You can read all over the internet that "You can't earn anything from bitcoin faucets because they pay pennies nowadays". And it's sad but true, in general. However, in particular, the details of this statement are full of little devils, so that if we start talking about them the statement wouldn't probably look so straightforward.
But enough with this pseudo-philosophical gibberish! Right now I simply feel like I must write something about the ways to make money from cryptocurrency faucets! Though I will put it here short and abrupt.
As far as I know, there're three main ways of making a living from crypto faucets. Here they are:
Click, click, click
That's exactly what most people imagine when talking about faucets. You just sit like a dumbass clicking a link, then watching a banner, then clicking again, then watching, and like that. And at the end of a day of such a handjob, you finally get your 1 satoshi or 0.0001 cents... Alternatively, you sign in once a day, make a couple of clicks and go away hoping to get some beer money by the XXII-nd century. Both options are truly miserable.
Fortunately, if you do this handjob for a couple of months, you will learn how to do it much more effectively. The key concept is to milk more and more good faucets at the same time with less effort and to rule their micro-financial capillary flows to run with maximum speed and minimal overheads. A bit of brain, persistence and a lot of spare time is a must for good results.
Be your own master
"The best way to earn from a faucet is to own a faucet", they say. Well, at least running a faucet is more "intellectual" work than clicking on ad links and watching banners. Besides, it could be considered a "passive income" -- your faucet can run without your constant attention.
A faucet is basically a website with a script that displays ads and sends a satoshi when the ad is watched (and the site owner is paid by the advertiser). So, spend US$50-100 to get a web hosting plan, a domain name, and a faucet script, put them together to make a website -- and voila, you're a faucet owner! Then you need duly paying advertisers whose banners you will show to your clients. And then comes the hardest part -- to find clients, those poor creatures who will handjob your faucet... Because it's not enough to put yet another faucet in the middle of the internets and expect eager faucetters to come and stay with you forever. You will have to promote your faucet yourself, to start a referral program so that others also could be interested in promoting it. You will also have to deal with cheating, advertisers cancelling payments, server downtimes, etc. Shortly, running a faucet is not as "passive" as it may look.
Rule them all
And last but not least, the silver bullet called "affiliate marketing". Let others do the hard part for you and get your share of their profits. Why I call it a "silver bullet"? Because it's as simple as it can be -- just convince people to join your network and to do what you want them to. No high tech skills required, no elaborated tools or costly services, no headache about DDOS attacks, nothing. Perfectly scalable, you can rule thousands of affiliates almost as easily as a single one. Universality lets you use your affiliate marketing skills not only in crypto-faucet business but on hundreds of other fields. The only downside is that the magic bullet is by far not so easy as it is simple. Today you can't just throw a handful of affiliate links into the internets and wait for your network to grow up... Personally, I consider affiliate marketing being one of the toughest tasks, along with exchange trading.
"So, that's the moral of these paragraphs of broken English?" you might ask. Well, let's put it like this: If you want to make some living from crypto-faucets -- go for affiliate marketing. If you can't -- go for owning a faucet. If you still can't -- go into ads clicking... However, effective clicking can make you more money than unsuccessful affiliate marketing.
