Quote from: GannickusX on May 11, 2015, 05:14:45 PM

Quote from: notlist3d on May 09, 2015, 07:38:45 PM

Quote from: hexafraction on May 09, 2015, 07:06:21 PM

Quote from: notlist3d on May 09, 2015, 06:37:18 PM

Is this what you believe faucets do for new people? I think when earn a few cent's it will most likely turn them off to BTC. They might even associate BTC with pennies as that is what they would earn.

I would much rather somone read abut bitcoins and understand them. Even mining with a few dollar usb stick is good as far as learning about BTC. I would say a block erupter usb stick would teach someone more about BTC then a facuet. I don't see faucets as spreading knowledge.

End goal of a faucet is to make money for owner, that is true of any faucet.

A USB mini-miner used to be educational, when it could produce dust above the payout threshold of many pools. Now, it's hard to get sufficient dust or even shares at the current share difficulties set by pools.

That's what were talking about is education. I said the usb miner would be better at helping someone learn about btc then a faucet.

I just don't see a faucet as a good educational tool. And yes this and faucets cause dust. If you do micro payments that will happen.

Is not like someone is making you use the faucets, i seriously dont understand how you can think something that gives you literally free money, doesnt matter how low, is bad. And yes its educational because its not the same to read about bitcoins as to have bitcoins and use them to see how the transactions work

The educational part is minimal. Compare time spent on faucet if they try to make money (which will be cents). Compared to reading about bitcoins. Most that believe in faucets do faucets far more then they read.

I say faucet's and typing in captacha will bring only small amount of knowledge. This assumes they are a heavy user of faucets.