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Title: [Coming Soon]Bitcoin Mining through phone calls. Post by: rexcoin on December 24, 2011, 08:49:35 AM This is a idea i had for a while, Basically you sign up online with a bitcoin address, then you have two options, free membership or premium membership.
Free membership - Get 5(Still Deciding) minutes of calling - you hear ads for the 5 minutes and you can win .02 btc every 5 minutes Premium membership - Get 50(Still Deciding) minutes of calling - you hear ads for the 50 minutes and you can win .05 btc every 5 minutes (costs 0.40 bitcoin) Winning the bitcoins is not easy though, it takes place every 5 minutes and if for example there are 5 callers on the line at the same time you have a 20% chance to win. IF you are the only caller - then you get the bitcoins on a 50% chance scale. Basically the ads will pay for the service - i will get more details on that later. Would anyone be interested in this? I think this would be a fun service and a nice way to advertise for businesses and a nice way to earn bitcoins for users. Let me hear your thoughts. Title: Re: [Coming Soon]Bitcoin Mining through phone calls. Post by: casascius on December 24, 2011, 09:33:39 AM I thought of another thing that might be less annoying (no offense) and would pay more
I have tons of receipts I would love to have scanned and data-entered (for basic information like merchant name, dollar amount, etc.)... sure there's OCR but it's not perfect. Surely there have got to be other data entry needs out there too. Assuming the information isn't private or isn't something that would be harmful if strangers saw it, someone could solicit complete strangers to do data entry from scanned images and pay in BTC. Title: Re: [Coming Soon]Bitcoin Mining through phone calls. Post by: altuin on December 24, 2011, 08:56:52 PM I could do data entry for your reciepts and stuff
Title: Re: [Coming Soon]Bitcoin Mining through phone calls. Post by: mattiemus on December 24, 2011, 10:07:18 PM surely it would cost more to make the phone call than to actually gain the bitcoins.
and how will the premium work? you have to pay extra to listen to adverts? and what will stop people from just putting the phone down and leaving it for a few minutes while they "mine" bitcoins. Not meaning to be offencive, i just think theres better ways to get free bitcoins, an advertising page or "yellow pages" style website might be more effective. Title: Re: [Coming Soon]Bitcoin Mining through phone calls. Post by: notawake on December 24, 2011, 10:24:31 PM I thought of another thing that might be less annoying (no offense) and would pay more I have tons of receipts I would love to have scanned and data-entered (for basic information like merchant name, dollar amount, etc.)... sure there's OCR but it's not perfect. Surely there have got to be other data entry needs out there too. Assuming the information isn't private or isn't something that would be harmful if strangers saw it, someone could solicit complete strangers to do data entry from scanned images and pay in BTC. Sounds like a Bitcoin version of Amazon's Mechanical Turk (https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome). Title: Re: [Coming Soon]Bitcoin Mining through phone calls. Post by: mc_lovin on December 24, 2011, 10:25:15 PM what about something like twiends had before where you watched sponsored youtube videos to earn seeds, and people would sit there for hours on end watching awful youtube videos and getting seeds to put into their twitter accounts. the users got tons hits on their youtube videos! set it up like feedzebirds and it would be a success.
Title: Re: [Coming Soon]Bitcoin Mining through phone calls. Post by: paraipan on December 25, 2011, 12:19:28 AM I could do data entry for your reciepts and stuff +1 count me in casascius |