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I've read this article on CoinDesk http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-reward-option-tango-card/ and started looking into what is this Tango Card. It turns out Bing rewards can be paid in Tango Cards. So if the article is true then we can just search with Bing, earn points, then convert these points into TangoCards and convert TangoCards to Bitcoins. In a sense we will be paid Bitcoins for using Bing.

I haven't tried Tango Cards myself yet. Please let me know if anybody did. Still I do use Bing rewards for few years now. I know Bing vs Google is a religious topic, but in a reality they got to the point that whatever you search the search results will be pretty much the same on Google and on Bing. So if Bing pays me for each search and Google doesn't then I will be using Bing. So far I've earned several Xbox gift cards, Skype minutes etc. But now it looks like I can be earning Bitcoins which makes the whole "rewards" thing much more fun for me.

if you haven't heard about Bing rewards go here: https://www.bing.com/explore/rewards (https://www.bing.com/explore/rewards) Or just Google Bing Rewards :)

Let me know if you tried Tango cards and if it's easy to convert Tango=>BTC. So far I'm 170 of 575 points on a way to my first Tango Card. I'll let you know once I get it.

..looking forward to some feedback about this, even I don't like bing and bing obviously don't like me  :P :P

This feature isn't available yet in your country or region

I got same thing.

Is it only available for USA?

Got the same thing. At least they are implying that it will be available later on.  I don't believe it, though.

I don't know :( I'm in US

Maybe with a proxy it could, there most be a country that has the campaign active, people would go crazy on bing just to make a few bits of bitcoin.

If it is available for more countries, IMO it is not fair for google search! Ppl will go to bing not because of the functionality.

Wait.  So this is available in the United States?  I am going to check it out and if it is I am going to give it a go and will post the findings.  :)  Finally, living in this county has its rewards.  :D

I am not seeing the option anywhere regarding anything bitcoin.  :(

Same for me  :(

Where is it available?

You think I coulde use this with VPN?

This is my first time ever using Bing I believe.  It is SO slow compared to Google on my computer.  :-\

Has anyone been able to get this going?, i would change over my home search for bing no big deal.

interesting a search engine that's willing to pay digital currency enthusiast

Its actually a good idea if they are trying to promote bitcoin sales or have something coming with bitcoin usage, how many people in the bitcoin community dont mind getting a few extra bit just for searching anything they use to do in google or any other search engine.

The product is already there already, if you're a xbox gamer or a skype user, belltown has saids "So far I've earned several Xbox gift cards, Skype minutes etc." so pretty much any users based from xbox and skype will turn into big if is being market everywhere.

wondering how they are marketing this because i own and XBOX 360 AND ONE and i haven't received any information about and most of the people that have tryed it here shows This feature isn't available yet in your country or region.

this feature not for all country

https://www.bing.com/explore/error

This feature isn't available yet in your country or region
We keep bringing new features to Bing. To get the latest news, join us on:
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Start searching from the Bing homepage.

Well it's a shame they don't allow users not from the United States. This sounds like Swagbucks except for Bitcoin.

i can acces it we must have outlock email to login in microsoft mail
i will try it :)


What can you get?

Redeem credits for rewards in the Redemption Center. Choose from popular brands including Amazon.com, Starbucks, Xbox, Fandango and more. You can even donate your credits to your favorite charity.

If you notice, redeeming it via an Amazon gift card has the best "pay-out" for whatever you want to call it.  Just compared the 3 dollar Xbox card to the 5 dollar Amazon card.

Truth is, bing rewards has been out for quite some time (2010?). I don't think microsoft cares to bring it to other countries.

you can use VPN with US country to try it,, im fail to try because im not have outlock email,,,

it looks like they are bribing people to use their search engine. i don't know how it is going to be effective since majority of people are using google for searching.

I was reading the same article about Tango incorporating bitcoin and kept thinking, "Tango? Where the heck did I hear that from, sounds and looks familiar..."
I saw this topic and yep Tango is a reward option from Bing. I'm only 50 more points away from the Tango card so I'll get it and report back here, looking forward to it.  :)

Sound insanely promising, but i also have the same message when trying to view it, it's not allowed in my country also.
I don't understand why there is the need to block certain countries, don't we all use search engines the same ? Such discrimination, shame!

EDIT: Even with US server over VPN, it still gives me: Bing Rewards isn't available yet in your country or region. There must be a way to get around this!

cheers

I am always using google search, don't get used to the bing's interface and don't like bing's search results as well when I tried it out before! I wouldn't bother to use bing although the btc reward! 

I am not a big fan of Bing. Microsoft tried to force Bing as the default browser onto every user using Windows and the other browser companies took them on and they won.

You never get anything for free. Why would they want to pay you to use their browser? They obviously track your search patterns and sell it to the highest bidder. {Browser finger printing / Cookies}

It's nice to get paid, but what are you sacrificing in privacy?

I get this error :"This feature isn't available yet in your country or region"
anyways i know a guy (friend) who is good enough in c# and he once made a bot with usa proxy which was used to earn bing points .Alas i had a fight with him and now it has been over 7 months since we have met  :o

i didn't tried it, because i don't like that search engine, when we have the best one, how much is the payment, or the itipping, something like faucet right?

if this is the case, then i don't think it does really matter if they pay or not, but at least more users will get used to bitcoin, this is the only good thing

Yeah it's only available in US, I don't know if there is a way to bypass it through VPN because I don't use one but I have tried with Proxies and it doesn't works, I have seen a few people selling small $5 USD AGCs every now and then and maybe that's how they're getting those.

But it is good for the existing bing users. Although it is dust amount of money, but they are using the service and there are no reasons to reject earning extra money! It is a kind of campaigh for bitcoin raised by Microsoft. Every body is talking about this reward now. 

Is this real?  :o But not available in my country (India).  :-\ I'm gonna try using VPN  :-* Hope it might works  ;D


~Rude Boy

read this



not wrong for try it :)

Bing Rewards is limited to the US market.  If Microsoft were going to make it a global thing surely it would've happened by now.

Not sure if VPN will work. You might gain points but later they might revoke and reset your points.

Thanks for letting me know about this belltown.  I see Tango Cards in the reward list.  I may try for a Tango Card too.  Although as somebody else said the Amazon card is a much better deal, a 100 credits less.   But I am happy to help support bitcoin in any way.

I wouldn't worry about Google.  The competition is healthy for them.  I like to use Bing/videos for my search.  I love the idea of getting paid to search for porn. 

that is useless when it comes with restriction and only with Bing because as a search engine bing is not much effective like google, so it will be only for US people and with low reputation search engine with force of use that, i think that tango card would not get popularity when it not comes with majority of market share holder.

Imo that wouldn't really be worth the time and effort even if you find a free VPN that lets you use bing without it being detected.

As everything that accepts Bitcoin, this probably only work for USA, yet a good option to earn something better than faucets.

Just an update here, Bing searches are worth double points today so I'll be going hard today, I might be able to get the Tango card today.  ;D

So with outlook email and any country you will be able to access this ? yea you could redeem a lot of good stuff from Microsoft and other companies.

I don't really care what incentives Bing offers I'm sticking with the search engine I'm used to and from a SEO standpoint (what I do for a living) I HATE BING! Pay me to use a search enging? Pssssssss....  Nah!

Also try to get to Silver status if you don't have it yet. Reaching Silver status gets you additional 50 bing rewards points.

Kenw2, I'm looking forward to heard the report from you. It looks like you will be the first to get Tango Card on Bing.

well if you dont mind using bing it adds up when you check by the end of the month that extra money google didnt pay you for, if you dont want to use it have your family do it for you. 3 to 4 people gets a good amount of points.

I know right, lets say your grandma doesnt mind using bing every time she uses a search engine and your not that good at saving money, .21 btc in the future could be 21k usd who knows.

Looks like I may have to wait until tomorrow, I'm literally 1 point away and I've gained my 30 points + 10 from the mobile app so I'm out of new points today.  :(
Pic (http://i.gyazo.com/dd6df0d2cd006e688c5b13a8a43cb528.png)
1 point!!!  >:(

I'm with you, they literally couldn't pay me to use Bing.  Ever.

Thanks for clarifying possible earnings, i thought it would be much more, but for that low amount, i will pass also.
Even if you would run it with bot on 10 virtual machines, it would still be a joke, and not payment.

cheers

OK so it's similar to Swagbucks which pays to search online but the amount you earn on Swagbucks is very less. Tango Cards are similar to gift cards like Amazon and Starbucks?

for most people it's not really worth the time and effort. but there are plenty of people who don't mind to scoop up small amounts. same as faucets. also not really worth it, but still a lot people keep farming them.

15 credits a day? Swagbucks used to give upto 40 credits for searching and sometimes double. When I had many referrals, I used to earn the same amount they earned by searching. Bing is certainly not worth then  :-\

Not unexpected, it works just like a faucet.  People start using a service they don't want to for a few cents and think that they are making good returns.
Money for little, but very little money.

I will stick with google I think, it just works.

Very nice suggestion. I would love to try it out.
But all I get is:
This feature isn't available yet in your country or region

So it don't look like I can get paied for using Bing.
Do not really matter........ bing sucks.

Same error for me. I think this system work only in US and some few states. I live in Italy and here not work  >:(

same error for me here in Indonesia

 This feature isn't available yet in your country or region

I've bing'ed "tango card" and found another article about this:

Earn Bitcoin in Reward Programs: Tango Card and Snapcard Announce a Partnership
http://markets.financialcontent.com/stocks/news/read?GUID=30140545

Hell no!, I would give up Google for Nothing.

belltown, i have 100$ Bing Ads Coupon Code, will it help me anything to get bitcoin?

I gotta try this, checking out Tango now. Thanks for the informative post!

I believe Bing Rewards is a US-only feature.

Do I miss something? Or didn't you earned these gift cards and Skype minutes with using Bing as your search provider? I did reconize an referal-URL though ;), however, I don't mind to use it. Unfortunately I also see the message that this reward option is not available in my country..

Is there an idea about how much you will actual earn with using Bing instead of Google? I think we all use Google quite often - and even more then we do realize. If we can earn some extra presents with using Bing instead, I might swap too. (although I have to find a proxy-way or something then).

Well some money is better then no money, maybe for your is not worth the time using bing just your use an other search engine that doesn't offer you a dime on your usage they are making money of their users so might as well get some money for it.

How much satoshi would each search be worth? Can't be that much, else bots would rule the landscape..

it is better to go with faucets, or with system like 2captcha, they pay you to solve captcha, i think you might earn much more than using their crap browser

if they want to do this seriously, they should offer 10k satoshi hour for using their browser

Too bad bing has been very selectively on who they will want to pay for using their search engine. It really doesn't matter that much because bing is not the only channel you can actually use to earn bitcoin. Participating in this forum is also another way to earn and get paid in bitcoin for the things you are already been doing. So It's the same concept.

I find it odd that they havent enable the campaign in U.S since is one of the biggest online buying community, i guess it up the company giving out the rewards to decide what country they wanted working on.

Even when using Proxy or VPN sometimes you get detected because this useless bing reward is only available on the USA , even if you manage to get it working you will eventually get to the step where you buy the TangoCard you are speaking about or any other items , you will be requested to call them to get your items you bought .
not sure if they asked me to when they detected that I used VPN/Proxies or they asked every single user  ???

if it seems too good to be true it just may be

It sounds like a pretty neat deal to pay bitcoin enthusiasts for using their browser service. It wouldn't be such a good long term idea as people will start leaving as the points decrease due to excessive payouts. Very few people stay onto a service they joined just to gain some third object, rather than to use its services.

"This feature isn't available yet in your country or region"

I can confirm that this feature is unavailable in "your country or region".

Well, I got the Tango card successfully. Went to the website, redeemed it no problem. Apparently you can't redeem it for bitcoin.   >:(
As you can see, Bitcoin is listed on the rewards catalog here, (https://www.tangocard.com/the-rewards-catalog/ (https://www.tangocard.com/the-rewards-catalog/))
http://i.gyazo.com/b4d259729db800087b1fe4004127eb89.png.
But when you redeem the code to your account, it seems to disappear.   :P
http://i.gyazo.com/1df7d65438cbef433aa80e4f07177d86.png
I looked, it's just not there to redeem as bitcoin. I think there's been a misunderstanding between rewards and shopping? I have no clue, but what a bummer.  :-\

I think I missed that, sorry. That ain't much indeed..


You can, if you want, buy these giftcards and sell them here for Bitcoin. Like for example Amazon giftcards. Worth $5, I think you can sell them for about $4.50 in Bitcoin if that is what you want ;).

Kenw2, thanks for your report.

This is so weird that Bitcoin option is there and then it disappears:(

Vpns or proxy won't work, Bing rewards has been there for long time probably it has been exploited earlier so i think they've upgraded their detection system.

Not available in my country yet. Also, reading from the feedback for this new feature of Bing, it seems that it is not worth it to spend a ton of your time searching for anything you can think of by using a search engine that is way too slow and sometimes fails to return you the results you are expecting.


So will you still continue to use Bing even if bitcoin isn't really available in the rewards?

I've been using it for a while and like to redeem amazon codes and even rixty codes for a game of mine I play. I'll still use it, it's nice to get a small reward every now and then.

If there is no bitcoin reward, then the best way maybe will be to redeem amazon gift card to buy things or selling it for bitcoin.

Finally, this search engine take a move to gain more users. Though not available yet in some countries ;)

I've used Bing Rewards many times and it's extremely hard to build and keep up points. Considering I hated Bing as well, I would just randomly search terms to gain more points. In a months time, I earned around 5 "ish" dollars in which I used the search engine and completed bonus offers. I'd rather put time into a pay-per-post sig campaign.

I'm wondering if Google do the same thing like this, and how much rewards did I already earn now??? :D

Unlinke Bing, Google is popular as it is; w/o the rewards, so giving such an option is not needed to them.


This just proves that it's useless to try to earn from it, unless you use a bot so make the searches instead of you.
For 0,16 USD per day, it makes them look like a low paying faucet.  ::)

cheers

really nice, time to redeem some codes.

I'm still like 50% on a way to get Tango Card, so I will not have a chance to try it myself soon.

Still I'm really puzzled by what kenw2 reported. Why would you show Bitcoin as reward option and once the user is ready to redeem you would remove Bitcoin option? Maybe they have a bug in their system? Or maybe they didn't properly launched Bitcoin rewards yet? I still have a hope that by the time I collect enough points to get my first TangoCard they would resolve the issues they have and I would be able to properly receive Bitcoin as a reward.

Why do you both have to post the same thing at different times using same Italic and bold? TrackCoin did you jsut copy paste Jamil.Kmils post just editing few sentences?

ROFL
The worst attempt by a single user trying to get post counts up of multiple accounts.
EPIC

I can't do it even using VPN  ???

This feature isn't available for your country :o
I have read this and i can say that tango card is an old feature of Bing. It just recently added bitcoin as their payment option ;)

I Think Bing Rewards Program Is Accepting Members from Certain Countries Only Means Tier 1 Countries Only. Bing is Paying to Members From USA, Canada, UK, etc., It would be better if Bing Accepts Members from China, India, Japan, etc.,

they banned all those ip? what vpn did you try?

i doubt they banned all of them, you can try some unknown proxy from the web or not norious vpn, but i think that vps would be better, there are some obscure vps provider, that cannot be traced so easily on whoisip

Until now could you tel me does it worth using bing for searching and earn btc.

It sounds like a very bright business idea but as other people claim that it is simply not available in their country or region a d those blessed ones who are able to access it claim that it is not functioning properly and regard it as just another stupid scam.

That is very interesting if this does work. I have heard that Bing rewards is legit. I have never heard of Tango though. But if this does work, than it seems like it could be an easy way of earning some extra Bitcoin.

Well i have managed to setup a few family members to use my hotmail account on their pcs with bing, so far so good waiting to see how much rewards i could make from their usage.

I usually don't mind either one... Bing or Google.. and probably use them 50/50.

However, having this only available in the US is Bing pissing on its users around the world.

I'll try to stay clear of Bing because of this. Would be cool to see them get burnt because of this disrespect for their international users.

I don't think they would care about a few people stop using them because of this ("disrespect for their international users"). I'm sure they made some calculations and educated decisions about who to include in loyalty programs / rewarding programs and who not.

I don't use Bing often. I only use it when I directly search something through the browser URL field; otherwise I'll visit Google first to look something up.

Yes, apparently they don't care.

Americans make up about 5% of people on earth. Also in purchasing power Americans are nowhere near 80% or anything like that to make such a haphazard decision. However, it is no surprise that some American companies cannot understand that the world is far bigger than the US.

It says a lot about the mindset of Microsoft/Bing. I predict hard times ahead with such an antiquated mindset.

I'm not sure whether it is the mindset that they should be afraid of. I think it's hard to survive when you've to compete against a company like Google. Owning that much money, they don't really care in loosing some money in risky investments or developments. They've lots of money to develop things and to "try out" ways to make even more money.

Sure, also Microsoft owns much money, but I think that's spread in more divisions and not only based on online services.

I use Bing for years and I have earned gift cards.  I usually get  a 5 USD Amazon card 1 time per month.

As for Bing only doing it for the USA.  It must be all they could afford to spend.

I am working towards an Amazon card.

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/538/x2zKjN.png

My country is not supported yet..

But its not a big deal,

If, using bing can give us a points to get a bitcoin,
I would rather to use bing...

Because I need money to access both, so  bing can be my search engine..

Microsoft doesn't care about having you or anyone in your country as a customer.

They better start. Theyre firing 8% of their employees by next year.

You earn a $5 Amazon GC each month??
You must spend a decent amount of time doing searches daily right? Do you do more than just searches?
About how much time would you estimate you spend grinding towards a meager $5  

Thanks, I'm trying this out.

Just found this thread and I will try this out starting today.

I've never recorded how much searches I do, but I think I Google quite a lot each day. If this is the case for philipma1957, it's quite nice to receive such giftcards although $5 isn't much. But, in the end, you did not have to do anything extra for it. (Atleast, if you're not going to search more because of the income).

There are some calculations in this topic, which point out that you actually have to search a lot for this. There's no point in searching extra much in order to receive those $5.. Spending way less time on a regular job is way faster then. But as soon as it's just an extra without any extra efforts, why not? ;).

i've been trying this oportunity but unfortunately i did not find the site that i was looking for the site only showed when i searched on google,although we can get paid Bitcoin for searching on bing but i did not find anything it kinda wasted my time as for me google is better search engine right now.

Well why not, if google was like bing then everyone will receive in this case play store Gift Card :)
Enjoy, and lucky you.

Not sure if this was made clear at some point in the thread, but I just got an e-mail from Tango to confirm:

A Tango Card CANNOT be redeemed for bitcoin at this time. So no, I don't think one can easily convert Bing searches into bitcoin.

Tango is a service targeted at retailers ... so they want to promote shopping by the sheep. As expected ...


*Yeah, I posted that and THEN reviewed the whole thread. I guess everyone figured out, Bing Rewards are not easily converted to bitcoin yet. Still, you get the sense it is right around the corner. The application just makes too much sense.

@Indamuck
Thanks for making the clarification. I have gotten around $200 in amazon cards, and I was wondering if I could start getting bitcoin lol.

Looks interesting.  You need to create a snapcard wallet to receive the converted bitcoins, then withdrawal to your own wallet at a 0.25% fee.

I found out I have 20 rewards points already  :)

My country is not supported too, hope they will do it for EU very soon.. :(

Indeed, that is already mentioned in this topic. However, you still can convert your Bing Rewards indirectly for Bitcoin. I gave the example of the Amazon gift card earlier. You can get a Amazon Gift Card ($5) for your Bing Rewards point and then sell it for example here on this forum for BTC. Yes, you will loose some of your value as you will receive about $4.25 for it (in Bitcoin) I guess, but this means there is an indirect way to convert to Bitcoin if that is what you like.

I saw a post that the bitcoin was disappeared but dont know what happened after that post, but bing is trying to bring new users to their search engine

you mean american users into it well they will colappse as only us citizen will use for a reward it wont be stronger that it is nowadays

it looks like they are bribing people to use their search engine. i don't know how it is going to be effective since majority of people are using google for searching.

Just an update. now you can at least WIN bitcoin from bing.  :o
http://media.coindesk.com/2015/07/Screen-Shot-2015-07-31-at-10.19.32-AM.png
See more here, http://www.coindesk.com/bing-tango-card-bitcoin/ (http://www.coindesk.com/bing-tango-card-bitcoin/).
Right after I spent all my points on that tango card too, of course.
Oh well, I put one entry in, there's still a chance!  :D