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 not link directly to any NSFW page. 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

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

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 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 0.5.
- The bidding starts at 0.5.
- The auction end time is 20:00:00 on July 5, UTC. Countdown (http://free.timeanddate.com/countdown/i2u518av/cf12/cm0/cu4/ct0/cs0/ca2/co0/cr0/ss0/cac000/cpc000/pcfff/tcfff/fs100/szw448/szh189/iso2012-07-05T20:00:00). (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.

1 slot 2 btc

1 slot @ 3 BTC

1 @ 1

5 @ 5

well damn

every other advertisement auction thread I have participated in - the slots always sell for around 5 btc, I dont have a lot of time to keep checking on it so I mine as well bid 5 btc and make sure I get it , if I pay a little extra its ok, its going to a good cause :)

1 @ 3

1@3

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
5 5 cablepair
1 3 rate5
1 3 TangibleCryptography
1 3 fatigue
1 2 Littleshop
1 1 Goat

Inclusion in this list does not necessarily indicate that your bid was accepted.

Um? What are the accepted bids? Whats going on? I don't know how much to bid:(

1 @ 5.5 and 2 @ 3.5

1 @ 4

1 @ 4

I'm just saying that I don't have the authority to accept bids, so some of those bids might be invalidated by theymos. The ones that are striked off just weren't in the unofficial top 8 slots. Anyway...

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
1 5.5 wm-center.com
5 5 cablepair
1 4 rate5
1 4 TangibleCryptography

About 3.5 hours left.

Can you let us know about the bids that were rejected?  It's tricky knowing that some of the bids are fake...

Maged's last list is accurate.

4 @ 6

Current state:
Slots BTC Person
4 6 aurumxchange
1 5.5 wm-center.com
3 5 cablepair