What is a Crypto Faucet?
Many people in the cryptocurrency space know what a faucet is, but if you don't here's the rundown. A 'faucet' basically just means a site that will give out small amounts of crypto, either directly to your wallet, a microwallet (Faucetpay, Payeer), or as a balance on the site that can be withdrawn once you hit a certain threshold. You can find faucets for pretty much any coin, but the most popular is of course Bitcoin. Faucets can also vary in how often you can claim, ranging from 5-60 minutes for the most part. Lastly, some faucets have level systems where you can slightly increase your earnings, and achievements to get bonuses.
Terms to Know
CAPTCHA
Faucets require you to complete a CAPTCHA (fun fact this stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) to claim, which just ensures that bots don't flood the site. There's several different kinds, some of the most popular being Google's ReCAPTCHA, hCAPTCHA, and SolveMedia. Some faucets allow you to pick which one and personally I like hCAPTCHA, as ReCAPTCHA sometimes doesn't accept my inputs even though I'm definitely a human.
PTC (Paid-To-Click)
Most faucets have additional earning opportunities, one of which being PTC. PTC advertisements give you a little extra for clicking on ads and watching them for 5-60 seconds. Most of the time this is the only additional feature I interact with, as its very easy and its common for sites to have a ton of them.
Shortlinks
Shortlinks are similar to PTC ads, but instead of opening the ad in another window it takes you directly to another website that you have to click through and complete CAPTCHAs. Most of the time it'll take you directly back to original site, and take a bit longer than PTCs. However, the benefit is that usually they'll award you with more crypto than a PTC, and some of them can be done more than once a day as opposed to PTC.
Offerwall
An offerwall is a third party system that allows you to complete different tasks for crypto such as surveys, downloading apps, etc. These usually have the biggest payouts but the drawback is some of them require you to spend money, surveys can sometimes reject you, and some overall jankiness so I tend not to bother with them.
Auto Faucet
Some sites have an Auto Faucet feature, which will take some form of energy or currency but in exchange just keeps claiming on a certain interval. In fact, some sites are advertised on that aspect, and have a pretty robust system.
Microwallet
A microwallet is just a third part site separate from the faucet that allows you to collect payments from many sites in one place and withdraw once you earn enough to make it worth it, otherwise the fees from every transaction would just be brutal. Faucetpay is the most popular, allowing 13 different cryptos to be held (BTC, ETH, DOGE, LTC, BCH, DASH, DGB, TRX, USDT, FEY, ZEC, BNB, and SOL) and withdrawn at your leisure. Faucetpay also has some gambling opportunities if that's your thing, and its own list of compatible faucets (hint: its huge)
Tips
Before I get into listing some recommended sites, I'd like to give you all some tips to make the experience as smooth as possible.
- Turn off Adblock - While not all sites require it, most won't let you use their site with adblock because that's (for the most part) how they make money and are able to offer crypto for free
- Use multiple faucets at the same time - Since faucets have a cooldown on how often you can claim, if you're just chilling claiming a faucet its a good idea to have several tabs of different faucets at the same time, so you can maximize earning from any period of time.
- Don't forget daily bonuses - some faucets have a daily bonus that increases with each day, either giving currency directly or an increasing bonus on your faucet claims. Even if you don't plan to spend the day grinding out faucets, its usually worth it to check in once a day to keep your bonus going.
- Don't use sites you find through PTCs - While you can find some legit sites while doing your PTCs, there's a lot of scams and scuffed sites, and generally it isn't worth it in my opinion to check every one.
- Cash out when crypto is low - Most faucets pay based on USD value, so when Bitcoin is low, cash out and you'll get slightly more crypto and when it goes up again you'll be glad you have that little more.
- Withdraw every time you hit the minimum - When you withdraw to a microwallet most of the time there is no fees, so withdrawing every time you hit the minimum is a safe bet in case the site goes offline, you stop claiming from it, or any number of reasons you can no longer access a site.
Recommended Faucets
Here's some of the faucets I personally use and recommend, most of these payout to Faucetpay.
Cointiply
Cointiply has been around for awhile, and has pretty good payout rates. You can claim once every 60 minutes, and every day you claim at least once you'll get a 1% additive bonus up to 100%. The site also has decent PTC and offerwalls, and by completing them you can increase your 'Cointiplier' which gives further bonuses to faucet claims. There's also 'quests' which can net you even more coins for reaching faucet milestones etc.
CoinPayU
https://www.coinpayu.com/?r=s3vere
CoinPayU has faucets that can be claimed once an hour, you can pick 4 different cryptos out of 15 to claim each day. There's even staking options for a few of them which some of you might be interested in. However, the best part of CoinPayU is their PTCs, usually there's up to 50 a day allowing decent earnings that way. They also have offerwalls and allow withdrawals to Faucetpay.
Freebitco.in
https://freebitco.in/?r=44570758
Freebitcoin is another site that's been around for a long time, and has an hour long claim cooldown. once again this site has gambling if you're into it. You can even earn interest if you have enough in your account.
Final Autofaucet
https://autofaucet.dutchycorp.space/?r=s3vere_
Final Autofaucet might be my favorite faucet, they have your standard manual faucet (every 30 minutes) for Dutchy (their currency) and for whatever the coin of the month is (as of writing this its Tron). Dutchy can then be used for their autofaucet that has 73 (!) different cryptos to choose from. It also has a level system that grants bonuses on the autofaucet, a daily streak bonus for the manual faucet, staking opportunities with SPACE token, PTCs, shortlinks, and offerwalls. There's so much to this faucet and so many different ways to earn and that's why I like it so much.
Earnbitmoon
https://earnbitmoon.club/?ref=144562
Earnbitmoon is another favorite, you can claim every 5 minutes, and it has a level system with decent bonuses and achievements. Also has PTC and Shortlinks, and gambling. The daily bonus starts low but increases each day up to $0.01 a day, and is withdrawable to Faucetpay.
ClaimBits
https://claimbits.net/?ref=169449
ClaimBits is pretty much a clone of Earnbitmoon, allowing claims every 5 minutes and has most of the features of Earnbitmoon. it has the same leveling system and similar achievements.
Faucetoshi
https://faucetoshi.com/?r=25502
You can claim from Faucetoshi every 15 minutes, and unlike any of the others I've talked about before it has a claim limit of 25 per day, however the reason I like this one is that the level bonuses are pretty good, because leveling up is pretty fast and doing PTCs also gives experience for levels. Pays out to Faucetpay with any of the cryptos they support.
CryptoWin
https://cryptowin.io/ref/severe
I haven't used CryptoWin for that long, but they have a 15 minute faucet and good PTC. They also have an interest earning system, however I habe not gotten to try that yet so use at your own risk. Lastly, here's a few sites that pay directly to your Faucetpay account, they're only usually 1 Bitcoin satoshi but if you just claim them along with your other faucets its a decent bonus. http://gobits.io/?r=16VKW1v6rcmDNUUedtbGNCPDnwkJqYQEyM http://claimbits.io/?r=16VKW1v6rcmDNUUedtbGNCPDnwkJqYQEyM https://i-bits.io/?r=16VKW1v6rcmDNUUedtbGNCPDnwkJqYQEyM Thanks for reading my first article! Don't forget to tip if you want more articles like this.
