bitcoin fancy faucet

The funny part:

• tried to build my own but transaction fees are too high to do it with bitgo directly
• tried to buy dogecoin (needed 5000 to start a faucet) but transaction confirmation is pending....
• finished by just building a bitcoin faucet with faucetbox api

The idea is to start with a faucet and then build a marketplace of meaningfultasks with bitcoin rewards. (learn programming, build your project,..)

Lesson learned:

• Micro-transactions with bitcoin is hard :D
• Transaction pending is killing me

Bonus

Party tricks about the blockchain:

• because you can store text in the blockchain, there is some pron (strings -20 block/blk* | less on mac/linux in your .bitcoin directory)
• you can generate funny bitcoin addresses with vanitygen, example: https://gist.github.com/mdamien/57e7ddedba6e8527daa1

Example:Address: 1BkUnid4RNT3NYDuRAFanKHCBEZ9CxP4hC
Privkey: 5JrmiXGaTBjVrzrtsGY8KJ5jz4ZxXeSeYL6VsojX32imKXnAGdm

Built With

• love
• php