On all the faucets I've seen which offer referrals, the referral is permanent. So if you user A visits user B's referral link and claims a payout, every time they claim from that faucet from that point on, user B gets a percentage. This also means that if someone has used a faucet from another referral link before visiting it via LGC, whatever I do to try to refer them doesn't work.

I try not to generate dud referrals or skew people's stats as best I can though - the first time you visit a faucet via LGC a referrer is picked and that information is stored. Meaning any time you visit that faucet from that point on, you're sent to the same referral link as on your first visit.

Yes and no, new faucets come and go very regularly, so there are frequently new sites turning up for which new referrals can be generated for existing users.


I intend to, yes, I don't add any xapo faucets yet though, purely because this bit's not finished

Thanks Lucius, I've noticed you can also get past that by clicking the reload button in the top menu. I'm working on something that explains the various foibles we come across on faucets explains how to get around them all, but like everything else it's taking a bit of a back seat to my other responsibilities just now.

I'll add the faucets people have mentioned above ASAP

You may have seen the new message on the site, the problem with the start rotator button is now fixed, I've been out of action for a few days because of internet issues (they're doing work outside my house and managed to cut me off - disaster!)

I'm posting in a hurry from my phone just now, but will get some time to go through the other new posts in this thread, emails, new faucets, reports/updates etc this evening.

Those antibot links are a puzzle made to be difficult for machines to solve, but easy for humans.

In other words, they're a captcha, except they're more annoying because the user has to hunt around all over page. So why not just use a second captcha?

Balance: 382 satoshi

If you send someone to the site using your referral link you get ~50% of the eligible faucets they visit (there are a handful of faucets which I can't share links to because they use custom IDs rather than wallet addresses, everything else you have a 50/50 chance of being the referrer on for everybody you refer) This works forever, so as I add new faucets anybody you've referrered will have a 50/50 chance of using your referral URL when they visit.

I would love to be able to give 100%, but the primary purpose of the site is for people to get referrals just for using it and as most new users come in via referral URLs if I increased it to 100% there would be almost no referral sharing going on.

Thank you, I'm a big fan of your faucets too, they're up there with the best of the faucets I've seen, and I've been through an ungodly amount of faucets over the past few months

 That reminds me I must get skype set up.

I think people who've been fed up of sites with popups or antibot links and have turned them off might want to try re-enabling them to see how they get on. I can't block every popup the way I'm doing it but it'll get a lot of them, and a lot of the antibot stuff is much less painful when you can just mash the button without fear of hitting the ad they're hiding under

Thanks for reminding me! I still need to add a lot more Paytoshi faucets, I'd completely forgotten about that. The enhanced stats will be coming soon but yes in the meantime active referrals is a far more meaningful figure. You all should be seeing some improvement in the referrals you get too, more tweaking, always tweaking...

Thank you. You guys are too kind. Actually the whole faucet community is a really pleasant one to be involved in. I've spent a lot of time in a lot of different online communities and there's always a bunch of aggro or friction, but faucets seem to bring people together from quite literally all over the world, and they're all really civil and friendly to each other. Maybe there's a dark side to all this that I haven't encountered yet, but from what I've seen so far it's a beautiful thing. It's my pleasure helping you all get more bang for your buck

I've been out of town since yesterday so I'm a bit behind on the backlog of reports, new sites etc, but should be catching up soon.

Popups are now blocked where possible in the rotator, accidental clicks on ads in the faucets with "antibot" links should be reduced to near zero too, as they will no longer open with a left-click. Honest faucets which aren't subjecting their users to such activities are unaffected by this change, their ads will continue to work as normal.

Sorry but I'll have to pass on that one, that site gets caught by my antivirus software, and has a very poor rating on WOT.


Thanks! I wish you much prosperity

Yes, it's in there now.

I think I've removed the one you're talking about, if not please let me know the name of it and I'll see what I can do.

That's exactly right. When I started playing around with faucets, I found all these lists and rotators where all the referral payments are going to the guys running them, but nothing that just kept track of who'd been referred where and generated links in a way where the users automatically refer each other.  It seemed like a thing which was obviously missing - a place for people who don't want to make a list or rotator, but just want to claim from the kinds of faucets they like and make extra coins doing it.

I've got a lot of pretty big ideas (and a lot more small ideas) on how to improve it, but I'm always happy to hear out feature requests and receive bug reports

It's all explained at the top of the page and in the first post in this thread, but in a nutshell the rotator caches both the previous and next sites, meaning you don't need to wait for claims to submit, you can go forward if you encounter a timer and return after doing the next faucet, and the next faucet is always being preloaded meaning less waiting.

Links to faucetbox faucets are generated using the wallet addresses of other active users, so you pick up referrals automatically just by using the site, meaning you earn more.

Reporting and editing of values is available to all, any changes get flagged up for moderator approval so problem sites get dealt with within hours of being reported rather than sitting there cluttering up the list for days. There's also automated jobs spidering faucets pretty much constantly, automatically updatin values, removing dead faucets, or adding problem faucets back in once the problem has been fixed.

Basically yeah it's just a faucet list and rotator, but it's one that's been built from the ground up with a few very specific goals in mind:

1) Maximise earnings through the efficiency of the totator, the quality of the list, and by capturing and sharing referral payments
2) Mininise the time it takes you to claim
3) Let you filter out the faucets you don't want to see based on criteria like antibot links, popups etc, giving people who want an easy time of it an easy life, while letting those who just want to claim from as many sites as possible jump in feet first

Yours got dropped out and added back in automatically when it ran dry and got refilled. I like it when that happens


Yours isn't loading, I've added it but not approved it, so I'll be checking it periodically and will add it in when the site is back up.

It's a big milestone, and as usual we hit it long before I anticipated - my "in the next few days" raced by in around 15 hours. It's funny to think that I gave away several million satoshis to celebrate hitting 5,000

Lots of updates and additions today, although obviously the price is affecting things somewhat - both in the number of faucets which are dying and the prices which are dropping.

Work on the next big update is coming along nicely, the code has been cobbled together over time though and is becoming difficult to manage, so this will likely be the last major update for a while (the next will be a complete re-write, so will be following several weeks behind) the stats page is becoming a priority - people have mentioned that they're not seeing the results they expect given that their referrals keep going up and the rate of increase isn't matched by their profits, but the reason for this is that a lot of their early referrals were for faucets which are dead and no longer paying out, or for users who aren't collecting from the faucets any more. There will be much more meaningful metrics soon which I think will make things a lot less confusing for all concerned.

In less pleasant news, I'm aware that the latest scammy trend is to overlay invisible, clickable ads over the captcha/wallet, I'm willing to let 'antibot' links exist and be filterable even though they are a pointless waste of everyone's time and happiness, but these sites which trick ad clicks in such a way are getting blacklisted permanently as malware as I come across them. When they first started showing up I would just classify them as "broken" so they could be re-enabled if they cleaned up their ways, but I don't want to be sending people to sites operated by people so unashamedly dishonest, they don't deserve our visits and we can't trust them not to behave worse in future so as I come across them or they get reported, they'll be getting canned forever.

Oh there are also still hundreds (literally) of new faucets which have been submitted and are not yet approves, thank you to everyone who's been submitting them. If I haven't approved the ones you've submitted yet it's most likely because they use referral links I can't automatically share referrals on (and I don't want to go overboard on those kinds of faucets), they're dry, or they use a different wallet which I'm not set up to filter on yet. I'll be adding Paytoshi/Xapo in the next update, but for now those are just getting tagged and kept in reserve.

This faucet business is a lot of work, huh?

Sounds good, I'll get Skype installed and PM you. Thanks for the heads up about the dupe, there may be some more but no more should be added from now - one of various small changes I've made to the current site in the past few days.

The highlighting and shading of rows is half working again, it breaks when the filters are changed until the page is refreshed but I'm looking into that. Formulas for dishing out referrals have been tweaked a little and I'll ask you all for opinions on an idea I have when I have more time to write.

Lots of new faucets added today, generally lower paying but less painful to claim from. I don't bother mentioning when I update values since it happens like a dozen times a day now. So thank you everybody who uses the reporting system. I've got some interesting ideas for that which I'll talk about soon too.

We have almost 800 Bitcoin faucets in the database now (less than 300 of which are currently healthy and active) and should be generating the 100,000th unique referral in the next few days

Pulling the list from torproject.org on every hit is a Very Bad Idea, just grab it once a day and store a copy on the local filesystem.

I wouldn't worry about your own server's IP either. It's not ever going to be trying to hit itself.

Oh ok so yeah you set up an address for each faucet. That makes sense, a bit more time to set up but it makes it easier to tell if a faucet stops paying out I guess.

I checked more than one and saw that there were different addresses, presumably you+friends, or maybe just multiple addresses of your own.

So how come you're trying to push a rotator which uses a referral link for every faucet as a rotator "for users who don't like to be referred by others?"

What do you mean? Every faucet link in it is a referral link.

Thanks for making a faucet that's not a complete pain in the ass to use.

Your "referel" page is a straight lift from Moon Bitcoin though, you even left their name and ref % in it.

Thanks, these are all good ideas. I'll look at Fiverr to see about getting a translation done.

The one-click copy of the wallet address is an idea I looked at before, but can't be done with straight HTML/Javascript, that kind of thing would need to be done with flash which I wanted to avoid using, but you're right, it annoys me too having to select the text

Detailed stats are coming in the next few weeks - I'll be doing away with the "Faucet referrals" number on the main list page too as the total number of referrals you've racked up over time doesn't help understand how your earnings will look. It will be replaced with a number denoting how many referrals you've earned for faucets which are not disabled and users who have been active within the last 24 hours, this will get a suitably descriptive name, and the total number will be moved to the stats page with some other metrics where I'll have room to give an explanation of what they all mean.

Still a long road ahead, I'm hard at work on a lot of good stuff though