Bitcoin pioneer and felon says he’s ‘vibe coding’ to restart the BTC faucet

A co-founder of one of the first Bitcoin exchanges has launched a website aimed at bringing back Bitcoin faucets, where users can earn Bitcoin by solving “CAPTCHA” tasks.

Early Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem says he’s working on bringing back the Bitcoin faucet — a website that hands out Bitcoin to whoever solves CAPTCHA tasks, normally used to distinguish humans from machines.

Shrem shared his new Bitcoin (BTC) faucet website — 21million.com — in a May 4 X post, which mimics the first-ever Bitcoin CAPTCHA page created by early Bitcoin innovator Gavin Andresen back in 2010.

The 21million.com website currently displays a screenshot of a CAPTCHA task and a box to enter a receiving Bitcoin address, which was not functional at the time of writing. 

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