Crypto Hobo: A beginner's study and how-to on cryptocurrency faucets

in #bitcoin7 years ago

Easy claims on Bit, Lite, Doge, and Dash.

Yep, there's a bunch of it. If you haven't heard of faucet sites, they feed you crypto-coins for keeping them up in your browser. They get ad revenue from advertisers, and we are paid bitcoin fractions in return. If you don't mind captchas and ads, you'll be as happy as I am.

Here's the rub, the catch, the thing you must beware: MANY of these sites are total bullshit. Choose carefully.

I'm not going to sugar coat this. We are here to safely earn a small pool for investment. That is why we are sticking to what I know works, for now. I'll be back with more. I'm researching this side of cryptocurrency daily right now.

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I'm here to share my findings, and give you a step by step run down of how to get started, using the best set up I've found so far, so you don't have to sort through the mud. If you appreciate the time I spent doing this, you can thank me by using the links I included. They are referral links, and I will receive a bonus.

You can then turn around and give out your own referral links in your posts to earn for yourself!

What to expect


We will be:

  • Registering to websites.
  • Turning off adblock on a few sites.
  • Using respectable amounts of bandwidth. I wouldn't try this on your data plan!
  • Enhancing the crypto-market by showing businesses a promising new advertising market.
  • Earning free crypto! It's like those sites that pay you pennies to watch ads, the difference being that these pennies could get huge.

This activity on a large scale can be impactful. This is an activity that benefits yourself as well as cryptocurrency in general. We all know how much steemit loves crypto; work together in a whole new way, very directly.

We will not be:

  • Making large amounts of money quickly. Until coins blow up even more, that is.
  • Botting, hacking, or using a VPN. That's for someone else to write. I'm playing by the rules this time. No duplicates on the same IP.
  • doing surveys, slideshows, offers, or any other certifiable bullshit. (I'm sorry, we don't have any surveys for you right now after you filled out questions for 10 minutes!) Ugh. Never. Again.

This will require some amount of attention, but not much. It is best done when you are at your computer anyway.

What we need

1. Choosing our hub - This is where our coins will gather from the faucets. Think of it as your crypto-hobo-begging-mug. For this set up, we will use CoinPot. Claims are nearly immediate, we can watch our little piles grow, and it's very satisfying.

2. Turn on the faucet flow - I will now list the websites I am using. Go there, and follow the directions. Most require only the email associated with CoinPot. Make sure you enter the same email here as you did at CoinPot or you're wasting water.

Bitfun - Bitcoin. The games play ads, the ads give satoshi. Leave it on a game page and collect when you do the others. Or play the games, if you want! I haven't confirmed if playing them makes a difference in income.
Bonus Bitcoin - Bitcoin, 15 minute claim time. Runs a good average coin/hr for low effort.
Moon Bitcoin - Bonuses for allowing background mining. Five minutes or more claim time. It counts up slower the longer you leave it open, so claiming often nets the most. This rule applies to all the moon-faucets.
Moon Litecoin - Functions the same as the other moon sites.
Moon Dogecoin - Another moon site; that's a good thing.
Moon Dash - Yet ANOTHER moon site; awesome. Wish there were more, honestly.

3. Establish these as your 7 tabs - 6 faucets and CoinPot.

4. Disable adblock on these 7 sites - It won't work with them on, by the way.

5. Enter Captcha, claim coins, repeat - I put them in order from least time between claims (moon sites) to most (Bonus Bitcoin), and just go down the row.

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Like so. 8th tab is extra credit, see below.

6. Watch your coinpot fill up - It is immensely satisfying watching all your little currency numbers float upwards. Fulfill minimum withdraw and you're all set. I recommend withdrawing less often to avoid the fees, even if they are nearly negligible.

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Note: You may notice it gets noisy as hell when those ads start. The simple solution is to turn down your sound. The best solution is muting all tabs so you can still use your computer's sound (right click tab>mute tab). Closing mellowad popups to "process" ads is part of the deal. Chrome and Firefox will work, I believe. The popups show as extra tabs, are lightweight, and close easily.

Extra Credit

This is one of my favorite parts of CoinPot. It is your optional 8th tab, if you have the processor for it. They have a very simple browser-based cloud miner for the currencies they support (BTC, LTC, DOGE, DASH, BCH) and the coin is deposited directly into the account every 5 minutes or so. Drip. Drip. Drip. Very satisfying to take part in, especially if you are only mildly technologically capable like myself.

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Note: This method of mining is not cost effective currently. You will spend more USD in electricity than you will make. It's mostly for fun as a faith and energy investment. I'm using it as a way to pick up some Bitcoin Cash, I haven't found a faucet I trust for BCH yet.

More to come

I am exploring two other hubs I've discovered recently, they seem promising. I'll report back soon with that, and probably more. The crypto-world goes far and wide, steem-friends, and I will adventure there as well.

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It's interesting, but did you notice that on your screen shot you've barely made 1 penny worth of dollar-equivalent money? How much electricity do you think leaving all those sites open is costing you? Also, the virtual mining is also a bad deal, bc THEY are making all the mining money, while YOU pay the electricity bill.

We like your enthusiasm, but think you're selling rather low just to take part in the great bubble.

I am selling low to take part, yes. That is my point. I am willing to show my faith through these actions for now. We don't know where the market will take us yet, and I want to be involved. I've spent my life partially removed from society because of a poor financial history. A big part of that problem is the federal reserve, and the laws surrounding the USD. The current financial powers that be make the rules that keep them in power, and drive the rest of us into poverty. I am viewing this as a chance to get out ahead of something, and play even a miniscule part. I am making pennies for now, but I don't want pennies; USD failed me. I want crypto.

Edit: But hey, if you think I'm selling low, maybe you should hire me for something.

Where are you? We could use some farm-labor!

I actually have back problems, wouldn't suit me. Is this a joke?