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There are also faucets that dispense alternative cryptocurrencies. Faucets usually give fractions of a bitcoin, but the amount will typically fluctuate according to the value of bitcoin. Typical payout per transaction is less than satoshi, [note 1] although some faucets also have random larger rewards.
To reduce mining fees , faucets normally save up these small individual payments in their own ledgers , which then add up to make a larger payment that is sent to a user's bitcoin address. As bitcoin transactions are irreversible and there are many faucets, they have become targets for hackers stealing the bitcoins. It is typical for faucets to have a referral system, where existing users referring new ones are rewarded with a pro rata portion of new users' earnings from the faucet.
Unlike illegal pyramid schemes , earnings do not percolate to the top in the chain of referrals. The exact legal status of bitcoin faucets is unclear and can vary by jurisdiction, refer to legality of bitcoin by country. The owner of the Bitcoin Faucet loads some bitcoin into this payments manager's cryptocurrency wallet. Advertisements are the main income source of bitcoin faucets.
Faucets try to get traffic from users by offering free bitcoin as an incentive. Some ad networks also pay directly in bitcoins. This means that faucets often have a low profit margin. Some faucets also make money by mining altcoins in the background, using the user's CPU. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The topic of this article may not meet Wikipedia's notability guideline for web content. Please help to establish notability by citing reliable secondary sources that are independent of the topic and provide significant coverage of it beyond its mere trivial mention.
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