43,200 satoshi. Thats claiming around the clock, non stop, no sleep, 10 minute claims on the dot, which is obviously impossible enough...
"Cheat"'s claims are 184x this amount!
Essentially he has claimed 61 days worth in 3 days (and that's still with never sleeping!)Full Disclaimer: I contacted "Cheat" and asked him for the solution and that I would pay him as a bounty. He proceeded to deny all wrong doing and lie to me over the course of 20-30 emails. Despite me repeatedly saying I can see that nearly ALL of the payout earned has been personal claims (while he claimed it was from referrals, which it obviously, totally clearly wasn't). Overnight my awesome developer found the leak and fixed it, at which point only then did "Cheat" come clean as he saw the loophole close. So now "Cheat" wants "just" his legitimate claims, but after cheating and trying to take 9MILLION satoshi from me and lying over 20-30 emails I am deleting his account and all other cheaters completely. If you cheat then there's no leniency, I will remove your account - I want this to be fair for all.
But on that note, if anyone does find bugs, please PM me, I can pay bounties for bugs.
I wanted to make this post to give full transparency, I am just a normal guy, our faucet is new and we bug tested it but obviously we missed something... but
We have solved the bug now and if you are regularly using the faucet you will probably see the "aliens killed" and "bounty" stats much lower later today when we clean out the database and remove "Cheat" and the other few cheaters (he admitted that they're his friends) - this is why.So onwards and upwards.. stand by, payout will be on Saturday, and then on Monday I will increase the "bounty" on all aliens again!