For years I was helping members with Bitcoin Testnet coins but in last few weeks I noticed a big increase of newbie members asking me for coins.
There is another member with faucet in forum that was abused and emptied, and I started receiving messages from members asking for coins.
This is very suspicious to me, so I ask if there is some bounty campaign or project that is paying money for testnet coins?
who are you to point with the finger how testcoins should be use it, free will shoud be part of the bitcoiners culture, no one should try to ban, control, etc the use of testcoins, i saw what they are doing is TESTING with small amounts of BTC less than 0.01 this year more than a million people is learning how to use bitcoin testnet and that is good for bitcoin, the real problem here are you people ! trying to tell people how to uses blockchain even test coins. are you serious ? i have been folowing bitcoin since 2009. let people use bitcoin testnet so they can understand.
i've never see so many people using bitcoin testnet this year and learning and asking everything. let the people learn about bitcoin (that is what Satoshi Nakamoto wish).
if you want to help people teach them how use bitcoin how create wallets etc, create a free course for the new people. DONATE can help people but TEACHING is more valuable.
dont be greede with new people let them learn.
If you've been following Bitcoin since 2009, i would expect you know that
1. Many developer complain it's tricky to obtain tBTC.
2. This isn't first time people abuse tBTC for NFT, token or altcoin airdrop.
3. Testnet has been reset twice since in past people not using tBTC for development or learning purpose.
You're naive if you actually believe those who ask tBTC in order to get airdrop actually want to learn about BTC.