TIL: there used to be a Bitcoin faucet that literally gave away 5 bitcoins just to solve a CAPTCHA

12 years ago in 2010 a fellow named Gavin Andresen created the first cryptocurrency faucet; he made this simple website giving away 5 bitcoin ( not a typo FIVE) just for solving a CAPTCHA. It has since been archived and what is crazy was that the snapshot on that day showed that there was still 750 Bitcoin to give away. 5 Bitcoin is basically 100,000 USD in todays price and at its all time high this would had equate to 325,000 just for visiting a website. More than likely you could had just visited once everyday or even more

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From wikipedia source: Gavin Andresen is a bitcoin pioneer and was one of the few developers that actually developed alongside with Satoshi Nakamoto who declared him as the lead developer for the client bitcoin software. Been quoted, "Bitcoin is designed to bring us back to a decentralized currency of the people," and "this is like better gold than gold." He also conceived of the Bitcoin Foundation but sadly he stopped contributing in 2016 and criticize bitcoin developers for not increasing network capacity and later got involved in bitcoin cash instead.

Anyways thought I shared a bit of fun history to lighten up the mood a bit.

source: https://web.archive.org/web/20100703032414/http://freebitcoins.appspot.com/

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_Andresen