I wish I spend 1 min and claim 5 BTC daily back then.
Topic: Visit the Original BTC faucet courtesy of the Wayback Machine (Read 380 times)
Wow it is nice to see the original faucet, thank you for sharing.
I wish I spend 1 min and claim 5 BTC daily back then.
I wish I spend 1 min and claim 5 BTC daily back then.
September 05, 2017, 10:55:36 AM
I started out in Bitcoin by chewing on faucets. I kept all the income from those faucets and they are now worth about $200. I
think the fee will be about half of that if I ever decide to sweep that address. {Mostly congested with dust tx's} ...The point I
want to make is... "Faucet pay-outs might some day be worth a lot" .... Back then most faucets paid between 500 to 1000
Satoshi's per hour.
http://prntscr.com/ghfhqj
think the fee will be about half of that if I ever decide to sweep that address. {Mostly congested with dust tx's} ...The point I
want to make is... "Faucet pay-outs might some day be worth a lot" .... Back then most faucets paid between 500 to 1000
Satoshi's per hour.
http://prntscr.com/ghfhqj
September 05, 2017, 10:52:28 AM
That's kinda neat, and I appreciate you posting this, OP!
5 bitcoins for just solving a captcha. Must've been nice in the world of crypto circa 2010. Man, I got in way too late.
5 bitcoins for just solving a captcha. Must've been nice in the world of crypto circa 2010. Man, I got in way too late.
September 05, 2017, 10:42:12 AM
for the historical record this is the announcement topic that Gavin Andresen made back in 2010: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/get-5-free-bitcoins-from-freebitcoinsappspotcom-183
it sounds ridiculous now but you could have become a millionaire just by claiming faucet! and this is one of those things that will happen only once in our whole lifetime.
it sounds ridiculous now but you could have become a millionaire just by claiming faucet! and this is one of those things that will happen only once in our whole lifetime.
September 05, 2017, 10:37:44 AM
It doesn't pay out or it didn't not pay out back then to those who solved the captcha? I thought someone said on this thread that most users got paid then. It is funny though knowing what 5btc was worth then and now. I wish I knew about faucets then.
It was a paying faucet. I was making a joke about the snapshot of the website not paying out. Theres actually some satoshis left in the faucets bitcoin address.
https://blockexplorer.com/address/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC
September 05, 2017, 10:02:11 AM
It doesn't pay out or it didn't not pay out back then to those who solved the captcha? I thought someone said on this thread that most users got paid then. It is funny though knowing what 5btc was worth then and now. I wish I knew about faucets then.
September 05, 2017, 09:51:53 AM
On June 11, 2010 Gavin Andresen presented the very first faucet at https://freebitcoins.appspot.com.
Its now defunct and will just return a 404.
However, using this internet archive you can actually see a 'snapshot' of it. Like most faucets today it has a capcha and doesn't payout. I found it really cool nonetheless.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100703032414/https://freebitcoins.appspot.com
Its now defunct and will just return a 404.
However, using this internet archive you can actually see a 'snapshot' of it. Like most faucets today it has a capcha and doesn't payout. I found it really cool nonetheless.
https://web.archive.org/web/20100703032414/https://freebitcoins.appspot.com
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