Need Testnet Bitcoin: US Miners Preferred

Just switched from developing on SOL to working on BTC apps. It's kinda ridiculous how tough it is to get Bitcoin on Testnet since all the faucets seem to be broken. Compared to SOL or ETH Testnets, which are super accessible all the time. I really need some Testnet BTC to get my project off the ground. I'm looking for .005 BTC for a pilot project and I'm ready to pay $50 in SOL to a miner for that .005 on Testnet. If there are any miners out there willing to help, let me know. I'll need to do this same transaction from December through March.

If you want testnet coins you'll need to buy them-- that's a consequence of a market existing for them.

hi, i have testnet4 and signet BTC,you can contact me by telegram:    https://t.me/+rA5UyxHumjpkZDY9

For low amounts (0.005 tBTC), there is this faucet: https://faucet.testnet4.dev/.  For higher amounts, (100+ tBTC), you can buy them at my website (https://testnet.sale) or at the exchange altquick.com. I have not tested the faucets.  If you want only 0.005 tBTC, post an address and I'll send them.

We are the main Testnet exchange at https://altquick.com/exchange/ for both v3 and v4 Bitcoin Testnet.  (I say main because we allow both buying and selling to let the market find the price.) You can use the exchange without registering and convert the SOL to Testnet using https://altquick.com/swap/, but please keep in mind it uses the books to trade on our site only (so review the books first and pray like hell they don't fill before you confirm!). $50 should be dust and move right through the system and you'll have a ton of Testnet coins in <10 minutes. A consequence of our market is that people can actually get them period.  Bulk for pay or dust for free.  With a sustainable business model. When I first got involved with Cryptocurrency, I had to use Bitcoin because Bitcoin Testnet was, as the OP says, laughably difficult to get. We also do support a free testnet faucet https://altquick.com/faucet/.  You can claim 0.01 Testnet of either version every ten minutes.  The cost to withdraw is 0.01 Testnet, so in 20 minutes and two captcha solves you'll have free coins on chain. Free Testnet is still available for both v3 and v4 with AltQuick, but we are having difficulty marketing due to our taboo market pairs.  (Which I understand, but I still believe AltQuick deserves to be listed as a Testnet v3 & v4 faucet option on the Wiki.) Happy to send you some for free with our automated faucet, or if you want 100,000 coins in 15 minutes... we can accommodate that for either version.  I'm sure https://coinfaucet.eu/en/btc-testnet3/ and https://coinfaucet.eu/en/btc-testnet4/ work fine too faucet wise. You can still totally mine v4 50tbtc reward blocks... but it is likely far faster & cheaper for us to buy them, unless you know how to "fancy mine".  Which will hopefully be patched early january according to the Bitcoin Mailing list thread about "unbreaking testnet". I threw a rented miner and hit a block with an normal pool too. Testnet has mining pool options now days:  https://solopool.com/, https://btclab.dev/, https://blockbuilder.app/stats - and a few others that I cant recall off the top of my head.  When I joined Bitcoin many moons ago, there was zero pools for n00bs to test in. Solopool just hit their first big boy Bitcoin block! Also, we are US-based.   <3 Good luck, and please let me know if I can help from our end!!!

Testnet is broken: If you want v4, there are 13 coins left in QR-codes on page 2: (but don't ask me which are taken, I don't know) If anyone's interested, I can just fund the 300 QR-codes on page 4 too

Post an address and whether you need testnet3 or testnet4, I've got a few thousand of each lying around.

I want to point out that, despite a market existing, we have four people here bending over backwards to give this stranger free coins in the hopes they build something cool. I suspect that as testnet distribution grows, the number of generous people out here will grow with it... which is a good thing.  It's a niche that's long since sailed with Bitcoin. Good job, everyone, and good luck, OP. *salutes*

Don't be so defensive. That wasn't intended as any kind of barb, against you or anyone else.

What does location has to do with this though? Bitcoin and it's testnet works anywhere in the world, there is no restrictions on any part of Bitcoin Blockchain.

Haha, fair enough, my bad.  <3

This is quite bad - the whole point of having a testnet is for developers to be able to test their applications without spending real money. Any idea why signet isn't getting more adoption? It is the perfect solution to this problem.

Allow me to share my experience: Note: I haven't used Bitcoin Stagenet yet. But if you want to test an exchange and have different coins interacting, it's really annoying having to "collect" them.

Not all wallets support signet. I think more wallets support testnet, so there's a network effect there.Signet is centralized and I suspect this immediately feels a taboo. Whereas testnet is decentralized, with only three CPU miners broadcasting empty blocks!  Testnet gives you the ability to mine it, just like bitcoin, so there's mining tested. One good question is why isn't testnet4 hardforked already? It's constantly on empty-block mode until an ASIC mines a non-empty block. This could be easily fixed by revoking the 20-min rule.

Because it is centralized. Signet miners can do anything: for example, a single ASIC could reorg the full signet chain at any moment. The only missing thing is having a key to the signet challenge. However, mining in Signet is possible, to some extent: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/proof-of-work-based-signet-faucet/937 In the past, mining hundreds of sBTC was easier: https://mempool.space/signet/tx/5aa27f3639c2218ee710fee9830924a129098dca94446661f37cae79c4e76712 But now, as more and more people started mining from the same faucet, it is harder. But still possible to get something every 10 or 20 blocks, which means around 25 sBTC per day. 1. Because hard-fork would create a new testnet. Which means, that we would then have: testnet3, testnet4, and testnet5. 2. Because it is planned for 2026: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/iVLHJ1HWhoU

I don't think it would. Disabling the 20-min rule could also be done as a softfork, even though I'm unsure what would be more preferable for a test network. For instance, after block x, same rules apply except the 20 min rule. You wouldn't need a new chain nor a new network. It was planned for January 2026, but the last message was sent in July 2025. Also, I see many proposals in that thread, without clear consensus on the exclusion of the 20-min rule. I also do not see any pull requests into Bitcoin Core. Maybe I review it and do my part. I've started a thread in here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5569103.msg66199834#msg66199834.

It makes sense to sell something that has no value for something that does, but the million-dollar question is, why are there buyers? People are weird, and they are creative on top of that... which makes it even weirder. I think there's value for Bitcoin in letting folks be weird and creative.

If you think that's weird you should have been around back in 2017 when exchanges were selling coins that were dead (dead shitcoins without a blockchain which their mining had died months before) and even during the "bitcoin fork war" they created markets for possible split-coins like bitcoin-classic, bitcoin-segwit2x and people were trading what didn't even exist and never existed afterwards either! They had high trading volume and everything too