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CLOSED: This event is over

Winners:
2013-04-25T00:00:00Z 8.5 BTE Buffer Overflow
2013-04-26T00:00:00Z 8.5 BTE Buffer Overflow
2013-04-27T00:00:00Z 18.0 BTE shakezula
2013-04-30T00:00:00Z 21.453 BTE shakezula
2013-05-01T00:00:00Z 50.0 BTE WishIStartedSooner
2013-05-02T00:00:00Z 50.0 BTE WishIStartedSooner
2013-05-03T00:00:00Z 50.0 BTE WIshIStartedSooner

I'm going to be running one-day auctions, selling 1.0 LTC per day to the highest bidder in Bytecoins.  The first auction begins now and runs until 2013-04-25T00:00:00 UTC.  That's about 41 hours from now.  After that another Litecoin goes up for sale, taking bids for 24 hours, terminating at 2013-04-26T00:00:00 UTC.  I'll do this for several days, selling 1 Litecoin per day.  The last auction will end at 2013-05-03T00:00:00Z.

Place your bids by posting on this thread.  I'll contact the winners by PM with an address to send payment, after which I'll send the Litecoin.  I'll update this post to declare the winners and keep track of payment status.  Bids for each day's new auction can begin immediately at 00:00:00 UTC.

I'll make an opening bid at .5 BTE.  :D

Why would you give away something worth money, for something worth nothing?

Fractional bids are perfectly acceptable. :)

Doesn't seem worth the time & effort for the volume.

First off, value is subjective. :)

In this case, I get four things out of the transaction:
* currency that I do value
* psychological satisfaction: enjoyment; I enjoy this idea so much that I've actually been enjoying just the thought of doing it, for days
* information: pricing data.
* psychological satisfaction: the gratification of providing this pricing data to the community

Now, I've given you something of value (information: the answer to your question) for free.  How much was it worth to you?  Next question I may suggest that I be compensated for providing valued information. ;)  Have a great day, and may every coin you own go up in value.

What a great illustration of how subjective value is!

I like that! That's a pretty cool greeting. It sounds sort of Elder Scrolls-ish. That being said, 'may you walk on warm sands, friend' ^_^

0.6BTE

No.  >:(

.7BTE. Lets see you beat THAT, Mr. Chariots of Gold.

urhh,

 1BTE

lol just for amusement factor i think i'll bid...

1.00013331 BTE :P

Mr chariots of Brass!! or is it Bra's?

1.3333333333

I can sell you 125 BTE for 120 LTC

I don't even have a bid, I just wanted to inform you that you have just become my official BitcoinTalk Arch Nemesis. I look forward to vilifying you in the future.  :)

I am amused.  Thank you. :)

Thanks, but I'm not looking for direct offers.  This is more about pricing data and all in fun entertainment than it is about acquiring BTE.

If you're interested, I would love to list your order for 120.0 LTC for 125.0 BTE on RBCex.

2 BTE

Hehe excellent :D nothing more valuable than making someone smile, can't trade any amount of coins for that... well couple hundred BTC will probably have similar effect :P

Just saw there that there is a sell order of 5 BTE for 10 LTC
So i change my price to 150 LTC for 125 BTE

Dont put it on the googledocs, just leave it here for anyone interested

I'm willing to sell 100BTE for 50LTC.

2.1345923

Please refrain from posting your own offers here.  This thread is only for my auction. :)

If you have a proposed trade you would like listed on RBCex, please send me a PM; I would love to list it for you.

Hasn't been much talk about BTE on here lately. I'm surprised the price is still so high.

5.0 BTE

I know; BTE is so last week, right? ;)

I've been expecting interest to die down a bit, and probably an attack and/or crash at some point, as well.  But I think long term it's valuable to have a second blockchain with code and parameters identical to Bitcoin, and I believe its use and security will increase.

I'm even thinking down the road to a third Bitcoin clonechain, to be launched around the second Bitcoin halving.  But that's awhile off!

Sorry for the thread jacking earlier. Here's a bid for the auction:

7 BTE for your 1LTC!

No worries; thanks for the bid! :)

Since 00:00:00 UTC is coming up in a few hours, I wanted to clarify that this first auction runs over 24 hours.  It's going to end at 2013-04-25T00:00:00Z, which is about 27 hours away.  After that, subsequent auctions will run for 24 hours.

8.5 BTE

Looks like I won.

Winner: Buffer Overflow, 8.5 BTE.

A second 24 auction is running now, to end 2013-04-26T00:00:00Z

Payment sent: Tx: fcabf1632496a73d4dbb0df9e49826212abadba32995914d0b39984575e8c800
Should get put into block 15189 hopefully.

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I'll start the next auction bidding.

1.0 BTE

I'm in for 3.0 BTE on the next auction, ends in 11+ hours right?

4 BTE

Received, and 1.0 LTC paid out.  Thanks!

6

6.33333

Confirmed. Thank you.

7.00 BTE

7.222222

7.3 BTE

7.3333333

8.5 BTE

Winner: Buffer Overflow, 8.5 BTE.

Didn't we just do this? ;)

.1 BTE

Great bid! :)

You didn't specifically say your running a third round yet, but in the case you are;

1.5 BTE

Yes, I am.  There will be a new auction every day at 00:00:00 UTC, for several days.

Thanks for bidding!

I'm going all in this time, 10.0BTE

Auction 2

Payment sent 8.5 BTE :tx 4f5c9341fbff6dade262b1eb75ca74c7be216614e51af54828c08a528af4176d

Received 1.0 LTC. Thank you.

10.11111

11BTE

12BTE

15 BTE

16BTE

lol love this thread... actually shows people devaluing the BTE more and more :P

or increasing the perceptive value of LTC with each auction

BTE is next to worthless to me. I'll go 18 BTE at this bid, LTC on the other hand can be used to pay for hosting and such :D

Auction ends in about an hour, at 00:00 UTC.  Current winning bid appears to be 18 BTE.

I have decided not to run auctions for the weekend, so there will be no auction for 48 hours.  Auction will resume 2013-04-29T00:00:00Z.  Sorry for the short notice.

Do I win?

Winner: shakezula, 18 BTE

Next auction starts 2013-04-29T00:00:00Z.

Sweet! What's your BTE addy?

I've PMed you. :)

Date: 4/26/13 21:38
To: WalterRothbard 8Lb5ntNn53MC5gGbjuDWpgxbWUQhusdHdS
Debit: -18.00 BTE
Net amount: -18.00 BTE
Transaction ID: dabb22b9a51ff952366c16f89da6f22710eb6bb52792ea532dda1f598f179d1a

LTC received, fast and professional. Thanks for the auction, looking forward to more!

Next auction begins in 36 minutes, at 2013-04-29T00:00:00Z

0.5 BTE

What does the Z stand for in the time btw? I'm not aware of a time zone that uses such a syntax. how much is that in the GMT-/+ standard?

Z = Zulu and is short form for GMT

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/questions/zulutime.html

Z means UTC.  I'm sorry for the confusion.  It's actually an ISO standard.

(heh, I never knew till now, but there's an XKCD about ISO 8601: http://xkcd.com/1179/  .  See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601 is you are as bizarrely interested in it as I am.)

I kind of figure Bitcoin and UTC time go together pretty naturally. :)  I'm sorry if I haven't made it clear before what timezone I was using.  I thought before I had spelled that out in my opening post on this thread, but it looks like I didn't, other than the Z, which isn't familiar to everybody.

is there an auction going on right niw?

this almost seems too good to be true.

ill bid 3 bte

Yes, there's an auction going on right now!  Thank you for bidding!

Auction ends at 00:00:00 UTC.  You'll have to adjust for your own timezone.  In the U.S., that's going to be Monday afternoon/evening.

can anyone tell me when this is in eastern standard time?

I'm in for 5 BTE again!

6 BTE

7.25BTE

8.5 BTE

Nice, love some competition :D 9.135 BTE

10 bte

15

16BTE

16.5BTE

20 bte

cool so i win?

I'll go 21.453 BTE, auction ends at 0:0:0 forum time i believe

oh. i thought that was just now. bleh.

I win again!

Yep, you're on fire.

Winner: shakezula, 21.453 BTE

There's another auction on right now, and it appears noone has bid.  A new auction starts every day at 00:00:00 for the time being.

50 BTE

Closing in one hour; current bid is 50 BTE

kickass. pm me ure bytecoin addy and ill get that sent right away.

going to go ahead and bid 50 on the next auction.

Winner, WishIStartedSooner, 50.0 BTE!  Thanks for bidding!

cool deal. just waiting on a BTE address.

Thanks again, LTC received fast and friendly. Cheers!

Announcement: I have two more Litecoins left to award for Bytecoin in these auctions.  There will be two more auctions: the current one which concludes at the end of today, and the one that concludes tomorrow (2013-05-03T00:00:00Z).

The current winning bid appears to be 50 BTE.

This has been great fun, and I thank everyone in the community who has participated!

bidding 50 again.

also everything about the past two auctions' transactions was smooth.

Last auction is running now and concludes at 00:00:00UTC at the end of today.

I really appreciate all you guys who've bid here.  This has been fun, educational, and hopefully everybody got a lot of coin they liked!

Final winner: WishIStartedSooner, 50.0 BTE

Auctions are now closed.

My thanks to each and every one of you who has bid, commented, or just read the thread.  This was fun, we got some data, and some people got some coin. :)

Data eh?

I was wondering what your motivation was for doing this.

Draw any conclusions worth sharing?

I hate to bring up an old thread, but I just wanted to let anyone who participated or followed this thread know that I am doing this again over in the Altcoin Marketplace forum:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=823884.0;topicseen

Send me your Bytecoins! :D