Quote from: nutildah on November 16, 2019, 05:32:33 PM

This was a cool thread I found while browsing satoshi posts... don't know where else to put it, so I'm putting it here for now.

Who's the Spanish jerk draining the Faucet?

Quote from: Gavin Andresen on August 04, 2010, 08:40:55 PM

I just shut down freebitcoins.appspot.com; it looks like somebody in Spain is being a jerk and getting a new IP address, bitcoin address, and solving the captcha. Over and over and over again:

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Those IP addresses all map to Telefonica de Espana. If it was you: give them back, please: 15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC

Now that 5 bitcoins is worth a fair bit, I'm thinking I need more cheating countermeasures. I can think of four things to try:

(...technical bit snipped out...)

If you get rate limited, you'll get a message that asks you to try again tomorrow.

BitcoinFX: thanks again for the donation to the faucet; I'm going to drain the Faucet below 500 coins temporarily, and will refill it with your donation after the new cheating countermeasures are in place.

Wonder if our dirty Spaniard was much of a HODLer....

Wobber also drained the faucet, but only as a demonstration to warn Gavin with. He paid back the 50 BTC.

Quote from: wobber on June 13, 2010, 09:00:32 AM

gavinandersen

I've been able to drawn 50 BTC in minutes using Tor. Please add some address filter too, so the same address can't be used twice. I'll also provide a Tor blacklist if you'd like.
PS: I've paid back those BTCs.