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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 '''Bitcoin Faucet''' will give bitcoins for free to each visitor. It is operated by [[Gavin Andresen]].
The first faucet was operated by [[User:Gavinandresen|Gavin Andresen]], however it has not functioned since Jan 30 2013.
 
URL: https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/
 
The bitcoin faucet will give out varying amount of bitcoins per visitor, depending 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.
 
== Testnet ==
 
The bitcoin faucet will also provide test bitcoins for people who want to do tests on the testnet.
 
URL: https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/TEST/


For [[Testnet]] there exist different faucets which give out coins for people who want to do tests on the Testnet3.


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Latest revision as of 09:39, 30 September 2017

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.