Need to think it out. I want to give more flexibility here. Right now there is no much options to customize ads. Advertisers have an option to upload image, and affiliates have an option to use iframe or image ad version. If they use iframe, then text ad will be shown, otherwise - graphic version (graphic text or image). The only adjustable thing for affiliate is the size of the ad box. You can set style="width:160px;height:600px;". Though it wouldn't look very good... Especially for image versions.

Well.. That's why advertisers have to send money to deposit address to increase their bootstrap score and to get connected to affiliates. There is no free views for advertisers unless there is a bug in software

Advertisers may decide to pay only to deposit address and not to pay to affiliates. But it will be just about 9 times more expensive for them (since they will compete for 10% of views, while the other 90% of views will be distributed among advertisers that pay to affiliates).


Yes, that's true.. Just need to realize that if your personal info is linked to forum account, or to your site, or to your blog.. then if you publish anything - it is not anonymous

You are right, Bruno. It is quite reasonable to suspect, that the site owner is the advertiser. But it is not always the case. Anybody can place ad on behalf of anybody else, and anybody can send money for existing ads. Also, if you know the site, that doesn't mean you know its owner.

The service is anonymous in sense that it doesn't collect any personal data about advertisers and affiliates.

Thanks for the question. It seems that many affiliates and advertisers don't understand the main principle behind the service.

Affiliates' earnings is just what advertisers pay to them (+10% of advertiser's deposits, if that advertiser was attracted by affiliate). There is no reliable & accurate way to estimate earnings in advance. Probably it should be comparable to the revenue generated by showing ads of any other advertising network.

There is no any specific price per click or per impression. Affiliates are anonymous and we can't really rely on clicks and impressions because they could have been generated by botnets.

That is why ads' links are being appended with bitcoin address: it enables advertisers to evaluate visits and to pay to affiliates that brought successful visits to them.

Advertisers have incentive to do so because:
1. more they pay to specific affiliates - more chances their ads have to be shown for that affiliates, more impressions from that affiliates they get.
2. it is cheaper than just depositing to deposit address, because 90% of impressions are distributed according to amounts paid to affiliates, and only 10% of impressions - according to the bootstrap score.
3. in the long run it increases efficiency of advertising campaign: ads have more chances to be shown on sites that work best for them.

Though there is not that much traffic yet to observe #3, and all this needs testing. That's why I was sending small amounts to everybody to encourage more affiliates to join Anonymous Ads, and that probably answers your question

Actually you don't need to send payments through a third party. You can pay according to csv data yourself.


So, instead of helping site owners to attract new visitors and to pay for it, you want to help visitors to donate for the services they use the most? I like the idea and donation-better-than-taxation approach! I don't know how to create browser addons yet, but maybe it's a good reason to learn 

Do you mean something like btcurl.com?

This service is a simple affiliate program for your site. No registration needed. Just publish the link of the form:


Users that click this link are redirected to <your url> and their unique visits are counted for <bitcoin address>. Everybody can replace <bitcoin address> with his/her own address to become affiliate. You can pay for attracted visitors with the link:


If you don't hate frames, publish the link of the form:


It enables visitors to submit their bitcoin addresses (see example). Each submitted address counts for both visitor and affiliate. Use the following link to pay for attracted affiliates:


You might want to create a periodic paylist at btcrelay. Note: you won't be able to edit it, but you can always create a new one  via modifying <your url> (e.g. appending it with "#<someid>").

Link: btcurl.com

Why not make a hand cursor at http://coinsmack.com/submit?

New feature: paylist info in json format.

Yet another way to organize payment reception and withdrawals without having bitcoind and the list of pregenerated bitcoin addresses on your web server.

Receive funds:

1. Create a text file with your bitcoin address (or addresses) on your web-server
2. Add "Pay" button to your website, which should open in new browser window URL of the following form: (where <some id> will be used to distinguish your users, don't forget to save it somewhere; you can also use  "&hide=1" to make the paylist hidden by default)

Thus your users will be able to generate a deposit address and to send funds to it.  Once payments are confirmed, you receive them to your bitcoin address (or addresses) specified at step 1.

Since you know <some id>, you can easily get amount of bitcoins deposited by each user in JSON format:
Send funds:

1. Create or generate CSV-file with 2 columns: <withdrawal address>, <amount of satoshies to be sent> on your web-server
2. Feed URL of that script to btcrelay and send funds to the provided address

Why do you do it by hand? You can make a csv table with 2 columns: <withdrawal address>, <amount of satoshi's to send> and feed it to btcrelay.com

You are right, I am going to add simple text links.


Yes, this should be expected (but it depends on how much advertisers pay and how their payments appear in blocks). Is it good or bad?


This could be a solution. But here are some issues:
1) allowing to modify information is always a security risk
2) if users get used to control their accounts, then "password recovery" feature would be required... that means the system would have to store emails or other private data
3) some of the internal algorithms rely on the assumption that user data is constant.. so would need to rewrite it

So, it is an open question if it is worth of implementing..  Maybe should hide the database backups and allow to specify email & password, because it is convenient sometimes to change something or to have email notifications.

Thanks for your questions and feedback!


If we are talking about BBCode, then image is important: it shows the ad to the visitor and saves relay id in browser's cookie, thus allowing redirection to that particular ad. Without an image, a text link would redirect to random advertiser's site (this option is not supported though, is there any sense in it?).

If you are an affiliate with withdrawal address (for example) 1BSN83AePdukZaNZo2Avpm5qdHURfECnEo, then...

1. You can achieve somewhat similar effect using this code:


2. You can use text link of undocumented Anonymous Ads referral system, for example:
3. You can go to http://anonymousads.com/a/<affiliate's withdrawal address>, see the ad and copy link from it, would be something like that:

They are triggered automatically as soon as 0.011 is confirmed (or maybe with delay of several minutes). Though it can be changed in future to minimize or even remove withdrawal fees. Added hints to the affiliate's page.


It kinda contradicts idea of secure anonymous service with public database backups. Though maybe this idea is not as important as user experience.

Affiliates can register individual account for each site so that they can distinguish stats and set appropriate filtration levels. I think filtration level depends on site's target group, which doesn't change too often.

Wow. Thanks, you are right. Just found a thread about it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51077.0

Ok.. If images are not allowed here, then just give me a link to some other forum, site or blog with embedded affiliate code (updated the original post).

Why do you think so? I have couple images in my signature...

I feel like I need more affiliates to test the system and to attract advertisers. That's why I am starting this little promotion:


Would be thankful for your participation

I've implemented it. If user specifies email address upon paylist creation, he/she will be notified when deposits are confirmed. If he/she unsubscribes, then email address will be irreversibly deleted from the database record associated with that paylist.


Great, thanks! Sometimes it is quite frustrating not to have enough control over wallet and transactions

Ok.. I've implemented this mechanism (not the ultimate solution, but works). Now ad can't be created until Anonymous Ads successfully fetches its link.

Wow, great!

Btw, if you are a registered affiliate of Anonymous Ads and you invite advertiser with link , and that advertiser creates an ad, then you get 10% of all money deposited to its deposit address lifetime.

This feature is somewhat hidden yet since it needs some additional work on testing, documenting and reporting, but seems to be working.

yet another million dollar page? I'd like to have one

Great, clean and easy to use site! I wanted to do something similar too

Btw, I'd add something like ".submit_type_button { cursor:pointer; }" to the stylesheet.