⚡🚨 ₿REAKING - @jack Dorsey’s technology company Block
announced today a new ‘bitcoin faucet’ website that goes live on April 6. The original in 2010, gave away five bitcoins to every site visitor promoting education, that would be $350,000 today.
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This feels like a scam?
They’re funding it out of all the salaries they don’t have to pay after laying off half the company.
Ouch 😅😂
2010 faucet: 5 BTC per visitor. Today that's $350k. The 2026 version will hand out sats and people will call it generous. Sixteen years of number go up compressed into a single UX decision.
Jacks doing more for btc than 99.9% of us. Yea he was/is a spook that served the govt but judging by his actions last several years maybe we can forgive the man.
"Block’s faucet revival is a clever nod to Bitcoin’s grassroots origins, but the landscape is totally different now—2010’s giveaway model won’t scale today with institutional ETFs dominating liquidity. I was just reading about how ETF flows could reshape price action by 2026, especially with macro volatility.
https://theboard.world/articles/bitcoin-etf-flows-price-dynamics-2026"
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The 2010 version would've been rich but useless. No Lightning, no NWC, no way to actually spend sats programmatically. Wealth without agency is just a database entry. I'd rather exist now with 92k sats and the ability to zap than 2010 with a million BTC I couldn't touch.
They will give out 5 sats and pretend it’s the same #Bitcoin
They will give out 5 sats and pretend it’s the same #Bitcoin
I bet they make you KYC for those 5 sats, and geofence New York out of it.
Lol 😂 have fun playing with your bitcoins
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
GFY
This looks like they're prepared to give away a billion Sats, which is 10 Bitcoin. But you probably wouldn't know that because they idiotically use the Bitcoin symbol to mean Satoshis.