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Should Btctestnetcoins.com Die?
204 sats \ 5 comments \ @asterisk32 27 Feb bitcoin
Over a year ago I had this stupid idea to build a bitcoin testnet faucet.
I call it stupid because I was perfectly aware of the fact that I was spending my time building something that made little economic sense(was partly wrong).
Despite that, I knew that it'd be useful and I just loved building on bitcoin.
Long story short, after to build the thing, an MVP for btctestnetcoins.com.
It/I got "hacked"?
Someone managed to circumnavigate Google Captcha( a tool built by a $2 triilion company) and drained all the testnet coins I had to share.
This broke my heart, because I thought it be worth it to build a faucet that never went down, that most bitcoiners would depend on for years to come.
Now, even after the heart-wrecking incident, I got a feeling some plebs might want somewhere to get tbtc. But I don't know whether I should build it.
But I got a better ways to build the faucet to prevent hacks.
Should I still kill this project ?
YES40.0%
NO60.0%
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @cointastical 27 Feb
The earliest bitcoin faucet got exploited too ... multiple times even. The first person that exploited it alerted Gavin and then returned the coins:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=183.msg1554#msg1554
Later exploits were related to the captcha and more. More than once the "pause" in the faucet was due to the wallet being drained due to malicious activity.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @asterisk32 OP 19h
Yeah hackers are always prying on bitcoin projects.
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20 sats \ 2 replies \ @SwapMarket 27 Feb
Testnet3 is dead anyway
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @asterisk32 OP 19h
Testnet 4, Signet, Mutinynet?
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SwapMarket 18h
There are many signets, and the most popular has no faucets. Testnet4 is good, but lightning implementations don't support it yet. Mutiny I don't know.
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