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Board Service Announcements (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN] TheCryptoChat - Real-Time Chat, Explorers, Faucets, Quick Help, & more
by
geopolisch
on 11/04/2017, 13:41:50 UTC
We had a bitcoin faucet early on, it was our least popular and most underused faucet of all of the faucets that we have.

we prefer to keep the altcoin faucets, as the supply of coins for those is funded by either the dev of the coin or from the community of that coin.

Bitcoin, however, there will be no donations for that faucet, we would have to pay for those out of our own pockets, and the servers we have are costly enough as it is, plus bitcoin blockchain is huge, so big, that we ditched it in favour of being able to host many altcoins instead of just one coin
I think the shapeshift idea is not give out bitcoin. It is YOU as the site owner only have to keep bitcoin on your books and not multiple altcoins. You can put up every coin on shapeshift as faucet and than use shapeshift api, that way you are basically giving away bitcoin but they are receiving any coin they want.