One Year with PaytoshiAs 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
