Hello fellow Satoshi stackers!
About a month ago I was venturing into a new faucet - FireFaucet. Back then, I was looking for a 3rd option besides Cointiply and Coinpot. A week later, in turned out to be an alternative to Coinpot as they were shuting down. FireFaucet has a lot of similarities with other crypto faucets, but also has a few distinctive features. With now one month under my belt and a better understanding of how this faucet works, I'd like to give you a small review of my trial period with FireFaucet.
Auto Claim Points, Activity Points & Levels
Completing tasks with FireFaucet will earn you two types of points: Auto Claim Points (ACP) and Activity Points (AP). Claiming your faucet, doing PTC ads, surveys, shortlinks and daily bonus you will get a different amounts of both ACPs and APs.
Auto Claim Points are the fuel used to earn the crypto of your choice among BTC, USDT, ETH, DOGE, LTC, DASH, TRX, ZEC and DGB. More on this below but yes, you are not directly earning crypto with FireFaucet.
There are two ways to convert your ACPs to cryptos and, actually, 3 rates.
1. The Auto Faucet. You can activate your Auto Faucet via the "lightning" at the top of page, or down in the center of your front page, and you will start burning ACP every minute to receive cryptos.
Once the page opens, you can let it run in the background. I'm not sure about what dictates the burning rate but I'm currently burning ~150 ACPs every minute for ~4 BTC sats.
Note the "Payout Boost" (lower left corner). You can change it - 1x, 2x or 4x. This only changes the speed at which you burn ACPs. At 4x, you just burn 4x more ACPs for 4x more Satoshi. I see absolutely no reason not to use 4x speed. The faster you get your cryptos the better. With 4x speed, it takes about 1 hour to burn 10,000 APCs. That may seem a lot but once you start completing surveys you will be flooded with ACPs.
2. Auto Faucet Happy Hour. Four 1-hour segments, occurring on Saturdays and Sundays at 2am and 2pm UTC, allow you to burn your APCs with a 50% bonus. In my case, I would get ~6 Satoshi per ~150 ACPs. As much as possible, take advantage of these happy hours to get 50% more cryptos. In practice, if you are a little bit active (with a few surveys) most of your ACPs will be converted at regular rate, or maybe at "conversion rate", see below.
3. Conversion. The 3rd option is a plain and straight conversion of any amount of ACPs to your crypto of choice but with a 5% fees. In other word, if you want your crypto right away and don't want to wait for the Auto faucet, you will convert at ~150 ACPs for ~3.8 sats.
So there you go. Your basic, average earning on FireFaucet is ~150 ACPs for ~4 Satoshi.
Next is the Activity Points, they are what you need to level up. I'm currently level 67, and it will take 1622 more APs to reach level 68.
With leveling up comes 2 rewards: a $/crypto reward (paid in Satoshi), and an increase in your "x bonus". By clicking "View Rewards" you can see rewards and bonus increases as you level up. Since leveling up is not too difficult, as small as they are these rewards accumulate quickly.
While the reward is a one-of, the bonus will stick with you and make you earn more crypto when you convert ACPs (at least that's my understanding).
The Faucet
FireFaucet Faucet can be claimed every 30 minutes by solving typical Captcha/reCaptcha. The reward for doing so is 10 APs + a variable amount of ACPs in the 30-60 range.
Hourly, this faucet earns about 60-120 ACPs or ~2-3 Satoshi. By comparison, I'm earning 40 coins on average with COINTIPLY faucet (and I'm not even factoring in my 100% loyalty bonus), which is about 16 Satoshi given current Bitcoin price. FireFaucet faucet really isn't rewarding much.
Shortlinks
Shortlinks are an easy but messy way to earn APs and ACPs. Shortlinks get you to pages full of ads where the goal is to go through all the pages, usually 2-4 pages, until the "link" or "get link" button that will finally give you the reward and come back to the Shorlinks page on FireFaucet.
Shortlinks reward you with 50 APs and an increasing amount of ACPs (starting at 50 ACPs for most shortlinks, some earn 40 ACPs). Indeed for every shortlink that you solve, you will earn 1 additional ACP for the next shortlink, this is the "Bonus counter" that you see at the top of the Shortlinks page.
I do shortlinks from time to time, and I found that FreeBcc are the easiest one to solve, good thing that they are 10 of them available.
PTC Ads
These pops up in and out through out the day. A lot of them are available right a the beginning of a new day (0 UTC). Similarly to Cointiply PTCs, you just have to see, watch (or not) and let the tab open for ~8 sec. After that you just need to enter the code that is populated and you get your reward. The reward is very minimum, 50 ACPs and 20 APs.
Offerwalls/Surveys
As with any crypto faucets, FireFaucet proposes a vast array of offers and surveys from large number of offer/survey providers, including my favorite TheoremReach. And similarly to other faucets, this is where you'll earn the most crypto (ACPs in this case) for your time.
Offers/surveys are especially good at providing APs and thus helping you leveling up. 10% of the APCs reward value of offers/surveys is also rewarded as APs. This can sometimes represent large amounts of APs. Especially at lower levels, you could jump 2 or 3 levels with just 20-30 minutes of surveys. Let's take an example with TheoremReach surveys.
For example, 34,800 ACPs for a 7-min survey would also earn you 3,480 APs. This amount of APs is enough to level you up 2 or 3 levels if you are at low levels, and would probably make you level up (or close to) at about any level below 100. Remember that by leveling up, you would also earn additional Satoshi. All of this just for 7 minutes, maybe less. By comparison, 7 minutes of Shortlinks would only earn you ~700 ACPs...
Now, 34,800 ACPs, even exchanged at "Happy Hour" rate, would only net you ~1,400 Satoshi. If you wanted you crypto right away using the conversion method, 34,800 ACPs would only be ~880 sats. Compared to Cointiply, that would be the equivalent of a ~6k-coin survey at best.
That example is a well-paid survey to be honest, the 4,800 ACPs survey for 2 minutes has a much lower reward/time ratio. It's not that easy to compare side by side but given all the bonuses/boosts I get on Cointiply surveys on FireFaucet are not paying as well. I have only attempted a couple of other surveys from different providers so I can't just conclude for good but Cointiply has, at least, a decent edge in my opinion.
Lastly, Offerwalls and surveys are the only way to effectively climb the Daily Rank leaderboard if you ever wanted to. Finishing in the top 20 daily will land you some ACP rewards. As far as I can tell, finishing in the top 20 seems very doable if you push for an hour or two of surveys. The main issue I have here is that the ACP prizes are ridiculously low compared to the effort dedicated to get in the top 20. 40,000 ACPs is what you could get in a ~10-15 minutes survey. In other words, if you land on the top spots of the daily leaderboard you will probably have earned hundreds of thousands APCs, so what difference would make 10,000 ACPs? The prizes simply seem inappropriate to me, and maybe that's why it's not too complicated to finish on top.
Daily Tasks
The daily tasks list (Tasks button) offers a small incentive to complete a few basic tasks on FireFaucet every day. Nothing extraordinary, the daily tasks list consists of shortlinks, faucets claims and offers/surveys.
You can claim a little APC bonus or even a small $ bonus by partially completing some of these tasks. You are likely to complete some or all of them by checking FireFaucet every day anyway.
3,000 ACPs worth of Offerwalls/surveys is nothing. Even the shortest survey on Theorem Reach will get you that amount, and probably in less than 5 minutes. Even not qualifying after a few questions can net you these 3,000 ACPs.
35 shortlinks, although not complicated, are likely to take you about 30 minutes, mostly in wait time.
Finally, 10 faucet claims is easily done.
Completing all of these will reward you with 1,525 ACPs and $0.043. That's not much but that doesn't take much effort. Nonetheless, if you put everything together - the APCs of all these tasks + the bonuses - you should earn about $0.15-0.20. And that is really not much for 45 to 60 minutes of your time, even spend on crypto faucets. By comparison, doing surveys on Cointiply easily earns me $2, not counting bonuses and increased Chat Rain Pool shares.
Auto Claim System
The Auto Claim System, or auto faucet, is the distinctive feature of FireFaucet. It is touted as a cool and unique design with the ability to auto-claim, as opposed to "traditional" other faucets that you have "manually" claim. After testing, using and looking at it from all the possible angles, I don't see where the advantage is.
In my opinion, the auto claim system is more of a distraction than anything else. First of all, you still have to manually claim FireFaucet faucet - you need to solve a reCaptcha, click a few buttons and doge the ads. And you don't even get you reward right away! You earn ACPs that have to be converted into crypto. In the absolute, that's rather an extra click or two than an "Auto" faucet. It's "Auto" once you have done all the prior steps.
And the same is true with all the other activities on FireFaucet. Everything leads to ACPs and needs to be converted one way or another. Using the Auto Faucet, you can convert about 10,000 ACPs to crypto per hour. If you only perform shortlinks, PTC ads and faucet claims you will have no problem converting ACPs to crypto with the auto faucet function, you might even be able to convert it all during the happy hours. But If you start completing a few offers and surveys however, the game will be different.
With surveys, even a few here and there, you will starting accumulating tens of thousands of ACPs every day. A serious one-hour session of surveys through TheoremReach for instance is likely to earn you 150k-200k ACPs. It will now take you hours and hours of auto faucet to convert these amounts of ACPs. You see the point, if you start spending serious hours on FireFaucet you will quickly accumulate more ACPs than you can actually get ride of even auto claiming 24/7. You will have to convert at a lower rate with the 5% fees.
First Payment - Success!
No test of a faucet website is complete without at least one successful withdraw. FireFaucet has some higher and lower limits to any withdraw. They are very reasonable so not worries on that side. $10 is the daily upper limit you can withdraw, and $7 is the lower limit before request a Bitcoin withdraw. Since I'm looking after Bitcoin and only Bitcoin, all my ACP conversions will go to BTC sats. At any time you can check the balances and status of your crypto wallets.
As soon as I reached $7 I requested a withdraw. 48h later the Satoshi were on my BTC wallet. Everything went very smoothly.
Given these upper/lower limitation I'm planning on withdrawing my stats every time I reach the $7 mark. Remember that you funds are kept in $ although they are displayed in the crypto(s) that you accumulate. Your crypto balance will then oscillate as the exchange rate between $/crypto fluctuates. Given that we are in the middle of a bull run likely to continue for the rest of 2021 I want to actually convert my funds into crypto by withdrawing then as soon as possible.
In Conclusion
FireFaucet is a well rounded and smooth faucet website. It offers a lot of options and ways to earn ACPs, and in turn cryptos. With 9 different cryptocurrencies supported, FireFaucet may be your only serious option for some cryptos not available onother platforms. Since I'm all in on Bitcoin I have to compare FireFaucet with everyone else out there including Cointiply. In that regard, and hour for hour, FireFaucet doesn't earn me as much as Cointiply. So FireFaucet is only a decent complement for what I want to accomplish, which is stacking the most sats as fast as possible.
The level system is decent and you feel like your are moving up quickly. Every level unlocks an incremental amount of sats, which can add up quickly. The "x bonus" increases very slowly but since you can level up easily I guess it counts eventually. I have been spending 15-20 minutes on average every day for a month and I'm almost level 70.
I'm far from having explored all the surveys/offers options proposed by FireFaucet. I only tried a few times other surveys outside of TheoremReach. The experience was not very positive however since despite proposing big reward for short time survey, qualifying proved to be an issue. Spending 15 minutes to qualify for a high-paying survey defeats the purpose and discourages from trying again. And it's not even worth reward-wise in the end. But maybe other users have a different experience.
Anyway, I hope this little starter guide is helpful. If you feel like trying FireFaucet feel free to use my referral link: https://firefaucet.win/ref/OneMillionSatoshi…
Thank you for reading!
-OMS
