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It really looks awesome. Players could buy upgrades to their spaceships with bitcoins. Part of the money would go into asteroids. So free players could mine them and buy stuff too. There could be restrictions on the upgrades that depend on experience gained by players, not on money. And only players with comparable strength should see each other. Thus the only advantage of depositing money is saving a lot of time (and thus getting a slightly better game experience). It seems to be fair since time is money.
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If people who invested in this pyramid are enthusiastic about it, they probably think this project needs new ideas and further development. What can be done: - translate to other languages - add a-ads code to increase the frequency of random payments - go opensource to increase trust to the system - improve the interface, nicer design, authorization via bitcoin address (e. g. signing the random message given by site) - HTML widgets that could be embedded by members in their sites or blogs to attract new referrals - allow each member to contribute some content, e. g. to set a message with a hyperlink and upload an image... so each member would be represented by an icon, and we'll see some content on the member's page, and also a gallery of members' referrals.. that could be fun to navigate through hierarchy and watch all those galleries.. thus increasing the advertising revenue of involved members or a pyramid as a whole. - accept alt-coins via gateways (that would convert them to btc) - change rules, e. g. limit the profits of the winners or allow to buy higher position in the hierarchy (swap nodes for money), reduce withdrawal theshold.. or something else... - allow each member to vote on initiatives regarding the rules change and further pyramid improvements (votes are not equal, but are proportional to amount of money deposited by voters) There can be many more ideas, these are just the few that came to my mind during creation of this post. The problem is that I am NOT going to implement any of them in near future. I started BitcoinPyramid in July 2011. It was fun and helped me to learn more things about Bitcoin and to earn some money to play with too. But for some reason BitcoinPyramid is not exciting for me anymore. I am keeping the pyramid alive mainly because it is my obligation towards its members (and I plan to continue doing it as long as possible of course). Dear members, thank you for your trust and support! BitcoinPyramid has been built from your money & your referrals, so I'd like to hear your voice. What do we do next: 1) just leave it as is, or 2) try to find some man or group who will take it over, or 3) try to sell it and distribute money among all the members in proportion to their bitcoin contribution? If there are some trusted & respectable members, who are interested/enthusiastic about improving the pyramid and are ready to take over the project, I would gladly delegate the project to them. |
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Well, I wanted to act as a free escrow service for my friend who will send the hardware. But if some respectable & trusted member agrees to offer escrow service and you cover the fees - then yes, no problem.
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Friend of mine got 4 BFL Little Singles 30GH/s in New Orleans. One of them came with broken PSU, others appeared to be noisier than he expected (if you need BFL Little Single without PSU - please let me know your price).
He asked me to help him selling the devices.
So I am selling the 3 working BFL Little Singles 30GH/s each. Bid start at: 2.5 BTC per unit (shipping is included in price, USA only).
Minimum increment: 0.05 BTC. Auction will last till 2013-10-24+00:00:00UTC.
Timer removed. End time: 2013-10-24+00:00:00UTC
If you win - please PM me your shipping address and I will give you bitcoin address for your payment.
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We took part in 48-hour Rails Rumble 2013 contest and developed a service that allows to donate to opensource projects you like (or to earn bitcoins by making commits to that projects). Please use it and vote for us if you like it  |
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We developed Tip4Commit.com - a web-service that motivates people to contribute to open source projects hosted at GitHub. Tip4Commit.com doesn't require user registration. Anybody can choose any open source GitHub project and donate any amount of bitcoins to it. Each commit accepted by project maintainer will be tipped with 1% of funds available for that project. If we don't know recipient's Bitcoin address, we send an email with a unique link that allows to specify it (alternatively developers can sign in via GitHub, but it is not required). Thus we spread a word about Bitcoin among software developers. Support the development of Bitcoin software! | bitcoin/bitcoin |  | | super3/peercoin.net |  | | sigmike/peer4commit |  | | tip4commit/tip4commit |  |
and other open source projects. Tip4Commit is Open Source now! https://github.com/tip4commit/tip4commit |
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Hi guys, I decided to type up and share my first experiences using your ad network. It seems like a great idea and I'd like to see it succeed. I decided to try your network for a few reasons: 1.) you accept bitcoin! 2.) I like the anon/privacy aspect of your service 3.) I saw your site mentioned here on bitcointalk and also involved in the European bitcoin conference 4.) I wanted to test advertising a gambling-related site, and I see many ad networks do not support that type of link. My main concern with using this network was click fraud. I know this a major issue with all internet advertising (I recently read this: A quarter of online ad traffic is fraudulent / The Amount of Questionable Online Traffic Will Blow Your Mind) but I was especially concerned using this network, because bitcoin and anonymous seem to attract the worst of the scammers. I have some confidence that big advertisers like Google can do some things to fight this, but less confident that new/small networks like this one can do anything. I used a link-shortener that gives me some tracking/analytics as my advertised URL in an attempt to audit where some of these clicks are coming from. So here's some "results" from my first campaign: I've just shut it down and requested a refund of my remaining balance because my guess is that nearly 100% of the clicks I paid for were fraudulent. I turned the campaign on before I went to bed last night, now turned it off this morning, and paid approximately 0.05 BTC while it ran. I had three places to measure "metrics" on how this fraud campaign was doing: 1.) a-ads.com itself said I got 1,039 clicks, 2.) the link-shortener analytics said 2,437 clicks, and 3.) the destination gambling site registered 1,293 new cookies, but apparently ZERO new "conversions" (i.e. someone actually depositing bitcoins and gambling). Here's some analytics from the link-shortener on where most of these clicks came from: Referrers amnhac.co.vu 674 tinhot.co.vu 521 tieuthuyet.co.vu 382 ad.a-ads.com 300 briankt.co.vu 194 stevenkt.co.vu 153 sharetut.co.vu 101 emtoikhong.co.vu 98 direct (email, IM, apps) 13 If you take a look at any of those .vu referrer pages, it seems that some "clever entrepreneur / scammer" has been gaming your system. So in conclusion, great idea, I would love to see it work, but I will not be attempting any further campaigns here until I have some kind of assurance that I'm accomplishing something besides making professional scammers slightly richer. Thank you very much for this research. You are right, filtering the traffic is not trivial for small companies. And we don't do it. What we do is we shift the responsibility & control towards advertisers as they are the only ones that know if their advertising campaigns are efficient. We don't charge per click or per impression. If one generates tons of clicks - that doesn't mean he receives tons of money. We just redistribute advertising budgets among ad units with respect to their globally-unique traffic. Advertisers get a proportional share of impressions in return. Advertisers can select specific traffic sources they pay to. In fact they have full control over their money via Goal Tracking API (though it appeared to be complicated, so we plan to simplify it somehow). The idea is that you start an advertising campaign, track efficiency of ad units, filter out the ones that are inefficient or fraudulent, reward the ones that are good and generate registrations/sales/deep views (and thus get more impressions from them). That's up to you. Just enable the checkbox "Goal tracking" in the campaign's options and you'll receive a GET parameter (that identifies campaign and ad unit) with each visitor. TL;DR: So, yes, scammers will always generate fake traffic, but we don't pay per click. Advertisers can pay selectively to the ones that work good for them. You can enable goal traffic for your campaign to track the traffic sources and reward the ones that are good. Thanks again for your time & feedback. This is a very common problem for our new advertisers. We plan to make it easier for advertisers to pay selectively and to blacklist ad units they don't like. |
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Are the payments being delayed now? I always had the payment processed immediately but today the counter changed from 0.01BTC back to 0 but that wasn't processed and I wasn't paid yet.
Everything seems to be working normally. It may take up to ~1 hour to process the withdrawal. Please let me know if it won't happen. Thanks for your question! |
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Is there an issue with ad creation? I can't seem to make a new ad?
Do you have AdBlock enabled? Please disable it, it may hide some form fields. |
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If the player signs the bet, then the casino can prove the game was fair.
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10 382 168
impressions/day from 319K unique IPs
THIS WAS ON THE FRONT PAGE. If I'm reading this right, every single person sees 30 ads per day. Each? I call bullshit. I think web crawlers maybe skewing your view? That's just an estimated amount of impressions we serve and the amount of IPs we see per day. Of course some %% of impressions are generated by bots or traffic exchange networks, that is why we count unique IPs separately. You can browse the stats of ad units and see that they have different ratios. E. g. forums may generate plenty of non-unique impressions for each unique IP per day. Also a significant part of our audience is somehow affiliated with Bitcoin, so they probably visit same sites from a limited number of IPs. |
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hi there
all payment are under unprocessed
Last Withdrawal: *** ( *** unprocessed)
Sorry about that, we are experiencing technical problems. Please don't worry, should be resolved soon. And all the deposits/withdrawals will be processed. Thanks for your patience & message! The problems have been resolved. Everything should work now (it may still take up to 2 hours to process the delayed withdrawals, but they should work). |
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hi there
all payment are under unprocessed
Last Withdrawal: *** ( *** unprocessed)
Sorry about that, we are experiencing technical problems. Please don't worry, should be resolved soon. And all the deposits/withdrawals will be processed. Thanks for your patience & message! |
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arsenische, can you translate your website in Russian? I think there are a lot of Russian people ready to invest in such project.
Good idea, thanks! Not sure if I can find time to do it in near future though. |
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I wouldn't recommend to anyone to download & run binary files from this forum, especially posted by newbies.
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The securities lists were sent to issuers. I never saw funds returned, but the value was in maintaining the contacts and having lists of who owned what. It was a clusterfuck, but at least nobody can claim ability to run off. It could've been a lot worse, so I don't think anyone has the passion to really persistently push for a more ideal outcome.
Not all securities lists were sent to issuers. I haven't received anything. |
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Thanks mate, I have another couple of questions -
1. If I create an ad unit 'other', can I add it along with an existing ad unit 'Site' on the same site? By can I add, I mean does one visitor count towards both these ad units in impressions?
2. What if I create two ad units, both of type 'Site' but of different sizes. Is it fair game them, as in, will you count a visitor towards both the impressions?
We count a visitor as unique only when it is the first time we see his/her IP during last 24 hours. You may have as much ad untis on your page as you want, but unique impression will be counted only for one of them (the one that loads first). Thanks for your questions, I think I have answered both. |
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Click-fraud prevention was one thing that's stopped me taking it further. It's a bit of a mire.
One guaranteed method for eliminating click fraud entirely, a method which I used on my own advertising network (since closed), is not to charge advertisers by the click or by the impression at all, but rather to allow them to bid for placement only. Whatever they bid translates into a probability that their ad will be shown for any given page request on any given site in the network. Therefore, nobody cares whether a script kiddie in Timbuktu (no offense, denizens of Timbuktu!) wants to sit and click and click and click -- or re-load and re-load and re-load -- because nobody is paying either for impressions or for clicks. That's exactly the way Anonymous Ads has been functioning since September 2011 (sorry for the shameless plug ) |
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Thanks for this information.
Another quick question - is it allowed to put my ad unit on a different site of mine, or do I have to create a separate ad unit for each website? I'd prefer a single unit put on multiple sites.
Yes, you can have one ad unit for several sites, but there are couple side effects: 1. If your ad unit is of type "Site", then we will count as unique only traffic that comes from domain of that site, traffic that comes from other sites will be counted as non-unique 2. If your ad unit is of type "Other", then we don't care where it comes from, but if advertisers don't allow anonymous traffic then they won't buy traffic from your site |
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