Topic: Any working bitcoin testnet faucet in 2024? (Read 295 times)

Faucets are not profitable at all these days. They are really a waste of time. Before they used to be giving out 2-3 bitcoins back in 2010. Nowadays I don't even know you can bring whatever you earn from the faucet to your wallet. It will all probably go to tx fees.
You need to be wary of scams too. But my advice just avoid faucets, just a waste of your time.

They are a decent one for sure.

coinfaucet.eu is a decent one.

I also have some Bitcoin Testnet coins, if you give me an address I can send you some.

It cost 5x more to mine them than it does to sell them.  I don't think it's going to increase mining.

The people selling them appear to have been sitting on them for *years*.

It's healthy they go into circulation cheaper than it would be for some India kid to mine them and make the next billion dollar project happen.

*shrugs*

It's just an option.

I don't want to be absolute. There might be usage of large amounts. It just makes no sense to me. Whatever I can program to work for large amounts will work for small amounts as well, unless I'm running a testnet faucet.

Okay, that's good.

... to test them. If you don't want to test the coins, then simply don't mine them. If you mine them for the sole purpose of selling them, then that just goes against the functionality of testnet which depends on tBTC having no monetary value. If you finished your tests and mined tBTC, then just give them to a faucet or to someone who needs them.

Decimals. Fund their faucet.  To see their system or hardware wallet to work with a number that large.  There are lots and lots of reasons. I don't often get a chance to talk to our users, but I do ask when I can and if I can be nosy.

The better question is why do people already have 1000's?!  I guess they have to be somewhere.  I always hope they find a better home.


That's fine.  It's a free world.  We would likely just update and keep moving forward.

We do have a warning on the main market page.



We do offer a free faucet, so coins don't need to be bought, but the service is offered.


I question why they must not, because they do... for the same reason Bitcoin does!  It takes time and energy.  A free market will determine that anyways too.

If it has no value... there will be no buyers and the price will sit at the last trade price.

Actual block time on testnet is also 10 minutes. 20 minutes is just when difficulty dropped to one which makes it far easier to mine. And current reward is just about 0.016BTC.


Looking at rate on your exchange, 1000 tBTC cost 0.0071BTC or about $474 right now. While a company could afford that easily, they probably should consider using regtest instead.


I somewhat disagree. On long term,
1. It'll make people mine tBTC for financial purpose, which rise cost of mining tBTC.
2. More people use tBTC faucet for financial purpose, which leave less tBTC for non-financial purpose.


I agree. Aside from 10 years, signet (another form of testnet) also exist.

So, if the utility does not outweigh the cost, simply don't mine it. Leave it to be mined by people who want to test. Mining a worthless coin with the hope of selling it for a price makes no sense. If no block has been found in 20 minutes, then the difficulty resets back to minimum, so cost is ~0.

The last reset was 10 years ago, because it's worked fine by now. If we start setting up "testnet marketplaces", I'm sure people will either abandon testnet and go to signet, or just create testnet 4.

They're not supposed to have value, but the cost to mine testnet is real. It's not just one or two people; many people are buying testnet coins and that confirms the demand is real because they are not easy to obtain. People can place whatever value they want on anything, and clearly people are placing value on tBTC.



The last reset was 10 years ago... I'll believe it when I see it.



+1 agreed.

A better question is: why would one want 1000 tBTC? What do they have to offer that 0.01 tBTC cannot offer?

You're just speeding up the testnet reset. The more people treat it as currency, the less purpose it has. You should at least display that these units are worthless and can be reset at any time.

You don't understand that mainnet and testnet are apples and oranges. Testnet coins must not have value. It is not open for debate.

AltQuick does not KYC.  Users don't even have to register to trade 20+ coins for Testnet if they want to use the Swap tool.


We also own FreeBitcoins.com and get a lot of low-quality traffic, but we don't treat them differently than any other users.  We are just trying to keep the lights on and Google ads seem to be tasteful these days.  That's me scrapping pennies on a homepage... I might remove that. EDIT: Ad's are off on AltQuicks homepage, but still on FreeBitcoins.

Your privacy is your responsibility.  You need to take the proper opsec for your lifestyle.

The ads are also only on the homepage.  The inside of the exchange has no ads.  (Same with the accountless Swap tool that allows users to convert multiple coins into testnet or visa versa: https://altquick.com/swap/)


That's what we are trying to avoid doing.  Keep our faucet free globally, plus keep Testnet coins in circulation for people who want all sizes.

We do offer free Bitcoin Testnet on FreeBitcoins and other coins... including Bitcoin when it's not getting pounded empty.


I disagree with this.  Bitcoin Testnet reward is 0.02 coins every 20 minutes.  If someone wants 1000 coins they are going to be using a fair bit of electricity and time.

It might be a better fit for them to just get their 1000 coins in 10 minutes and keep testing their systems or whatever they are doing with them.

I own this exchange and I decided to offer this market.  People are lining up on both sides.  I don't think that makes me or the users dishonest.  Everyone is happy that uses it.

The only people upset are the ones who want to wave a magic wand and say "This has no value!!!!"  Which is exactly what people have done with Bitcoin!!!  FFS look at the shit going around token and coin-wise.... having a semi-healthy tiny nothingness Bitcoin Testnet isn't a bad idea.   Development is exploding and circulation is needed.

Sent you a million sat, so you can have plenty to play with.  

If you need more than that, don't hesitate to drop me a message.

Testnet coins are worthless. Anyone who sells you a testnet bitcoin is spreading the notion that they have value, and thus cannot be trusted.

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Beyond the services mentioned above, there are in-forum faucets as well:
- [Merit] [Faucet] Hey Bitcoiners! Wanna try out the lightning network?
- [For Developers] n0nce's Bitcoin Testnet Faucet [~10 tBTC]

https://freebitcoins.com/faucet/

Here you go though: https://blockstream.info/testnet/tx/6761f9fe36c6599e6b32ecdc70dc312975b6b00a02560bca37e1c6e0a8a0a0c0

Better not to try to find bitcoin testnet calls. Because the testnet runs as a completely separate network you can't send tokens back and forth between blockchains. If you try to send real tokens to the testnet address you will lose the token completely. It is better not to take risks to use bitcoins because bitcoin is a very profitable currency. You should be careful before using the websites, they often scam.

Try to look for wallets that offer Bitcoin testnet. Your wallet must be compatible with Bitcoin testnet. You could easily search wallets where you could make a separate wallet for btc testnet coins. From the wallet itself, you would have to adhere to their rules and regulations and specific steps how to create a wallet for Bitcoin testnet.

Try messaging @notblox1

As far as I know, he lends Testnet Bitcoins, I just don't know if he is still providing this service. I searched for his thread in the Service section, but I don't know why it's currently locked.

If ever you borrow from him or others, remember, that returning any unused testnet coins helps maintain the health of the testnet ecosystem for everyone.

That's true, but OP is talking about Bitcoin Testnet (tBTC) faucet, not Bitcoin (BTC) faucet. While some people buy/sell tBTC these days, tBTC supposed to be free/worthless used for testing or development purpose. And while i don't expect average faucet would try to hack or scam you, they usually show ads which violate your privacy and occasionally show shady/scam ads.

I don't think there will be an existing faucet that is profitable now; I think faucets are past their time. Because of the current bitcoin price right now, I don't think there will be faucets that will give much satoshi, or if there are any legitimate faucets out there, I'm sure the profit from them is very small, not worth your time. And also as a reminder, beware of those faucet websites that you may see; they say to think before you think, meaning to be careful of what websites you are going to visit and what websites you will click on because you may encounter faucet websites. That is created for scamming people or hacking people, especially now that hacking and stealing information from people online are spreading, so yeah, if you've found a good faucet, then it's good, but be careful because its hard to trust in websites this days.

1. I believe 0.012 tBTC is enough for many kind of testing.
2. The tBTC seller probably care who buy their tBTC or reason for buying their tBTC.
3. While it's trust we haven't see testnet reset in very long time, both Signet and Regtest also exist.

I didn't mean to defend them, but do you think you have a privacy after using an exchange without adds? if you still use a centralized exchange, they will ask your KYC and they're prone against hack.

Since in this thread we're discuss about faucet and AFAICS you can claim the faucet without create an account, I don't think there's something need to be worried.