Howdy, all! This is a long read, but it's well worth it! I spent a lot of time putting this together for you, and I hope you earn just as much as I do after you check out my favorite sites to earn FREE Bitcoin!
I work on the computer, and I always have access to these sites, but I don't always surf them. I spend about an hour or two a day on these sites and earn about 0.1BTC a month. I'm not trying to get rich from this, but it's a fun way to make a few cents here and there.
So I've gone through hundreds, if not thousands, of bitcoin faucets and rotators over the past few months, and even have a detailed spreadsheet of them all to see which ones pay the most, pay on time, and yield the best returns. What I've noticed is that a lot of the high-paying faucets don't payout when you hit the threshold, and the last thing you want is to have wasted hours on a site that ended up being a scam.
I'll try to make this guide as simple as possible, in steps that are easy for you to follow. Feel free to comment or private message me with any questions you have, and I'll be sure to answer them as best I can.
First, you need a wallet. The easiest way for you to familiarize yourself with how Bitcoin wallets work is to use a trusted online wallet. I've tried a lot of them, and I find that my favorite (and most trusted online) is Blockchain.info. Start your own wallet at https://blockchain.info
Second, you'll need to familiarize yourself with micropayment caches. These are online wallet solutions that make it easy for bigger websites to pay you mBTC and Satoshis, because it minimizes fees to send to a lot of members of their site. In a nutshell, it means that these sites don't have to charge you a high withdrawal fee (if any, at all), which means you pretty much keep all the mBTC and Satoshi that you earn! These caches use your existing BTC address to hold your earnings for you, and they automatically pay you when a certain threshold (that you designate) is met. I like to set my threshold to 1mBTC (0.001BTC), which is pretty easy to meet on a daily or weekly basis. The most popular micropayment caches are FaucetBOX, ePay, MicroWallet, and Paytoshi. Most of them are automated, and you don't need to sign up; your account is automatically created the moment one of the earning sites sends you a payment to your BTC address.
Third, you need to know what a Satoshi is, because that's what you'll be earning on these sites.
"A Satoshi is the smallest fraction of a Bitcoin that can currently be sent: 0.00000001 BTC, that is, a hundredth of a millionth BTC." - Bitcoin Stack Exchange
So without further ado, here is my list of favorite sites that I visit on a regular basis, that helps me achieve my 0.1BTC per month passive income (Please note that I have included links with my referral in them. If possible, please bookmark each of the pages with my referral link included; I would be extremely appreciative. I have also included a non-referral link for each of these sites in case referral links weird you out or something):
What are Bitcoin Faucets?
Faucets are the most common way for you to earn free bitcoin. They are websites that earn you BTC by completing simple tasks, such as viewing ads, solving CAPTCHAs, and even playing games. Be careful, though... There are thousands of faucets out there... And a lot of them don't pay out anymore, but THEY still get paid to show you all the ads on their pages! When finding a faucet on your own, try to find the ones that pay directly to a micropayment cache after every time you make a claim. Every time you see a message like "250 Satoshi has been sent to you on FaucetBOX", it means that you've been paid!
Here are my personal favorite faucets that I visit regularly:
Bitcoin Zebra: Referral Link | Non-Ref (please only use the non-ref link if you have no soul)
This is my personal favorite faucet to visit. With each claim, you can make 100, 200, 500, 1000, or 3000 Satoshi, and you'd be surprised at how many times I actually win 1,000 or 3,000! Like 1 out of every 4 or 5 claims, as you can see in the screenshot:
These guys are actively paying, and you can see my last 2 transactions here:
Claim Rewards: 100, 200, 500, 1,000 or 3,000
Claim Frequency: Every 60 minutes
Payment Type: On-site Account Balance with (1) Immediate Payout (fee) or (2) Automatic Weekly Payouts (Saturday/Sunday; 5,500 minimum balance required; no fee)
Payment To: Direct
Referral Commission: 50-60%
Moon Bitcoin: Referral Link | Non-Ref
This is my favorite faucet where you claim when you want (after 5 minutes) The counter grows up from 0 after every claim, and you get a lot of great bonuses. You get a daily bonus (1% for every day that you consecutively claim, up to 100%). There is also a referral bonus added every time you claim (1% for every referral, up to 100%) ALONG with 50% of whatever they claim, and finally there is a Mystery Bonus that is applied to every claim. You can see all the bonuses in my screenshot below:
Here are two payments that they have made directly to my BTC address for the past two weeks that I've earned with them:
Claim Rewards: Unlimited, based on growth (+Daily Loyalty Bonus + Referral Bonus + Mystery Bonus)
Claim Frequency: At least 5 minutes
Payment Type: In-game Account Balance; Paid Weekly on Saturday/Sunday
Payment To: Direct
Referral Commission: 20%
Break The Coin: Referral Link | Non-Ref
These guys pay big. I'm not the type to sit and claim every 30 minutes or an hour, so the 420 minute frequency works well for me. The minimum of 2,100 satoshi claims are so much better than other sites that have a frequency of 24 hours that only pay 500 satoshi... Check them out, and good luck on hitting that 20,000 claim!
Claim Rewards: 2100, 2150, or 20000
Claim Frequency: 420 minutes
Payment Type: Instant
Payment To: FaucetBOX
Referral Commission: 65%
The BIG Earner Faucet: Referral Link | Non-Ref
This faucet spoiled me for life. My very first claim, I hit the 10,000 jackpot. Either way, with at least 1710 satoshi per claim, I like these guys a lot. This faucet works a bit differently to claim your bonus. After you put in your BTC address and solve the captcha, you'll see two ads. Click on either of the ads and you'll see a pop up window with a countdown timer while the page you were just on goes to the page who's ad you just clicked on. When the timer in the pop up gets to 0, a button appears that says "Cashout". Click it, and the popup disappears and the website goes back to your earnings, like shown below:
Claim Rewards: 1710, 1750, 1770, 10000, 25000
Claim Frequency: 360 minutes
Payment Type: Instant
Payment To: FaucetBOX
Referral Commission: 55%
Faucet Network: Referral Link | Non-Ref
They claim you get between 1200 and 2000 satoshi every claim, but I did receive 1000 a claim before, so it's most likely between 1000 and 2000. The great thing about this faucet, however, is that it pays out every 45 minutes! Definitely keep this in your rotation, as you won't find a higher paying faucet than this one! For this one, enter your address, fill out the captcha, then scroll down a bit and hit the blue "Get reward!" button. Then you'll see your rewards, like this:
Claim Rewards: 1200 to 2000
Claim Frequency: 45 minutes
Payment Type: Instant
Payment To: FaucetBOX
Referral Commission: 55%
Spin and Win Online: Referral Link | Non-Ref
Here is a Wheel of Fortune-based game where you spin a wheel to earn your prize. The prizes aren't outstanding, but you can claim every 10 minutes, and the rewards do add up quickly. So this can be a bit confusing if you're new to faucets. After you enter your bitcoin address, look between the square ads, and you'll see the spin button. After you spin, and the wheel stops, look for the same spot to show a "claim" button. Once you click that, solve the captcha, then scroll down a bit, and the claim button must be clicked again. Then you'll see this screen:
Claim Rewards: 150 to 1000; 50000 jackpot
Claim Frequency: 10 minutes
Payment Type: Instant
Payment To: ePay
Referral Commission: 75%
Robot Coin Game: Referral Link | Non-Ref
This is much different than your standard faucet. This website offers a game. It's confusing to learn, at first, but it's highly addicting... First sign in with your BTC address. Then you'll see a robot down the page in Zone: 1. Underneath a couple ads, you'll see the attack button. Hit that, wait for the popup with the captcha, solve it, then hit attack, and you'll see that the robot took some damage. You can get an attack bonus each round by sharing to facebook or twitter using the share buttons under the robot each round. Here's the cool part: as you move through the zones, the robots get a bit harder, but the rewards get bigger. You can either choose to accumulate your satoshi and withdraw it, or you can use your satoshi to continue upgrading your attack level. I'm currently on attack level 2, and I cash out every time I can, but I think I will venture and upgrade to attack level 3 so I can work through the robots faster for higher rewards. Here's the withdraw screen, and as you can see, I've made a couple withdrawals last night and today, just to prove that it's paying. The transactions appeared fine in my wallet:
Claim Rewards: Earn more as you level up
Claim Frequency: 5 minutes
Payment Type: In-game account balance; no withdrawal minimum or fee
Payment To: Direct
Referral Commission: 2-20%
Wonderland Coin Game: Referral Link | Non-Ref
From the same makers of Robot Coin Game, this concept is the same. As you level up, you get harder and harder animals to feed. But as you feed them, you can get some massive rewards as you level up your experience and unlock harder animals to feed. You only get ten pieces of food a day, however, unless you buy more with you satoshi. One thing that took me way too long to find, however, was that you can sometimes get bonus food from the "Feed Critter" screen, as shown below:
I just made an active withdrawal to my bitcoin wallet, as shown here:
Claim Rewards: 500-81,000 (+1,500 each level)
Claim Frequency: 5 minutes, 10x a day
Payment Type: In-game account balance, 6,000 Minimum Cashout; no fee
Payment To: Direct
Referral Commission: 2-20%
Knolix: Referral Link | Non-Ref
This is a great site that pays, even though it looks like the site isn't fully finished. There is a tree image that grows bitcoins on it. The amount of bitcoin that grows is displayed in the upper left of the website, and when you click on the tree, solve the captcha, and hit the "withdraw" button, whatever grew on tree (currently 660 satoshi max for me) will be transferred directly to your FaucetBOX account.
Claim Rewards: 660+
Claim Frequency: No limit
Payment Type: Instant
Payment To: FaucetBOX
Referral Commission: Up to 0.006BTC/min counter growth
MyBitMine: Referral Link | Non-Ref
This is the most fun way to earn! You won't get rich in the beginning, but after talking to some of the older players, they are earning 300 gold/hour, which is equivalent to 30 satoshi per minute (1,800 per hour). It's a lot of fun to level up your equipment and mines on the game to get there! You can upgrade the amount of workers you have, the amount of mine carts, your equipment level, etc... It's a game, more than anything, and you can actually earn from it!
Claim Rewards: Level in-game up to 300 gold per minute (30 satoshi per minute)
Claim Frequency: N/A
Payment Type: On Request (minimum 100 satoshi)
Payment To: SocialCoinWallet
Referral Commission: 5%
Faucet Rotators
A rotator is basically a script that allows you to rotate through all of your favorite faucets without having to open up each one individually manually.
ePay's Faucet Rotator
http://epay.info/rotator/FreeBitcoinFaucets
Most of the faucets in this rotator have a "cooldown" timer of 5-10 minutes between claims, so you can literally sit on this rotator and rotate through the 20 or so different faucets, making anywhere from 100-10,000 Satoshis each. Give it a shot...
So what is ePay? ePay is a micropayment cache where you can set a threshold to have them hold all the small claims and earnings from the faucets until you're ready to be paid out to your BTC wallet. This is great because if you use their autopay feature (they pay every Sunday if you meet your threshold, which you can set yourself), you don't get charged any fees for the transaction! I've hit my threshold of 1mBTC within the first 3 days of casual surfing every week for the past several weeks, and I get paid out every Sunday because of it. I'm sure you can make more than 1mBTC a week if you crank through the rotator.
PTC (Paid-To-Click) Sites
this information will come later. I'm narrowing down my PTC sites to the best ones (I'm in Central America, so I don't see the same ads as I would if I were in North America) and I'll update my top PTC sites here.