Over the past week or so, I have noticed a couple of faucet sites have reduced their Bitcoin pay outs. Those two sites would be Betfury and Konstantinova.
Let's start with Betfury. I joined the site in November of last year merely out of couriousity as I had read somewhere that you could collect 25 satoshi every 20 minutes and there would be a 3X payout event coming up round about Thanksgiving time. 25 satoshi every 20 minutes sounded pretty good and 75 sounded even better, so I tried to accumulate as much Bitcoin as I could on Betfury. Then the price of Bitcoin shot up and the 25 satoshi reward dropped to 10 satoshi. Between the end of November and December, Bitcoin more or less doubled in price.
Bitcoin reached over $40,000 on 8th January, but Betfury's 20 minute reward stayed at 10 satoshi. After the 8th January, Bitcoin's price started to drop and for the past week, Bitcoin has been hanging around $32,000. Then two days ago, Betfury decided to cut their twenty minute reward down to 5 satoshi. I was slightly annoyed. Wouldn't it have made more sense to cut the reward down a couple of weeks ago?
Now let's move onto Konstantinova. Konstantinova is one of my favourite faucet sites as you claim some pretty decent amounts from eight different crypto currencies. The amounts you can claim can flucuate quite a bit, but payments to FaucetPay are instantaneous and I've managed to accumulate a lot of Tron on there, amongst other crypto currencies. The number of claims per days has dropped considerably since I first joined, down from 50 in May to 20 now on one but one of the faucets. The Bitcoin faucet has gone from 50 claims per day down to 1 claim per day. In May, I could get 4 satoshis per claim, now I'm stuck with 1 satoshi a day. Sounds pretty pathetic. If it wasn't for the other crypto currencies, I probably wouldn't bother with the site.
Other sites have cut the amount of Bitcoin that you can claim, but none as drastic as Konstantinova. If Bitcoin's price continues to drop, can we expect the claim amounts to go back up? I don't think so.
I'll keep collecting as much Bitcoin as I can from the faucet sites I currently visit, but will look at acculumating other crypto currencies like Tron and Carando, which I can stake and bake for additional rewards.
What do you think, I should do?