Update. Read to the end of the article to see the current situation:
MarioBTC.com is a SCAM.
Everybody knows that BTC faucets pay pennies nowadays. About one-two BTC sats per claim, to be exact. Some prominent, distinguished and renowned ones pay like 10-20 sats. A hundred sats claims are almost nonexistent (let me know if you use such a faucet).
So taking the above into account, what would you think if I show you a Super Faucet that pays 162 BTC sats per claim every 15 minutes!
Well, I know you know this ages-old sales pitch...
However, I'm glad to present to you Super Mario Super Faucet that does exactly that -- 162 BTC sats per claim every 15 minutes.
When you first create an account (you will need an email and a BTC address, even better if it's a Faucethub-connected BTC address), in the bottom-left corner you will see an ordinary faucet, with ordinary bells, whistles, and 4 sats claims:
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But after some handjob you can make it look like this:
Note these 162 sats per claim!
The magic is the Upgrade Faucet button. For the sats you've already claimed you can purchase the next level and get more sats per claim.
Here are the calculations:
Sats means sats per claim, Price is the cost of upgrade (in sats), Time is the time needed to claim enough sats. In other words, you can upgrade the faucet to 162 sat per claim in 4725 min or 3 days 6 hours and 45 minutes of net time, and paying 10990 sats back to the faucet for that.
The upgrade can be done even faster if you gain extra sats with CPU mining, or playing the game, or winning the contests (I didn't try all that).
So, is MarioBTC scam or legit? In other words, does it pay the earned pennies out? Well, for me it pays, at least to my Faucethub account:
(You can check the address 3JvhpK45pgxKc1eJeP92attNMtU7KnMNui at Faucethub too. Yes, the faucet can be considered a legit one.
But does it have any caveats? It does, unfortunately.
And the most unpleasant one is the hosting that the faucet's owner uses. The hosting is plain awful. Every other day it has a SQL error, an internal server error, or some other error... The owner doesn't care for the faucet that much, so the faucet may stay broken for hours.
The second one is the strange condition that "only faucet earnings can be withdrawn to Faucethub account". I don't know what it means exactly. I presume, that you can withdraw to Faucethub the original 4 sats claims only. Everything else, i.e. earnings from mining, games, upgraded faucets, can be withdrawn to a direct BTC address only, with the minimum withdrawal amount of 0.00055 sats including commission. Or again, when you claim 162 sats per claim, you do receive 162 sats, but only 4 of them can be withdrawn to Faucethub, and 158 will wait for direct withdrawal. The refunds you see on the screenshot above are those "over the limit" Faucethub withdrawals I tried. A weird system, actually...
And to sum it up -- MarioBTC pays. I do receive Faucethub payments, instantly and with no commissions. When I get 55000 sats for direct payment (approximately, in 85 hours of net time), I will update the article accordingly.
BTW, I don't believe the faucet will stay for long -- pretty soon someone will file a DCMA complain ("Super Mario" is a registered trademark and everything).
Update 1: As many faucetters already know, Faucethub will die on Dec 10. So MarioBTC no longer uses Faucethub for micropayments. It now uses FaucetPanel.com which accepts BTC micropayments, charges no deposit or withdrawal fees, but has a min withdrawal amount of 20K BTC sats...
Update 2: Finally I managed to handjob 55K sats -- and guess what? The faucet doesn't pay! My direct payment sits "pending" for several days already and the faucet owner doesn't respond to my email. Well, I have to declare MarioBTC being a SCAM, despite the fact that it did pay small amounts to Faucethub. See my follow-up article.
Disclaimer: I'm neither an employee not an owner of any crypto-exchange or faucet, including the above-mentioned one. This article is informational, and not an endorsement, financial advice or guarantee of any kind. I myself have assets and affiliate earnings at the above-mentioned project.
