CoinFaucet.io is a XRP faucet, and it is based on a dice-roll sort-of game, which is supposed to generate free Ripple (XRP) every hour. We learned about this faucet when one of our subscribers asked us to investigate FreeRipple.com. Apparently, FreeRipple.com was the previous domain used by the people who brought you CoinFaucet.io. For some reason, they decided to change their website address and as of now FreeRipple.com redirects to CoinFaucet.io.
The faucet stands out by virtue of the fact that instead of drawing “players” back to its roll page once a day, it does so every hour. As soon as you hit the roll button and are assigned a random number, by a “provably fair” random number generator, a countdown timer starts, and before you know it, you’re ready to take your chance again.
There’s even a payout table featured just above the roll button, which details the amount of Ripples one will receive for every roll, in XRP as well as USD. Apparently, the higher the resulting number, the bigger the payout will be. Those who roll between 10,000 and 10,000 (no mistake, that’s exactly what it says on the site), get XRPs worth $300. Needless to say, the odds on rolling exactly 10,000 have to be extremely small, given how the model would definitely be unsustainable, if that amount were paid out even once a week/month.
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Most of the rolls will result in numbers below 9,885, which are worth about $0.0003 – hardly worth anyone’s time. In fact, this is the main complaint that users have regarding the service: it pays VERY little, even compared to other similar services, which aren’t exactly going to break the bank either.
Numbers between 9,886 and 9,985 are worth $0.03. The 9,986-9,993 range pays $0.3, while the 9,994-9,997 range is worth $3. Those who roll 9,998 or 9,999 can consider themselves lottery-winners: their rolls are worth $30.
What’s the Catch?
…because there surely has to be one…While most similar services run Monero miners, taking advantage of users’ CPU resources in an underhanded, sneaky manner, that does NOT seem to be the case with Coinfaucet.io. We actually tested the rolls and promptly picked up our $0.0003, while keeping an eye on CPU performance. Coinfaucet.io did not spike CPU usage at all. What became clear within a handful of clicks on the site though, was that these guys are looking to make some money with a CPC ad scheme. They shove ads into your face at every step, and if you think you will simply avoid clicking them, you have another thing coming.
You will click the ads whether you want to or not, because the site is set up in a way that will open various unsavory web destinations for you, even if you just unsuspectingly click a page anywhere.
Can this kind of setup cause you any actual damages? While the popping up of various ad-linked sites is little more than nuisance, there is always a possibility that these sites – some of which are indeed adult-oriented, or worse – might come with some surprise packages in the shape of a virus or two. It is unclear if Coinfaucet.io hold any kind of control over the content displayed though the ads that they feature.
Should I Trust Coinfaucet.io?
The site does what it says it does, at the above-detailed cost. They’re not lying to you, so yes, you can trust them. If it is worth your time and the risks entailed by the repeated visiting of suspicious web-junk, by all means, go for it.
Additional Coinfaucet.io Features
Besides the above-detailed faucet feature, Coinfaucet.io also have a “Multiply XRP” and “Lottery” feature, which are supposed to increase their users’ earning potential. At the cost of having a couple more junk sites popped into our faces, we learned that these sections of the Coinfaucet.io website are currently under construction.
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The referral program on the other hand, seems to work fine. If you bring someone into the Coinfaucet.io fold, you will apparently receive 50% of the prizes this person pockets. At one point, you will also get a free lottery ticket for every roll these people make.
Coinfaucet.io withdrawals are processed instantly. To be able to withdraw, users obviously need a XRP wallet. The minimum withdrawal amount is 1 XRP.
Users are normally limited to just one account.
Red Flags and Question Marks
There aren’t any such problems to speak of with Coinfaucet.io. The operation does not promise much, and what it does promise, it seems to deliver.
The site does not have an About Us section, so we have no idea who’s running it. Information about the domain name registrant is not available either.
Complaints
The complaints you will hear/read about Coinfaucet.io, are mostly focused on the ads and the small payouts. There’s really not much more to complain about.
Popularity
CoinFaucet.io was ranked 8,206,658 as of November 26, 2017, according to SimilarWeb. This indicates to us that the site is not very popular at the moment. Many of the site’s visitors, perhaps its owners to, seem to be based in Russia.
CoinFaucet.io Review Conclusion
To answer the question posed in the title of this review: yes, Coinfaucet.io is most likely yet another exercise in futility. The amount of XRPs you’ll pick up through the service is minute. If you like the “gambling” though and you are not bothered by the incessant ads, you may find it entertaining for a while.
Official Site: CoinFaucet.io (previously FreeRipple.com)
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FIX YOUR SITE…Nothing BUT Ads = SCUM/SCAM
That is incorrect.
The site is fully operational.
Yes, there are ads, because they provide the income for the site.
That’s the concept of it, if you don’t like it then you are not forced to use the site, calling it a scam is just plainly wrong.
On point.
This website is just like freebitco.in and freedoge.co.in. They argue that their game is provably fair, so I don’t understand with the thousands of users who roll a number on the sites, and the hundreds of rolls by each user every month, why there isn’t ONE person bragging about rolling a 10000. Not one.
The roll goes from 1 to 10000, so the assumption made by users on the website is that there is an equal chance of getting every number. However, the website never makes this claim anywhere. What’s the actual probability and is it even remotely possible?
To show that the game is provably fair, the website explains how it uses a server seed and a client seed to mathematically determine the roll. For obvious reasons, they only give you a server seed hash prior to the roll to prevent people from refreshing the page and rigging the game. BUT, how do I know that there aren’t MULTIPLE server seeds that can match up with the server seed hash? The website can easily look at what my client seed is and determine what server seed to give me so that it will be a small-prize roll, right?
If you are reading this, coinfaucet.io, please at least give me the transparent probabilities for getting certain numbers on the table. Be honest: is there an equal 1 in 10000 chance to get each number?
Hi Mark,
We had several users who won the $30 prize (9998-9999), we have no intention to cheat anyone and indeed we need to fix the link for more info on the provably fair game.
Our site has been online since October 2017, initially there weren’t as many users as there are now, but please understand it’s very normal no one has won the big jackpot – but to answer your question there is an equal chance 1 in 10000 to get this number. You would see winners, it’s just a matter of time.
PS try FreeDoge.co.in – over a year with thousands of referrals and no jackpot winner yet.
That doesn’t make any sense. Between the three websites and its many users, there have been millions of rolls, right? There are probably at least 10000 rolls in a single day among all users. This would mean at least one person rolls #10000 each day and potentially hundreds in its lifetime. But you’ve admitted to me that nobody has rolled #10000. This means that there’s not an equal chance to roll #10000.
I honestly don’t care if the chance is less than 1 in 10000, but you NEED to tell your user-base what that probability is. You probably have plenty of data from millions of rolls to know exactly how often it happens.
You are very wrong here. We started as FreeRipple.com and had to change the domain name to CoinFaucet.io – this all happened during October 2017.
We are now in January 2018 (not even 3 months since we started) – it’s definitely booming but you can’t compare FreeDoge.co.in & FreeBitco.in who do serve millions of rolls per day to ours – it is booming but we are not in the millions of rolls per day, it’s just impossible even with all the Crypto hype around the world.
You can see all the data in our main page, the stats page is something we work on as well so it would be included there (it was before but we need to optimize it for site speed, it happened with FreeBitco.in as well).
Okay, but I was talking about all 3 websites, because you even admitted that nobody rolled #10000 on freedoge.co.in. Sure, coinfaucet.io isn’t getting millions of views per day, but website traffic data shows that it got millions of views in the last month. This easily means at least a million rolls each month. Let’s say there were 1,000,000 rolls in the entire month of December. (That’s very fair to assume.) We can use a basic binomial distribution to determine the expected number of #10000 rolls out of those 1,000,000.
Expected=number*probability=1,000,000*(1/10000)=100
Therefore, in 1,000,000 rolls on your site, there is an expected number of 100 rolls of #10000. The actual number may be a little bit lower or higher than 100, but it should be somewhere around there. However, you say there have been none, which is a near impossibility. This means the probability CAN’T BE 1/10000 to roll #10000. Either you are lying to me, or you are making a basic oversight about the fairness of your rolling game.
I understand that if 1/10000 actually did win $300, the website probably wouldn’t be profitable. But you have a responsibility to create open and transparent probability tables so that users know how likely it is to actually roll a #10000.
If you look at our main page you would see that so far we had
11,548,370 Games Played
That means we had 11 million rolls in total, over the period of the past 3 months – the data you see online reflects what we have right now, things were not the same 1-2 months ago.
Things are picking up and we do expect someone to win $300, it is 100% possible and we don’t control or rig anything.
We have and believe in full transparency with our users, you can see all the withdrawals made from our wallet in live, everything is transparent … if you don’t want to believe in it or don’t give us the benefit of the doubt you can rest assured that each spin credits you with something and the same applies to the referral program. We have GPT sites and offerwalls running our site gathering referrals for a reason – if we were a scam they wouldn’t bother doing so.
I never claimed that your website was a complete scam. I know that I will successfully receive something every time I roll and that I will be able to claim my Ripple sometime down the line when I accumulate enough.
My ONLY claim is that “there is an equal chance 1 in 10000 to get this number” is false. It does not take an Albert Einstein to figure this out. Since there have been about 11.5 million spins on your website since inception, that means if everyone has a 1/10000 chance to get #10000, there would mathematically be about 1150 spins that resulted in #10000. Somehow, that number is 0. I don’t see what’s so hard to understand about basic probability. You’re not going to successfully pull the wool over my eyes. If a website owner tells me I have a 1 in 10000 chance at spinning the top number, but the true probability in reality is 1 in 100,000,000, that is a lie and UNETHICAL. It doesn’t matter if everything else is still the truth and real. That doesn’t excuse the lie and that lie hurts your overall credibility.
CoinFaucet, I’m new to this world, and there is nothing installed in my computer, you guys credit the XRP and give prizes with the clicks we give to the website?
By knowing a little of probabily the odds of getting 9999 are 1 to 10000, correct? 10**4
Getting 10000 is like 1-100000 ye?
I hope the questions do not sound harsh or negative.
Yes, that’s more or less correct, you get the prize indicated in the table and according to the ROLL result you received as well, that’s right.
How do I reach someone in support for coinfaucet.io? I keep getting chatcha errors on login (I DO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A CAR, A SIGN, A ROAD AND A STOREFRONT…….SMDH)!!!
We have a Twitter support and you can see a Twitter logo in our site, just click on it and you can contact us there. The reCaptcha is working fine for many users and if you cannot go through the visual one try the audio Captcha (click on that icon there and then you can type what you hear instead).
It never gives 9986 or higher, I am playing it 10 days already and never gives… It’s rate is 1-2% I think to gave higher than 9985
We had users who had over 9986 … The fact you didn’t get it doesn’t mean it’s not feasible to win it. If you buy 10 lottery tickets for 10 weeks are you guaranteed to win the jackpot? Unfortunately not.
If you try FreeDoge.co.in – you would experience the same … we had been playing there for months (not for 10 days) and never had more than 9985 – that’s how it works.
Hi sir! I can not enter my ID occasionally. Why so sir? Fix my problem with my CoinFaucet.io ID mohammadtarek9900@gmail.com .
Your account is active and your last roll was made today so it seems like you can use your account just fine. If you still have any issues with it please let us know or use our Twitter support.
It’s installs “coinhive” mining software to use your CPU/GPU to mine coins in the background WITHOUT your permission. Do not go there. Install Anti-Malwarebytes and protect your PC/ios from this deadly intrusion.
This is just a 100% false accusation, we do not install any “coinhive” mining software and we don’t promote those … this is a 100% false accusation.
Why is this site letting people just lie and make false accusations without checking the facts first? Website owner – please check it yourself and please do not approve comments with lies and false accusations.
The site is scam !! I can not go in for a few days, it does not load a dropper, and if it loads it, it blocks it again.
Can you please let us know your account email so we can help you? You can also contact us on Twitter, we did fix most of the bugs in the site already, and we’re definitely not running a scam.
We’d be more than happy to assist you, we have a Twitter account for a reason, we do reply to every single tweet we receive, but feel free to reply here as well.
We’re the owners of CoinFaucet.io – you’re being extremely nasty to us on Twitter, flooding our Twitter with bad messages and now you’re claiming we don’t pay which is not true – here is a proof we do pay out:
bithomp.com/explorer/
Put there – rErFjUeSDWJAJAfH7D7QxYpZxeWTVhgjaJ
We’re not sure what agenda you have against our site but if you don’t like it – please don’t use it and please don’t accuse the site of not paying because unlike other scam sites we do actually pay out and we do so instantly as well.
You will be blocked from our Twitter account due to your false accusations and trying to defame our website with bad reputation, and please refrain from doing so in the future and you are more than welcome to leave our site as we’re not interested in users who have nothing but bad intentions to ruin and destroy other businesses.
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There is a Twitter account for the site, so it does replace the “About Us” you’re referring to, it’s quite an active Twitter account and it seems like they do respond to all inquiries.