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The Bitcoin Weekly is now ready for operation, with the barest absolute minimum features I can possibly code. So, please don't abuse the site when you visit the site.

http://bitcoinweekly.com

For the first article to be published on this new site, we have Theodore Minick's final and last article on the subject of Agorism in bitcoin:

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/the-state-of-the-counter-economy

Congradulations, you have your simple interface, real nice.

You might import some of the older articles from the previus site over, that will fill things out a bit.

I must say you've really kept up with this.

I am no longer burdened by an overly complex interface.  ;D

Now, I can powerfully manipulate the site whereas before I feel very weak and limited by the complexity.

If I want to submit an article, what formatting options do I have?

Is it just plain html? I'm cool with that. bold/italic, 2 header sizes and 'display: block' images.

Good site. Perfect and simple.

Markdown is the formatting of choice. Site is very simple because there was no time for evolution, but I'll try to keep it fast.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/operation-fabulous-interview

Posted a new article.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/interview-with-magicaltux-on-qbitcoin

New article from old times.

Added footer that boldly declare the whole site as licensed under Unlicense.

I added a donation address to the front page.

Now, I am collecting traffic statistics.

I also added a minor navigation button.

Another article from the past:

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/critique-of-youtipit-org-s-business-model

This time, it's a new article!

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-and-chinese-adoption

It's called Bitcoin and Chinese Adoption.

Nice articles! Does look a little plain though, ever considered using one of those wordpress templates? Or are you pretty dead set on doing it from scratch?

I don't use wordpress!

The Bitcoin Weekly now have a submission information page! http://bitcoinweekly.com/pages/submission

So, how can I improve the magazine?

Another oldie from the past:

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/security-in-bitcoin

Excellent site so far, I'll be reading whatever you post!  Keep up the good work.

I like it very much. Any chance for RSS/Atom ?

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-rising

An old article from the past: Bitcoin Rising.

I thought about it, but there are more urgent thing to do.

I like the simplicity, although few things I would change:

1. Too much space between lines.
2. It needs colours or at least shades of grey. Doesn't have to be extreme, but some faint cream or smth like that behind the text would be easier on the eye.
3. Use dark grey for the text to improve readability.
4. You need a logo

From functionality point of view, I would ad "Back to top" at the bottom of every article and "Go back to articles" at the top of every article. The latter should get you back to the place on the page where you were before entering the article - not the top of the page.

That's all I can think of right now

I like current simplicity so much that I'll share my disagreement:

1. OK for me
2. Please don't
3. Black on white is what I'm used to, and I would say this kind of a well tested configuration...
4. why?
5. "Back to top"? Seriously why people add these links on pages? I never ever click them.  There is this "home" button on your keyboard, and you can shift+click on the scrollbar also.

I can't imagine a logo that would go well with the current site.

If you use witcoin, don't forget to upvote me:

http://fiction.witcoin.com/p/872/Bitcoin-Rising
 
;)

It all depends what the target audience is, I guess.
To read articles at your site kiba, it will probably be next to impossible for people like me, who mostly use computers at night.

One more thing - the title of the page should be centred. I think your "Home" and "Submission" buttons pushed it to the right

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/microtransactions-in-the-internet-economy-and-bitcoin

Brand new article by somebody who isn't me! Vitalik Buterin wrote an article on the future of microtransaction and how bitcoin would revolutionize it.

You may want to reverse the order of the latest articles on your home page.

Known bug.

Very good.

If you're a witcoin user, don't forget to upvote the article:

http://bitcoin.witcoin.com/p/898/Microtransactions-in-the-Internet-Economy-and-Bitcoin

Just fixed a minor bug in which the title of the article did not shows up.

Another article from the past: http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/agorism-101

I personally feel that the website design and interface feels a bit wanting...

That's not very helpful. Can you explain why?

The only reason why the site is very plain is because I can't afford a few hundred bitcoin in hiring a website designer.

Sure, essentially, there is just too much space with "nothing" that seems like there should be something there. I know thats not specific either, but it's just something I notice,I can say a few things that bother me that I can point out.

• Submission is capitalized, so should "home".
• "Bitcoin Weekly" text seems off center
• I feel the advertisement box should extend to the ends of the box it is contained in, since that space is not really doing anything. However the box on the bottom for the license seems fine.
• Move the 'By: author" to after the article short description, it helps form a separation that makes reading though it easier to read. Another option is to give each box a slight shade or color, but thats not what your going for, and thats fine.
• I would like to see dates for each article, it's just something nice to have
• Since you have a div to contain your content, making that div's background or the body background slightly off-white would improve looks and give a place for the eyes to draw attention to more naturally.

Simple is great, but when you do simple, the little things matter more.

If you agree on those, most of them are a pretty basic fix. And I'll help do them for free if you let me, and give basic help for whatever. No strings attached, I like the warm fuzzy feeling, and it wouldn't take long.

I'm not a professional, I have taken a webdesign class and passed with an A. And I like programming. I have a few examples of what I have done, if you want to see them first.

Jamezmcclain@gmail.com if your interested. I can't help today, but probably sometime during this week.

I established a primitive registration/login system and access restriction.

Before, it was possible for anybody to create an article provided that they know the URL. Now they can't.

Bug fixed where ordinary users cannot access the articles.

Friday TODO:

1. I will have an article up shortly after I fixed a bug with user accounts for creating articles.
2. The articles on the front page will finally be ordered in according to the date it was posted.

New article up:

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/ron-paul-s-free-competition-in-currency-act

Articles are now sorted by newest create date to old.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/legal-tender-illegal-tender-will-bitcoin-be-banned

New article by  Vitalik Buterin on the legality of bitcoin.

It had come to my attention that somebody donated 10 BTC to the magazine. That's good for two articles! Thanks.

Awesome article!  I'm proud of myself that I came up with almost all the same points in a recent conversation with a friend.   :P

This is very clearly and professionally written.  :)

http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/articles/counter-economics-and-bitcoin

Another article from the past! This complete Theodore Minick's series on agorism.

Got a new feature!

At the bottom of the page, there will be a random article suggestion.

1. Added archive link.

2. Bitcoin Weekly title recentered.

When are you going to add images to articles?

Don't know...I need to make a long term TODO list.

Though I have a TODO for Saturday.

This Saturday 4/16:

1. Padding addition to archive page.

2. Writers can only post under their own name.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-what-s-it-for

Another article from the past: Bitcoin, What's It For?

This is Nefario's takes on why bitcoin is useful.

Don't forget to donate bitcoin!

Remember, a 5 BTC donation pay for an article.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/good-and-services-china-s-path-forward

Another article from the past:

Good and services, China's Path Forward by Nefario.

The Bitcoin Weekly archive now have statistics on how many articles there are in the database. We got 14 articles. That's a good amount to work with!

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/generation-and-assimilation-of-bitcoin-knowledge

Hey guys....new article! :D

And it's written by me!

It's about how the bitcoin forum generate knowledge and why Bitcoin Weekly is essential to the process of assimilating knowledge.

I like how easy it is to read your articles without needing a tool like readability.

Sent 5.01 to 1NWc7N4FAs55hJ1xdTf3KWHZD89yn2PQKV  for an article.

Thanks for the donation. The Bitcoin Weekly now have enough bitcoin reserves to go for two articles.

I added a crude image uploading facility.

Will you be working on an uploading facility for non-crude images next?

???

Anyway, the uploading facility will allows me to have articles with pictures or comic strips.

Published dates are now available for all articles.

http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/articles/anonymous-money-needs-an-anonymous-exchange

Another article from the past: Anonymous Money needs an Anonymous Exchange by Nefario.

New article: http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/expanding-the-bitcoin-economy-legitimate-businesses-and-food

In this article, Vitalik Buterin explains problems and solutions to expanding the bitcoin economy.

Don't forget to donate bitcoins. A 5 BTC donation to the magazine helps pay for a single article.

Scheduled article commission price update: 2.5 BTC in the anticipation of 2 dollars per bitcoin.

Anybody who is working on a draft, or is waiting for me to get paid will receive their 5 BTC.

Newcomers will have to live with 2.5 BTC. The only way the price will stay the same is if the magazine suddenly become profitable.

Looks like I submitted just in time.  ;) If I ever have some spare coins laying around I'll try to remember to donate...

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/how-bitcoin-security-works-by-analogy

BitLotto attempts to explain how bitcoin security works

Attempts. LOL. Thanks for publishing me. Hopefully it makes sense to someone!  ;)

2.11 BTC now....Not even enough for a new article. I will have to dip into my funds again.

Ok, that's it. I changed my mind. The 5 you just sent me is going back to you...

I guess I'll pay somebody else.

I reached the 500 unique visitors in a 24 hour period goal milestone.  ;D

My magazine is...becoming less and less obscure.

New article: http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-poker

Bitcoin Poker by Tom Collins.

I also reached the 651 unique visitors within a 24 hour period milestone.  ;D

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-comic-whack-a-mole

My commission for a comic went through. Shazow is a great artist.

That's a really good comic.

Changed the site's styling a little bit. I sucks at the whole designing a site thing, but I don't think I can afford a designer.

w00t. The Bitcoin Weekly reachs .20 BTC a day in advertising revenue, in the face of price deflation.  ;D

I implemented the disqus commenting system. Now you can comment on every article.

If you wanna help the magazine, please comments on the magazine.

Negative or positive, I want people to get talking.

In anticipation, when the price of a bitcoin is 3 dollars or more, the commision fee that bitcoinweekly is offering will be 1.66 BTC.

Anybody who had sent me draft or had me approve the proposal or even further the line into revising drafts, are entitled to 2.5 BTC.

Kiba out!


(Meanwhile, Bitcoin Weekly's capital reserve increases. Woohoo!)

People are starting to comment on my magazine. Yay!  :D

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-in-a-post-scarcity-world


New article. Talks about a hypothetical future where everything is scarce except new patterns.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-comic-if-public-keys-were-carrots


Does the public keys as carrot analogy works? You decide!

Kiba,

Here is something I'd like to see.

Since I don't have as much time as I used to for reading the forum, I'd be interested in seeing a weekly summary of notable / worth reading  threads.

eg:

New This Week:

Todays difficulty increase to 156000, where from here? 
  Lots of speculation about speculation and how high the price is likely to go.

So I told Bruce Schneier about Bitcoin..
   cuddlefish assumes Bruce Schneier reads his own blog comments.

Updates:

The Bitcoin Weekly Comes Alive
   Insti asks for article with cliffs notes on forum posts.
   Lots of +1's / me too's follow.
   Kiba says he's happy to post something like this and will pay the author 0.5 bitcoins for the article.
   No-one actually steps forward to write anything.

Gavin will visit the CIA
  Arguments about the likelyhood of various conspiracy theories continue.

Insti: that would be for bitcoinnews or bitcoinwatch, but not bitcoinweekly.

Care to offer readers an option for fetching stories via RSS? I like the articles on the site, but I know I'll forget to go in there to check weekly.
Nice work!

That's another commonly requested item that I have not gotten around to yet.

@kiba - just open a wordpress.org blog, it takes 5 minutes tops.

w00t. My ads revenue went up to .32 bitcents a day.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/the-global-bitcoin-stock-exchange-and-why-it-matters

New article for ya.

The Bitcoin Weekly now have its own rss feed!  :D

http://bitcoinweekly.com/feeds/index.rxml

Just like the smallest seed, bitcoinweekly started off as a pdf then a crappy drupal site, with a few articles, and look at it now, how has it grown.

Good job kiba.

The homebrewed CMS still doesn't have all its bell and whistles of that god damn Durpal site.  However, bitcoinweekly is starting to evolve its own characteristics, in accordance to my business strategy. Plus, bitcoinweekly is still the number one source for funding of public domain content. That accomplishment is something I am very proud of.

Not even the Bitcoin Sun dared to follow my path.

https://twitter.com/#!/BitcoinWeekly

Bitcoin Weekly now have its own twitter account.  ;D

It will tweets bitcoin weekly latest articles as well update.

Yay, I'm first to follow :D

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/causes-behind-the-bitcoin-price-rally


New article about the bitcoin price rally.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/the-glbse-and-decentralization

New article.

this is a GREAT resource, but could you kindly add date-stamps to your RSS feed so that all articles do not simultaneously appear in my reader?

I will be building in the shareholder voting tomorrow(it's not there just yet), so until then no voting. Also a slightly related point to the article, that although glbse allows decentralisation of capital and business ownership, the system itself is very centralised(bad thing) and it is something that we will try to move away from in the future.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2550312

WOOHOO! First time that the Bitcoin Weekly made the front page of hacker news!

http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/articles/comic-reaction-after-dramatic-rise-of-bitcoin-s-value

New comic! This time a parody of bitcoin bubble worriers.

Also, I am now earning 1 BTC a day for bitcoinweekly! This is good news. That mean it's becoming profitable.

Two comics in a single day?  :o

http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/articles/reactions-to-bitcoin

I surpassed the 25 articles milestone. Right now, it's 27.

That mean that the Bitcoin Weekly successfully published 27 articles into the public domain. We're still the largest public domain source in the bitcoin universe and we're planning to publish more.

That doesn't mean much when you're the only business that actually does this.  :D

Ladies and gentlemen, I am working on the Bitcoin Weekly business database. It's still in early development.

What I hope the database will become:

This database will track data such as "dead" or "alive", stories that mention said business, related bitcoinweekly articles, who owns it, reviews, and much more. It will also contain disqus discussion thread about said business.

Here is our first business entry:

http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/businesses/bitcoinglobal

New article: http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/webs-of-trust-and-how-to-decentralize-them

Business Database Development Update

http://bitcoinweekly.com/businesses shows all the businesses currently in the bitcoinweekly database. In each business profile, there is a discussion thread for that particular profile.

It's still in early development so it isn't that useful yet.

Bitcoin Weekly Business Database Development Update

Articles will now be linking to profiles in the Bitcoin Weekly database.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/the-glbse-and-decentralization

For example, at the bottom, you will see the blue data box in which certain factoids are mentioned. Our first factoids are businesses mentioned.

Bitcoin Weekly Business Database Development Update

Each profile will now have a fact indicating if said business is dead...or alive.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/the-wasted-electricity-objection-to-bitcoin-part-i

New article.

Bitcoin Weekly Business Database Development Update

I am pleased to announce that articles data are available for profiles. Whenever when bitcoinweekly tag a business, expect to see the articles in the profile.

For example, bitcoinglobal have two articles in its profile. http://bitcoinweekly.com/businesses/bitcoinglobal

Ladies and gentlemen...All of  http://bitcoinweekly.com is now tripled copyfree licensed under Creative Common Zero (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/), UNLICENSE (http://unlicense.org/UNLICENSE), and the WTFPL (http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING). If you can't apply any of these license in your specific situation, pirate the hell out of it.  ;D

You can see the new licenses at the footer.

BTW, we always been public domain since the founding of Bitcoin Weekly. I just decided to add two licenses for good measure.

I am in the process of adding an "action" section. This section shows up after the content section when you finish reading the article. In the next few days or so, I will add in things to do like..tweet this article..

http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-is-worse-is-better

New article by gwern exploring why it takes so long for bitcoin to be invented.

I added a tweet button at the bottom of each article.

http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/articles/technological-jailbreak-bitcoin-to-namecoin

New article. This time, written by me!

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/the-wasted-electricity-objection-to-bitcoin-part-ii

An article about how much electricity does it cost to secure the bitcoin network.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/one-apple-today-two-apples-tomorrow-or-how-i-stopped-being-afraid-and-learned-to-love-deflation

New article about why deflation ain't so bad.

Enhancement request:  RSS/Atom feed

Update: Oh, the feed is already there (http://bitcoinweekly.com/feeds/index.rxml), but I didn't find it because it is announced in the <body/>, not in the <head/>.

Cheers,

Already implemented.

http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=10590.0

Bitcoin Weekly t-shirt announcement.  :D

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-what-s-it-backed-by

New article by Vitalik Buterin.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/comic-bitcoin-raid

Bitcoin Raid comic by Joey Dangerous.

I love the bitcoinweekly!  ;D

http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/articles/interview-with-nefario-founder-of-bitcoin-global

An interview with Nefario, founder of  Bitcoin Global.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/the-battle-is-on-silk-road-vs-government-and-bitcoin-anonymity

Another article by Vitalik Buterin.

Currently in big downtime because of my administrative screwup: "sudo poweroff"  :o

I don't think it really powersoff the machine as it's a vps, you can probably connect with vnc directly to the console output.

Failing that contact your admins.

The problem is that I don't know how to do this and that MagicalTux is busy.

Bitcoin Weekly is alive after an outage.

Is Bitcoin Money?  http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/is-bitcoin-money

Remember, don't forget to donate to the Bitcoin Weekly. Writers don't grows on tree!

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/exploring-the-bitcoin-bubble-from-february-to-now

New article.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/bitcoin-and-the-goldbugs

New article.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/taking-down-the-bitcoin-network

New article.

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/dragon-s-tale-the-virtual-bitcoin-casino

New article.

Bitcoin Weekly will be running a pilot program later this week with ransoming articles so that we can continue brining more awesome content to you.

Bitcoin Weekly now have a dedicated section for comics!

http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/comics/bitcoin-mascots

http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/comics/bitcoin-rate

http://www.bitcoinweekly.com/comics/bitcoin-future

New comic! Unfortuntely, this the last one for this week. Joey Dangerous will cranks out a new comic next week, Hopefully, it will be updated every Monday.

In addition, Bitcoin Weekly is trying an experiment at http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20235.0

Please support us in this hard time.

I made two minor improvement to the comic navigation system:

1. Made it bigger for people to see.
2. Place them on both the top and bottom of the comic.

Suffice to say, the navigation system still needs lot of work. There should be a way to get a list of all the comics ever published and the navigation button still needs to be more noticeable, for example.

Bitcoin Weekly sucessfully raised the target .70 BTC for the ransom of 2 articles and one comic. (http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=23934.0) Now they are released:

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/the-mtgox-attack

http://bitcoinweekly.com/articles/the-calm-after-the-storm

http://bitcoinweekly.com/comics/the-gavinator