What is a faucet? A faucet is a site where you can earn free bitcoins in exchange for advertising exposure or for completing small tasks. Faucets are a way for newcomers to get the feeling of earning, moving and spending bitcoins for free, even if in small amounts, so that they can try the system and, hopefully, get more involved with it. Faucet users gain small quantities of satoshi, faucet owners may benefit from ad income if the faucet is successful. Remember 1 Satoshi = 0.00000001 Bitcoin. Is Bitcoin really used by people? Yes. There is a growing number of businesses and individuals using Bitcoin. This includes brick and mortar businesses like restaurants, apartments, law firms, and popular online services such as Namecheap, WordPress, Reddit and Flattr. While Bitcoin remains a relatively new phenomenon, it is growing fast. At the end of August 2013, the value of all bitcoins in circulation exceeded US$ 1.5 billion with millions of dollars worth of bitcoins exchanged daily. Why do people trust Bitcoin? Much of the trust in Bitcoin comes from the fact that it requires no trust at all. Bitcoin is fully open-source and decentralized. This means that anyone has access to the entire source code at any time. Any developer in the world can therefore verify exactly how Bitcoin works. All transactions and bitcoins issued into existence can be transparently consulted in real-time by anyone. All payments can be made without reliance on a third party and the whole system is protected by heavily peer-reviewed cryptographic algorithms like those used for online banking.