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freicoin / freicoin-old

Bitcoin integration/staging tree
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MIT License
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Create a Freicoin faucet #61

Open maaku opened 11 years ago

maaku commented 11 years ago

People downloading Freicoin for the first time should have some test coins to play around with. However after the public launch test coins will cost real money. In the early days Bitcoin had the “Bitcoin faucet” (operated by Gavin, now the primary core developer) which is a website where you could visit and get a few cents worth of free bitcoins, once per-day and per-IP address. We should have something similar.

jtimon commented 11 years ago

Just add that in needs a captcha, maybe it was obvious.

maaku commented 11 years ago

Of course :)

mhredmond21 commented 11 years ago

This would be the only reason to have a "Freicoin Foundation" IMO to fund the fountain for only one or two years.

However, I would change some of the fundamentals of the fountain to make it unique to Freicoin.

It should be like a wishing well. The fountain will give you an address you have to send some minuscule amount of coins to, and send the fountain sends a larger amount back.

Their first coins should come by mining or begging or buying on the forum (or irc). This will make it more like an invitation game. The new people need to interact for the first coins, not just give it to them by the fountain.

max-sanchez commented 11 years ago

Made a freicoin wallet.

http://www.theopeneffect.com/freicoin :)

jtimon commented 11 years ago

Tested the faucet, it works. There's another one here: http://endlessfreico.in/