Quote from: dooglus on April 25, 2016, 04:54:03 AM

Quote from: The Pharmacist on December 06, 2015, 06:42:22 AM

Quote from: gigabytecoin on May 04, 2011, 09:16:08 PM

May have lost 0.05 BTC sent by the faucet...

OMG, this is such an awesome thread for this post alone. Can you imagine getting a payout like that from a faucet these days? How much could you claim a day back in 2011 or whenever it was that faucets started? I was not into btc yet back then.

In January 2011 there was only one faucet that I know of, run by Gavin.

I got my first 0.05 BTC from it:

back in the day, the faucet also displayed the message along the lines of:

Weren't you offering 5 BTC before?
with a link furhter explaining that, indeed, it was sending 5BTC before, but at *that* time,
1BTC had only been worth around 0.005$

And about a daily limit: yes, there was some sort of abuse control in place, complete with a captcha
and some denigrating message about those that abuse a faucet offering such a little value.

so, yeah, there's some nostalgia for you.

back on topic, there must be quite a few of those 5 BTC faucet payouts lost forever, which we'll never able to write off conclusively.