Faucets, or How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Obtain Free Crypto
- The Great Mogul
- Jan 8, 2018
- 4 min read
You might be fascinated by cryptocurrency, you might think you know the best way to daytrade, you might be bubbling with ideas for a new subcoin of Etherium. But all this is useless if you don't have any. I was recently in this predicament myself a month ago, but now at current market rates (BTC = about $16,000) I have about $25 of BTC and other crypto to my name. How did I do it? First off, there's these things called faucets. A faucet is a site that gives away free crypto. No really, they do. What's the catch? An onslaught of annoying and dubious ads and captchas (and if you adblock it you can't collect), and a generally large minimum of satoshis you have to collect before it gets paid from your microwallet on their site to your real wallet (because transfer fees are real).
There's no way around ads and captchas, because if nobody pays them why would they pay you? The best you can hope for is something manageable - work-safe ads that can be closed out of, pop-unders and redirects not getting too much in your way, and an ability to switch between captcha services when one of them isn't working right. The latter problem has been solved by some faucets banding together and sharing their microwallets with each other, so that you don't have orphaned satoshis. There are two basic services that do this - CoinPot and Faucet Hub. Of the two, CoinPot is far more user-friendly. Also, in my experience with them they're serious about their business, literally working through Christmas to fix the site when it was down, honoring loyalty bonuses if you couldn't collect due to site malfunctions, and they even adopted two captchas across all their faucets when I asked them nicely. I've had almost exclusively good experiences with them, so I don't hesitate to recommend them to others.
So first things first, get signed up at coinpot.co. This is gonna be your homebase, where your different currencies from different faucets all collect. Despite the site's claim that it doesn't charge fees, the fees are hidden in the exchange rates. The fees aren't horrendous if you happen to need to exchange one, but you shouldn't be day trading here. You should sign up to a proper exchange to do that, but I'll talk about that in a different post. Remember your login email and password for CoinPot because you'll be using them for the faucets in a sec. Now you sign up for the faucets, with that same email and password unless you intend to write this stuff down. I'm gonna give you those links here, but let me be upfront with the fact that they're referral links. If you sign up, I'll make money off of referring you. But it won't cost you a satoshi, and hopefully you'll agree that telling you how to get free money is worth some free money of my own. Besides, the fact that I'm using this same set of sites should be some comfort that I'm not trying to scam anyone. Anyway, here are the faucets, their links, and some description: Bonus Bitcoin (a reasonable amount of satoshis every fifteen minutes, but it doesn't build up over time, also they have games) BitFun (a small amount of satoshis every three minutes, or you can let it build up and collect a bunch at once, great if you have other stuff to do while you're running faucets; also they have games) Moonbit.co.in (like BitFun minus the games) Moondoge.co.in (like Moonbit.co.in but pays out DOGE) Moonlite.co.in (like Moonbit.co.in but pays out LTC) Moondash.co.in (like Moonbit.co.in but pays out DASH)
Moonb.ch (like Moonbit.co.in but pays out Bitcoin Cash)
Once you're good and signed up to all those, you can collect. If you're online and you can stop what you're doing occasionally, then every fifteen minutes or so go solve a captcha and get a few satoshis (or litoshis, or whatever the hell part of a Dogecoin is called). If you want to get in on the sweet sweet referral action, share your referral links with your friends or on Facebook or whatever. But just make sure you collect at least once every 24 hours so you can keep your loyalty bonuses; those will eventually add up to an extra 100% of whatever you claim on most of the faucets I listed. But I recommend that whatever you do, have all your crypto sites set to be homepages on whatever browser you kinda like but not enough to use it regularly. I use Chrome regularly, so Firefox is my browser for crypto stuff. When I'm not doing crypto stuff, I close out of Firefox. This is pretty necessary, because all those ads (and CoinPot still isn't that bad on this score) are going to wreck your processing power if you leave them open.
In any case, do this for a month and you should have enough to invest in day trading. Good luck!
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