With rising up of Bitcoin value, there’re more opportunities to be discussed about Crypto related topics. This article enthused about one of a best way to earn Bitcoins without needing any hard afford! Basically, if you’re a newbie to all these Crypto related stuffs and want to try out what the heck is about Cryptocurruncies, I recommend you should definitely start with this way. In the other way, this is also a good strategic to have a profitable income when you’re seriously involve in this.
What is a Cryptocurruncy faucet?
I’ve described in a previous post in details what is a faucet (Click here to read it). Cryptocurrucy faucet is a reward system (specially a website) where you can earn free coins by doing some tasks that offer the faucet. If it’s a Bitcoin faucet, you get some amount of Bitcoins to withdraw to your Bitcoin wallet.
What do I need to have to start a Bitcoin faucet website?
When we talk about cryptocurruncy faucet websites, it’s simple you to start your own faucet site. But most important thing that you need to focus on is having enough Bitcoins in your pocket all the time to spend and also have a well planed strategy to survive for a long time. Most faucet sites in the internet are monetized with Crypto related ad networks and the faucet owners get their main income from these ad networks. Before starting your Bitcoin faucet, you’ll need to consider about following things;
- Bitcoin payment system.
- Bitcoin faucet script.
- Domain name and a hosting plan that meets your faucet requirments.
Bitcoin payment system
You need a Bitcoin payment system linked to your faucet such as FaucetHub.io, FaucetSystem.com etc. in order to pay your faucet users. If you use FaucetHub.io micropayment system in your faucet, users will receive their requested payment into their FaucetHub account. Or you can use your Bitcoin wallet provider’s API keys to be received payouts directly to your faucet users’ wallet on their request. It’s really up to you which payment system that you’re going to use in your faucet. But, the most easiest and cheapest way is using a micropayment system in your faucet as there are easy steps to link your account to the faucet and no any transaction fees at all. Most faucet owners use FaucetHub.io as their micropayment system today.
Bitcoin faucet script
You might have been wondering at the beginning that do I have to code the faucet on my own? No. You don’t need to. You don’t need to familiar with programming languages to build your site. There are some PHP faucet scripts available for you and all the functions that your faucet need to have are included into these scripts. Most of them are come with free of charge, but there are customizable scripts available also, if you can afford them.
Free version of Bitcoin faucets are mostly available with FaucetHub.io payment system included. Changing these scripts as your need, is an easy task to be done by your side.
Domain name and a hosting plan that meets your faucet requirements
The most important part comes when you get a hosting plan and a domain name. If you’re not going to expect your faucet to have a huge profit, you can go with a shared hosting plan which available for a cheapest price. Buy a domain name as well, because the users which are going to use your faucet need to build trust on your faucet. It helps your site to get more users and increase your faucet traffic as well.
You can also get a free domain name and a hosting plan if you don’t have money to afford on them. But remember that, the server on which you run your faucet site may need to handle loads of visitors simultaneously which most free hosting providers are lacking of. My recommendation is you to get a paid hosting service and, sometimes, it may be possible you to move on to a paid hosting when you’re planing your faucet to survive for a long time.
Let’s start your faucet site
Well, considering above needs carefully, you can start your faucet at a very basic level. Here, I’m guiding you how to start your very basic faucet, which can be used the FaucetHub.io service as the payment method. The script I’m going to use here is Faucet CMS, which can be downloaded for free at the developer’s website. Faucet CMS is the most innovative and fully customizable Faucet script today, which is powered by PHP. This faucet script has full of functions that you can control on the user-friendly admin panel without needing any hard coding work.
This script is completely free to download. Nevertheless, the script is coded to charge you a small fee for each cashout requests to developer’s account. Therefor, you will be charged 3 satoshi for each cashout amount below 100 satoshi and 6 satoshi for each cashout amount above 100 satoshi.
If you don’t want to be charged from your account, you an use a different faucet script. But, here, in this article, I’m going to explain starting your faucet with Faucet CMS script. So, let’s get started.
First of all, download the script from the developer’s website here. You can peek at a live demo of the faucet here)
(This faucet is being discussed on BitcoinTalk forum as well. If you want to know more details relating to the faucet, please click here)
Once you downloaded the script, extract the .zip file and select all the files in ‘upload’ folder and upload them in to your server’s root folder.
Create a database and a user for the faucet and grant all privileges to the user. Assign your newly created database to the user. Keep the information of the user and the database you created here with you as we need them in the next step.
Open the browser and type the link yourfaucet.com/install.php (You should enter your faucet domain name instead of yourfauce.com)
Providing all the information that are being asked in this step, click on save button.
Now you’re being redirected to the front page. But, you’ll see a bunch of PHP errors are being displayed on the front page instead of the faucet. This is because, we didn’t set all the faucet information that faucet needs, including your FaucetHub.io API keys. To build your faucet at the beginning, just head over to the Admin page. You’ll find the Admin page at yourfaucet.com/admin.
Type admin in the email and password field to gain access to the admin zone (You can change your admin details at a later time).
In the Dashboard you get your faucet’s daily analysed information on a very friendly user interface. There’s a admin panel that categorized into each section that you can be customized easily.
Click on settings from the admin panel. This section is the most important part for your faucet as you provide very important details related to your faucet site. I’ll explain you about some important settings before your faucet is published.
In Faucet Settings, you can provide all the details relating to the rewards that you are offering to your users. It basically depends on you. Your faucet is required to link a ‘faucet’ created with FaucetHub.io by providing its API key to your script in Payment Gateway section. To create a faucet and get its API key, log in to your FaucetHUb.io account and go to Your faucet > Create a New Faucet which you’ll find at https://faucethub.io/manager. After you created a faucet, you’ll be able to see your API key to use on your faucet script. Copy the API key and paste it on under FaucetHub API Key in Payment Gateway section. Make sure that you’ve enabled FaucetHub option under the name Enabled.
Now, there’s another important step to complete which is providing your captcha details. This script is currently available for two captcha alternatives, SolveMedia and reCaptcha. reCaptcha, provided by highly trusted Google, has an advanced security system to protect your faucet from bots. To get Google reCaptcha, list your faucet domain name here – https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/
After you’ve listed the address of your faucet site, you’ll be given two keys to use on your faucet.
Copy the both codes under Site key and Secret key, and past those codes in the forms which are in reCaptcha settings of your faucet settings. Fill in the other forms as the instructions provided by the faucet, as well and click save.
Now you can announce your faucet in the internet. But if you care about the other function that can done by the faucet script, you can go with them. I explained you the very basic methods that how to get your faucet built!
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