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 00:00:00 on July 29, UTC. Countdown (http://free.timeanddate.com/countdown/i2u518av/cf12/cm0/cu4/ct0/cs0/ca2/co0/cr0/ss0/cac000/cpc000/pcfff/tcfff/fs100/szw448/szh189/iso2012-07-29T00:00:00). (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 @ 1

2 @ 5

1 @ 5

8@6

8 @ 10

Wonderful.  As if Bitcoinica nonsense wasn't annoyingly difficult to avoid it will now be spamming the ads too.

Wow. This is by far the highest-ever per-slot price, and this auction will have record income. I kind of expected you to cancel your bid, too.

In case your ads will be time-sensitive: Be aware that these ads will not go up until about 3 days from now.

It's okay. I have read the instructions carefully.

Making business with likely stolen funds!? We as a community should turn our back on people with such fishy stories until their innocence is proven. Sad that you are still willing to accept his funds!

I guess there will be ads selling chinese relics.

+1 it looks bad from an ethical standpoint and is a form of bribery.

I guess it is easy to make astronomical bids when the money is not yours.

What happened to "innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt"? The funds are most likely not stolen, so why refuse them?

4 @ 6.5 for the case if zhoutong will not pay, we will make the bet

innocent until proven - that's how the mafia operates. if you doubt the legitimate source of your business you should by moral standards put it on hold until the legitimacy is ensured.

Sure. How much evidence that Zhou did it has been posted? Now, remove all of aurumxchange's posts, posts that contain information that aurumxchange could have made up. How much evidence is left? Not even Mt. Gox has anything: they publicly could only admit half of the story was verifiable.

If one person is enough to doubt a legitimate source, I could argue that Satoshi stole the coins.

bitcoin is bitcoin is bitcoin. #fungibility

/OT!!! this is an auction thread.

+1. As a long time advertiser and supporter, I sincerely hope Theymos do not take the funds. I will pay for that bid if necessary.

Please don't tell me the ads are going to feature the Bitcoinica incident.  :-\

It'll be for NameTerrific.

Theymos,

Since AurumXchange offered to pay for the same bid, I agree to give up 6 of the slots to AurumXchange at 10 BTC each.

Zhou Tong won all of the slots in the auction. I don't think that the forum is responsible for determining whether people are guilty in complicated situations like this. If it turns out that zhoutong is guilty and owes Bitcoinica users lots of BTC, he's not going to be exactly 80 BTC short of repaying everyone due to this ad purchase. He's either going to have the money, or a lot of it will be missing. There's no reason for the forum not to accept this BTC -- it doesn't hurt anyone.

I strongly disagree. He uses the advertising slots to promote another ''service'' which could very well turn out to be another scam.

Even it's slogan seems to be prophetic: ''Not yet ready to get a domain? We can make sure you don't forget us. :-D''

Given the facts reagrding the Bitcoinica incidents I wonder why a scammer tag has not been applied to this person.


Btw.: Interesting read from the Bitcoinica thread:

is this auction still going? if so ...


2 @ 11

No.