Oh.. For some reason I thought that only part of wallet addresses need to be donated (the ones used for change)... But if you can give away the whole wallet - then you are right, it is much simpler just  to upload the wallet.dat file

Probably it is safer to run some script locally than to upload original wallet.dat. I think it shouldn't be hard to modify fixwallet.py and wallet.py scripts from bitcointools (to add an inverse of "--clean" option).

Sorry for the downtime, I am working to resolve the issue.

Something wrong happened to bitcoind: it takes resources but doesn't start

I am moving it to another (more powerful) server, probably will be up tomorrow.

Sorry for inconvenience.

Thank you, Stephen!

The contest is over. Here are the results:

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Participant's address: 14wubKDrVbLcxfXjgtExCncxF2GPQKAnp9
Image:
Interpretation: Flipped "A" makes symmetry. It also means "Any". So the logo can be read as "Any Ads".
Reward: 1 btc

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Participant's address: 1DsMdkAKicqdYGK4LUi4uGka5AFQKWUgMW
Image:
Interpretation: Censored fingerprints show that anonymous ads don't collect any personal data.
Reward: 1.7 btc

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Participant's address: 1JZ2CTn9GfFzEtU73hb7fcf4XjkziTqbi1
Image:
Interpretation: Logo looks similar to ads served by the network.
Reward: 1 btc

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Participant's address: 15HQFSGrEkHBPaRp2rcKsQEiW9GBYAsYiF
Image:
Interpretation: Sunglasses show that users don't reveal their personal data when use Anonymous Ads.
Reward: 0.3 btc

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Participant's address: 1TimbojaydbZs1x5ptPVovsb9rATH3JSU
Image:
Interpretation: Slash breaks "A" in 2 pieces (the smaller one is the second "A" in "Anonymous Ads").
Reward: 1 btc

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Participant's address: 171RZK2hizSbUm67q7y5XLRqyAg78FcUnN
Image:
Interpretation: 2 "A"s in 1 symbol. The negative space creating a pseudo-hidden A represents the anonymity of Anonymous Ads while keeping the composition contained by the initial A.
Reward: 0.5 btc

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Participant's address: 15HQFSGrEkHBPaRp2rcKsQEiW9GBYAsYiF
Image:
Interpretation: Somebody anonymous (sponge bob? tooth? buzz lightyear?) is reading some ABC book (or some journal with Anonymous Ads?).

Someone wearing a hat hiding behind a newspaper while reading it at the same time (i.e. reading also the ads).

Reward: 0.5 btc

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I assume Elwar's idea was a joke as s/he didn't submit a graphical sketch and bitcoin address by the deadline.

Thanks for all participants! 6 btc paid out (see transaction 6affa9464bd0859fdf397d653e7b07dbcbaf18aa6f443120611b08818b629cdd).

Thanks. Please specify your bitcoin address with your sketches... and better to do it in graphics as fonts may vary on different computers

Collected ideas (and bitcoin addresses) so far:

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Participant's address: 14wubKDrVbLcxfXjgtExCncxF2GPQKAnp9
Image:
Interpretation: Flipped "A" makes symmetry. It also means "Any". So the logo can be read as "Any Ads".

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Participant's address: 1DsMdkAKicqdYGK4LUi4uGka5AFQKWUgMW
Image:
Interpretation: Censored fingerprints show that anonymous ads don't collect any personal data.

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Participant's address: 1JZ2CTn9GfFzEtU73hb7fcf4XjkziTqbi1
Image:
Interpretation: Anonymous Ads on TV

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Participant's address: 15HQFSGrEkHBPaRp2rcKsQEiW9GBYAsYiF
Image:
Interpretation: Sunglasses show that users don't reveal their personal data when use Anonymous Ads.

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Participant's address: 1TimbojaydbZs1x5ptPVovsb9rATH3JSU
Image:
Interpretation: Slash breaks "A" in 2 pieces (the smaller one is the second "A" in "Anonymous Ads").

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Participant's address: 171RZK2hizSbUm67q7y5XLRqyAg78FcUnN
Image:
Interpretation: 2 "A"s in 1 symbol

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Participant's address: 15HQFSGrEkHBPaRp2rcKsQEiW9GBYAsYiF
Image:
Interpretation: Somebody anonymous (sponge bob? tooth? buzz lightyear?) is reading some ABC book (or some journal with Anonymous Ads?).

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Thanks for all participants. Please double check your bitcoin addresses are correct as they will be used for rewards.

PS: If you want to submit new ideas or to comment on them, you are welcome to do it within 12 hours. After that it will be too late. Within 24 hours your works will be evaluated and rewarded.

thanks! what is that black thing behind the book?

I tried to do something useful with bitcoind without private key, but failed:


So it doesn't seem like adding address without a private key is useful. Or am I doing it wrong?

Mars One - http://mars-one.com/ - non-governmental project for Mars colonization in 2023

I asked to submit sketches by 2012-10-10, but if you submit it couple days later - not a problem. It is important to submit them before jury starts evaluation process. I'll leave a message when it happens (but for sure it will happen before 2012-10-17 as it is the hard deadline for money distribution).

PS: Thanks to participants for great ideas!

I don't think Nefario deserves a scammer tag based on what has happened to GLBSE.

To my mind scammer is a person that had an intention to defraud somebody.

If a person acts "inappropriately" under a threat of jail or violence, s/he is not a scammer, s/he is a victim.

Thanks! You are right, too much bias towards large sites. NVisits^2 is not good.

I increased the period to 30 days and replaced the formula with just <n of qualified clicks during last 30 days>.

I think the system needs some bias in favor of clicks since some affiliates put banners at places that almost never get clicked, that is not good for advertisers.

Clicks without a reasonable amount of impressions are not counted as qualified anyway, so shouldn't be that a huge favor for sites that give incentive to click.

By the way, there is an ongoing contest for AA logo. Submit your ideas and get your cut of 6 btc bounty. See this thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=114738

I removed site weights. Affiliates will be rewarded in proportion to <n of impressions during last 7 days>*(<n of clicks during last 7 days> + 1).

Please note that <n of impressions> and <n of clicks> are filtered according to some internal criteria. Globally unique IPs and reasonable CTRs are rewarded. Those earnings will be still shown as "Earned from sites:" on affiliates' page (even though they are not related to sites anymore).

I hope I didn't mess anything, let's see how it works.

This is still a temporary solution, I work on AA2 that will introduce major changes and replace this logic too.

I am collecting ideas for Anonymous Ads logo (AA logo).

Please submit your sketches by 2012-10-10 (1 sketch per post; each sketch is an image that represents some idea of AA logo; please specify unique bitcoin address for each sketch to receive your earnings).

Please note that submitting your work you agree that it can be used for designing AA logo by everyone.

So feel free to use and improve ideas of each other.

Each participant will be rewarded with respect to the value of his/her contribution (evaluated by a secret jury ).

I can't guarantee that any of submitted ideas will be used, but I guarantee that at least 6 btc will be distributed between participants by 2012-10-17.

Done. Thanks for trying out the service. For goal tracking you need to embed some code on your side. You can either register a goal at AA (and use its Goal Tracking mechanism), or you can track the affiliate addresses (that are passed to your site via $_GET parameter with each visitor) yourself and send bitcoins to them if they generate sales.

thanks! for some reason my server freezes time to time rebooted it, should work now (sorry for inconvenience)

Hi all.. Sorry for late answer, I am on vacation now and can't respond in timely fashion. I'll be back in several days.


Yes, something bad happened to the site weights and the only way to fix them quickly was to set them equal. I plan to rework this mechanism.


Thanks for info, I'll look at it later.

I use bitcoind getreceivedbyaddress function periodically to check the balance changes. If 2 bitcoin transactions to the same address happen in the same block, they show up as 1 deposit. Probably this is not documented anywhere, but that's just how it works. Sorry for inconvenience.