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Back then you could earn tiny amounts of BTC from faucets, bounty programs, or some games. but we are talking negligible sums - just like today. Sure, some folks got lucky timing the dips and peaks. Yet those bitcoin fortunes mainly came the old-fashioned way: buying during the troughs.
Some will say that the golden age of faucets was when the price of BTC was a few hundred $, although back then you could collect a lot of satoshi which were worth very little if you converted them into fiat. Only those who believed that the price of BTC would one day be x50 or something similar, and at the same time did not sell what they had accumulated, can say today or a few years ago that they made a real fortune.
Somewhere in 2015/16, one could very easily collect around 500 000 satoshis or more per day with some work and active referrals, and that only in BTC - if we also count some alts like ETH, which was worth a few $ at the time, or DOGE, whose price was expressed in the way 1000 DOGE = $0.14 then we could conclude that 1 BTC could be collected in about 3 months of clicking on faucets.
