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Topic: Is it smart to make a Bitcoin Faucet - page 4. (Read 6951 times)

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May 23, 2014, 08:33:34 AM
#84
Most of the faucets are having an upper limit for payments. Users must accumulate that many Bitcoins (say BTC0.0005 or BTC0.001), to qualify for the withdrawal. Still... the transaction fee can be heavy.
Weekly batch payments can help to solve the problem. User must accumlate 0.001 and cashout will only be done once per week. This way, the operator can pay 0.1 for 100 people and only use a transaction fee of 0.0001
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May 23, 2014, 08:24:29 AM
#83
Well, the faucet wasnt on bitcoininformation.info, ive never visited this site. maybe someone else would have coppied your idea.
Yeah, people copied it quite quickly. I knew who did it after me, but forgot. Has been a while since I had my faucet Tongue
How much did you gave out from your faucet and did you ever had any profits from your faucet? and did you ever publicize your faucet?
Around 1BTC loss (meaning I paid it out of my own pocket), no profits. A very old version of the code was on Github and people forked it, so it can be found, yes. I do not give support for it though.
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May 23, 2014, 08:20:52 AM
#82
Well, the faucet wasnt on bitcoininformation.info, ive never visited this site. maybe someone else would have coppied your idea.
Yeah, people copied it quite quickly. I knew who did it after me, but forgot. Has been a while since I had my faucet Tongue
How much did you gave out from your faucet and did you ever had any profits from your faucet? and did you ever publicize your faucet?
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May 23, 2014, 08:18:27 AM
#81
Most of the faucets are having an upper limit for payments. Users must accumulate that many Bitcoins (say BTC0.0005 or BTC0.001), to qualify for the withdrawal. Still... the transaction fee can be heavy.
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May 23, 2014, 07:41:26 AM
#80
Well, the faucet wasnt on bitcoininformation.info, ive never visited this site. maybe someone else would have coppied your idea.
Yeah, people copied it quite quickly. I knew who did it after me, but forgot. Has been a while since I had my faucet Tongue
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May 23, 2014, 07:26:24 AM
#79
Well, the faucet wasnt on bitcoininformation.info, ive never visited this site. maybe someone else would have coppied your idea.
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May 23, 2014, 06:18:48 AM
#78
making a faucet is just waste of time

Its not if your learning as you go, it can help to gain insight into doing alot of auto BTC stuff, but in terms of making worth while BTC yeah abit of a waste of time.
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May 23, 2014, 06:13:39 AM
#77
making a faucet is just waste of time
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May 23, 2014, 05:56:01 AM
#76
LOL. I dont think hackers would be interested in hacking the faucets, there are other big things for them to hack, and it completely your wish that if you want to open a bitcoin faucet or not. By opening one you'll just contribute to the spread of bitcoin, but i guess your faucet should payout instantly, and as the current faucets just pay out dust so your faucet should have a higher payouts than the others.
My faucet had a peerbet payout option and people loved it. Most payments were done to peerbet accounts. So that is something that a faucet owner should implement. I was the first one to do so. Still have the code laying around if someone is interested in it. For a small donation of course.
Well yeah, i saw some option of peerbet payment on a faucet but i dont remember which one. But I really dont know what peerbet is. So would you also like to throw some light on the peerbet accounts? And let this guy collect money for his own faucet first then only he'll be able to think about buying your code.
Was it on Bitcoininformation.info because that is my website which had a faucet. Peerbet is a player vs player gambling website. People create nets and we'll play against each other. Anyway, the donation is jot required. Of course. It's a donation after all. Sorry if that wasn't clear enough.
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May 23, 2014, 05:48:30 AM
#75
LOL. I dont think hackers would be interested in hacking the faucets, there are other big things for them to hack, and it completely your wish that if you want to open a bitcoin faucet or not. By opening one you'll just contribute to the spread of bitcoin, but i guess your faucet should payout instantly, and as the current faucets just pay out dust so your faucet should have a higher payouts than the others.
My faucet had a peerbet payout option and people loved it. Most payments were done to peerbet accounts. So that is something that a faucet owner should implement. I was the first one to do so. Still have the code laying around if someone is interested in it. For a small donation of course.
Well yeah, i saw some option of peerbet payment on a faucet but i dont remember which one. But I really dont know what peerbet is. So would you also like to throw some light on the peerbet accounts? And let this guy collect money for his own faucet first then only he'll be able to think about buying your code.
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May 23, 2014, 05:41:04 AM
#74
LOL. I dont think hackers would be interested in hacking the faucets, there are other big things for them to hack, and it completely your wish that if you want to open a bitcoin faucet or not. By opening one you'll just contribute to the spread of bitcoin, but i guess your faucet should payout instantly, and as the current faucets just pay out dust so your faucet should have a higher payouts than the others.
My faucet had a peerbet payout option and people loved it. Most payments were done to peerbet accounts. So that is something that a faucet owner should implement. I was the first one to do so. Still have the code laying around if someone is interested in it. For a small donation of course.
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May 23, 2014, 05:35:49 AM
#73
LOL. I dont think hackers would be interested in hacking the faucets, there are other big things for them to hack, and it completely your wish that if you want to open a bitcoin faucet or not. By opening one you'll just contribute to the spread of bitcoin, but i guess your faucet should payout instantly, and as the current faucets just pay out dust so your faucet should have a higher payouts than the others.
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May 23, 2014, 02:46:29 AM
#72
Yeah, it sucks that it came to that. At the end of last year there were a couple faucets I know of that were pulling in 5btc+ in profit per week. One was earning 1.5-2 BTC a day off theirs.

Yeah it was also going to happen really, so many faucets out there, there was bound to be alot of natural selection until we were down to a few bigger players. It maybe worth it again soon if BTC takes another upwards drive.
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May 22, 2014, 03:03:30 PM
#71
I would think with enough visitors you can make some money off a faucet, if you sell advertising.  You will need a lot of visitors and you'll have to give away only enough to make sure you're profitable.  Another idea some faucets do is to have it like a lottery, where you could get from 1 satoshi up to 1 BTC or something like that.

The problem is the market is oversaturated. You'd need to approach advertisers directly to land any deals at this point. Otherwise you're not going to make much, if anything.
Yup and the problem with that is, you need visitors to get advertisers, but with a oversaturated market, you won't get enough to be attractive to advertisers. Which sucks Undecided

If people were able to (or willing to) pay a decent amount, they could gain market share easily. When most faucets are paying out like half a uBTC per claim, that is nothing. If they were giving more money, they would be prioritized. I, for example, would gladly prioritize sites on my rotator if they were willing to pay more.
Well, that is true of course. But most people don't have that kind of money to put into a faucet. Also, the chance of losing it are quite high. Most people prefer to play safe with their hard earned BTC.
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May 22, 2014, 03:00:35 PM
#70
he problem was there was not enough traffic - for every 1000 visitors you get about ~ 0.0025 btc trough the ad service im using. Unfortunately, traffic was about 10-20 a day. Im not quite sure why so few people were interested in btc for jokes Huh
It's not the jokes people are unmotivated by, it's the tiny amount of wealth faucets pay out. Ohh, 50 cents worth of bitcoin, oh myyy, I should take the time to sign up for some shitty open-mic-night dad-jokes site! No.

And nobody gives a shit about gambling, this is not 1930.
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May 22, 2014, 02:58:23 PM
#69
more the better IMO
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May 22, 2014, 02:45:07 PM
#68
I would think with enough visitors you can make some money off a faucet, if you sell advertising.  You will need a lot of visitors and you'll have to give away only enough to make sure you're profitable.  Another idea some faucets do is to have it like a lottery, where you could get from 1 satoshi up to 1 BTC or something like that.

The problem is the market is oversaturated. You'd need to approach advertisers directly to land any deals at this point. Otherwise you're not going to make much, if anything.
Yup and the problem with that is, you need visitors to get advertisers, but with a oversaturated market, you won't get enough to be attractive to advertisers. Which sucks Undecided

If people were able to (or willing to) pay a decent amount, they could gain market share easily. When most faucets are paying out like half a uBTC per claim, that is nothing. If they were giving more money, they would be prioritized. I, for example, would gladly prioritize sites on my rotator if they were willing to pay more.
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May 22, 2014, 02:38:44 PM
#67
I would think with enough visitors you can make some money off a faucet, if you sell advertising.  You will need a lot of visitors and you'll have to give away only enough to make sure you're profitable.  Another idea some faucets do is to have it like a lottery, where you could get from 1 satoshi up to 1 BTC or something like that.

The problem is the market is oversaturated. You'd need to approach advertisers directly to land any deals at this point. Otherwise you're not going to make much, if anything.
Yup and the problem with that is, you need visitors to get advertisers, but with a oversaturated market, you won't get enough to be attractive to advertisers. Which sucks Undecided
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May 22, 2014, 02:37:21 PM
#66
I would think with enough visitors you can make some money off a faucet, if you sell advertising.  You will need a lot of visitors and you'll have to give away only enough to make sure you're profitable.  Another idea some faucets do is to have it like a lottery, where you could get from 1 satoshi up to 1 BTC or something like that.

The problem is the market is oversaturated. You'd need to approach advertisers directly to land any deals at this point. Otherwise you're not going to make much, if anything.
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May 22, 2014, 02:28:08 PM
#65
I would think with enough visitors you can make some money off a faucet, if you sell advertising.  You will need a lot of visitors and you'll have to give away only enough to make sure you're profitable.  Another idea some faucets do is to have it like a lottery, where you could get from 1 satoshi up to 1 BTC or something like that.
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