If most of your income comes from untargetted advertisers' daily budgets, then it won't significantly affect your earnings since we distribute advertisers' money between publishers with respect to amount of globally unique traffic they generate, and this number doesn't depend on amount of banners placed on the page.

However if placing additional banner improves the chances that your visitor will buy from advertiser who rewards for sales, then it might increase your earnings.

E. g. we are such an advertiser. If your visitor comes to us from your ad unit and creates an ad, you will receive 50% of fees collected from that ad.

I am not sure how many advertisers do it, but according to our global stats goals make ~5% of publishers' income.

We implemented several features for advertisers:

• Advertisers can see how much traffic they get from each ad unit (sorted by non-unique clicks)
• Advertisers can ban/unban ad units
• Advertisers can see if their campaign is waiting for moderation

Also fixed couple issues in statistics.

200$ is just an arbitrary number. BTC was 0.02$, 0.2$, 2$, 20$... there is no reason to think $200 is the limit.

I think mBTC, uBTC, nBTC are much less convenient than Ks, Ms, Gs, Ts.

Originally I thought we should stick to SI prefixes with bitcoin (e. g. satoshi is 10 nBtc).

But it won't be convenient to say "it costs 12 KnBtc", so now I think that if Bitcoin really becomes that expensive, we could use SI prefixes with satoshi.


If we use satoshi as a base unit, then the only awkward power of 10 will be used to specify bitcoin. 1 btc = 100M satoshis. Yes, it is a bit awkward, but it is quite understandable and easy to remember. And probably won't be used in everyday life anyway. And it is much better than fractions in everyday life. Fractions are really confusing.

Wow, thanks, awesome proposal, we'll do it!

Back to normal, sorry for downtime.

Yes, if you generate about half of our unique traffic, you are likely to get about half of publishers' income. It is a rough estimation though since advertisers are free to distribute their money as they like. If all of them just add root category to their campaign and pay (and you allow any ads), then yes, you get a half.

Please note that IPs that are unique for your site might not be unique for a-ads (e. g. if you get 100 pageviews from 10 IPs, but we saw 9 of those IPs from other publishers, we count only 1 unique IP for you).

Also if you are restrictive (e. g. you don't allow gambling ads) then you are likely to receive less than that. On the other hand if you generate quality traffic or for some other reason advertisers want to buy ads specifically from you - you are likely to receive more than that.


Advertisers can buy ads specifically from you. E. g. if you hover the a-ads icon on top-right of your ad unit you will see "Your ad here" link. That is one of the ways to buy ads specifically from your site without spending much time in the catalog.

Advertisers can also use search to find your site if they know your URL, or they can select a category that contains your site. Many advertisers select just root category or "Bitcoin" (they can navigate the catalog and see the average traffic & CPM for each category).

The system is pretty flexible, the main principle is simple: advertisers pay to ad units (either explicitly via goal tracking API, or implicitly via targeting and daily budget) and get a share of impressions from them. It is somewhat tough to use it though, that's why advertising is cheap. But we aim to improve it.

Thanks for your comments, LennonNZ!


We count globally unique IPs per 24 hour period. That means if we saw this IP during last 24 hours, it won't be counted as unique (even if that impression was not from your site).

It shouldn't be a problem since we are not pay-per-click or pay-per-impression. We distribute advertisers' money among publishers with respect to their unique traffic. So absolute numbers are not important (only the relative ones are) and all the publishers are in equal position.


Probably that means that advertisers that paid to your site don't have graphic banners of 300x250 currently.  Probability of each ad being shown on publishers' site depends on amount of money paid by advertiser to that site. If there are only 2 advertisers for this ad unit then there is not much we can do about it. Though there are 21 active advertising campaigns currently, so it is a bit strange. What's your ad unit id?


Yes, ads are pre-moderated. We ban obviously harmful content, and flag controversial one as such in order to protect publishers from ads that they wouldn't allow. However this process is subjective, so if you feel we made a mistake - please let us know.


No, we are not restrictive towards our publishers, we don't evaluate the quality of publishers' sites and traffic they generate. We kind of shift this responsibility to advertisers.

Advertisers can either find particular sites in catalog (or using search feature), or start a massive advertising campaign with enabled goal tracking and find out which traffic sources are efficient for them. Then advertisers can use an API to reward efficient ad units in order to get more traffic from them. Alternatively they can start a new campaign with ad units that work good for them.

However I agree that catalog is not convenient. There are many useful sites in it, but they are hard to find among all that trash. We plan to change it.

Thanks again for your time & feedback!

Sorry, I don't quite understand your problem. Never made wordpress widgets though. There is a help page with HTML example: http://ansrv.com/png/?help

Here is the example itself:

We made several improvements:

• An embeddable shield that shows the expected reward for commit, e. g. here is the one for Bitcoin project:
• Changed the way how tips are calculated. Each tip is 1% of project's balance.
• Page with tips and transaction ids, e. g. here is the list of all tips for Bitcoin project

Hopefully some of you will find these features useful.

Btw this service: http://www.proxycoins.com/ <-- probably could be useful for you too

If they replaced voting with forum... Ok, let's keep the bitcoin threads on the top:
https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=100353
https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=106621
https://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=9508

The pyramid is transparent, it doesn't contain any secret data. Why do you think it is not secure?

My friend started ebay auctions for each of the items:

BFL Little Single 30 GHz #1 - starting price $500.
BFL Little Single 30 GHz #2 - starting price $500.
BFL Little Single 30 GHz #3 - starting price $500.
BFL Little Single 30 GHz without power supply - starting price $1

I think it is dead.

That doesn't explain why not all the issuers received their shareholders lists.

Thanks for kind words to everybody.



We where thinking about it, there are couple more features that could be implemented. But we were constrained by the contest's 48-hour limitation and decided to spend more time on testing than on implementing features.

Btw, do you think if it is OK to show developers' bitcoin addresses, or does it raise a privacy concern?

Auction is over. Nobody won. Thanks for all participants.

Maybe 2.5 btc is too much? Probably I should try to sell them via e-bay for ~3 btc in dollars.

I don't know. I can see that BFL Little singles in hand cost ~ $650 (~3 btc) at ebay. Would 2 btc be a reasonable price for BFL Little single w/o PSU? Tell me your price, I'll pass it to my friend.

So nobody wants BFL little singles for 2.5 btc? Come on, difficulty won't raise that fast forever, it should stabilize somewhere eventually