I must admit I am a fan of faucets and acquiring free tokens even though I don't use them all and have in some cases had some false starts. Remember Bitcoinker - not a single payout, and from the looks of things Freebitco.in is also not going to pay out despite their shutting down promise.

Disappointed, yes, but I don't really have the right to complain because it is free.

So where am I at for now?

The three platforms I describe below are all reliable at paying out. Now that basic tenet is established I can get on with it.

By far my favourite and the most lucrative is Cointiply, I am generally acquiring a minimum of $0.07 a day for very little effort - literally 20 minutes in the morning and then dipping into the rain chat every so often and literally writing something like "hi" - it is enough to qualify for the rainpool. Daily streak rewards are incremental and I am closing in on almost $0.02 a day for just keeping the streak going and at the moment there seems to be no evidence that it will be capped. The only downside of the daily streak rewards is that on a Sunday the reward is either a free mystery box or a bonus roll on the faucet wheel and that is almost certainly a guarantee for a lesser reward. Having said that a couple of weeks ago I did get a 1000 Coins for a single roll on a faucet wheel. This was not a bonus though and it has only happened once in 6 years of being on the platform. In 6 years I have probably acquired $150 for relatively little effort.

Secondly, I recently reviewed CoinPayU, now rebranded RewardJoy, and it is very slow and in my post I mentioned that it is hardly worth doing because I basically make $0.01 a day. I seem unable to qualify for their surveys and I was on the verge of giving up. However, since then I have decided to continue, so long as I am on my computer anyway and I hit the ptc ads running in the background while doing something else. One warning is that some of the ads are malicious. Clicking Cointoplist causes the browser to shut down - so I guess it is a malicious .bat command.

Thirdly, I use DutchyCorp and I would describe it as steady and even lucrative when I have time to do surveys. In fact it is the only site that I do surveys on. I generally get $0.05-$0.07 per day (excluding surveys). The only thing that can be problematic is finding a home for the diverse coins they offer, without opening yet another wallet. I currently have a quantity of Shiba Inu, Cronos and Polkodot ready to go. In the latter's case it seems to be that some kind of "chain" or something has to be set up beforehand directly on their platform to be able to move things about - and frankly it seems too complicated (maybe somebody better equipped than me can post an "idiot's guide". The other thing is that it boasts a very wide range of tokens, but since I joined 2 years ago that list has dropped from 83 to the current 71 and is going to drop by another two in the next few months (XRP and TIA are going). It was actually DutchyCorp that prompted my post today because in the last couple of days it has stopped awarding Dutchy for PTC ads on my account. I don't know if that is the experience of others? Everything else is working fine.

Let me know if you are experiencing anything similar.

As always stay safe and well my friends.