Just a quick(ish) one today.....

What it is

Just to be clear freebitco.in isn't really even a game, just a gamified faucet.

You are guaranteed to earn something if you don't fall for their gambling bullshit - and I use the term "something" loosely, like when someone says you've got something on your face and it is a tiny speck of dirt that is honestly so insignificant that you wouldn't give a shit if they never even mentioned it in the first place.

Gameplay

Every hour (or whatever the fuck you can manage) you check in, you jump through the hoops of their captcha, and click the "roll" button. You then probably have to refresh the fucking page because your session has expired, do another captcha, click the damn button again, and whammo.... you've more than likely won yourself a grand total of $0.002 - yep, a whole 1/5 of a single cent - don't you feel special? Just don't spend it all at once, this shit is for your retirement fund, dammit. Then you have to hide a fucking annoying fucking popup asking you to gamble away your hard-earned Bitcoin. Every. Fucking. Time.

So yeah, there is some gambling bullshit you can fall for if you want. They say their algorithm is provably fair. Cool. So basically that just means you are putting your money on the line based purely on luck. Odds are you will be lucky just as often as you are unlucky, so chances are you will break even or probably just lose while some other fortunate fuck wins your share of the lucky stuff.

Design and performance and shit

It is just a website. And not even an attractive one. It has a boring grey/black primary theme, but then it has blues and greens and oranges and yellows all over the fucking place, and not even similar fucking shades of the colours -3 oranges, 3 yellows, 3 blues, and worst of all, 8 different fucking greens!!! And I'm only looking on the main page here, I couldn't be fucked looking further.

Seriously people, update your design, your site looks like a fucking horrible early 00's used car sales website.

But given how outdated it is it shouldn't have any performance problems, even on your shittiest, oldest phones as long as they have a browser (yep, phones once didn't have browsers, hard to believe, but true story. Not that anyone gives a shit how old I am to actually remember that).

Where it falls down

I'm not even going to go into the gambling aspects here. If you gamble, it is a game with no guaranteed winnings. If you ignore the gambling then at least you have a slow faucet going on.

But even then, what is it worth to you?

They show you right there on the screen what your chances are of winning anything - you have only a 1 in 10001 chance of winning the big $200.

Breaking it down to win amounts and your chance of getting it:

$0.002 - 98.85011498850115%

$0.02 - 0.999900009999%

$0.20 - 0.07999200079992%

$2 - 0.03999600039996%

$20 - 0.01999800019998%

$200 - 0.00999900009999%

So your odds of buying yourself a beer with your winnings are really fucking slim - less than 0.07% chance to earn more than a dollar on a single roll.

Over the longer term things are pretty bleak too.

If you managed to play 10001 times, and scored every single number possible once each, you would have earned a total of $271.372. Not too bad, but how long will it take you to earn it?

Let's say you play 10 times every day. It will take 1000.1 days to roll every number. That is 2.74 YEARS to play it. You are averaging less than $100 a YEAR doing this shit.

You also need a minimum of 0.0003 BTC to cash out - the odds of you gaining that much in a reasonable time frame are fucking slim unless you are one of the rare players who manages to strike that $20 or $200 early on.

You've also got the market to worry about. Because the winning value is tied to USD, if BTC goes up you will win less and less. At current market value the only single win value you could withdraw is the $200....

Your only hope is that Bitcoin crashes, you manage to pull enough BTC together to meet the minimum cash out value, get that shit out and into your own wallet, and then BTC breaks through the fucking ceiling on its way up so your invested time is actually worth half of anything.

I'm not even going to start on all their other ways for you to lose your already meager winnings when you get into the gambling shit. Play with that at your own risk.

Final words

Yeah, I'm playing it. But none of that gambling shit. Just using it as a faucet.

I'll probably get bored as fuck and close the tab long before I earn enough to withdraw.

PS. If anyone wants me to destroy their favourite crypto games, blockchain games, or even gamified faucets like this, let me know in the comments. I play some, and used to play a few more, but I will run out one day.

Just don't give me your fucking referral links, OK? I don't want them, and I will actively ignore requests that have them.