One of the oldest faucets is shutting down. Free Bitcoin recently announced the ceasing of operations.

Free Bitcoin has been in operation for more than 12 years and stand out as one of the forerunners in the world of crypto faucets.

I reall how hourly claims of Freebitvoin, Free Dogecoin and the various Moom faucets guided my journey into the incredible world of crypto.

Faucets payment were as high as 120 Satoshis in those days, compared to the paltry one of two thesedays.

Sad to see this giant of a project shut it's doors. Many thanks to the people behind the scenes that make it work.

Recently, they posted a notice on the site.

Dear user, after more than 12 years in operation FreeBitco.in has made the difficult decision to shut down because of widespread abuse across the website.

If you are a genuine user, please do not worry - your funds are safe. We are currently in the process of sifting through genuine users and abusers which is taking much longer than expected because of our tens of millions of users.

As a part of this process, the website will be replaced by a shutdown page in the coming weeks and after that we shall start the process of migating genuine users to the new shutdown database where they will be able to login and initiate withdrawals of their balances.

We expect withdrawals to be enabled by early 2026. Unfortunately due to the tedious process of weeding through our large database, this is much longer than we are happy with but we have little choice other than going through each user account manually to seperate genuine users and abusers.

We would like to thank you for being a loyal user of our website and would like to ask for your patience while we work through this process.