What If I Make My Own Crypto Faucet?

Is It Worth It?

Amir Ali Hashemi
5 min readMar 27, 2022
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FRIENDLY NOTE: This is NOT a dev tutorial! I’m intentionally skipping the programming steps and will focus on the general picture. So you’ll gain something out of this, no matter you are a developer or not.

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As a blockchain enthusiast, I was surfing the internet to update my knowledge about new ways to generate income with cryptocurrencies and I came across something called a crypto faucet. Well, crypto faucets are sites that dish out tiny amounts of free coins in return for you performing a trivial action. The tasks could be something as simple as completing a captcha, viewing ads, or signing up for a newsletter. The reason faucets can give away free crypto is because they place advertising on their sites, and the money they make from ads is more than what they give.

After playing around with a few crypto faucets and earning a fraction of free bitcoin, I asked myself:

Why not make my own Crypto Faucet?

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Amir Ali Hashemi
Amir Ali Hashemi

Written by Amir Ali Hashemi

I'm an AI student who attempts to find simple explanations for questions and share them with others