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Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion
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on 24/07/2022, 21:47:50 UTC
⭐ Merited by El duderino_ (10) ,vapourminer (6) ,JayJuanGee (1)
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who of you made use of this service back then? Wink
this site has somehow passed me by at that time... Tongue



There were many faucets back in the day but you only got very little (for that period) and needed to watch ads or wait a certain period of time.


You got 5 bitcoins from that faucet when it first started, and you didn't need to watch ads or wait. However 5 bitcoins was probably worth less than half a cent back then.

On June 23, 2010 Gavin added a CAPTCHA. He discusses it in this post.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=206.msg1711#msg1711

back in 2011 when i started my interest in btc and before i started to gpu mine and receive actual btc i wanted to test my core wallet to make sure i knew how to receive btc and could create an address and play with how the wallet worked. so i remember getting some btc once from a faucet, maybe gavins as there were hardly any at that time. wish i could remember which one and how much.. thought it was less that 1 btc though.

but heres the thing. im still running and actively using the core wallet i created in june 2011...

Gavin's faucet was probably paying between 0.001 and 0.02 BTC in June 2011. All the pages between these two cover that month.

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC?page=1156

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC?page=1199