Bitcoin Forum

The forum sells ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page. This income is used primarily to cover hosting costs and to pay moderators for their work (there are many moderators, so each moderator gets only a small amount -- moderators should be seen as volunteers, not employees). Any leftover amount is typically either saved for future expenses or otherwise reinvested into the forum or the ecosystem.

Ads are allowed to contain any non-annoying HTML/CSS style. No images, JavaScript, or animation. Ads must appear 3 or fewer lines tall in my browser (Firefox, 900px wide). Ad text may not contain lies, misrepresentation, or inappropriate language. Ads may not link directly to any NSFW page. Ads may be rejected for other reasons, and I may remove ads even after they are accepted.

There are 10 total ad slots which are randomly rotated. So one ad slot has a one in ten chance of appearing. Nine of the slots are for sale here. Ads appear only on topic pages with more than one post, and only for people using the default theme.

Duration

- Your ads are guaranteed to be up for at least 7 days.
- I usually try to keep ads up for no more than 8 or 9 days.
- Sometimes ads might be up for longer, but hopefully no longer than 12 days. Even if past rounds (https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstats) sometimes lasted for long periods of time, you should not rely on this for your ads.

Stats

Exact historical impression counts per slot:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstats

Info about the current ad slots:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo

Ad blocking

Hero/Legendary members, Donators, VIPs, and moderators have the ability to disable ads. I don't expect many people to use this option. These people don't increase the impression stats for your ads.

I try to bypass Adblock Plus filters as much as possible, though this is not guaranteed. It is difficult or impossible for ABP filters to block the ad space itself without blocking posts. However, filters can match against the URLs in your links, your CSS classes and style attributes, and the HTML structure of your ads.

To prevent matches against URLs: I have some JavaScript which fixes links blocked by ABP. You must tell me if you want this for your ads. When someone with ABP and JavaScript enabled views your ads, your links are changed to a special randomized bitcointalk.org URL which redirects to your site when visited. People without ABP are unaffected, even if they don't have JavaScript enabled. The downsides are:
- ABP users will see the redirection link when they hover over the link, even if they disable ABP for the forum.
- Getting referral stats might become even more difficult.
- Some users might get a warning when redirecting from https to http.

To prevent matching on CSS classes/styles: Don't use inline CSS. I can give your ad a CSS class that is randomized on each pageload, but you must request this.

To prevent matching against your HTML structure: Use only one <a> and no other tags if possible. If your ads get blocked because of matching done on something inside of your ad, you are responsible for noticing this and giving me new ad HTML.

Designing ads

Make sure that your ads look good when you download and edit this test page:
https://bitcointalk.org/ad_test.html
Also read the comments in that file.

Images are not allowed no matter how they are created (CSS, SVG, or data URI). Occasionally I will make an exception for small logos and such, but you must get pre-approval from me first.

The maximum size of any one ad is 51200 bytes.

I will send you more detailed styling rules if you win slots in this auction (or upon request).

Auction rules

You must be at least a Jr Member to bid. If you are not a Jr Member and you really want to bid, you should PM me first (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=35). Tell me in the PM what you're going to advertise. You might be required to pay some amount in advance. Everyone else: Please quickly PM newbies who try to bid here to warn them against impersonation scammers.

If you have never purchased forum ad space before, and it is not blatantly obvious what you're going to advertise, say what you're going to advertise in your first bid, or tell me in a PM.

Post your bids in this thread. Prices must be stated in BTC per slot. You must state the maximum number of slots you want. When the auction ends, the highest bidders will have their slots filled until all nine slots are filled.

So if someone bids for 9 slots @ 5 BTC and this is the highest bid, then he'll get all 9 slots. If the two highest bids are 9 slots @ 4 BTC and 1 slot @ 5 BTC, then the first person will get 8 slots and the second person will get 1 slot.

The notation "2 @ 5" means 2 slots for 5 BTC each. Not 2 slots for 5 BTC total.

- When you post a bid, the bids in your previous posts are considered to be automatically canceled. You can put multiple bids in one post, however.
- All bid prices must be evenly divisible by 0.05.
- The bidding starts at 0.1.
- I will end the auction at an arbitrary time. Unless I say otherwise, I typically try to end auctions within a few days of 10 days from the time of this post, but unexpected circumstances may sometimes force me to end the auction anytime between 4 and 22 days from the start.
- If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first.
- Bids are considered invalid and will be ignored if they do not specify both a price and a max quantity, or if they could not possibly win any slots

If these rules are confusing, look at some of the past forum ad auctions to see how it's done.

I reserve the right to reject bids, even days after the bid is made.

You must pay for your slots within 24 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slots may be sold to someone else, and I might even give you a negative trust rating. I will send you the payment information via forum PM from this account ("theymos", user ID 35) after announcing the auction results in this thread. You might receive false payment information from scammers pretending to be me. They might even have somewhat similar usernames. Be careful.

Note that I will only accept BTC as payment; ie. your payment transaction must be valid and must gain confirmations from the perspective of Bitcoin Core 0.14.2.

2 @ 0.5 - Centra Tech - www.Centra.tech (Multi-Blockchain Debit Card, Insured Wallet) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2041101

Thanks!

9 slots @ 0.15 - if no one else is bidding :)

FYI: CentraTech is cleared to bid.

Also, I forgot to mention: this auction will definitely end sometime after Aug 2 00:00 UTC, at which point the worst of any fork issues should hopefully be in the past.

Thanks Theymos. Wish we registered all the years we were just browsing lol.

Crossing my fingers we can just get all the spots :)

3 @0.2

4 @ 0.4

5 @ .45

1 @ 0.5

2@.55BTC

5 @ 0.50

1 slot @ 0.55

@theymos, is Melissa cleared to bid?

1 @ 0.55

1@ .6

1@0.6

4 @ 0.65

1 @ 0.65

1@0.6

1 @ 0.6

1 @ 0.6

2 bids 0.65

1 @ 0.65

1@0.65

You have negative trust for me, so I won't accept your bids.

melissa_sapmaz is cleared for up to 1 slot -- bids for more slots should be considered tentative.

atbcoincom PMed me canceling his bid.

Current auction status:

Slots BTC/Slot Person
4 0.65 ChipMixer
1 0.65 gritter
2 0.65 jamieebotwin
1 0.65 ATB Coin
1 0.65 Gunthar

The auction continues.

4 @ 0.7

1@0.7

1 @ 0.7

First, sorry about last post, posting from smartphone, and somehow it just auto posted response, and now I can't edit it...

Theymos, I sent you a pm about this too, but wanted to understand what you meant by negative trust. Every indication for me is zero trust (no positive and no negative feedback). At this point I'm likely outbid anyway, but I would like to understand what you mean and if something is negatively reflecting on me I'd like to do something about it, or have the opportunity to respond to it at least.

But I have bought advertising on the forum before and paid on time etc, I've also done some trades (sold items) on here successfully, and contributed to open source projects.

Been around for some time. But I see no negative feedback, so want to confirm.

I know you are busy, so when you have time would really appreciate a response on this (since you kind of called me out publicly)

Thanks!

1 @ 0.7

If you look at untrusted feedback, you will see a negative feedback:

https://i.imgur.com/PBHYqeL.png

Not sure what trust settings theymos uses, but if you go down to depth 3 (default is 2), you have 1 negative feedback and 1 positive feedback.

1 @ 0.75

1 @ 0.75 for AdCoin ICO > Cleared through PB by Theymos (thanks!)

2@.75

1 @ 0.75

4 @ 0.8

I know that scams are not moderated on the forums but I think that It could be wiser to take off the ChipMixer ads right now as there are a lot of people who are no longer able to withdraw their funds, continuing to advertise them could make things worst for more users at this point.

1 @ 0.8

This is a timeline I get:
23 hours ago ChipMixer posted (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1935098.msg20587645#msg20587645) they're back online after August 1, with some valid privacy advice on how to proceed on Bitcoin Cash.
21 hours ago ChipMixer posted (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2047814.msg20590128#msg20590128) a bid in this thread.
16 hours ago the first complaint (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1935098.msg20597150#msg20597150) was posted in ChipMixer's thread.
30 minutes ago I sent 0.192 BTC to BitMixer without checking the latest messages in their thread first.

I've sent ChipMixer a private message here, and an email.
It could be they pulled an exit scam after receiving many coins since BitMixer stopped.
It could also be they're just out of pre-arranged chips, just like what happened on July 25 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1935098.msg20374637#msg20374637).

bumping our bid to:
1 @ 0.8

This is not a place to discuss this. Please check here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1935098.msg20612924#msg20612924

We're out ot this week auction, it's another ICO week.

1@0.8

This was indeed what happened, I'd like to give the "all clear".
I can't delete my posts here, but it's highly offtopic now that it lost it's relevance.

2 @0.85

1@0.85

3 @ 0.9

1 @ 0.85 - CoinMixer https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1089301.msg11610411 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1089301.msg11610411)

1 @ 0.85

1@0.09

1@0.9

1 at .9

1@1.0

Your ICO strikes me as too risky, so I won't accept your bid this time.


I am noticing now that your email and password changed just before bidding, which is suspicious, and you never PMed me to tell me what you were advertising as required by the rules. Therefore, I won't accept your bid this time. PM me more info about what you're advertising if you want to bid in the future. I apologize for not catching this in my status update earlier.

Auction ended, final result:
Slots BTC/Slot Person
3 0.90 Kickico Bounty Hunter
1 0.90 Gunthar
2 0.85 Bdstar
1 0.85 gritter
1 0.85 coinmixer.se
1 0.85 melissa_sapmaz