I did pretty well on faucet earnings this past week. My Poloniex holdings were valued at $1.53. This included about 12 DNotes that I'd purchased last week and my 61 satoshi Dogecoin sell order which finally filled. It also includes a minuscule amount of Bitmark--someone sent me some love in the trollbox the other day.


The Dogecoin price has plateaued at 58 satoshis for the time being so I just sold my new Dogecoins at market rate.



The Litecoin price has shot up recently and when I tried to sell my Litecoin, the price was jumping around a lot. I put in a sell order at 0.0078 BTC and expect it to fill within twenty-four hours.



The DNotes price has also shot up recently. I decided to place a buy order at a bit less than market rate, but not too much because I didn't want to miss out on buying something if the price shot up some more.



This left me with two open orders--one to sell my Litecoin and one to buy the bulk of my DNotes this week.

I did not have to wait more than a few hours for my DNotes buy order to fill. In retrospect I probably could have gotten away with an even lower buy order as the price is falling back down a bit. On the other hand, knowing that the DNotes team just added CRISPs for employees and has a press release about it going out early next week, I think buying quickly was a good decision. Between the DNotes I picked up last week and today's purchase, I now have over 97 DNotes to send to my vault account.

And off to the vault they go...

And here they are in the vault.

When I added this latest DNotes Vault deposit into my
spreadsheet it brought my running total up to 3773.95 DNotes.
I found some new faucets that I wanted to share. I'm not using the new ones for this activity, but wanted to at least get the word out about them.
Farm Satoshi--a simple farming game where the game currency is satoshis, and you can cash them out. Lots of fun to play. It says you need a Xapo wallet, but you can cash out to any BTC address of your choice.
We Love BTC--pays out varying amounts of BTC hourly
Weekend Bitcoin--usually pays out 1000 satoshis hourly but runs bonuses on weekends
Faucet of America--pays 1000, 2500, or 5000 satoshis hourly
BTC Faucet US--pays varying amounts (including a rare jackpot of 80,000 satoshis) hourly
The Bitcoin Sheep--pays 1000, 1500, or 10000 satoshis hourly
Art Bitcoin--pays between 500 and 1500 satoshis hourly
Play Bitcoin--pays 200 satoshis every ten minutes with some bonuses
I have to put in a caveat about faucets. The reason the faucet sites can give you little bits of Bitcoin (or other cryptos) is because they sell advertising space based on traffic. You're part of the traffic and you are motivated to go to the site because of the payout. Taking a quick glance around the site to see what's advertised is a great way to support the site, and you might find something you're looking for that way.
With that said, there are certain kinds of ads you should generally ignore. One type of ad worth ignoring in particular is anything claiming it can double or triple your money in some super short period of time. It might also claim to give you five or ten percent interest per day or per week. Those kinds of interest rates really are too good to be true. The reason given for the insanely high profits may be trading, mining, or super secret financial wizardry (sometimes even based on scientific research). Unfortunately, those interest rates aren't realistic either in the fiat or crypto world. Sites promising to deliver them are usually some version of a Ponzi scheme, which means at some point the scheme will collapse and you won't be able to withdraw any funds. So, just ignore them. Don't even go there. To give you some perspective, after over two years in the cryptosphere myself, I think I may have finally found a legitimate, sustainable and low risk way to grow my Bitcoins. I hope to publish a guide about it shortly. The interest rate I'm getting at the moment is just over 14 percent a year. It may or may not last. I personally would be skeptical of anything offering a higher rate of return than that.
Another type of ad that I wouldn't give much credence to is anything claiming to be a mining contract. In my experience mining contracts are rarely profitable and often turn out to either be Ponzi schemes from the beginning or simply close down due to lack of profitability. There are some exceptions, but you really have to know what you're doing. If you don't know the ins and outs of Bitcoin and Scrypt mining your chances of profiting off a mining contract are very low.
A third type of ad I personally ignore is anything having to do with paid gambling. I do not gamble my cryptocoins on purpose and I don't recommend it. Some gambling sites have a free section which functions like a faucet and I'll stick to that section if I go to the site at all. Obviously, each one has to decide for him or herself on this issue. If you're not planning to gamble your Bitcoins from the beginning, though, make sure you're not getting pulled into it against your better judgment. There are tons of crypto gambling sites out there and they advertise heavily.
I'm finding that faucets have gotten extremely competitive by offering more and more generous drips. You've seen from these posts how I can consistently rake in over a Dollar's worth a week just by visiting nine or ten of them on a regular basis. In some parts of the world that represents a lot of money. Also, when you use those earnings to buy a cryptocoin you expect will appreciate considerably over the next few years, such as DNotes (and I make no guarantees of this, just sharing my personal expectation), then those earnings could turn out to be quite significant down the road. It certainly could be worth the time and effort. However, you want to stay focused. Visit the faucets for the earnings and don't get too distracted by the ads. Avoid taking any action on the ads that are likely to be for Ponzi schemes and you should do fine.
I just wanted to share this because I've noticed that there are a lot of ads on faucet sites which if heeded would take you in a different direction than what I'm trying to accomplish through my own faucet visits.