How it works
Fuel, output, hopper, payout
Four moving parts. Once you understand these, you understand the whole site.
Fuel
Your rig only produces while it has fuel. You earn fuel by doing something that earns the site money — running the fuel line, working through a link, or watching an advert. The fuel line is free and takes one press: once every 1h it adds 6h of fuel.
That is the honest reason the site can pay anything at all: every credit paid out is funded by an ad impression or a link view. No fuel, no output.
Fuel can be banked up to 48h ahead. Past that, a claim adds nothing — so there is no advantage in stacking up fuel and disappearing for a fortnight.
Output
While fuelled, your rig produces 250 credits an hour at level one. It does this whether or not you have the site open, whether your computer is on, whether you are asleep. There is nothing to keep running and nothing to click.
The hopper
Output collects in a hopper that holds 3,000 credits — about 12 hours' worth. When it fills, production stops. Nothing is lost from what is already in there, but nothing more is added until you empty it.
So the timing is on you. Empty it before it fills and you lose nothing. Leave it a day too long and you have idle hours you could have had. A bigger hopper is one of the upgrades, and it exists precisely so you can go longer between visits.
Getting paid
Emptying the hopper moves whole credits to your balance. From 50,000 credits (0.0005 LTC) you can request a payout to your FaucetPay account.
Sub-credit amounts stay in the hopper rather than being rounded away, so nothing you produce disappears in the arithmetic.
Upgrades
Credits can be spent in the workshop instead of withdrawn. Output makes the hopper fill faster; hopper capacity means it stalls less often when you cannot get back promptly. Spent credits are gone, so it is a real decision rather than free progression.
Referrals
Anyone who signs up through your link earns you 10% of what they collect, for as long as they keep mining. It costs them nothing — their credits are not reduced.
Pools
You can join or start a pool and dig alongside other people. Everything you collect counts towards your pool's total, and the pool with the most at the end of a period splits a prize between its members.
Being in a pool does not change how fast your rigs run. It is a competition on top of the mining, not a multiplier on it.
What this is not
There is nothing to buy, nothing to deposit and nothing to invest. You are not purchasing hashrate and no real mining hardware is attached to your account. The mining is a game layer over an ad-funded faucet.
Any site that asks you to send coin first so you can mine faster is a different kind of site, and you should treat it accordingly.