“Y’all want 5 free Bitcoins?”

500,000,000 sats from the faucet.

Gavin Andresen’s website “Free Bitcoins” allowed contributors to send some of their mined Bitcoin to an address (15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC) from which website visitors could take 5 Bitcoin for free.

When the site was live, 1 BTC ranged from pennies to $5.

Why give away free Bitcoins?

“What's the catch? No catch-- I want Bitcoin to be successful, so I created this little service to give you a few coins to start with.”

-- gavin

See the site yourself via the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20100703032414/http://freebitcoins.appspot.com/

See the sites Bitcoin address history here: https://mempool.space/address/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC