Topic: Any advantages to open a bitcoin faucet? (Read 1891 times)

Faucets had their time already, just few faucets are able to stand alive over 1 year and those are the faucets that pays lower then 100 satoshis, i really believe faucet is dying because low rewards and too many captcha and bots attacks, i believe faucets will be ending over the next 5-10 years, when people wont be interested into claim 100 satoshis anymore, or even less as bitcoin should keep growing.

Soo now there are few faucets making a good income, but i doubt they allow you to live from it, even if have 10 faucets, the fact is without google adsense monetizing all your traffic, its very hard to keep a faucet live.

I think that bitcoin faucets are not getting too much profit nowadays because less people are joining faucets unless they have a bot or a faucet rotator, also without marketing it is useless.

You can benefit from having faucet site but if you get the right visitors. I mean not a bot that will deplete your faucet balance.

I use a-ads and adbit( you should put many banner with bid around 10k satoshi),   my alexa rank is not enough to use mellowads, i just introduce my faucet on some fourum and social media, and now have 4-10k times claim per day

Can u inform us what faucet ads site u use could be handy for us all i think

Faucet can be profitable  after a long time. It waste your time to get much user.
bigfaucet.ga is my first faucet, with namecheap host 2.5$ per month and free domain, i can get over 0.01 btc per month
Yes, it's not too much because i don't have much time for it and any code skill
But imagine you invest some money to creat 5 good faucet, you can have pocket money monthy
Try it!!!

Hey m8

Good question and i can tell you i opened my first faucet site with faucetbox here 14 days ago, the profit is not that hugh (only around 0.2$ if im NOT calculatin web hotel cost).
i had 2 bot attacks from russia and had to block them out since they dryed my out, i can only tell you to watch where your users come from and what pattern they use and block the scam / cheats out ASAP!

Installing a capacthe is needed an the 4 faucetbox use are simply not good enof to secure your faucet that is why i would find an alternative one and install and modify to gain more security.

Remember you need to use some GOOD ads site else you will NOT be able to gain a profit, i tryed "a-ads" and "google adsense" and can only say google adsense have a good and fair amount they pay ouot to the users, while a-ads has only payed me around 40k satoshi and atm i gave more than 300k satoshi so as u see a-ads doesent really pay off.
Remember to make more than just the claim opportunity on you site, else adsense will not allow ads on your site and u will be banned.

To gain a increase of your income, you should also make a short "ref" list over sites you think is good, this way u can obtain a nice ekstra fee (like moonbit or freebitco).
The ref list / what is bitcoins / how to gain more (gambling) is subsites you can make so the sites has more forfilling stuff and is approved by adsense .

Hope this was helpfull and you are more then welcome to get any ides from my site "bitcoin4me.dk" hope it was help full and have a nice day

Sites that make the most I believe are the ones that are games in itself. Like RPG games, or casino games. This allows users to spend their coins BACK into the site for upgrades and bonuses-- so you're paying out less.

I would love a pet site (like neopets.com or something similar) that has flash games, text games, items, shops, stocks, quests and forums that used satoshi as a currency instead of its own made up one (or at least have where you can exchange the site's currency for the bitcoin), you can keep track of cheaters better this way.

The con to this is needing time, artists and programmers. The pro though is that no one really has access to the bitcoins you're offering, since you could easily have your btc offsite. And you can use google adsense, since it's more than just "I am giving you money' kinda thing.

I used to work in one though, and if you have true users who support you, you can get a lot of stuff for free (artwork); you just need to make it known that you're accepting help. Another thing you can do is host a contest, giving some satoshi to the person who makes you the best image. When I was doing it, I was given 2 premium monthly packages every month (these packages were filled with useful premium items that were used in item collections and expired upon the next month, so it was worth it to me at the time, since I played there).'

If you're a decent owner (or have a decent manager to run your things for you if you suck at human relations), you will get faithful users and support. You just need to be patient, and listen to your users. You want to run a site that KEEPS users there all day, as that creates more views and activity on your site, so that is why I suggest what I did. And the more things you have for users to do, the better.

You could start off with just raffles and lotteries though, but those things have pretty much been done over and over in the faucet community.

Ok you may be right topiOleg, but anyone who knows enough about programming, web hosting, etc to make a successful faucet
can probably spend that time and make just as much, if not more, doing something else with their skills.
I'm sure that even just getting a job as a web developer working for an hourly rate would earn you more cash.

Faucets from first look are looking like simple business method. But to have good faucet is like a rocket science. Firstly you have to create unique faucet. There are hundreds of simple faucetbox faucet, and it's hard to surive between it. To make popular faucet, you have to promote faucet : spam on forums and social networks, spend money for advertising. When you will have popular faucet, bots will find it and it's very hard to fight against them. It's also to get enough revenue to keep faucet allive : adsense don't allow faucets and other ad networks only pays dust if compare with adsense. At the end, if you somehow will get profit from faucet, probably it will small amount of money. So, you have to decide yourself, if it's worth to have faucet and to get from it almost nothing.

advantage can get money advertising
if you want support bitcoin payment you can make bitmedia and a-ads

Well the pennies costumers earn are for free, if those costumers make 5 claims a day and 2 clicks i believe the admin or owner of any faucet will be able to raise the pot, but there are bots killing the faucet, soo without a good security against bots kindly dont even bother to make it live.

Actually Ofir Beigel paid others to make most of the work for him on the faucet site, like bot protection. So if you can do it all yourselves, you could make good faucet site in your spare time. Hard to lose money then unless bots hit you unprepared, but then you can review user activity before actually sending the payments. If you use the free faucetbox faucet as the OP plans, then fighting with bots is tough as the payments are automatic in real-time.

Not that running faucet site is worth your time, but if you include other content you can profit from then it could be worth geting regular visitors claiming their Satoshis everyday.

What about kids? What about those really interested in faucets? There are a lot of people using them, and the owners are making good profit off them. You just need to be 'on top', trying to attract as many users as you can.

No real use in opening one because most people that are experienced in bitcoin move away from it after a couple of claims because they see other things are worth more to do than slaving away at several faucets for pennies after 20 claims to cashout them anyways.

With enough users and advertisements, you can get some nice profit off it. Faucet & Casino are a great combination, in my opinion. Merge them and you will find a big number of users getting addicted to your website.

For faucet-only websites, this can be profitable because of the revenue of your ads. Even if it's a few bucks or tens of bucks a week/month, it's still some extra cash you can save. Some faucet websites are getting thousands of dollars per month in revenue.

There is no any disadvantage in opening your own faucet, or a website of any kind, I have some websites of different categories and there I am earning some amount with the visitors i get there, Try to advertise that faucet site to some sites which will have  good number of visitors with that you will get increased traffic.

Yeah this is the article!
Anyone who is thinking about opening a faucet should probably read this article and see how much work it is, and realize that you may actually LOSE money if you aren't getting enough traffic.

No it earns too little for the amount of time it takes.

If you can get a lot of visits to your site, something like thousands of real visits daily, then you can earn good amount from opening a bitcoin faucet, otherwise i think it's worthless.

That is what 99bitcoins did, they have been a very popular bitcoin website with high traffic and even so called their faucet a failure. Faucets are DOA now and will be replaced with some new advertising hook to be determined. Forget about faucets and spend your time looking for that new promotional tool that will take the place of faucets.

I don't think that opening a bitcoin faucet nowadays is profitable, because you can't earn from advertising without a huge number of daily visitors, and that's need a high budget to start with

though the income would be really small to be honest, it is better not to open a faucet as it would be just a waste of time in my opinion

You should have to start that a bitcoin faucet, but not only a one page faucet, try to implement that faucet in our blog or any other interesting website so that people spend some more time at your site and people come to your site not only for claiming the bits but also for getting some knowledge and entertainment also.

Was it Ofir Beigel? He published two articles at 99bitcoins basically calling bitcoin faucets dead and a waste of your time read them before you consider setting up a faucet

https://99bitcoins.com/google-just-murdered-99satoshis/ and https://99bitcoins.com/adsense-apocalypse-bitcoin-faucet-guide-survival/

 I think the advantage of having a faucets is obviously you get a free bitcoins of course, while the disadvantages is Once the faucets is not giving any pout with you our effort and time will just turn into waste.

Running a successful faucet is a science on it's own.. you have to balance the amount you pay out to the users with the amount you receive in Ad income and you have to fight off bots that might empty

your funding account, if they find a loophole in your faucet software. You will also have to add some kind of gambling element to keep visitors on your site for longer periods. Ad companies have turned

against this type of advertising, because the people using these faucets are not the kind of people who will spend money on their products or services.  

Many advantages actually.
As long as you keep having visitors from your site, then you are surely going to profit from ads placed in your faucet. Place as many ads that you possibly can without ruining the image of your faucet for more visitors.

The only downside there is, is the maintenance that you have to pay, especially when you're not having visitors.

Like others said it is very difficulat to earn a significant amount of money from opening and running a faucet,the main reasons are bot attacks and low paying advertising networks(don't try to use  google ad sense they will ban your account for sure).
What many faucet owners recommend is to add a faucet rotator or a list on your site,most of your visitors will be interested to claim form other faucets as well and will become your referrals,this will help you a lot to break even.

Honestly in managing a faucet it takes a long time before you can make a profit and make a large number of visitors.. unless if you are bought  already expired domains that alrady have many backlinks and SEO already.. that you can get even 1k visitors daily..
Also only google ads are paying high if you dont have google adsense in your faucet.. its useless you can not make anyprofit.

There are some, and the number one I think is that you'll be able to help other people on procuring their first bitcoin--or letting them feel what it's like to receive and spend bitcoins. As for personal gains, you can probably earn a passive income via advertisements or captcha solves on your faucet. It may not be that much, but still it's some pretty good bitcoins to have passively; just load your faucet with a couple million satoshi and you are probably fine.

The advantage of it is that you will earn to them by visiting your site also the ads you will add on that website will be paid also .but at first i think you will buy the web or domain of the site for you to operate your faucet .i have a friend he did that one but the faucet is not click or trend on the market so he just stop that site.and lost some money.

You need a LOT of traffic these days to make money running a faucet.
Cryptohydrant was one of the best, most well designed faucets I've ever seen, and they were losing money and shut down. (Just a couple weeks ago)
Unless you are getting tens of thousands of hits a day, and display a ton of ads, you aren't going to make money.

There was a post where a faucet operator showed how most of his sites were actually losing hundreds of dollars a month.
I will see if I can dig it up and post a link.

The advantage is, you can earn a decent amount by using some highly paying ads campaign. If your website/faucet having songs k's of real visitors.

google adsense is the highest paying ads, but unfortunately, google adsense has been banned faucet sites.
and why google adsense banned faucet sites? because most sites faucet that there is not a lot of information that is considered to be useful for the user, besides only used to offer a number of free Bitcoin only. I also see some sites faucets already large, they are now bankrupt, because it no longer getting greater results than expenditure of funds. so I think you will not get any benefit from the faucet site.

An advantage of owning a faucet is that you get to have some passive income and not have to actively be involved with the website in order to make money, but a disadvantage of owning and running a faucet site is that you have to find a way to make sure that you're actually earning money from the advertisements you put up, and that the advertisements are able to equal whatever your expenditures are on the Bitcoin for the faucet. While it is possible, it is relatively difficult imo.

I would say you will not benefit from it, but if you do not believe, you can try with a small capital and a free domain. I think you would be hard to make money from advertising, will not be a lot of visitors from the faucet. also some users will use a bot to drain your faucet balance.

I think the only purpose for bitcoin faucet is to promote the use of bitcoin by providing tiny amount for the first time users.

Since the amount provided nowadays are too tiny and you need to collect a few hundreds before the rewards appear on the real blockchain, many users just feel cheated and leave a bad impression.

Well a faucet may turn into a cash machine, you wont be rich with it, you can get a monthly income from it, but be sure the road is hard, giving  a big reward will atract the bots, and believe me this is what is killing faucets. There are people making good numbers around faucets, but you have a long batle against bots, and your costumers must do their work, as all know faucet is a two side business, without support from costumers the faucet will open and die too fast.

Ofir Beigel published two articles at 99bitcoins basically calling bitcoin faucets dead and a waste of your time read them before you consider setting up a faucet

https://99bitcoins.com/google-just-murdered-99satoshis/ and https://99bitcoins.com/adsense-apocalypse-bitcoin-faucet-guide-survival/

If you think you are special and the rules do not apply to you go ahead and waste your time.

IN my minds, better fo you to providing a service for bitcoiners rather than making faucets platform. I think the faucets just alive from their ads source. It's will be difficult for manage it and maybe it does not take a small amount of starting.

it is not a good idea at all.
you don't have to invest that much money and you don't have to spend that much of your time but you can not really earn that much money from it either.

most advertising networks don't accept faucets and if you manage to fool them they will eventually find out and block you.
also people use ad blocks, and a lot of other exploits to bypass the faucet and claim without you earning anything from their visit.

Do you have no better idea? Why a faucet? It is bad advertising for Bitcoin, since people get minuscule amounts for clicking on questionable ads that are extracting personal information. Operating a faucet is not without risks, too. People might use bots to get their Satoshies faster.

There are much better ways to earn Bitcoin by offering a useful service. If you want to earn money via advertising why don't you start an advertising network similar to google adwords? There are a lot of bitcoin-related blogs and potential advertisers that would be interested to participate.

ya.ya.yo!

i am agree with, that is really annoying for faucet owner, being raped by bots and not humans. but after all, if you can manage about the advertiser, you will get money from faucets.

maybe you can make altcoins faucet and give rewards that you really want to give. for example maybe you can visit and see about eth faucet. i think its a good idea if you can make faucet like that, but you can make it in different than them.

Running bitcoin faucets are obviously not profitable at the current price and faucet market is saturated right now with lots of faucets in operation. You may have to put bitcoin from your pocket to make your faucet get good number of daily repeating visitors (not bots) which may take several months so patience will be key. However there is no guarantee that you will be successful in end of those several month of waiting and investment.

I think you better search for another unique idea.  

Yes, you can earn money by having an ads on your faucet. Especially if your faucets have big reward, it's make more visitor come to your faucets.

You are not likely to make any profit from a faucet until you have a very popular one.

To become a popular faucet, you have to be in the highest paying faucets to make it "worthwhile" to visit the faucet, but if you pay something like 1000+ satoshi every xx min, that means your ad revenue will probably not fully cover the faucet cost, hosting, etc.

I would think very hard before doing something like this. Imo, bitcoin is too far along now for faucetting as the payouts are just so low nowadays.

If you run one you need to worry about being raped by bots, if your using one to get bitcoin it pays so shitty that its not worth the time. You can make more btc posting in threads and learning about bitcoin and other cryptos while wearing signatures. That might be your best bet.

I doubt if a lot of people play on faucets anymore, so don't really think it will get enough traffic, and if that doesn't happen, your ads won't get you any profits. If you are looking to make investments consider other ways like trading or altcoins.

You can make a pretty good money if you can advertise your website well. On the other hand google has stopped paying faucets without any content inside. You need to generate extra content in your website which is extra work. You can always search for the other adgivers.

You need to get prepared against bot users too. They will suck you dry very fast if are not careful.

Anddd, adblocker users. They will also be a pain in the ass. Another extra work for you.

To be honest, I wouldn't bother with all those extra shit.

Which company of advertising, popads, adsense, popounder is legit and will always make payment? Can you recommend? I will prefer the company can pay through PayPal / bitcoin / perfect money.

Visitors will feel annoyed and ban to visit the website, if there is many popup ads. As, I am one of them.

Do you know which bitcoin faucet is the most successful and popular (which could survive until now)? I'll observe their way of business type. I will prefer this platform because I thought that bitcoin faucet is the easiest way to operate and least management among other business platform. Yes, I admit that I'm lazy person.

This is my first time to open discussion thread, really thank you for advise about the correct location of threads.

Haha, I think so. But I observed that there is a lot of bitcoin faucets are still survive and even develop more on market.

you can get money with advertising, popads, adsense,popounder  and more

pro: you can make a nice profit if you got many users and a good ads revenue; share the satoshis with other bitcoiners...
cons: bots could empty your wallets in a matter of a second if you didn't implement a security measures, need to reload it everytime so the users keep coming...

last this post shouldn't be in off-topic, better to move it to service discussion or +/- micro-earning sub

Probably only get bit-ter water out of it.     

Hello, every bitcoin trader/seniors here.

I have a mind that wish to do small investment for bitcoin platform (no ponzi scheme/HYIP) suddenly. The bitcoin faucet platform is the first idea that pop up in my mind. Can anyone can tell me about the advantages or disadvantages for operated this bitcoin faucet platform? Feel free to share your idea.

Thank you.