Hey everyone,
I'm working on a Bitcoin Faucet site where people can grab some free Satoshis. The goal isn’t about making money; I just want to help folks learn about Bitcoin and get a taste of real transactions. Basically, I want to get more people on board with using Bitcoin.
Here's the plan:
Users can claim free Satoshis at set intervals. Others can promote their stuff on the site (like banners or small ads) to support the faucet and cover server costs. Plus, I want to add educational content for newbies on topics like security, wallets, fees, and how to use Bitcoin.
Right now, Bitcoin is sitting around $123,000 (just an example), so 100 Satoshis is about $0.12.
I'm trying to figure out how many Satoshis users should be able to claim and how often, to keep it fun and fair. Here are some ideas I have:
- Every 15 minutes 10 Satoshis
- Every 30 minutes 25 Satoshis
- Daily bonus for active users
I’d really appreciate your thoughts! What reward and timing combo makes sense given the current fees and BTC price? Any tips for stopping bots and preventing abuse would be awesome too.
Faucet was somewhat good way to achieve that in early days of Bitcoin. But considering today TX fee rate and amount of BTC considered as dust, i doubt the goal can be achieved.
Long time ago, i'm sure most faucet give amount of satoshi that have value less than 1 cent (in USD).
There are things i know from what i experienced long time ago and discussion,
1. CAPTCHA when claiming faucet and register account.
2. Only can claim faucet after verify email address.
3. Blacklist or whitelist email address by it's email provider domain (such as @gmail.com).
4. Prevent claim faucet (or even freeze account) if detected using VPN or other kind of proxy.
I'm reminded of the faucet run by bestchange.com (apparently still active). Their method worked, but it was a bit boring because the minimum withdrawal was too high, while I often earned 1 sat per claim.
To make yours more appealing, you could implement their method with more flexible terms. Say, 10-100 sat (random) per click every 30 minutes, with a minimum withdrawal of 1000 sat (no network fees).
Captcha? I recommend using a puzzle / Picture recognition captcha(slide) instead of text input.
Since your intention is to make the users learn, put the faucet claim UI under every article that your website has.
Then to claim:
As additional Capcha, randomize a question (from a pool of hundreds) that's related to the particular article where the claim button is located which should be answered correctly or the user will miss that (hour's) chance to claim.
That'll serve as a reward for actually reading the article or a reward for already knowing something about Bitcoin.
Reward frequency will only reduce the abusers'/bots' rewards and capcha will only prolong it for some time.
You'll have to set something that can identify multiple claims from users with same IP or users that withdraws to the same address, etc.
In other words, you need to be actively monitor your users to keep them in check.
No. Transaction fees will make it prohibitively expensive for users to withdraw. A transaction with one input and two outputs is expected to cost nearly $0.70. You could potentially batch withdrawals together to reduce overall transaction fee costs, but this will not make your faucet economical. Further, your users will be unable to spend the coin they receive unless they claim many times before withdrawing.
One way to address this might be to send coin via LN, although this is much more technically complex.
If you are giving away money, people will inevitably use bots to programmatically take your money. You can try to use countermeasures, such as requiring users to solve a CAPTCHA to claim, requiring a specific browser type to claim, or requiring users to register with an email address you know will not allow users to sign up for many accounts, but people will eventually be able to beat these countermeasures.
If a person claims your Bitcoin faucet in 8 days in a streak, it will be able to claim 375 satoshis that is almost dust.
P2PKH transaction: 546 sats.
P2WPKH transaction: 294 sats.
P2TR transaction: 330 sats.
Anyway, with higher and higher price of Bitcoin, will you want to waste your satoshis for the faucet while with time its value will become considerable higher.
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I don't know about giving it away for free. What about giving a random bitcoin related paper/writeup/article explaining primitives like Blockchain, mempool, mining, P2PKH, Bitcoin addresses, bech32, Taproot, UTXO, etc...
Maybe even take it up a notch to BitVM, Merkle tree's, zk-SNARKs, etc. for the more veteran user so those who browse this forum may learn something new too? Just make sure to not serve the hard ones and start easy.
Have a user read and understand a single concept, verify their understanding or knowledge by asking them to write a short paragraph and use some AI agent/tool to evaluate and check for plagiarism against others users.
To throttle you would also likely do either proof of work in the browser while the user is reading, or do a basic cloudflare Turnstyle or Google Captcha to prevent spam.
I like the idea about "streaks" as it reminds me on Duolingo. I think this may be a much more interest as the users is actually learning to understand the technology rather then "grabbing free money" as Bitcoin may only be financially interesting to them at first
My opinion is that if people can find a way to abuse the system to make more faucet claims, they will. It's an ugly human nature.
What would be the requirement to make claims on your website? Would someone just need to spend time on it and browse around or are you planning to have them read your content, answer questions, and actually show some knowledge before they can earn bitcoin?
Yes the plan is to make about 100+ question Quiz/learning funnel before user is able to claim e.g how many decimal are behind 0.? answer a) 5 b) 7 c) 8
If correct to reward user , next question how many bitcoins are total a)10M b)21M c) 24M
and so on, I know some will use Chatgpt or search but the point is that they will learn and adopt how bitcoin works
and after the whole questions are done e.g 7-14 days he will be able to get reward just by solving the captcha
While on other side the people who want to advertise their crypto project will have to pay so i can keep the faucet alive