Topic: Do you still really use faucet? - page 19. (Read 16596 times)

so I am too (lol)
Faucet is THE invention of the last 100 years.

Yes i still use faucets
I'm addicted to faucets!

Use a faucet just now. I like Xapo faucets since it has a direct payment on the wallet rather than transferring it first to third party processor.

Yeah sure slow satoshis. Well much better to have one rather than nothing.

Yes Im still using faucet and listing the best faucets out there in my list. All faucets in my list are giving 500 satoshis minimum.

i use faucet just for tester
now im stop playing bitcoinrobot because im booring to wait upgrade level

Yes i use faucets daily...it's sure satoshi...

at the moment , I'm no longer in the process of using faucets as it gives less rewards compared to other methods we could earn on this forum but occasionally I try to do some faucet as it was a hobby in the past

There are some relatively recent stories about bitcoin and IT.
http://www.wired.com/2013/09/bitcoin-homeless/all/
http://www.wired.com/2013/12/bitcoin-homeless-redux/ 
http://mashable.com/2015/04/05/homeless-coder-still-homeless/
I wonder, could this two stories be combined somehow to a story of success.    

I used to visit faucets all the time and earn about 0.002 btc everyday, and at that time I still thought it was quite much, considering that I got something out of nothing. But in the end, I got sick and tired of entering captchas and all the time and now I'm very busy, so not much time for faucets. I still think that there are too many faucets out there, just wanting to earn some from the ads, but I dont think it will be very profitable for them unless they really think of a creative and new idea. Now, occasionally I still visit some of the best faucets out there, but definitely not as frequent anymore.

Might as well dedicate this time on something else, right?

I agree i don't know why i use the faucets either ..its more like a habit !!  Faucets have changed my life. Its allowed me to get use to bitcoins as a payment and to understand bitcoins in y noob youth. Recently i added a faucet to my  website that pays 27000 satoshi an hour. Since i cant put my ref link here ,go to the website and look at the first one on the list under top faucets http://bitcoinfaucetrelay.com

Faucet and sig. campaign are two different things. You can earn from both of them. I still use faucet cause I love to "spent" some times around and playing with faucet.

i'm sr member rank and i can earn a lot more bitcoin from signature campaign than claim a faucet site
but i really still use a it until this moment and there is no definite reason why i still use a faucet and i just love to do it

Trouble may be brewing for some of the leading bitcoin faucet operators, as problems persist with three of the main micro wallets used by sites in this area of the bitcoin ecosystem. The market has been dominated up to now by three different operators – Microwallet.org, Coinbox.me and BitChest.me – which for years have steadily churned out bitcoins to thousands of bitcoin users. However, in recent weeks Bitchest stopped dispensing, and their bitcoin wallet address has gone quiet. Now in the last few days, Microwallet.org put up a notice that there was a bug with the Blockchain.info API, and was offline yesterday, but back up again today with a notice saying that withdrawals will be processed in the next 24 hours. So can these issues be overcome, or is writing on the wall for these sites?

I have been looking into faucets for the last few weeks for some personal research, and have several accounts on these sites over the threshold. I can confirm that two of the three, MicroWallet and BitChest, indeed have stopped dispensing.

Dismissed by many for the tiny amounts of bitcoin they give to end users, these faucets still  have served an important entry gateway into bitcoin for a number of years now, enabling people to get their hands on their first bitcoin. I think the first thing that people find out is that there are easier ways to get their first bitcoins. But as many people are exposed to new brands and service, whether good, bad or shady, a number of these users will go on to buy or trade bitcoins on exchanges, buy mining hardware to generate bitcoin themselves. or invest in cloud mining services.

Users visit the sites, usually plastered with advertising, and fill in a captcha and their bitcoin wallet address. A small amount (anything from 10-500 satoshi) is then transferred into an associated micro wallet, and the visitor needs to wait for a specified cool-down period from five to 240 minutes before being able to repeat the process. People then can systematically do this across several sites using the same micro wallet, which builds up. Once they pass the bitcoin network’s 5430 minimum payment threshold , a payment is queued to be sent to a large batch of users on a set frequency.

The faucet business model is relatively straightforward. They start with an initial amount of bitcoin to get them going, and then they are monetised either through affiliate links to bitcoin merchants, advertising from bitcoin ad networks or Google advertising, or donations from users. Faucets also cross promote a range of similar sites on different domain names, and then offer users a percentage of any referral they bring in. As long as these numbers and volumes are maintained, it should cover itself, but it is also easy to knock the metrics out of line, with a drop in traffic, large fluctuations in bitcoin’s price, or operators losing interest.

The market has also moved on somewhat, with a shift away from sites that look like they were designed off an old geocities template, and more professional sites such as Moonbit.co.in and BitcoinZebra.com offering a different take on the concept – usually with much larger payouts into their own wallet. A number of dice gambling sites like 999dice.com and freebitco.in offer a faucet as a way to be drawn into their games with the intention of getting people to make a lodgement and gamble it on the site.

So we’ll have to wait and see what happens with these micro wallets; will they start working again, or will they shut down overnight without warning? Either way, this area of the bitcoin ecosystem is going through a shakeup which means opportunities for new entrants into the market.

i use only faucet that has good amount of prize of satoshi earned about 30k-60k per day depends on my luck
but i also do sig campaign atleast it is a win win for both
its still something rather than begging right

Indeed it is, how I wish there's a faucet like that

not much now...
just keep doing few good faucets only

why not? faucet is easy and sure win coin for us, but yea it slow, still better than casino or dice

No .... it's really wasting time ...... faucets with 10000 satoshi in 5 min claiming have worth to caliming

Well said there. He is another faucet bitter here. I don't understand why people really compare faucet to signature campaign. Damn even a 1year old baby knows they are different. I see people in high rank here doing sigcampaign and fauceting. They have their own reason and that's not the amount that they received in faucet.