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Topic: Faucets profitable? (Read 2358 times)

jr. member
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October 23, 2018, 12:37:51 PM
#80
Guys, I hate to burst your bubble but faucets are obsolete for users. You need to make your way through a thick fog of pop-ups and nasty redirects, type tons of captchas all day, to earn a maximum of $0.01. Bottom line is that faucets don't work, whoever says the opposite is delusional. They might work for the owners but for the users, faucets are waste of time and a horror story. Just my 2 cent. Don't believe me? try it for yourself, look up faucethub (the biggest faucets platform on the web).
jr. member
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October 22, 2018, 06:23:05 PM
#79
This is actually a question for those who own them.

I was a reading up on how to start a faucet (just out of curiosity) and it said that the majority of faucet sites are not profitable, I saw a fair few and thought that maybe that wasn't true. Why would you spend time and effort and something like that to not make money.

Are any beginners using them and or has anyone just started one?

They used to be. Apparently a couple of years ago when XLM was getting ready to launch its token, there was a website that you just visit and get hundreds of dollars of worth (NOW) in XLM. however, these days it seems like there is not a single profitable faucet out there. I have tried a dozen and everytime I failed to make anything valuable.

There are a lot of good cranes now, you can search for information about them in a separate forum thread.
For if I start here to paint all the taps that I know, I think I will go to the ban from the project moderators.
member
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September 14, 2018, 07:19:16 PM
#75
This is actually a question for those who own them.

I was a reading up on how to start a faucet (just out of curiosity) and it said that the majority of faucet sites are not profitable, I saw a fair few and thought that maybe that wasn't true. Why would you spend time and effort and something like that to not make money.

Are any beginners using them and or has anyone just started one?

They used to be. Apparently a couple of years ago when XLM was getting ready to launch its token, there was a website that you just visit and get hundreds of dollars of worth (NOW) in XLM. however, these days it seems like there is not a single profitable faucet out there. I have tried a dozen and everytime I failed to make anything valuable.
newbie
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September 14, 2018, 07:17:02 PM
#74
I got $10 worth of doge a few weeks ago from a faucet that I didn’t use for months. It’s now worth just under $30. Woot
jr. member
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September 14, 2018, 12:09:25 PM
#73
I won't trust faucets and you won't earn profit in it.
newbie
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September 12, 2018, 10:09:33 PM
#72
i used faucets, and yes i know they consume your time and effort clicking captcha and everything, but aside from that, i love them, it's my way of keeping me busy when i have no work in the office Smiley

and btw, it's 10 months now that i used faucets
You're very patient to keep doing faucet for 10 months. Faucet is boring and cost time but not much reward, how much have you earned with faucets until now?

i think it's a whopping 7$, and i reinvest it in a mining website that eventually shut-down their bitcoin mining, good thing ether is still on production
jr. member
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September 12, 2018, 10:45:32 AM
#71
Profitable if you are an earner of the faucet, in the web there are many guides who to make one and put advertise there, didn`t try by myself but it says that could earn up to 50$ per day passivly
hero member
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September 12, 2018, 09:42:34 AM
#70
Faucets aren't profitable right now.. but back in 2010 people were saying the same thing about the first BTC faucet from Gavin Andresen.
He gave 5 BTC per claim.. and it was worth about 0.05$ ..

member
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September 12, 2018, 07:32:55 AM
#69
 Faucets is profitable some year ago. But nowadays it is not profitable. You can do bounty  or ICO Airdrops. If you get payment from bounty then you should invest and earn more.  Why are you waste your time?
jr. member
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September 11, 2018, 03:51:35 PM
#68
Faucets used to be very profitable. I have ever claimed up to 20$ from one particular faucet. Due to the volatility of the market, it is very difficult to earn that much lately.
jr. member
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September 11, 2018, 12:33:18 PM
#67
I know these 2 still pay

freebitco.in
Cryptotab is a kind of miner but most likely look like a faucet
member
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September 10, 2018, 06:51:47 PM
#66
They were profitable, but at the moment not at all.
Btw, the most profitable about faucets is to own your own
newbie
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September 10, 2018, 02:06:11 PM
#65
Or check out Merit. It’s a mineable crypto currency with a sweet lightwallet that has mining built right into it. You can build up your community and invite others to make a small portion of their mining rewards. I’m earning about 1 MRT a day which is roughly $0.3-0.45 a day depending on the price.

copper member
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September 09, 2018, 09:42:45 AM
#64
This is actually a question for those who own them.

I was a reading up on how to start a faucet (just out of curiosity) and it said that the majority of faucet sites are not profitable, I saw a fair few and thought that maybe that wasn't true. Why would you spend time and effort and something like that to not make money.

Are any beginners using them and or has anyone just started one?
I had few faucets in past. They were pretty profitable last years (2013-2015).
But now. Competition is too high and attendance decreases.
So the answer is NO, not now. Maybe in the future (after next bull run)....
newbie
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September 08, 2018, 04:52:34 AM
#63
Faucet is distributing free coins made by companies that are running. Following this faucet requires a short amount of time. And the results obtained are also small. So for beginners, it's better to follow a bounty program that provides more results.
full member
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September 06, 2018, 10:42:45 PM
#62
Faucets arent profitable they are just a waste of time. They will only give you small amount of satashi per claim and it will take 5 to 10 years before you can male 1 btc.
newbie
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September 06, 2018, 08:15:41 PM
#61
I have never came across a faucet that is profitable. Back in 2014 maybe, but these days these are just mostly scams. You can even hardly make money in airdrop campaigns, which used to be very profitable.
The whole idea of crypto is being used to take advantage of dumb people to make some money from advertising without actually contributing to the space.
Anyhow, for me, it's a pass 100% of the times.

Check out Parachute if you want to receive a profitable airdrop. I have around 5K PPC that is worth $250
member
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September 06, 2018, 06:38:50 PM
#60
I have never came across a faucet that is profitable. Back in 2014 maybe, but these days these are just mostly scams. You can even hardly make money in airdrop campaigns, which used to be very profitable.
The whole idea of crypto is being used to take advantage of dumb people to make some money from advertising without actually contributing to the space.
Anyhow, for me, it's a pass 100% of the times.
member
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September 06, 2018, 04:58:37 PM
#59
The  one who really  just  started  crypto   tries  faucet  then  found  out  that  it's not  profitable but  not  all  just be  patient, well  good  thing   if  you tried  it  out   Wink  faucet  is time  consuming  Smiley
legendary
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September 06, 2018, 02:47:24 PM
#58
well, I used to serve faucets a long time ago and I can say that they are pretty helpful as I can at least earn my wifi bills if I work on 20-30 faucets daily for a month. but now the cases are not the same I dought that someone can make their wifi bills by doing like 50faucets every day.it's better to choose youtube as a career then wasting your time at faucets. I never understood why they even exist but at least new users can earn some free coins.
hero member
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September 06, 2018, 12:42:25 PM
#57
Your profitability in your faucets will depend on a lot of factors and you need to have the right mix in order for you to avoid flushing your own money down, and some faucets who have amassed loyal users actually got lucky as they are still profiting up to now. These are some factors you need to take into consideration in order to know if you will profit or not from your faucet:

  • Traffic
  • Bitcoin Ad Network (A-Ads, Mellow Ads)
  • Type of Ads you are showing (CPC, CPM)
  • How many banners you have
  • Faucet Payout
  • Payout Threshold
  • Referral Commission

Besides what I have mentioned I know there is still a lot of things you need to put into consideration, but I think this are the most important things you need to focus on. Some faucets don't really last long as they can't keep up to the payments they are giving to their customers as they are overwhelmed with the referral commission they have set and their payouts from the ad network is too low compared to what their members are being awarded. Some actually really start a big capital and sacrifice early losses in order to build up their reputation as one the best faucets still existing.
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September 06, 2018, 11:43:47 AM
#56
Faucets are not profitable ,even the money spent on your data alone you can't recover back through faucets unless you have free data
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September 06, 2018, 04:12:10 AM
#55
Not all taps are profitable. I think the taps are more like a beginner textbook, because most newbies use it, but the profits are really low!
newbie
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September 06, 2018, 04:03:08 AM
#54
i used faucets, and yes i know they consume your time and effort clicking captcha and everything, but aside from that, i love them, it's my way of keeping me busy when i have no work in the office Smiley

and btw, it's 10 months now that i used faucets
You're very patient to keep doing faucet for 10 months. Faucet is boring and cost time but not much reward, how much have you earned with faucets until now?
jr. member
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September 06, 2018, 03:55:15 AM
#53
I've read some article before, I think its from 99bitcoins that it is still profitable but it depends on what captcha service or ads you use I think the most profitable was Google adsense but it is no longer accepting sites with faucets.
newbie
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September 05, 2018, 05:13:15 PM
#52
To be honest, when it comes to the faucets, it is no more profitable because it is not giving any value to the user. While analysing it from the user's point of view, faucets do not give much returns considering the resources invested including time.

I mainly used faucets when I had time to kill... IE riding in the elevator at work, riding the bus home from work, etc. Time where I would otherwise be doing something random, I claimed from faucets.
The withdrawal limit is too high to get an sufficient amount of Satoshis paid out, that's my experience and it's a waste of time compared to Airdrops / Bounties. It's way easier to exchange the Shitcoins of Airdrops / Bounties to Bitcoin so you have more profits by doing so.
But nobody knows, if Bitcoin is 100k also Faucets could be a win, altough I think there are much better opportunities to get free Bitcoins.

I have made like four claims from one site with the most recent being $10 worth of doge (4K+). That doge has more than doubled. I forgot about the faucet for like four months so didn’t do anything for those doge
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September 05, 2018, 04:54:52 PM
#51
To be honest, when it comes to the faucets, it is no more profitable because it is not giving any value to the user. While analysing it from the user's point of view, faucets do not give much returns considering the resources invested including time.

I mainly used faucets when I had time to kill... IE riding in the elevator at work, riding the bus home from work, etc. Time where I would otherwise be doing something random, I claimed from faucets.
The withdrawal limit is too high to get an sufficient amount of Satoshis paid out, that's my experience and it's a waste of time compared to Airdrops / Bounties. It's way easier to exchange the Shitcoins of Airdrops / Bounties to Bitcoin so you have more profits by doing so.
But nobody knows, if Bitcoin is 100k also Faucets could be a win, altough I think there are much better opportunities to get free Bitcoins.
newbie
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September 05, 2018, 12:07:27 PM
#50
To be honest, when it comes to the faucets, it is no more profitable because it is not giving any value to the user. While analysing it from the user's point of view, faucets do not give much returns considering the resources invested including time.

I mainly used faucets when I had time to kill... IE riding in the elevator at work, riding the bus home from work, etc. Time where I would otherwise be doing something random, I claimed from faucets.
hero member
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September 05, 2018, 11:48:55 AM
#49
To be honest, when it comes to the faucets, it is no more profitable because it is not giving any value to the user. While analysing it from the user's point of view, faucets do not give much returns considering the resources invested including time.
newbie
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September 05, 2018, 07:41:08 AM
#48
I have just tried a bunch of DOGE faucets and the only found one that has yielded more than $10. I have made multiple $10+ claims using this faucet.
jr. member
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September 05, 2018, 06:47:57 AM
#47
Some project team will give the one who created the faucet for them their coins as rewards, so building up a faucet can be profitable. However, one cannot simply make remarkable income by relying on claiming faucet because it only sends out a very small amount of coins each time, plus the one who have just claimed the faucet needs to wait a sufficient long of time before he can claim it again.
jr. member
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September 05, 2018, 06:36:13 AM
#46
This is a waste of time.
I read full thread and no one give some statistics/information how many he earn.
Most will scam you before you withdrawy anything
jr. member
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September 05, 2018, 05:52:30 AM
#45
This is actually a question for those who own them.

I was a reading up on how to start a faucet (just out of curiosity) and it said that the majority of faucet sites are not profitable, I saw a fair few and thought that maybe that wasn't true. Why would you spend time and effort and something like that to not make money.

Are any beginners using them and or has anyone just started one?

It is quite difficult to make money on cranes, especially now. You do a lot of actions, but you get very little profit, I think you need to appreciate your efforts a little more.
newbie
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September 05, 2018, 12:47:43 AM
#44
i used faucets, and yes i know they consume your time and effort clicking captcha and everything, but aside from that, i love them, it's my way of keeping me busy when i have no work in the office Smiley

and btw, it's 10 months now that i used faucets
newbie
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September 03, 2018, 07:51:16 PM
#43
There are some faucet that is profitable, I was actually downloaded an faucet bapplication on my mobile phone it is quite good but it takes so long to get free coins.
member
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September 03, 2018, 06:23:30 PM
#42
What is the benefit of having a faucet?

As I see it, you are giving away satoshis (am I right or I am missing something here?)
People who make faucet sites implement ads on their sites, because ad networks pay their applicants per impression. So the trick is to give out sats that cost cheaper than the cost-per-impression for the faucet owner to make a profit. Though I've read in some posts that some ad networks don't allow faucet sites now.


I see, so I somehow get it now. It is like a faucet is a tool for people to go to the website and earn some bitcoins.  In return, the owner of the website will contact other people interested in putting some advertisements in his/her website to earn some cash.
member
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August 31, 2018, 03:41:06 AM
#41
Faucets are a waste of time, lot of them are just scam, it's almost impossible to withdraw anything...
newbie
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August 31, 2018, 02:50:25 AM
#40
The payouts from the faucets are really small and that makes it insignificant.
jr. member
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August 31, 2018, 02:47:44 AM
#39
What i've gleaned from this is that it can only really be profitable (and not that much) if you have a faucet website.

It's going to get less profitable as people learn that faucets are a waste of time.
Every time you start to think about whether something is profitable or not check out how much time it will take you and how much money you'll be able to make per hour. For me anything that pays less than $10 per hour is a total waste of time (I'm talking about work, not pleasure). Faucets will pay you maybe $1 per hour if you farm a bunch of them at the same time. Even if BTC goes to 20k this will be $4 per hour of your time. Not worth it!

I see. I think that goes for most things though - any PTC stuff for example is never going to generate you enough income.
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August 30, 2018, 10:36:25 PM
#38
Yes, its profitable because will not invest anything but you can only profit a very very tiny amount of money in exchange of your time. Very time consuming to be taken seriously. I suggest for you to join bounty programs and airdrops it's worth the time when you picked the right coins.
legendary
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August 30, 2018, 05:30:22 PM
#37
What i've gleaned from this is that it can only really be profitable (and not that much) if you have a faucet website.

It's going to get less profitable as people learn that faucets are a waste of time.
Every time you start to think about whether something is profitable or not check out how much time it will take you and how much money you'll be able to make per hour. For me anything that pays less than $10 per hour is a total waste of time (I'm talking about work, not pleasure). Faucets will pay you maybe $1 per hour if you farm a bunch of them at the same time. Even if BTC goes to 20k this will be $4 per hour of your time. Not worth it!
legendary
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August 30, 2018, 12:38:50 PM
#36
Yes as a faucet owner faucet are still profitable but profits are low compare to 2017 but as a faucet worker faucets are nowadays not profitable that are time consuming and their payout is very low so I would suggest everyone who wants to earn through faucets never waste your time in that you can use those time in bounties this is just my suggestion.

What's your faucet? I'm quite curious.

What i've gleaned from this is that it can only really be profitable (and not that much) if you have a faucet website.

Whether or not faucets are profitable from a user perspective really boils down to how much your time is worth.


It may be profitable in Venezuela......since they only make a few usd per month because of hyperinflation.  For everyone else though, no its not worth it in the slightest.
Agree, this was viable business in years before. Still such new faucet can contribute to community in some cases like in very poor countries or people that want to just "test" bitcoin and see how it works.
Maybe you will be able to get great advertisements (for great $ to you). It only depend on your selling skills Smiley


I doubt that this "depends" on your selling skills, but rather how much convertable traffic you're getting and what your site looks and functions like. Just saying.

How to own them, are there any sources to learn about faucets like how popular you are?

Well, google should be your first step; https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+create+a+faucet

There's dozens and dozens of guides and free templates out there that you'll be able to use. A complete newbie to programming could make one.

As to the metrics, most adnetworks either ask you for your google analytics, or your alexa ranking.

I'm a little bit out of date on the current meta, but i'm pretty sure faucethub.io is still pretty popular, you can see their most "popular" faucets here -> https://faucethub.io/faucets/BTC
jr. member
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August 30, 2018, 12:05:43 PM
#35
What i've gleaned from this is that it can only really be profitable (and not that much) if you have a faucet website.
newbie
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August 30, 2018, 10:32:50 AM
#34
Yes as a faucet owner faucet are still profitable but profits are low compare to 2017 but as a faucet worker faucets are nowadays not profitable that are time consuming and their payout is very low so I would suggest everyone who wants to earn through faucets never waste your time in that you can use those time in bounties this is just my suggestion.
jr. member
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August 30, 2018, 10:00:04 AM
#33
Honestly they not profitable these days.May be they will be worth some day but cant say sure.try to do bounties that time.
sr. member
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August 30, 2018, 12:03:51 AM
#32

The initial idea behind faucets was to grow adoption by giving people small amounts of bitcoin/Satoshi to start using it, but it quickly turned into a money making venture.  Angry

That actually unbeknownst to the company because faucet is obviously a free money and people who had used it came out with the idea that it can be a good source. Of course, everyone loves free.

Though somehow, adoption was achieved in some way as bitcoin widely spread in internet. And because of that, people flock in faucet sites however bitcoin had grown its value and that's the end of the story.
legendary
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August 29, 2018, 10:26:15 PM
#31
It may be profitable in Venezuela......since they only make a few usd per month because of hyperinflation.  For everyone else though, no its not worth it in the slightest.
Agree, this was viable business in years before. Still such new faucet can contribute to community in some cases like in very poor countries or people that want to just "test" bitcoin and see how it works.
Maybe you will be able to get great advertisements (for great $ to you). It only depend on your selling skills Smiley
hero member
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August 29, 2018, 10:09:33 PM
#30
It may be profitable in Venezuela......since they only make a few usd per month because of hyperinflation.  For everyone else though, no its not worth it in the slightest.

It could be for end users, but it's not going to make a difference for the operator unless he moves to Venezuela and runs it from there. I doubt OP would be willing to do that lol.

I know this is purely theoretical, but he probably won't make any money there either because I don't think advertisers would be lining up for the Venezuelan market.

Anyway, 99bitcoins has a faucet guide that people who are interested in starting a faucet may want to check out.
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August 29, 2018, 03:29:04 AM
#29
The faucet is mainly used to test the wallet or earn a transfer fee. This is my personal thought.
Earn it through it, and estimate the efficiency is a bit low.
newbie
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August 29, 2018, 02:01:11 AM
#28
It may be profitable in Venezuela......since they only make a few usd per month because of hyperinflation.  For everyone else though, no its not worth it in the slightest.
newbie
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August 25, 2018, 05:48:07 AM
#27
How to own them, are there any sources to learn about faucets like how popular you are?
legendary
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August 25, 2018, 01:59:56 AM
#26
There was a time when major Ad companies were paying for faucet traffic and some of these Faucets made some nice profits, but they soon realized that advertisement traffic from faucet users are worthless, because these people are not an ideal target market.

A lot of faucets had to add extra gambling features to retain their users and to subsidize their faucet payouts. The remaining faucets are hanging by the tip of their fingers and some are losing money.  Roll Eyes 

The initial idea behind faucets was to grow adoption by giving people small amounts of bitcoin/Satoshi to start using it, but it quickly turned into a money making venture.  Angry
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August 24, 2018, 11:39:57 PM
#25
In fact a lot of faucets before, some are good some are scam. And on some faucet, there are just so many advertisement. I do have a few faucets that I use regularly now. One of them even have app on iphone so it is convenient for me to use. But it is hard to make a lot of money from faucets.
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August 24, 2018, 09:41:27 PM
#24
Faucet not profitable, Faucet will profitable if you have an active refferal, If no, you will be tired. 1$/Month 😭😭
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August 24, 2018, 11:54:02 AM
#23
Sure they Can be anytime.You should forget about the tokens just after received them & hold at-least 1 year,i am sure you will be surprised.
mk4
legendary
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August 24, 2018, 11:19:39 AM
#22
What is the benefit of having a faucet?

As I see it, you are giving away satoshis (am I right or I am missing something here?)
People who make faucet sites implement ads on their sites, because ad networks pay their applicants per impression. So the trick is to give out sats that cost cheaper than the cost-per-impression for the faucet owner to make a profit. Though I've read in some posts that some ad networks don't allow faucet sites now.

As a newbie Faucets is a good option to start earning your first bitcoin but to other people claiming on bitcoin faucets is a waste of time.
It's definitely in no way a good option to start earning. You literally gain nothing but a few sats.
hero member
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August 24, 2018, 10:08:44 AM
#21
As a newbie Faucets is a good option to start earning your first bitcoin but to other people claiming on bitcoin faucets is a waste of time.
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August 24, 2018, 09:38:34 AM
#20
What is the benefit of having a faucet?

As I see it, you are giving away satoshis (am I right or I am missing something here?)
newbie
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August 24, 2018, 08:19:44 AM
#19
a few years back faucets were profitable I knew some people where making 2-3 X of their BTC each month. But of course that is before adsense banned faucet sites.

there are numerous advertisement platforms where you could earn money from them through a faucet website such as coinzilla.io but they require your site to be older than 3 months so you can't use it right away.

Also getting traffic to your site is a bit of a challenge as a beginner I recommend taking advantage of faucet management platforms such as faucethub.io. and best of luck
newbie
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August 24, 2018, 08:18:38 AM
#18
Faucet is time consuming and not that profitable .i will advice you join airdrop and bounty campaigns
jr. member
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August 23, 2018, 08:54:55 PM
#17
No, i don't believe there are any faucets out there that are actually profitable. I tried a few myself for a couple weeks and you're really only making a few cents a day. Definitely not worth the time, you can make 100x more from recycling cans than claiming little bits of tokens from a faucet.
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August 23, 2018, 08:06:37 PM
#17
Faucets are not profitable, its just a total waste of time
newbie
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August 23, 2018, 06:20:58 PM
#16
Faucets are usually so small amounts that their only purpose is to get familiar with the coin and the way how things work. No way you can actually earn something clicking on faucets. Sometimes you might need to make a minimal transaction for some reason, that's when you could use a faucet if you don't have the coin yet. It's usually a few clicks process, so much easier than to go to the (new) exchange, send bitcoin/ethereum/buy/convert/send back...
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August 23, 2018, 05:59:33 PM
#15
As a ex-faucet owner, (soon to be one again) it honestly depends.

There are many factors, depending on your ads, your shortlinks, etc.

Lets say we have a example.

Your faucet gives out 10 satoshi, ok?

If you have raincaptcha, you can make 1-3 satoshi from a solve. This leaves at most 7 satoshi left.

Shortlinks depending on country and the shortlink itself, ex: a usa visitor solves your shortlink, with 20$ cpm for usa solves, thats 2 cents, you have profited. However, most of the  users from faucets are not from US, so you gain less then a cent, but still maybe 0.1 cent?

What your giving is 0.00065013 USD, and maybe 0.1 cent or so you get back? Of course, these shortlinks count unique views, so it can be hard to profit off of, without a large audience.

We also have ad networks, you wont get much though, so we wont count it.

The key here though is to have alot of users, and alot of claims, this way, you can make good profit.
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August 23, 2018, 04:08:29 PM
#14
" Faucet site is profitable or not it's depend on owner.let's say a faucet site contains 3 advertising site ads with 10k satoshis CPM each and site pay 15 satoshis per 10 minutes.if there are 1000 claim from different IPS ,You lose 15×1000 = 15000 satoshis and you earn 3×10000=30000 satoshis from ads network.That's mean you just earn 15000 satoshis only from ads network while short links service give extra benefit.
Top earning ads provider sites always look faucet Alexa rank and that's why my post suggest (not forces) for Alexa service.
 To earn big benefit, faucet should have a lot of claimer and for this my post contains the ways for getting claimer for faucet."



Copied from @G1btc from this same forum.
legendary
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August 23, 2018, 04:03:15 PM
#13
I don't want to disappoint you, but faucets aren't profitable. It was profitable few years ago, but then Google Adsense banned faucets from their network.
 And it's not easy to manage faucet - it's never ending fight with bots, search for best paying ad networks, url shorteners and etc. And if you somehow managed to get profit - it will be very tiny and not worth efforts that you put to manage faucet. And even experience owners running faucets in a loss.
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August 23, 2018, 03:51:44 PM
#12
I already play faucet but it just take time without profit,you just get a tired. Pair $1/month, its make me cry 😭
legendary
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August 23, 2018, 02:38:50 PM
#11
I think it depends on how you promote your faucet site and if you can do SEO with high topical relevance you can get more clicks on your ads that I think will help you to make profit and if you know how to do SEO you should know how to use a proper keyword to find the right audience and you must manage the give enough reward to make your faucet site profitable.
Don't focus on faucet only you must post any related article in your website to hook other visitors to your site to make more traffic so that the other ads you can spread it to your entire website.  If your website is new you can hardly to rank up in the first place you must wait for almost 6 months before you can gain a good traffic to your site naturally. This is just my predictions if how other faucet owners can make a profit with this kind of business.
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August 23, 2018, 01:52:42 PM
#10
Faucet are time consuming, and takes a lot of  battery in your phone and laptop. It is not profitable compare to the time spent on a particular project.the pay out are very small.time is money ,so spend your time in what we profit you.
newbie
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August 23, 2018, 01:05:16 PM
#9
I think the main purpose of faucet is to help a project team promote their coin and allow their users to test their wallet. Since the amount you receive is very small, It is very difficult to make a good profit even though you claim it constantly.
jr. member
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August 23, 2018, 11:37:55 AM
#8
Mostly used to promote coin or check if your wallet works fine ;-)
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August 23, 2018, 11:34:50 AM
#7
This is actually a question for those who own them.

I was a reading up on how to start a faucet (just out of curiosity) and it said that the majority of faucet sites are not profitable, I saw a fair few and thought that maybe that wasn't true. Why would you spend time and effort and something like that to not make money.

Are any beginners using them and or has anyone just started one?

iasenko get link to the good post  but if you want to understand the latest trend then I will suggest you to move this or post this topic in Micro earnings Board.

I think it is good if you create an account on faucethub.io  and get the direct feedback/contact from faucet user and faucet owner.

Owner of faucethub.io is also a bitcointalk member mexicantarget
mk4
legendary
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August 23, 2018, 10:04:10 AM
#6
It may be profitable in Venezuela......since they only make a few usd per month because of hyperinflation.  For everyone else though, no its not worth it in the slightest.
Well yea, quite true knowing how bad the economy of Venezuela is right now. But still, there's a lot of better alternatives out there. Some Venezuelans even play RuneScape(a video game) instead and sell the in-game currency, and that's a better alternative to faucets profit-wise by more than ten-fold.
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August 23, 2018, 09:55:14 AM
#5
It may be profitable in Venezuela......since they only make a few usd per month because of hyperinflation.  For everyone else though, no its not worth it in the slightest.
mk4
legendary
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August 23, 2018, 09:33:53 AM
#4
I'm not sure if they're profitable or not, but what I know is that demand for faucets are definitely a lot lower now compared to before; but people definitely still use them.

Why would you spend time and effort and something like that to not make money.
Some people do it as a hobby. I did the same in the past.

Are any beginners using them and or has anyone just started one?
The beginners are the ones that are definitely using faucets. Most have no idea that they're really wasting their time solving captchas. There's so much ways on making money online(outside of crypto). I'd rather work at mcdonalds than clicking faucets all day.

Faucets were only viable back in the day because new people(like me in 2016) used funds collected from faucets to play with bitcoin and learn how to do transactions using them.
jr. member
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August 23, 2018, 09:29:43 AM
#3
Ok cool thanks for your help
legendary
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August 23, 2018, 07:53:48 AM
#2
Read this thread, in particular the comment from AdolfinWolf and you will probably find the answer to your question.
BTW using the search engine is also helpful, so if you have questions in the future, check first before you post if someone else has already answered it.
No need to start a new thread if you can learn to read and search Smiley
jr. member
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August 23, 2018, 04:30:28 AM
#1
This is actually a question for those who own them.

I was a reading up on how to start a faucet (just out of curiosity) and it said that the majority of faucet sites are not profitable, I saw a fair few and thought that maybe that wasn't true. Why would you spend time and effort and something like that to not make money.

Are any beginners using them and or has anyone just started one?
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