I've been looking for ways to obtain Dash ever since I read up on the recent 0.12.2.1 upgrade and set a goal of joining a masternode pool. Just a day or so after writing that post, $DASH hit a record high price per coin that has settled into a new normal of $415-420. Since I was starting from nothing, the 25 Dash necessary for a masterpool share would cost me over $10,000.
So I did what any work-at-home glutton for punishment would do: find a faucet. And it was an unholy GRIND: solving a glacially slow captcha, doing it 2-3 times depending on how often a pop-up ad took over the page, getting about .0000001 Dash (or 100 "dashtoshi") with each withdrawal. Remembering to do it every hour. If I was a few minutes fast, I'd still do all the work and THEN get an error message that it was all for naught. I was downright morose calculating how soon I'd accumulate enough Dash for a pitiful withdrawal.
Of course, most of you are probably already familiar with CoinPot and why it's much more appealing to use -- multiple faucets pooled together, instant and free exchanges between the supported coins as long as you do it before withdrawing to a wallet, earning higher amounts with SwagBucks-style rewards (e.g. at Bitfun.co, I've completed a lot of "offers" like downloading free-to-play games on an old Android phone and playing to a certain level -- the rewards can be up to five dashtoshi figures), and even a browser "mining" feature.
Over the weekend, CoinPot added Dash and Bitcoin Cash to their dashboard currencies. So far I've been able to generate a balance of .001, higher than the withdrawal threshold of .0002, by converting DOGE and LTC into DASH and using the browser miner. And now, CoinPot has gone live with MoonDash, a faucet in the style of Moonbitcoin, Moonlitecoin, and Moondoge.
[In case you were wondering: No, that's not a referral link. I'm just trying to be helpful here!]
How does it work? Well, instead of waiting an hour -- or a day for half a penny's worth of BTC, like Eobot -- you can withdraw from the faucet every five minutes if you so choose. You can withdraw every hour, two hours, whatever -- it's just that the more you withdraw super quickly, the slower it accumulates, and the longer you wait, it also slows down accumulation. So somewhere between 30-45 minutes is the sweet spot.
It's hard to tell how much Dash accumulates in that time -- for the other faucets, it's about 25 satoshi, 2000 litoshi, and 1 Doge. But right now, MoonDash doesn't have a counter telling you how long it's been since you last claimed.
And there are several methods to increase the amount that you earn. Returning to the faucet every day increases the reward 1%, so in 3+ months' time you'll be earning double at the max loyalty bonus of 100%. You can refer people for 25% commission. You can complete their affiliate marketing offers (so far, it's just a page of ads linking to CoinPot's other faucets and scammy Bitcoin gambling sites). And then CoinPot has a random, unexplained "mystery bonus" that can be quite sizeable even when you're just starting out.
So if you're trying to acquire Dash, or if you want more BTC/BCH/LTC/DOGE from your faucet account, or if you're a clickworker who would like to earn dcent currency instead of fiat, I would recommend CoinPot as one of the few systems that transcends the scammy "crypto" underworld and can actually earn you some decent amounts of an appreciating asset (at least, that's what we all assume).
Ezra Dulis is Deputy Managing Editor of Breitbart News. Follow his personal blogging on Steemit and Twitter. Of course, don't buy or sell anything based on his recommendations; he's not a financial professional. If you've got a hole in your Dash wallet, consider sending a tip to Xy2MtRgwVxs7pmE8o8wJSLHnjaCgvnwZB7.