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Used to gives bitcoins out for free to each visitor. IP addresses that receive bitcoins were recorded, so that bitcoins were given only once to each address. It was operated by [[User:Gavinandresen|Gavin Andresen]], however it is not functioning as of Jan 30 2013.
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.


For [[Testnet]] there exists a different faucet that is working which gives out coins for people who want to do tests on the Testnet. The testnet faucet also has a simple wallet available to hold testnet coins.
The first faucet was operated by [[User:Gavinandresen|Gavin Andresen]], however it has not functioned since Jan 30 2013.
 
==See Also==
 
* [[Trade#Getting_started|Alternate bitcoin distribution services]]
 
==External Links==
 
* [https://www.pikapay.com/bitcoin-fountain Bitcoin Fountain] New type of faucet pays out in seconds to all established Twitter accounts.
* [http://freebitcoins.appspot.com Bitcoin Faucet] web site
* [http://tpfaucet.appspot.com/ TestNet Faucet] web site
* [http://faucet.xeno-genesis.com/ Mojocoin Testnet3 Faucet] web site
* [http://faucet.luis.im/ luis.im Mojocoin Testnet3 Faucet] web site
* [http://freecoins.herokuapp.com FreeCoins] site, 0.00005 Bitcoin payouts sent every day, faucet can be used once a week.


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.

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