Topic: Litecoin faucet (Read 4234 times)

w00t!

It looks like someone tried to hack my website..
I logged the IP 46.246.31.131 ... I was curios if the person is using bitcoins, so I checked the blockchain and... found this https://blockchain.info/ip-address/46.246.31.131 

I will close the faucets for the next hours to do some checks 

alright, post when its dry

Hello :-)

Well, I have some issues with the hosting company (this is why so many of you get into 500 Internal Server Error).
After the latest changes, the frequency of those errors has decreased and there were no more problems with the payments.

The ad revenue decreased lately and the faucet strives to stay afloat.
Before I changed the cooldown, the faucet was giving ~3 LTC per day, but with the ad revenue I usually bought ~2 LTC back.
After that change, the faucet is giving ~1 LTC per day, but with the lately increase of litecoin's price and with the decreased ad revenue, I can't buy that 1 LTC back 

I added a total of 50 LTC from my wallet, and used all the bitcoins I received from advertisements to buy more litecoins. The donations are going directly to the faucet's balance and not in my wallet :-)
Currently, there are ~15 LTC in the faucet and if nothing will change, it will be "alive" for about 3-4 weeks.

how is your faucet, is "he" feeling good?

Same thing here

Internal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, [email protected] and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at coinofmidas.com Port 80

Was 0.01 per request, every hour.
But if the faucet is running low, the amount will decrease over the time. People of course where draining it, in a few hours I saw th amount of 0.008 go to 0.006.

Not really. If you can do that then it means the privacy model of bitcoin is breached.

How much are you giving out per request?

Last hour I looked in the logs... Sadly there are some users who keep changing their IP and LTC address to get more coins. I created a linking system which links all IPs and addresses used by someone. But few days after this I saw new IP and address pairs, so the method is good, but not the best.

I am curious if there is any way to find if two addresses belong to the same wallet. If someone knows, please PM me. This will help the faucet a lot.

Hi Kingmidas,

Simply put...I am loving your site and I visit several times a day.  The new changes are disappointing but do what you gotta do to keep the site up and running.  Hopefully you can reduce the cooldown soon in the future. 

 

I currently changed the timer from once per hour to once per day... if I see there are no more problems, I will reduce the cooldown again :-)

Reducing how much the ime between each request?

Lately I got almost no free time to check how the faucets are doing, and right now I see there are some problems. My hosting company is kinda bad and there are some serious issues with their servers. I talked to them on the phone but I cannot improve anything. The server keeps returning 500 Internal Server Error randomly throughout the day. Their excuse was "Maybe you got too much traffic on your page!".

This is the reason why I will increase the cooldown between requests.

Also the payments are delayed, because the server was giving "free errors" at the time when the payment script is running.

Users who got active referrals still can gen decent payouts everyday

Hello,

I didn't posted the latest payments, I am kinda busy with other stuff lately

Latest payments:

28-02-2013: http://explorer.litecoin.net/t/69Z3Ffjr3S
01-03-2013: http://explorer.litecoin.net/t/2MQrmLPRLP

I will add more coins soon :-)

Cheers!

Uhm... yes... I edited the script and now it will send the payments for a value greater or equal to 0.01 :-)

Another payment: http://explorer.litecoin.net/t/9YJpZxap6h

Hello!

Another payment was made and everything runs smooth
I solved any known issues and I am waiting for suggestions.

I still don't know an effective way to attract new visitors to the faucets  

Anyway... here is the latest transaction: http://explorer.litecoin.net/t/6YyeWi4HvZ

I added more coins and the payments should increase to 0.01 LTC / request.

The next payment is in ~2h so hurry up if you want some coins fast or else you`ll need to wait 24 more hours  

Enjoy

LE: I added another layer of verification to the faucet, canceled ~20 pending fraudulent requests and banned around 20 addresses & IPs.

Hello again 

The last two days I was cannot check anything related to the faucets, because I wasn't in town.

The payments couldn't be sent because of someone who entered empty spaces in his address.
I solved that issue this morning and I've sent the payment for all pending requests

Here is the transaction for the last ~60 hours: http://explorer.litecoin.net/t/ThPWpV9QF

Cheers!

Another day, another payment 

Here is the link http://explorer.litecoin.net/t/8QbBeDN3du

I added more coins to the faucet and set an upper limit to 0.01 LTC per request.

This helped me to reduce the fees, as you can see here:
The latest transaction: http://explorer.litecoin.net/t/5Q8GK9NVNE

Hi,

Because of the high fees for transacting less than 0.01 LTC (0.1 ~ 0.2 LTC per transaction) I decided to delay the payment to the addresses which don't pass that value.
Yesterday I had some problems with the server and I used an older version of the auto-payment script and I think because of this the payments below 0.01 were updated to 'processed' in database but they were not sent.

I'm not home right now and today is a busy day for me, but I think I'll manage to fix it until the next payment.

It's better to post your concerns, because I may not be aware of a bug and because the traffic increased lately, it's pretty hard to compare data from database with the data from litecoin server.

Later edit: definitely there is a problem with the payment script because I checked the logs and something is not right. Probably tonight everyone will get a bonus

Later Later edit:
I found the problem: I verify addresses before inserting them into database, but the verify function ignores empty spaces and it returns true if the address is valid, even there is an empty space in the address.
Because someone put an empty space in his address, the last character was trimmed and the address was stored with 33 characters instead of 34.
Because of the invalid address, the payments couldn't be send.

Now I know where is the problem and it will be solved shortly.

If you find more bugs, if you don't know something or if you are just curious, contact me :-)