Informational message from now onI had to shut down my faucet due to the fact i stopped renting a dedicated server (prices were increased to a level where it became to much for a hobby). You can always ask for tBTC directly if you need it.
From now on, i'll be giving enough tBTC to test out "normal" stuff on the testnet... Since the average fee is 1 sat/vbyte, you'll need about 150-300 sats to pay the fee for a transaction, that's 0.000003 tBTC. I figure normal tests require about 10 transactions, which equals 0.00003 tBTC in fees. This amount, plus some value to transact without running into the dust limit made me decide to give out 0.0005 tBTC to people asking for it when they only give a minimal explanation (from now on).
If you want more, make a clear case: what are you actually planning on doing, why do you need more than 0.0005 tBTC, why can't you use regtest. You don't need to harm your privacy, but i'll need more info than just the basics
I'll also be batching payments (if possible) and i will not give any guarantees... If i suspect you from abusing the tBTC i gave you, or if i suspect there's a high chance you'll spam/scam/multiaccount, or if i'm just not @ the office for a couple of days/weeks, or i forget or overlook applications, no payments won't go out.
I recently tried to help a couple guys that were in need of some tBTC, and i found out there are only a handfull of relatively stable tBTC faucets out there... That's why i decided to take a stab at making one myself:
https://tbtc.mocacinno.com/
Following things are "features", not bugs:
- it has a lot of ads: i'll use part of the ad income and/or tips to rent some hashrate (or buy an old ASIC) an mine some tBTC to fill the faucet's wallet. The rest of the tips will go to hosting costs and electricity costs while mining... If the faucet ever runs completely dry, and there is no income or tBTC donations, the project will stop...
- it's behind cloudflare: it's only tBTC... Don't use it to do anything illegal because big brother might be watching
- it's ugly: i'm not a designer
- it only pays once per hour: i'm trying not to waste tBTC in fees since the hashrate on the testnet is relatively high, so tBTC isn't that easy to mine
- it's missing some security headers: it's only a tbtc faucet... I didn't put much effort into securing it
- it's loading external content: it's only a tbtc faucet... I didn't put much effort into securing it
If you run into any other bugs or potential weaknesses, let me know
What could you do with tBTC?
- Use it when you develop a new script/app/...
- Use it to test the lightning network
- Use it as a learning tool: there are loads of tBTC wallets (including, but not limited to: hardware wallets, desktop wallets, mobile wallets and paper wallets). Point newbies towards these when they have the need to learn how to perform certain actions in a risk-free environment
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