Even cheaper today!

The big advertising campaigns run out of funds, use this opportunity to advertise for cheap!

Thanks for your request, though it would be better to send it in private (either via PM or email to contact@a-ads.com). Your ad unit has been categorized.

Is it high or low for your ad unit? Some ad units earn much more. Our stats are transparent. If you want to discuss your stats, please provide your ad unit id.

The big advertising campaigns (hopefully temporarily) run out of funds, the traffic is cheap now. Perhaps we are the most cost-efficient solution for advertisers right now.

URL of ad unit is read only, but I fixed it for you. There is no much sense in using the same ad unit across many different sites because only the traffic from the matching (sub)domain is being counted as unique.

Thanks for your question. Yes, you can. We don't censor publishers' sites, but we put them in categories (so that advertisers have a choice).

Thanks for your question though I am not sure I understand it.

Withdrawals happen automatically on a daily basis when balance hits the configurable withdrawal threshold (0.0001 btc by default).

If I didn't answer your question then please PM me or write to contact@a-ads.com with the link to your object at a-ads.

It implicitly targets ads by country: ads are being served only for the countries that speak the corresponding language.

You can also explicitly select or block the countries in the 'locations' tab of your campaign's settings. Be careful though as it might negatively affect the CPM/efficiency of your campaign (especially if your daily budget is high but the amount of traffic that satisfies your criteria is low).

Wow, this should never happen (fixed). Thanks for your message.

PS: you can contact us via email: contact@a-ads.com.

That's not true.

A-ads is transparent, you can see the stats of any ad unit. Just find them with search or in the catalog. E g. this ad unit has just a few impressions a day and still earns (perhaps more than it should). Earnings depend on many factors, not only the traffic volumes (that can be faked).

It may take some time though for the ad unit to get moved to the appropriate categories by moderators and to start earning at full pace (if it doesn't happen in a few days - just let me know, I will try to help).

Thanks for your question. We count unique impressions only once per IP addresses per 24 hours in the scope of the whole advertising network. The average ratio of unique/non-unique impressions is ~ 1:50. Yours is ~ 1 : 100, that is not too bad (considering that it is a faucet that probably shares significant part of its audience with other sites that have a-ads banners on it). Your other ad unit usually loads after the first one, so most of its impressions are not counted as unique.

I think that the main problem of your ad unit is that for some reason it was in the "Unknown" category. I moved it to "Bitcoin" and "Earning online", your income should increase.

See http://blog.anonymousads.com/2014/08/why-am-i-not-paid-for-clicks-what-is.html for more info.

Oops, sorry for the late reply.


1, 2: Sorry, I don't see those IPs. I don't think CloudFlare is the reason. Probably your site's audience intersects with the audience of other sites.
3. The unique impressions are used to evaluate the relative size of your ad unit. Average network-wide unique/non-unique ratio is around 1/45. But the ratio of your ad unit is in [1/393..1/58] range. Most of your visitors probably saw a-ads banner before visiting your page (or you have just a few users that refresh the page several times during a day).


Ad units are supposed to get categorized within 24 hours after they are embedded on the specified URL and generated unique traffic. If your ad unit doesn't generate unique traffic, it won't get into categories. If your ad unit does generate unique traffic and for some reason resides in the unknown category longer than 24 hours, then please let me know, I will check it. Perhaps you'd like to discuss the issues with your ad units via email (contact@a-ads.com).

Thanks for your questions!

Here are the stats for https://a-ads.com/ad_units/114437/stats -- a few hundred of impressions and just 2 of them are from unique IPs so far (see http://blog.anonymousads.com/2014/08/why-am-i-not-paid-for-clicks-what-is.html for details). It takes time for the ad unit to get categorized and start earning at the full pace. I've put it into categories, your earnings should increase.


It looks like you are confusing something, see the stats: https://a-ads.com/ad_units/20313/stats

Perhaps you are talking about https://a-ads.com/ad_units/18162/stats (same site). The earnings are not 10 cents, but ~$1.8 / day, that might be not that bad for ~1.6K unique impressions with ~10 clicks daily that originate from these countries:
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PS: sorry, we don't have Digital world > Advertising  category.

No, sorry. The estimates are just estimates, they may be wrong and confusing. The best way to use the service is to run an advertising campaign with a tiny daily budget for a few days and then gradually increase the daily budget if it works good.


I agree it is not elegant, but it works. Captchas are optional.

If an ad unit generates human clicks daily then most of the time no captchas will be displayed on it.

If an ad unit doesn't generate clicks daily or the percentage of captcha passes is much lower than average, then captchas will always be displayed on it.


For the sake of user privacy, we hesitate to use the tracking cookies.

As for the black lists of IP addresses, they are hard to maintain. But we register only 1 unique click/impression per 1 IP address per 24 hours, it should limit the impact of TOR exit nodes, VPNs and botnets.


Hi, thanks for your message. Please let me know your ad unit id, I will have a look at it.

Hi,

Thanks for your question. Don't worry, your campaign will be funded from your account balance automatically as soon as our moderator activates your ad. Campaign must be topped up manually only if it is not linked to the funded user account. Sorry for the confusing interface.

The stats are not real-time, but it should take minutes (not hours) for them to get updated.

Thanks for your responses! I had these ideas in mind, but hoped that there is something better

Abe could be an option, but I didn't find hardware requirements for it, moreover it might be incompatible with the newer node software:

It seems like the Blocktrail API would be a good-enough solution for my purposes.

AFAIK they have a limitation of only 1000 addresses per wallet. Or does this limit not apply to watch only addresses? If so then do they have an API to import watch-only addresses?

Thanks for sharing!

The ever-increasing amount of bitcoin addresses imply an ever-increasing amount of transactions too.

So it could be a problem even for reference client.

I wonder how block explorers (such as blockexplorer.com, blocktrail.com, blockchain.info etc) watch all the bitcoin addresses, how much resources they take.

No, I think that's a pretty common use case (and the recommended practice) for bitcoin businesses: to generate a new bitcoin address each time your customer wants to deposit something.

But if you do so, you end up with an ever-growing amount of bitcoin addresses that might be a problem for bitcoin wallet software (e. g. Electrum becomes pretty much unusable when you have over 10K addresses in your wallet).

So you create a new wallet every 10K addresses to avoid this problem and thus end up with many wallets. Most of the customers usually deposit to the most recent wallet, but there is still a chance that somebody deposits to the old one. Of course your server-side software listens to transactions and processes the deposits made to the old wallets too.

But sometimes you need to audit your bitcoin holdings in order to make sure that everything is all right.

I currently have only 1 idea how to accomplish this: to set up a new bitcoin core instance, import the bitcoin addresses there and let it synchronize. Perhaps it is not a problem at all, but it requires to rent a server and to download the whole block chain, moreover I am not sure how many addresses bitcoin core instance can handle on practice (obviously more than Electrum).

I wonder if there is an easer way to determine the exact amount of bitcoins in all those old wallets.