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| Gives bitcoins out for free to each visitor. IP addresses that receive bitcoins are recorded, so that bitcoins are given only once to each address. It is operated by [[User:Gavinandresen|Gavin Andresen]].
| | Bitcoin faucets are sites that purport to help users earn bitcoins "for free" but often fail to deliver or pay such paltry sums as to make the effort itself pointless.. They usually needs address entry and captcha filling. You can revisit faucets every given time to get more. |
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| The amount of bitcoins given per visitor depends on the amount of bitcoins in the faucet account. Currently, when there are less than 500 bitcoins in the faucet, it gives out 0.05 bitcoins, or 0.50 bitcoins otherwise. | | The first faucet was operated by [[User:Gavinandresen|Gavin Andresen]], however it has not functioned since Jan 30 2013. |
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| People can donate to the faucet account. When the bitcoin currency was new, this account could be easily filled, because the price of bitcoins was very low. It used to be the norm that 5 bitcoins were given to each visitor, but now only 0.05 BTC are given.
| | For [[Testnet]] there exist different faucets which give out coins for people who want to do tests on the Testnet3. |
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| ==See Also==
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| Because the Bitcoin Faucet has been down for such a long time, I have created a working one!
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| I call it the Bitcoin Dispenser and it can be found at http://freebitcoins.macdonaldboats.com/
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| I give complete credit to the creator of the Bitcoin Faucet for the idea.
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| If you have any extra Bitcents or Bitcoins please help out and donate to the cause!
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| 1wZfMDA9MteqTB5dD6v2QXYTLhbnug6Ja
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| Check out the site to see how it works, and to see how you can advertise on my site.
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| * [http://faucet.bitcoin.st Bitcoin Street Faucet] SMS Based
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| == Testnet ==
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| There is a separate TEST Bitcoin faucet that gives test bitcoins for people who want to do tests on the [[Testnet]].
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| ==External Links==
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| * [http://freebitcoins.appspot.com Bitcoin Faucet] web site
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| * [http://freebitcoins.appspot.com/TEST/ TestNet Faucet] web site
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Bitcoin faucets are sites that purport to help users earn bitcoins "for free" but often fail to deliver or pay such paltry sums as to make the effort itself pointless.. They usually needs address entry and captcha filling. You can revisit faucets every given time to get more.
The first faucet was operated by Gavin Andresen, however it has not functioned since Jan 30 2013.
For Testnet there exist different faucets which give out coins for people who want to do tests on the Testnet3.