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Most Bitcoin faucets have a fundamental problem: they pay people for doing nothing.

You land on a page, a timer counts down, you click claim. The advertiser paid for "exposure" but got nothing. The earner collected sats for looking at their phone. Nobody proved anything.

We built SatsDrop differently, and it came from a simple question: what if you could only claim your sats by proving you actually paid attention?

The mechanic

When you visit a campaign on SatsDrop, you view the advertiser's website fullscreen. Then you answer quiz questions about what you just saw, questions the advertiser wrote themselves. Only correct answers earn sats.

Not all questions are equal. True/false questions are worth 1 point. Multiple choice is worth 2. Open text questions, where you have to actually describe something from the page, are worth 3. Your payout is proportional to how many points you earned out of the total possible.

If you don't engage, you don't earn.

The honest trade-off

This is harder for earners than a traditional faucet. You can't just click through. If an advertiser writes good questions, you genuinely have to read their page.

But it means the sats are justified. An advertiser isn't buying clicks, they're buying proven attention. And earners who put in the work get paid more fairly than a flat rate that rewards everyone equally regardless of effort.

Where we are

SatsDrop is live at http://satsdrop.net. Payments are over Lightning. Phone verification keeps bots out. We're early and still finding the right balance, but the core mechanic is working.

If you've been looking for a way to get real eyeballs on a Bitcoin-related product, or just want to earn some sats, give it a try.

Are you familiar with NextBlock?

They're also working on a way to improve ad viewing monetization.

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Not familiar with NextBlock, I just looked them up. Looks like they're approaching it from the publisher/content monetization angle, which is interesting. SatsDrop is coming at it from the advertiser side, someone has a product or website they want people to actually look at, and they fund it themselves with a sat budget. Different models, same underlying problem. Good to see more people thinking about this.

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Most Bitcoin faucets have a fundamental problem: they pay people for doing nothing.

As a people who enjoys doing nothing, I don't see the problem here. :-)

(Seriously, will check out the site to see if it's my cup of tea when I'm at my home computer.)

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Hehe :), that's fair, doing nothing is an underrated skill. The site is definitely for people willing to trade a few minutes of genuine attention for sats. If that sounds like too much work, no judgment. But if you do check it out, let me know what you think.🤝

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