Quote from: fajrero on May 30, 2017, 06:22:27 AM

I am working on making my first purchase of Bitcoin (via Coinbase), but don't currently possess any at the moment.

According to one book I have read, a few websites would essentially give away bitcoins to help those new to the Bitcoin world. Unfortunately, the two sites given are no longer active.

Am I too late to the Bitcoin party to get any Bitcoin from anywhere? Before I make my purchase via Coinbase(planning on buying 1BTC), I'd like to experience receiving, sending, spending, etc... a little bit and get familiar with how my wallet program (Electrum) functions.

If there are no websites that provide this service, would anyone be willing to send a Satoshi, or two? Or, would those get eaten up as fees by miners?

Thanks for any help/advice,

Faj

If you want to gain experience, i'd either suggest looking up a good faucet rotator, or install a testnet wallet and claim a couple testnet BTC.

Faucet rotators can probably be found here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=212.0
But fair warning: if you use faucets to collect dust inputs to your wallets, you might end up paying a fee that is higher than your wallet balance in order to spend these dust inputs!!!

Also, it's far more profitable to get a minimum wage job and convert 1 or 2 bucks and hour to BTC compared to claiming from faucets...