I dealt with the exact same problem. Finally https://app.mycrypto.com/faucet works! Thanks a lot @samwestby

Thank you all for reporting! Yes, this needs to be updated.

Same issue here. After requesting 1 ether throws an 500 Server Error. Would appreciate if anybody can be more explicit on how using app.mycrypto.com/faucet helped them to get through. For blockchain newbies it isn't clear what does this tool does, how to make it work and why

I went to the site that you all are describing. yet when I went to request Ether it gave me a code at the bottom . It's not exactly like a normal transaction. But can someone clarify for me please.

I went to the site that you all are describing. yet when I went to request Ether it gave me a code at the bottom . It's not exactly like a normal transaction. But can someone clarify for me please.

We received your complaint and I'd like to know how I can be of help if it hasn't been rectified

I'm struggling through this part of Chapter 2 right now. It appears Ropsten is deprecated and no longer listed as a testnet. https://ethereum.stackexchange.com/questions/140912/how-to-use-ropsten-after-eth-upgrade is suggesting to use Goerli or Sepolia network instead. And only Sepolia has the "buy" button active. And if I click "buy" it takes me to a site that had its TLS certificate expire on May 22, 2023.

So as of now I am blocked unless I trust an expired TLS cert...

https://app.mycrypto.com/faucet

I tried this just now but am getting an error:

MyCrypto doesn’t support the network with chain ID '11155111'

Also, Goerli is deprecated as of Jan 23':

https://github.com/eth-clients/goerli

Official suggestion is to use Sepolia, which has the cert error.

Here is an open issue on the Sepolia client about the expired cert, no responses since it was opened 3 weeks ago.

eth-clients/sepolia#45

I opened an issue here eth-clients/sepolia#48

Thanks @mellyjay553, I'm actually paused on this right now as I started down the path of another tutorial on another DLT. I'm not pursuing this further right now. I'm pretty sure it was synced, through MetaMask (uninstalled already).

I was just working on learning the book.