Topic: Testnet Faucet (Read 1354 times)

Not anymore. I closed my testnet faucet until I can get testnet 4 coins. Testnet fees make it impossible to use.
I now use Litecoin for testing: a cent is enough to make 100 transactions.

We have a saying in my country that goes something like "You should not look a given horse in it's mouth". It basically means: if you get something for free, you should not complain about it. You either take the free handout, or you don't... 0.0005 is the default claim IF people can't give a decent explanation why they'd need more.

0.0005 is enough to play around with standard transactions, set up a small lightning channel, test out a new wallet or test standard scripts. If you need 1 tBTC to mess up the mempool with runes or inscriptions, you are correct, you should get it somewhere else. I'm not going to give away such sums to learn people how to fill the mempool and force people to pay >20sat/vbyte when they use the network for what is was originally intended.

I actually got more then 10 tbtc, and I spent alot.

you going to need alot of tbtc to use ordianls or runes , some people called it DDos attack using gamfiy way.

once op_cat on testnet 4 come, i am also going to need alot of tbtc ~

if you try inscription of 320kb it cost you around 1tbtc more or less.

so far I have spent around 10tbtc looking to do more stuff !

also unisat model is coming soon which will help make smart contracts like on ordianls, so i am going to try it ~

Why would you need 10 tBTC for a test scenario? 0.01 or maybe 0.1 tBTC should be enough for most cases. And what kind of scenarios can't be done in Regtest or Signet, seriously?

Paying for Testnet Bitcoins is what ruins and kills Testnet. You can't prevent a market for Testnet coins, but it's the stupids who actually engage in such markets and hand over real money or coins.

Meanwhile, Garlo Nicon mined more than 60 tBTC on his CPU: https://mempool.space/testnet/address/tb1qvy67actlsslmvwpjzk9hnx6jf04g5y26sz5crx

Currently, there are less and less ASIC miners, and the real time between blocks in testnet3 is now set to 20 minutes. Sometimes, some ASIC pops out, but it is rare.

I have no idea what Bitcoin Testnet 0.0005 can do as of today, its really silly ~~

if you are looking for 10 tbtc or more just buy them throw the market.

it cost less then 10$ ~


or you can use testnet 4 ~ and try to mine for them which cost you quite a bit ~

I usually send 0.0005 (the default value), but i had a 0.001 unspent output, and it was more efficient to just spend the complete unspent output instead of creating some change... That's why you got a tad bit more than the default amount. Fees on testnet are ridiculous at the moment tough.

https://blockstream.info/testnet/tx/f8fdf17b88e6e1761c3b8207f6646dbd159b24275171570efed2c5e5b848c359

Hey there, im a software engineer working in the wallet industry. with my team we are performing many tests on chain and we would love to get some tbtc.
Tried many faucets but they are not working that well

my2yD3GFzq1rkcA7Rnh42V8Pjk8obNkNfj is my address <3

Thanks!!

It's possible i copyd the wrong transaction id... I did send the default amount tough.

This is a transaction that was confirmed 2024-01-18 16:10 and I'm pretty sure it didn't fund the address tb1p725a2gdq2pf2f3rcq7825j8ywwv32jljz3vl67w8ve0ud6e3zrqqc0k99n of vipdraigerss.

It has been likely Tx id e1fabddbfd28d38b9fa12120cf851efb321c734e92dce65139f0b3dae8e4eb71 or Tx id 9b806321e3ffc1e10e8d6f9264d8f31383fa253bb16a424da388fef039b80273?

Sent default amount with tx id 028500b5ac59a0ff731148078a3862e0397e444af60b85ee52b23fcad8d5362c

Can someone help me pls. All faucet stopped. thank you very much
tb1p725a2gdq2pf2f3rcq7825j8ywwv32jljz3vl67w8ve0ud6e3zrqqc0k99n

The standard amount has been sent: 4a4bc0914ba9b64829e2f75f1008f83bb6534ef6caf48277462189ece899d993

Hello, and thank you for all this work!

I am trying to test a couple of things bitcoin related, transactions and other various functions to get a better understanding.

This is my wallet: tb1qpxv2wzraeatq7yyvffcuee9y9r363crl3453ay

Thank you!

sent the standard testing amount: e0196b9358f286bab4b32b3958208e88e8b5374043ad16ecb85b7445829d4f56

hello, i need testnet coins for learning purpose i'm planning on using noncustodial wallet for my holdings so i want to gather enough knowledge on how it works generally.

request id = tb1qewlprl52d6p3dq3p8cxyjerqk7wt6ufsqt77ts

any amount is highly appreciated

thanks for the testnet BTC, will somebody help with signet btc of any amount. very much appreciated.

tb1qr3jelr9l6g45v6wr9accs334kr9cdrngh5mc8n

I've sent the default amount in transaction 261e5065343e322790268bf45648336861f51a58cadf9b9c4f06166a109fe7d4.
It should be enough to conduct some basic tests in most usecases.

Hy Bro, need some testnet/ signet bitcoin for a campaign, but almost all faucet stopped working. wasted too much time here and there. Any amount will be greatly appreciated, plus i will return soon. thanks Bro.
tb1qr3jelr9l6g45v6wr9accs334kr9cdrngh5mc8n

You can keep it.

Wow thank you mate. I appreciate it. Should I return this to you after? Im just gonna use it for a testnet campaign.

Sent you 0.1 tBTC. 

Hi OP I am joining a testnet campaign that requires a bitcoin testnet/signet but almost all the faucet were down for requesting. Id hope I could ask for help if you could send me some of testnet bitcoin will apreciate it.

tb1paajc692v6xa5t8c9gse905v4wmn803l0fltz8gmthcp0ez2mur0skzffp8

Thanks a lot.

I've sent you the new default value...
fd7df351655633821bb2c816f166a9a4f73c8f111f117f7df3b6e2ca43ac6c88

I'm really excited to explore and test tBTC, and I'd love to get my hands on some for my BTC testnet wallet. If you're open to it, would you mind sending a small amount my way? It'll help me dive into the project and provide valuable feedback.

Thanks a bunch! 🚀

tb1q9n8xha0pdaylh73hpy73nvmfu3qk9t29a7dhqw

Thanks a lot, BlackHatCoiner it is more than enough 


I just recently jumped into retroactive airdrop  I found a local group on Telegram that people can make from 1K - 200K to do the airdrop and usually the task is quite simple just try out their testnet and etc.
and some communities said we only need to do a bridge a couple of times to be eligible.

and yeah I just read your thread and it can be a worthless token and NotATether in my opinion was right about this


But just try my luck here 

Sent you 0.01 tBTC. I hope they are enough. 

I hope this is a worthless token; testnet bitcoins are worthless themselves. As far as I can see, it is an Ethereum token which is based on the Bitcoin blockchain. I had read about it in this thread, but it still hasn't convinced me it has to go through Ethereum and can't just built itself in a second layer. Smells like the creators wanna make a few quick bucks.

Hi mocacinno

Would you please to send some btc testnet to this address tb1qtlk8dezuknqkjnqvngfuy3u9d3ckjqyahadkge any amount as long I can do for bridge 4 times at least

The reason is quite simple I hear there will be an airdrop for people who use this platform https://testnet.svmscan.io/ and details can be found here https://boxmining.com/satoshivm-savm-token-airdrop-guide/
Since you might have a ton of it you could join this one too  

Hey man - Thanks so much! I really appreciate it

I'll put it to good use and look to pass it on when complete.

sent in transaction https://blockstream.info/testnet/tx/1c35ec85c77d18de21f3da3ebe9b3f5364aef45b523ad1c033c815159e90bbc6

Informational message from now on

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, 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.

Hey guys,

I have been hunting around for a faucet and ended up here as it seems most do not work.

I was hoping to get some tbtc for testing with SatoshiVM but so far don't even have enough to bridge.

Would anyone be kind enough to send me some please?

My address is tb1q5xnkt2yx8q6zk8qgfspnx7ej6hynv2hyaljquv

0.01 would be more than enough.

I already sent him 0.1tBTC the other day; that should probably suffice for testing the stuff he described above.

Sure... How much do you need? If it's just a couple hundred transactions with a fee of 1 sat/vbyte and some value... 0.01 tBTC sufficient?

Hi, it would be greatly appreciated if you could send me some tBTC so I can test for the purposes of creating documentation around sending BTC programmatically using a library like bitcoinjs-lib.

address:

mjt7zw6grpdSpEkCqLeUMma9EFH1ESk3wp


Kindly send enough for testing purposes. I haven't had success using existing bitcoin faucets i found online, so hoping this is a solution!

Ironically, the testnet bitcoin I'm giving in my faucet have been sent to me by mocaccino. True, I wanted to test some stuff with the lightning network (and even setup a faucet at some point), and I asked him for a price (because I remembered that he's selling for a time). Fortunately, he gave them for free. 

I saw your post in the other thread. mocaccino's faucet seem more active. If you want to donate testnet bitcoin to a faucet, better do it to his.

Hey there; I am mining some tBTC currently and was wondering whether you need some for your faucet.
I've also been looking for another thread to be honest, which I can't find - maybe you can help me. I remember that someone else (I thought it was BlackHatCoiner; but can't find such a thread by him) also had a 'faucet', but forum-based - so it was not an automated technical solution like yours - and wanted to offer coins as well. Maybe you remember who it was, that would be great!

Defenately... If regtest suits your needs, i'd go with it... Regtest should cover ~90% of the usecases (just my gut feeling, not an actual study).
As for natsu_dev's request, i barely have enough tBTC to fund my faucet as it stands, so i can no longer part with them anymore.

Try using regtest to generate as much TESTNET BTC as you need.
It only takes a few seconds to be done because it's a preset low difficulty.

More information / detailed instructions here: https://bitcoin.org/en/developer-examples#regtest-mode

This should let you do any testing you need.

-Dave

Hi Mocaccino and to others who have big amounts of test bitcoins....If you could spare me some for my testing I would be glad. I tried Mocaccino's faucet, however it is just giving out very small amounts. I need around 20, but the more the merrier. I will send them back after my test.

bitcoin test address: 2MxXi7jjGQiR1wsFSZy2KxRV6TA4Teod6qB

Thanks!

Yup, the block reward is THAT low  
To be honest, i've already taught the same thing a couple of times: maybe it's time to reset the testnet again... It's a TESTnet afterall, people need tBTC for tests, and it's a bummer if they can't just CPU mine some tBTC. I have no idear why people insist on running old ASIC's on the testnet to begin with. The stash of tBTC i currently have was CPU mined a long time ago, but nowadays is simply impossible. That's why i need all those adds/affiliate links/begging for tips/donating cpu power/..., i simply need to either rent some hashrate from miningrigrentals or buy an old asic (an S7 or something) if i want to replenish my faucet, and i don't want to pay these costs out of my own pocket.

As for a donation address for tBTC: sure
This address was generated by my testnet node, the one running the testnet hot wallet, so all donations go directly into funding the faucet: 2NBsursJUfmepDu3WT7GBRLrL6AdHSPC9V4


Yeah, i realise 50.000 is a tad low... It should be sufficient for a couple basic tests tough... I dont think you need more tBTC if you're trying out creating a testnet paper wallet and sweeping it in testnet electrum, or setting up a testnet lightning wallet, or testing out some basic json-rpc calls on your testnet node... However, i realise that if you want to test a new mixing algorithm, 50.000 tSat is just dust.

I do plan on increasing the claim amount in the future, after i see if this model is self-sustainable.

A campaign to urge devs to send the tBTC back to one of the working testnet faucets would be great... I do think most people will have lost the funds, or they'll just ignore such questions... But if only a few devs would do this, it would probably make a huge difference.


Half a dozen seems about right, I found 6 (including mine), that's why i created this one, testnet faucets are important, they give people a no-risk tool to develop and learn.

The testnet difficulty is peculiar. It drops to 1 if no block has been found for 20 minutes. However, if the difficulty retargets after the the diff has been dropped to 1, it'll stay 1 for 2016 blocks, than it'll double for 2016 blocks, then it'll double again,...
However, if you're cpu mining, and you're competing against an ASIC, this just doesn't matter. The asic will find thousands of blocks (difficulty 1) before you've found only 1 (with your CPU). Sure, mining moves faster, but you still need a decent hashrate if you want to mine some tBTC.

The regtest is great, but it's not really a network. It's fine for debugging your json-rpc api calls, but most of the time i used it, it did not suffice for "real world" simulations, so you actually do need the test network for that...

i was thinking the same when i found out about the current reward, but you have to realize that testnet difficulty drops to minimum quite often and miners can potential burst mine lots of blocks to get a lot of reward in total.

additionally there currently are at least half a dozen working testnet faucets that pay from 100k to 1 mil satoshi per claims that are ranging from 15 min to 12 hours. these amounts are more than enough for majority of tests that developers want to perform.
for anything that requires any higher amounts (which are extremely rare cases) they can always run their own testnet using a self contained network (eg. testnet in a box) and run their tests.

Maybe bitcointalk should launch a campaign to ask people to send back their tBTC to faucets... 
50 000 sats by claim I think it's the same amount you could earn on "mainnet" faucets few years ago 

Wow. I didn't know the block reward was already THAT low in testnet  

Do you have an address for donating extra coins? I should have a little less than 4 coins somewhere.

Testnet coins being hard to get defeats the whole purpose of testnet. Don't you think it would be a good time to reset the whole testnet (or just start a new one on a side), so that anyone can play with it as much as they want. Or are we "testing" what will happen when block rewards end altogether?

What would be needed to start a new testnet and make it public? Just one machine mining it and keeping it alive? And a faucet for the coins. And maybe a block explorer for it.
Running a new testnet and a faucet would be cheaper than mining the "old" testnet.

I don't thing anyone would have any reason to oppose having a sizeable pre-mine for the faucet, say 1M coins. (since they are worthless)
 

At the moment, it's a fixed amount of 0.0005 (50.000 tSatoshi's), i'll give an explanation under dkbit98's question  


typo fixed   Thanks for notifying me... I'm a dyslectic dutch speaking system engineer, it's hard for me to write a single sentence that doesn't contain spelling errors, let alone create a complete page, so all spellchecking help is more than welcome!

As for the higher amounts: i'm currently in the phase of testing the waters. The main goal of this faucet is to earn enough from a-ads, my affiliate links, the voluntary web mining after the claim and tips to either rent some hashrate or buy a second hand ASIC to mine on the testnet (i'm trying to reach a break even point, i'm not interested in making money from this faucet, but i don't want to invest to much of my own money in it either). The big "problem" is that the coinbase reward on the testnet is low (0.39 tBTC + fees) and the hashrate on the test network is high. Basically, most tBTC has already been mined, the utxo's are sitting in the chainstate db forever, nobody is giving them away, nobody is using them, but several people are still mining on the testnet using ASIC's... So i have to figure out how much i can give away to reach a status quo where the income =~ the cost (tBTC is worthless, but this doesn't mean it's free to mine).

In all honestly, 50.000 tSatoshi's is a low amount, the odds of the claim amount rising to 100.000 in the next couple of weeks/months is big, but everything will depend on how much tBTC is returned to me, and how much income i get from the site.


I do really hope people will return the tBTC, like i said above: tBTC is worthless, but that doesn't make it easy to come by, so the more worthless tBTC is returned, the more people i can help.

I incorporated your tip, i've put my line begging the people to return the tBTC next to the claim button aswell

Fantastic work, moca, and yeah I've even tried to help in the past collect enough testnet coins for someone else but too many bitcoiners are like me, unable to code =\. That said, I believe most of these projects died out after a while simply because they weren't replenished, so it's also really helpful to just request people to send back the coins to the faucet once they're done testing - maybe make it more visible right next to claim!

I think that I noticed one typo mistake on that website.
You may need to correct this

Would also be nice to have a bit higher amounts on tBTC

Its a great idea I may come to see you soon. Do you have a minimum / maximum amount?

yep.. well so I guess we don't have t-net yet (btw why t-net diff mining so high?)

Sometimes I think bitcoin just as a coin..

https://i.imgur.com/zwvtb1n.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_machine
 

I'm not an Armory user (i played around with it a looooooong time ago, but i kept using core afterwards), but a quick google turns up the following:
https://www.bitcoinarmory.com/troubleshooting/#how-do-i-setup-armory-on-the-test-network-testnet

we dont' have Armory Wallet 'offline tnet'  yet, do we?

Hi,

I've answered this question in your thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.53790021

But just in case somebody else has the same question: tBTC is without value, so i'm not willing to sell any tBTC. However, if you need a large amount of tBTC, i'm certainly willing to lend tBTC to anybody who is in need, however, i'd need some actual collateral for such a loan, since i don't want people to get tBTC and never return it...

hello dear i need 2 TBTC can you sell me thath amount?

Wonderful, will test it out! Thanks for the contribution.

This is very useful for new comers or developers in the space it has become quite the pain to obtain tbtc over the years with many of the old faucet's now gone and some of the testnet pools closed i'm sure this will become a popular venue for the dev's to get some tbtc.

Great work! +2 merit!

Informational message from now on

I 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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