Quote from: Chris314 on September 27, 2018, 02:00:23 PM

Quote

What if they split the amounts over several different accounts? What is the difference between you paying out 40 BTC for one

account and paying it out for 1000 accounts? There are many old timers with a lot of coins, but I figure they will have better

methods to increase those coins, than dumping it on a site with a 4% interest rate. Roll Eyes That said, people do the strangest

things when it comes to money. (Greed clouds people's judgement)

Those 4% interest rate are secure however, you don't have to trade or bet any coin to get your interests every day. It's by far more interesting than bank accounts (at least in my country) that offer 1% per year with limited amount.

There is ZERO security with freebitco. If you dump your BTC there, you are LESS secure than storing your USD at a bank because there is NO insurance coverage. Period. A bank is less likely to just up and walk away with your USD for no reason at all than freebitco is to just up and walk away. Why? Because there are no consequences. Wetsuit could take all your shit today and there isnt a damn thing you could do about it. Thats not security. Thats gambling. And you didnt even have to roll any virtual dice to do it. All you had to do was make a BTC transaction.

Quote from: Betwrong on September 27, 2018, 02:59:30 PM

After reading the past comments I have an impression that the problem of faucet abusing by bots has not been completely solved. If it is so and if the site is still losing significant amounts because of that, maybe it would be a good idea to announce a competition for the best protection against bots. Since abusers can adjust quickly, the idea of protection have to be so good that even revealing its algorithm would not help a bit in breaking it. We all know that its possible, right? Satoshi Nakamoto has provided us with an example.

The first thing that comes to mind is taking advantage of the fact that all humans are different in all aspects while the bots are the same at some. Thus, after a certain amount of claims you can know almost for sure whether an account is being run by a bot or not. Well, of course I know that most likely its not that simple. But Im sure there are people much knowledgeable than me and that they can propose some really great ideas.

You cant compare a decentralized network with a centralized entity (such as freebitco). They are fundamentally different. And BTC is no more secure against bots than freebitco is. An example is last Nov when BCash supporter Roger Ver spammed the fuck out of the BTC network for 3 months.... straight. Causing fees to skyrocket. The same thing happens with freebitco (or at least thats what they want you to think, which I completely believe is just smoke and mirrors excuses). The only difference is that instead of fees going up, the base rewards are lowered.

Besides, your plan is flawed. I can code a bot to be just as inconsistent as a human. It's as simple as rand(1,5); which would not process a function unless the random number it selected was X which is a 20% chance. It can be scaled from 100% to as little % as you want in order to mimic a human's inconsistency. Like I've said before, the fight against bots is FUTILE. They will NEVER win that battle. Ever. The ONLY way to win is to do exactly what I've been saying all along.................................... Remove whatever feature it is that the bots are interested in. It's that simple. Problem solved. I dont give two shits about the faucet because it's completely pointless. There is no point in making 25sats/hr or whatever. Even if it's via bot unless you're in a 3rd world country where $1 will last you an entire year. This is why I dont believe for a second that this place even HAS a bot problem to begin with. It's all just smoke and mirrors in order to have an excuse to milk you clowns of even more. Their problems are related to MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS. Not bot use. Mutliple accounts are not a bot problem. Thats a problem with the site itself. Just because bots create the multiple accounts doesnt mean they have a bot problem. It just means that the site is coded by an imbecile who cant do the most basic of security functions which is to prevent people/bots from spamming/abusing a feature it has. IDK whats so hard to understand about that. And if they REALLY wanted to stop multiple accounts, that could be done with KYC, 2FA, voice verification, Network UUID (the best idea, and most commonly used, ask me about it some day), or a multitude of other methods available. But, they dont. So we know that their multiple account issue isnt really all that big of a deal like they want you to think it is.