Bitcoin Forum

In order to collect more money for the creation of good forum software, the forum is selling ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page.

Ads this week will be allowed to contain any non-annoying HTML/CSS style. No images, JavaScript, or animation (no marquee or blinking). Ads must appear 3 or fewer lines tall in my browser. Ads will be prefixed with "Advertisement:". Ad text may not contain lies, misrepresentation, or inappropriate language. Ads may be rejected for other reasons.

There are 10 total ad slots which are randomly rotated. So one ad slot has a one in ten chance of appearing. Eight of the slots are for sale here.

The ad lasts 7 days starting from when I put it up.

Stats: On the 20^th of November, 2011, there were about 120,000 views of topics. So one slot would have appeared around 12,000 times per day. The ad doesn't appear on topic pages with only one post, though, and it only appears for people using the default theme. Total views per day on more recent days (in March):
- 11^th: 147354
- 12^th: 181281
- 13^th: 178721
- 14^th: 149139
- 15^th: 153757
- 16^th: 136847

Efficacy stats:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54182.0

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

Auction rules

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

So if someone bids for 8 slots @ 5 BTC and this is the highest bid, then he'll get all 8 slots. If the two highest bids are 8 slots @ 4 BTC and 1 slot @ 5 BTC, then the first person will get 7 slots and the second person will get 1 slot.

- When you bid, all of your previous bids are automatically canceled.
- All bid prices must be evenly divisible by 0.5.
- The bidding starts at 0.5.
- The auction end time is 02:00:00 on March 27, UTC. Countdown (http://free.timeanddate.com/countdown/i2u518av/cf12/cm0/cu4/ct0/cs0/ca2/co0/cr0/ss0/cac000/cpc000/pcfff/tcfff/fs100/szw448/szh189/iso2012-03-27T02:00:00). (The end time may be extended -- see below.)
- 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 any valid bids occur less than 30 minutes before the auction end time, then the auction will be extended by 30 minutes. If any valid bids occur less than 30 minutes before the new end time, then the auction will be extended again, etc. The time will not extend beyond 6 hours total.

You must pay for your slots within 24 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slot may be sold to someone else.

8 @ 0.5BTC  ;D

4 @ 0.75

Bid prices must be evenly divisible by 0.5.

oops sorry thymos

4 @ 1BTC <---- new bid

1 @ 3

and

1 @ 3.5

1 @ 2

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
1 3.5 Goat
1 3 Goat
1 2 NothinG
4 1 cablepair
1 0.5 c0ffer

Are gambling ads ok? ;)

Yes.

5 @ 2

1 @ 2.5 as well. :)

3 @ 3 BTC

In addition to your past bids?

Yes Sir.

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
1 3.5 Goat
1 3 Goat
3 3 cablepair
1 2.5 Goat
1 2 NothinG
1 2 wm-center.com

6 @ 3.5

Updating my 1 to ( 1 @ 3.5 ) to stay in the game.

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
1 3.5 Goat
6 3.5 aurumxchange
1 3.5 NothinG

One at four btc

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
1 4 Goat
6 3.5 aurumxchange
1 3.5 NothinG

what happened to my bid at three point five?

okay i was not aware of that rule. I guess two at four.

2 @ 5

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
2 5 cablepair
2 4 Goat
4 3.5 aurumxchange


You can make multiple bids per post like you've been doing. I'm just going to assume that you're replacing your old bids whenever you post again.

It was 100% my fault as I did not remember the rule. I only read the OP once like 3 months ago :/

In the future however if I want to add a bid and hold my old bid can I just make a clear note of it?

Thanks.

5 @ 4

Well I would like to keep my current bids at 2 @ 4 and add to them having a bid at 2 @ 4.5

Not sure if this can be done :/

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
2 5 cablepair
2 4.5 Goat
2 4 Goat
2 4 wm-center.com


Yes, though I'd prefer it if each of your posts just contained all of your current bids.

One slot @ 5.5

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
1 5.5 bitsforcoins.com
2 5 cablepair
2 4.5 Goat
2 4 Goat
1 4 wm-center.com

1 @ 4.5

Looks like I won more slots than I really need, if someone wants to buy one PM me. Thanks.

But you fought so hard for those slots :)

Yeah, last few weeks I got outbid :/  But I'd rather have too many slots than not enough :)  Just don't tell my wife.  ;)