Completely agree.  We've been working to try and find a balance of what works best to keep the site sustainable and still rewarding for everyone, and to give us a better idea how we can implement some of the future features we have planned.

Unfortunately the popups are a necessary evil for the time being, but in response to your feedback I've reduced it down to only 4 popups throughout the site - when you complete all four daily bounty quests, when you run Merlin's Gauntlet, when you open the bonus chest on Merlin's Gauntlet, and when you claim your satoshi from games played at Merlin's Faire.  I'll watch it for a few days and see how it fairs with those revisions and hopefully we can keep it reduced to just the 4 popups, if not reduce them a little more. 

Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah they probably wouldn't be my first choice if I wasn't on a website that's new, but at first I wasn't doing too bad with them earnings wise.  They don't appear to have many advertisers though so I can't picture ever getting a whole lot out of them. 

I'll probably move on a give coinmedia.co a try where I was previously using adbit - was just hoping somebody had seen something like this before so I didn't have essentially forfeit what I did already earn with them.

Thanks!

Hello,

Is anyone else using adbit.biz for banner ads and having issues with them not displaying properly the vast majority of the time?

I've been having trouble with the 300x250 banners for the most part.  On occasion they'll render something, usually my fallbacks ads.  But I'd venture to guess 98% of the time they'll render just whitespace.

This is a fairly recent development over the past week and half or so.  I thought maybe it was something to do with my fallbacks, so I completely redid my fallback ads with no luck.  Then I recreated new ad spaces and the new ad spaces worked for a couple days before disappearing on me again.   As a result my earnings from them have taken a nose-dive over the past week.

I've tried submitting 2 tickets through their website but no response/change.  Has anyone else run into this and figured out if there's anything that can be done to fix it?  Or does anybody have some other way of contacting the folks over at Adbit.biz?

Thanks in advance for any help

Thanks for the feedback.  As the sole developer on the site often times you take for granted that some things "just make sense" when in fact they don't because you spend so much time buried in the code and logistics of things it becomes like second nature to you.

It was working as intended, but because of some tweaks that were made across different aspects along the way it doesn't seem to have been working all that effectively. That being said, I've made a few changes this morning to the gauntlet that should help clear things up a bit. 

• The gauntlet now displays the range of satoshi that can be won with each claim.  The range itself can fluctuate a little bit due to the current value of bitcoin, but it should give you a better idea of the overall range of what you can earn per claim.  I'm not going to go into detail on that page about the different levels and ranges that can occur with each claim because I don't want to overcomplicate it too much, but basically speaking there are two levels of ranges you can get, a high and a low, with a 1/3 shot of randomly getting a reward from the higher range versus the lower range.
• When you have a Questing Balm in your inventory you'll now see it more clearly.  Two doors will clearly be eliminated and a message about the questing balm will be displayed on the screen directly below the doors.
• I've changed how the questing balm works to make it more worthwhile.  Instead of increasing your chances of getting into the high-range as it did before, questing balms not automatically guarantee the highest amount of satoshi/gold when you claim from the gauntlet. So if the highest amount of satoshi awarded in the upper range is 12 satoshi (what it currently is right now) and you have a questing balm, that is what you'll get.

Here's a screenshot of the new changes:
https://preview.ibb.co/dkfpR7/Screen_Shot_2018_05_04_at_9_44_48_AM.png

Could you add my site/faucet to your bitcoin list - bitMerlin (https://bitmerl.in)

We have a cashout threshold of 2,000 satoshi and our main faucet can be claimed from every 60 minutes for anywhere from 6-14 satoshi (plus bonuses).

We also have additional daily "mini" faucets, contents, daily bonuses, and games that can be played to earn satoshi in addition to our faucet.

We may be small right now but we're scrappy and have quite a few ideas left in the tank.  Thanks for your consideration

Could you add my site/faucet - bitMerlin (https://bitmerl.in)

We have a cashout threshold of 2,000 satoshi and our main faucet can be claimed from every 60 minutes for anywhere from 6-14 satoshi (plus bonuses).

We also have additional daily "mini" faucets, contents, daily bonuses, and games that can be played to earn satoshi in addition to our faucet.

Thanks in advance and good luck with your site!

First let me say thanks for being a member and promotional bonus has been awarded!

Sorry about the trouble with the gauntlet.  It seems Linkrex was having some connection issues this morning that seem to have resolved throughout the day.  But I hope you understand there are some things that are beyond our control

As for the onlinebee.in links - they should be working now.  I'm honestly not sure what the problem was with that but after tinkering with it a little on this end it seems to be working now.

It looks like the error you're getting is coming from the faucet itself, and not our website. 

Unfortunately I don't think there's going to be a whole lot I can do to help on my end since we don't control the faucet itself and are only linking to it.  I just tried claiming from that particular faucet (and several others that it looks like you may have had some trouble on) and had no issue myself, and based on what I've seen in the Faucethub API library, that "Unknown Error" is basically a catch-all for when the Faucet Hub API sends an irregular error back to the faucet.

Since it seems as though you're having this issue on multiple different and unrelated faucets, odds are the problem isn't with this particular faucet and rather with something in the Faucet Hub API.  It could be that it was experiencing some sort of issue at the time your were attempting to claim, it could be some sort of bug that you're particular wallet address is setting off, or it could be something completely different (since we didn't make the API call I'm just blindly guessing).

The only other thing I can think of is if you're using our auto-copy function to paste in your wallet address as you visit each of these faucets to paste in your wallet address in.  There could be something interfering with that functionality, and as a result when you're trying to claim it's actually trying to do so to a bad/malformed address.  I would think if this was the case you'd get a different error message, but if you'd like to test that theory you could go to the faucet directly at http://www.ref-hunters.ch/btcfaucet/ then type in your wallet address and see if the error persists.  If it does, then I don't think it's anything with the auto-copy feature on bitMerlin.

My best advice - if this is an issue you run into when going directly to that and other faucets - would be to open a support ticket with Faucet Hub at https://faucethub.io/help.  I would guess they could look into their API logs and determine what's triggering that error from their API for your wallet address in particular.

Sorry I couldn't be more help, but hopefully this can help you find an answer and helps you claim from more faucets - whether it be through our rotator or not I'd love to see you find a resolution 

Hmmm... I'm not sure where that would be coming from.  I try to be more descriptive/user-friendly in the odd cases where I come across an input error, but I may have missed something.

If you're getting the error message on bitMerlin and want to send me a screenshot of what you're seeing to support@bitmerl.in I'll gladly take a look.

If you're getting it from another faucet that we're linked to in the rotator, it could be a problem on the faucet's end.  If you give me the name of the faucet (should be visible right in our rotator) or the URL I can try it on my end and at least figure out if the issue is on the faucet's end or not.

Right now we're running a promotion where the minimum to withdrawal is 2,000 satoshi.  To be perfectly honest that promotion will likely continue to run while we continue adding new ways to earn over the next few months.  However in reviewing some of the partnerships we've been pursuing and how their payment terms work, I'm not 100% certain that that promotion will be able to run indefinitely while keeping the site remains sustainable if those partnerships go through.  Whenever the time does come for that promotion to end I'll be as transparent as I possibly can about the reasoning behind the changes.  However for now and in the immediate future we'll be sticking at 2,000 satoshi.


Once you click the "Open" button, the faucet that is currently displayed in the rotator should open in a new tab/window (if you're browser blocks popups by default, you're going to have to allow them).  Once the faucet is opened, you would just claim for that faucet like you would any other faucet that pays out to Faucet Hub - e.g. Enter your Faucet Hub wallet address, go through whatever their process is to claim in terms of anti-bot links, captchas, shortlinks, etc.  Once you've finished claiming for that faucet, close out the window/tab the faucet opened in, go back to the rotator, and click the "Next" button to open the next faucet.

We keep track of the faucets that you claim from each day, and the following day you're automatically awarded a satoshi bonus based on the number/time/etc you spent claiming from faucets (there's a whole complicated formula for this). 

If you're not familiar with faucets and haven't really claimed from them before, this article from our knowledgebase goes into a little more depth and could be a helpful overview -> https://bitmerl.in/support/knowledge-base/how-do-i-start-claiming-from-faucets/

I hope I cleared up any confusion/answered your question

Thanks! Bonus Awarded!

We're happy to announce the opening of Merlin's Faire, where members can earn up to 200 satoshi per day just for playing games on their desktop, tablet, or mobile device.  Members can earn even faster by purchasing an Elixir of Luck from Merlin's Lab, which doubles the amount of mana earned with each game played. Merlin's Faire has started with around 100 different games to choose from, and we'll be adding a lot more in the coming weeks so no matter what type of game you like to play, we should have something for you.

And with each new week we start another round of Merlin's Challenge, awarding the top three earners throughout the course of the week.  It's a great time to get started.

We're also still offering a 100 satoshi signup bonus for all new members, so join today and starting earning!

https://bitmerl.in

What is your site url?
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I've added the code to this page as a test - https://bitmerl.in/aboutus - and I've changed the "http" to "https" in the iframe embed code like I mentioned previously, despite what the browser warnings states if you inspect the code it's clearly trying to iframe in HTTPS on my end.

Thanks for looking into it!

bitmerlin

I'm having some trouble getting your ads to load on an HTTPS page.  When I get the code for the ad place it says it will work on with HTTPS but when I place it on my site (and change the URL in the ad-code itself from HTTP to HTTPS) I'm still getting warnings that the content of the ad cannot be loaded because it is insecure.  I tried with both the iframe (my preferred method) and the script embed and still no luck.  Any ideas?

I did eventually get the activation email and activated my account, but sadly my Alexa ranking is up high enough yet for me to utilize your network.

But I've kept your site in my bookmarks and as soon as my rank starts climbing high enough I'll be sure to come back and get started!  Thanks for your help with the email thing

Hey there,

I'm trying to sign up to your network as a publisher but I don't seem to be getting the activation email.  I tried logging in and got an incorrect password, so I tried a password reset and no luck there either - can't tell if the form even submitted.  Checked my server mail logs to be sure and it doesn't look like it the email was rejected for either.  Can you help me out?

We've added two more features this week that we're happy to announce:

Merlin's Challenge - A weekly contest where members who earn the most satoshi each week get an extra bonus for their efforts.

Merlin's Bounty Quest Expansion - We've added four daily quests to our ongoing contest that each improve our members chances of winning the bounty prize while rewarding them with satoshi, gold, and earnings-boosting potions including the Elixir of Charm, which automatically assigns the next non-referred member who joins the site as your own referral (and in some cases can end up being more valuable than the bounty itself in the long-run).

We'd love to see you over at bitMerlin!
https://bitmerl.in

We're planning on adding some more faucets over the course of next week or so.

Right now we're working on a new feature that we'll be announcing later in the week but once that's out of the way we should be able to get some more faucets into the rotator.

Appears to have been a temporary thing as things were back up and running smooth about an hour after I posted that

Starting today everyone has a chance to earn a little more with bitMerlin!

We've increased our daily faucet bonus and now some members are getting as much as a 100 to 150 satoshi bonus each day just for claiming from faucets. That's on top of direct payouts they get from the faucets.

We're also seeing our weekly jackpot grow more each day providing a nice bonus for the lucky winners each week.

Finally, we've reduced our minimum withdrawal thresholds to 2,000 satoshi allowing members to have their satoshi sent to their Faucet Hub accounts even sooner.

And we're still offering a 100 satoshi signup bonus and 20% lifetime referral earnings so come check us out!
https://bitmerl.in