TechFlow news, May 5 — According to Cointelegraph, early Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem is developing a new Bitcoin faucet website called 21million.com, modeled after the original Bitcoin captcha page created in 2010 by Bitcoin pioneer Gavin Andresen.
Users will receive Bitcoin rewards by completing captcha tasks. Currently, the website displays zero available Bitcoin, and both the captcha task and Bitcoin receiving address input fields are not yet open for use. Shrem said he is developing the project using AI-assisted programming (vibe coding).
Bitcoin faucets played a significant role in promoting and driving Bitcoin adoption during the early 2010s. Andresen’s Bitcoin faucet distributed a total of 19,700 Bitcoin (worth approximately $1.86 billion today), with users able to claim up to 5 Bitcoin per day. As Bitcoin's price and transaction fees rose, this model eventually became unsustainable.
