The NEW NEW If you need some Ropsten Testnet Ethers ...

Try out the following faucets. If ALL don't work, post a message below and I'll send you 1 RtETH:

• http://faucet.ropsten.be:3001/
• https://faucet.metamask.io/ . This requires web3 injection / metamask
• https://faucet.bitfwd.xyz/

If you are willing to pay mainnet ETH to get some RtETH, u/ropstennetwork has provided a faucet to exchange 1 ETH for 1,000 RtETH at https://faucet.ropsten.network/. Please test with small amounts!

You should be running recent versions of the Ethereum client node software (geth, Parity, or Ethereum Wallet/Mist on the Testnet network).

To sync geth to Ropsten, try:

geth --testnet removedb
geth --testnet --fast console

The Ropsten bootnodes are sometimes down. See https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/a/39548/1268 for instructions to manually add peers so your geth node connects to the Ropsten network.

If you want geth to mine automatically, append --mine --minerthreads 1 before the console parameter in the command line above. Or type miner.start(1) in the geth JavaScript command line.

To sync Parity to Ropsten, try:

parity db kill --chain ropsten
parity --chain ropsten

The blockchain explorer for the Ropsten Testnet network is https://ropsten.etherscan.io/ .

You can find the OLD archived version of this post at https://www.reddit.com/r/ethdev/comments/72ltwj/the_new_if_you_need_some_ropsten_testnet_ethers/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/ethdev/comments/61zdn8/if_you_need_some_ropsten_testnet_ethers/.

Happy developing/testing!