All cryptocurrency giving sites can be divided into two big groups:
Faucets that are created by the developers of the new digital currency in order to popularize it. As a rule, such sites can exist for a certain period of time while the project is working in test mode. The coins issued are also test coins, so they have limitations in time and scope of use. One such example was the Lisk faucet , which periodically gave away 1000 test coins to its visitors. But now it has stopped working.
Cryptocurrency faucets created by their owners to make money. In this category can be found both quite serious projects that use elements of flash games (a frog that collects satoshi until it is eaten by a crocodile or imitation game "Wheel of Fortune"), and ordinary one-page projects that are created on standard templates. There is also a tendency to masquerade as cryptocurrency distribution faucets . Many users claim in their comments that it is more fun and convenient for them to collect satoshis than to surf or watch videos.
How owners earn from crypto faucets
The main income faucet owners get from monetizing traffic (visitors). As a rule, advertising blocks are placed for this purpose on the website (for example, Google Adsense), when clicked on the account of the owner of the faucet will fill up with real money, but not satoshami. All ways of making money can be divided into:
"white" (with full compliance with affiliate programs);
"grey" (exceeding the number of blocks of advertising, as well as their mixing in the direction of the button "Get" or placing two blocks between them - this is done to ensure that the user aiming at the button sometimes hit the ad units);
"black" - in order to increase income owners resort to flagrant violations, such as the button Adsense ad unit masquerading as a button for coin or put "popanders" - pop-up windows that open without the user's knowledge or desire. This type of advertising has long been prohibited in many affiliate programs for monetizing traffic. Sites with "pop-ups" are particularly disliked by users.
Practice shows that even if the site 500-700 visitors a day, the clicks can earn only 10-20 dollars a month. Not very thick, that is why a part of the "faucet operator" and resorted to various kinds of tricks and abu.