Well, the end is here for FreeBitco.in, as I expected. It was the very first site I ever used to earn free BTC, so this is a bit of a nostalgic moment, though not a happy one...
I tried to withdraw my sats back in mid-October. After a couple of days without any incoming transaction, I sent a message to support and got no answer. At that point, I told myself: "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes, your sats are gone."
I logged in today just to check, and my sat balance is still magically "growing" from interest (lol, sure). But there's also a new announcement:
The message says they're shutting down due to "widespread abuse." They claim funds are safe for "genuine users" and that they're manually sifting through tens of millions of accounts to separate the good from the bad. They expect to enable withdrawals by early 2026.
I don't have much hope of ever seeing my sats again, even if I'm a "genuine user." The whole thing feels incredibly shady, but I guess it's something.
If you had funds on there, you might want to log in and see the message for yourself. And definitely, DO NOT SEND ANY FUNDS!
P.S. The irony of this message coming from the guy who launched Seed Keys isn't lost on me.
P.P.S. Last year, I bought my son a Trezor and gave him a choice: keep the sats he had on there, or send them to his own cold storage. He chose the latter. I should have been as wise as him.
Glad I never used this shit 😃
Scam
Lol it was a good run, I remember this and freedoge coin was one of the first faucets I milked for coins and I thank them for being part of the journey! Oh well
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Don't you see the scam with "genuine users"? This site was scam for long time. Users will get hit with a notice that they weren't a "genuine user" and their funds are gone. LOL I saw so many scams like these in the early years. Yes, this site is one of the oldest faucets, but people should remember that they were fooled long time ago with so called "interest" on the deposits. So people were not withdrawing but keeping the funds in there, was all an illusion. But this is a faucet that no longer drop anything, from long time ago.
You are an arsemilking scam.
You are not a genuine Bitcoiner.
You preach about being a Bitcoin Maxi but you refuse to enable your BTC MoE wallets here on Stacker news.
You are only here to sling C/C shitcoins and hoover up any sats people are gullible enough to send you.
Do not zap Darthcoin with sats because he has chosen not to be part of the SNs BTC circular economy.
Big claims about living on The Bitcoin Standard from @DarthCoin are just that big claims, backed by nothing except lies and hypocrisy.
Context?
All of my sats on there are house money, but I still hope I can get them out.
https://i.postimg.cc/8z3VsYRJ/picard-face-palm.gif
See what happened if you play around with a shitcoiner ?
Not really. My entire balance on there came from them.
@Darthcoin is a shitcoiner.
He claims to live on The Bitcoin Standard.
When @DarthCoin refuses to participate in the SNs BTC circular economy- how are we to believe he lives on the Bitcoin Standard?
He has chosen not to enable his SNs wallets because he calls SNs a game and not worthy of 'wasting his precious sats' on...he's only here to arsemilk sats from genuine Bitcoiners.
Do not zap @DarthCoin any of your precious sats because he will not ever return the favour.