Are there any grin faucets, or any plans to start one?
We have one by @transatoshi
seems like down now:
jxvxjkggzgp7iwhk5ox7wgcfgrsoef26tpwuloiwbqskhe2sxakl2tad.onion
faucet.grinminer.net
source code:
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The reverse proxy was down earlier today but the faucet is back up on the clear and dark web.
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This’ll be even more awesome once I make it public. Still needs a bit more testing.
Anyone have thoughts on the amount and frequency of payouts I should offer? It’s currently set to 1ツ every 72 hours.
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Get in line to drink deep from my mighty Grin hose
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so very extremely awesome of you to set this up! will test it out when i get a chance in a few hours and report back. thank you 
good job,transatoshi.
just tried and getting:
Error: NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource.
i usually use slatepacks so this may be user error on my part, but I don’t think so. i pasted in the address provided by ./grin-wallet address. my grin node is fully synced and Running and my wallet is listening after issuing the ./grin-wallet listen command. thanks, and hope this helps
I just tested and had no issues. You should use https://checker.grinminer.net to make sure your wallet is reachable.
Edit: I was on clear net @ https://spigot.grinminer.net which is working, the onion site is not.
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The faucet has been seeded with 150ツ and a few additional donations across 6 UTXOs. Due to the popularity so far, I will have to at least cut back to 0.5ツ to make it sustainable, but for now enjoy those whole Grin!
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Added a weak HTML/CSS/JS CAPTCHA to prevent abuse, next step is to automate cancelling slatepacks after a certain period to maintain liquidity.
I’ve given away over 150ツ so far, and I greatly appreciate the donations that have come in.
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blimey and i’ve yet to grab one … although seems i might be outta luck again lol. getting Error: Failed to fetch after entering my address and pressing Request Funds. Has the faucet been drained maybe or is it something else? Cheers
edit: i suspect my address is not reachable over tor (as was the case b4) and that the faucet UI is not spitting out a slatepack? dunno why since i should be listening over uPNP … maybe i’ll port forward TCP 9001
It’s fixed. It was outputting the slatepack with a single leading space.
You can use https://checker.grinminer.net to see if your wallet is reachable over TOR from the faucet.
It also now looks for slatepacks older than the prior midnight UTC and automatically cancels themツ
I received some very generous donations so the faucet will keep giving away 1ツ for at least a couple days. Giving away whole coins is gonna fire the dopamine for people and they’ll associate Grin with good feelings hopefully.
When it’s time, I think I’m going to set the faucet to randomly give an amount between 0.1 to 0.5 unless someone has a better idea too keep it attractive and liquid.
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Finalization not working. I copy/paste my wallet’s response into the Finalize box on the site to finalize and get Error: Failed to fetch. My wallet now shows 2 txns Awaiting Finalization
Not yet please! Lol
How? Now I feel really dumb. These were all sent over TOR, and to different addresses due to the limits set? I’ll port forward 9001 on my router and try over TOR again.
UPDATE: Right so my address is finally reachable over tor, but i’ll have to wait 24 hours to try again. I got it working by actually installing tor … i had the idea that the wallet came with tor built-in and i cannot for the life of me remember reading any Grin documentation making it explicit I had to do so, or providing instruction on how to do so. unless this is a classic ID10T error i’d encourage the updating of tutorials (which I will back check now). For the record I installed tor using Homebrew on macOS.
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This can be improved by integrating arti lib inside grin-wallet as it was done at GUI.
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Cool. And to be clear I’m not referring to any documentation from @transatoshi but rather the docs here Receive - Grin Documentation which makes no mention of actually having to install Tor separately! This should be fixed to avoid the confusion idiots like myself have experienced 
Yes, the wallet spat out output indicating tor was not installed (which i did not closely read till today) but why permit the wallet to listen at all without Tor installed? Shouldn’t its behaviour be to simply quit with an error saying:
You have to install Tor before I can listen, numbnuts!
Meh, sorry for my griping but honestly it could be clearer 
I have half a mind to put together my own tutorial after these experiences to help others avoid the mistakes I made. Meantime this tutorial Start9 | Running Tor on Mac could be linked or copied to Receive - Grin Documentation