Hello all,

The 6th edition of our favorite bitcoin publication has been released! Get it here:

http://thebitcoinsun.com/post/edition_006

Enjoy

Also!  Editoin 4 is now free: http://thebitcoinsun.com/post/edition_004

Please comment on the new layout for edition 5, we are always looking to improve the visuals of our publication!

New Edition out now! Only 0.02 BTC 

Release: http://thebitcoinsun.com/post/edition_005
Direct: http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/965



Release Feed: http://thebitcoinsun.com/feed/category/release/atom


Please Follow us on twitter: @thebitcoinsun

There is a huge amount of work that goes into such a publication such as ours...  The editors are slowly doing more and more of the work.  So a big thanks goes out to Matt, Ploum, and Garrett!

The owners of this publication are becoming extremely busy IRL, so we are looking for somebody who is adept at In-Design to take over the publishing.  Please send a email of to chief@thebitcoinsun.com

On, another note. We want to give a big apology to anyone who has contacted us and we have either, forgotten about it, or haven't got around to replying yet.  We are really sorry; If you are waiting on a response for anything, please send us another email to: thebitcoinsun@thebitcoinsun.com, we will endeavor to promptly reply.

The Bitcoin Sun.

Oh yeah! Thanks to http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/ for the great payment service.  

Edition 4 is out now!

http://thebitcoinsun.com/post/edition_004

If you cannot afford the 0.02 btc, check out our signature giveaway: https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=11219.0  We are paying out 0.1 BTC, enough for 5 editions!

All the articles will be released in html format on our website in the following day, so you will not miss out of the news, it just may be a little later.

sorry!  Have been super IRL busy... payments will be sent soon!

lol... Sure... Post pictures   Of-course you don't need to do that for a full month. 

We believe that we have a great publication, however not that many people know about us yet...  That is why we are doing this promotion:

Put (and keep for at least a month) a link to: http://thebitcoinsun.com/  or some other related link in your forum signature and we will give you 0.1 BTC (thankful to Garret for donating 5BTC)...  Be creative and reference something that you like about The Bitcoin Sun

There are some basic rules so it doesn't get abused:

1.  Only forum members who have register before this post.
2.  Only forum members who have 50 posts or more.
3.  Limited to the first 100 applicants.
4.  To claim your payment, place post in this thread with your bitcoin address (and a sig that references The Bitcoin Sun).

Overall have fun!


The Bitcoin Sun is a online publication that covers the bitcoin community; for more info checkout: http://thebitcoinsun.com/

Overall, we (The Bitcoin Sun Team), are very interested to know what the members of the bitcoin community would most like from our publication.

While we have been focused on providing the highest quality news, without real feedback it is extremely hard to judge if we are heading in the right direction or not. 

@ da2ce7, a IPad and Galaxy Tab app would be great!  Any developers out there that can make a simple and effective app to view our PDF's with?  How much development cost would it take?

Question:  What would 0.05BTC per edition be like? Would that be too expensive?

Edit:  everyone will still be able to read the content on our website: thebitcoinsun.com in full.


ps. We are also going to be doing a special promotion for our next edition! Keep your eye's out! Will announce soon.

The Bitcoin Sun is proud to announce our third edition, our biggest yet!

Bitcoin and the Faceless Entrepreneur: How Being Anonymous Makes It More
Personal Than Ever explores how anonymous business that are enabled
through the use of bitcoin can still provide good, even better customer
service. (Written by Karl Pfeiffer)

The second coverage story is: Tackling the physical bitcoin challenge
where Jakub Skrętowski writes about bitbills and how they will enable
people to use bitcoins as their money exclusively.

We have a new weekly section called: This Week In The Bitcoin World,
that provides a high level overview of the important bitcoin news of the
last week.

As usual, The Bitcoin Sun has lots of extra content.  Please spend the
time to read through. We hope that like our publication!

If you have any comments or suggestions, please write to the
editor: editor@thebitcoinsun.com


Download PDF:
http://thebitcoinsun.com/post/public/releases/edition_003/TheBitcoinSun_Edition3.pdf

New Website:
We have been hard at work at making our new website.  Hope that you find
it both easy to use and functional.

http://thebitcoinsun.com/

Finally thank-you for http://www.bitcoincodes.com/ for helping finance this publication.

For most issues, please contact one of our editors:


(Bitcoin Community Editor)
ploum: https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2000

(Bitcoin Development Editor)
Garrett Burgwardt: https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3600

(Business Editor)
Matt Cropp: https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?action=profile;u=8395


The owners of the publication have setup new email address:

chief@thebitcoinsun.com

With the PGP key: 0x73A06F2C1A9F2081

Edition 1 is here: https://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=8391.0

Edition 2 is live!

Download it here:
http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/877  (file is free just refresh to download)

Hope everyone enjoys this edition!  Lots of great content.

Thanks to the editors and everyone who contributed, this has again been a real team effort!

The Bitcoin Sun.

We hope you enjoy reading our articles, as we do with yours!

There are 5 article in this first edition.

After lots of hard work from everyone on our team, we are all very proud to release the first ever edition of The Bitcoin Sun!

http://www.bitcoinservice.co.uk/files/866  (The price is free, we are using  the bitcoinservice.co.uk for free hosting, we should have our site up and running very shortly)

Just refresh the page and the download will start.

Special thanks:

Rich Moll - Working so hard on the website that you will all soon see.
Garrett Burgwardt and Ploum - Our wonderful editors for this edition.
Matt Cropp - who is supposed to be studying but even helped out with a little proof reading.


Our second edition will be released on Monday 23rd May.
We are excited to announce Matt is commencing work for The Bitcoin Sun as our third editor.

Quite true, this newspaper is going to be much more selective with its news.  Our goal is to filter out much of the ‘noise’ and focus on the big issues.  Our articles will be much more in-depth than the service that sgornick provides (not to discredit the very useful service he provides).  We aim to provide insight into not only what is happening but also why things are happening.

Providing a paper that does not overwhelm our readers, but select for the reader what we believe is most important news to focus on, is a gap in the market and holds real utility.

The Bitcoin Sun is a weekly online newspaper, published every Monday.
We will be publishing news and commentary of the events and important issues facing the bitcoin community.


Meet the Editors:

Please Note: Each of the portfolios of the subeditors are loosely defined here, while this is an overview, the brief that each editor has is very flexible; do not be surprised if the editors publish articles on topics that they feel are important but are not within their brief.

We have hired three subeditors:  (Each paid 10 BTC / Month)


Ploum (ploum)
Bitcoin Community Editor

Ploum is a Free Software developer and has become focused on the bitcoin Community.  He will be reporting within the bitcoin community itself on the issues that have grabbed the attention of the community as a whole.
Ploum will provide an overview and commentary of what he feels is important, he is free to report on anything that relates to the bitcoin community.  Ploum’s reporting will be especially ‘two-way,’ acting upon feedback from the bitcoin community.

Please contact Ploum via his forum username: ploum


Matt Cropp (carbonpenguin)
Business Editor - Will start on the 16th May

Matt will be our Busienss editor, he has a strong understanding of both traditional business practices and the dramatically changing world the Internet and especially bitcoin has created.  He has been a tireless and passionate supporter of the ‘co-op’ business model.  Writing quite extensively on the topic on his personal blogs.
Matt will provide commentary on exciting events within the businesses that support the bitcoin economy.  He will also provide insight to the trends and sneak previews of new and upcoming ventures.

Please contact Matt via his forum username: carbonpenguin


Garrett Burgwardt (Garrett Burgwardt)
Bitcoin Development Editor

Garret is studding electrical engineering and has a strong interest in electronics.  This makes him well suited to be the development editor.  Garret is passionate about bitcoin and will provide valuable insight into the challenging area of the development of bitcoin.
This will include the development of the original bitcoin client, alternative clients, mining and pools, website interfaces, etc.

Please contact Garret via his forum username: Garrett Burgwardt


There are still two positions free:
Supporting Technologies – Open Transactions, Ripple, NameCoin, Freenet, Tor and other technologies
Trading – MtGox coverage, new payment methods, Best Practices Guides, analysing trends and future changes of the Trading Economy.
Please apply!

As we have three positions free this week, and two the next (assuming that we do not find other great quality candidates to become editors). We have 30 BTC this week, (then 20 BTC weekly) spare that we are putting at the disposal of the hired editors.
This fund will be used for paying freelancing journalists, commissioning artwork (anyone good at inkscape /illustrator?) or whatever the editors decided is a good use of the funds.
Please contact the above editors if you are interested.


Publication of The Bitcoin Sun:

The Bitcoin Sun is a free online publication; we will initially be producing a PDF for download / view every Monday. The first edition will become available on Monday 16th May.
Each editor will provide 3 to 6 articles of 1500 to 3000 words every week by Friday (1200 GMT),  there is no restriction on how they obtain the articles, providing they A: Do not plagiarize.  B: Do not break copyright.
In the future, we will have a website to view the individual articles.
We have a twitter: @TheBitcoinSun, please follow.


Advertise in The Bitcoin Sun:

We believe the Bitcoin Sun will quickly become the de-facto way to keep up-to-date with the events and news within the bitcoin community.  It provides a perfect opportunity to tell a very receptive audience about your bitcoin related service or site!
Standard rates are 5 BTC (1/10 page) to 50 BTC (Full Page).  Please contact TheBitcoinSun as we are in the process of providing advertisements at a much-reduced cost for the first few issues.


The Bitcoin Sun Business:

The Bitcoin Sun is a private venture at this point; we have enough funding for 10 weeks of publication.  Once the start-up has become profitable and we have a strong team we plan to make this venture public.
We will be issuing three types of shares:

A Class:  1000 Shares that share 30% ownership of TheBitcoinSun, while sharing 50% of the dividends.  Available publicly.
B Class:  1000 Shares that share 30% ownership of TheBitcoinSun, while not having any dividends.  Available publicly.
C Class:  1000 Shares that share 40% ownership of TheBitcoinSun, while sharing 50% of the dividends.  The C Class shares will be available only through private sale, and will be offered to key members of TheBitcoinSun team.


The Bitcoin Sun team hopes that everyone will join us in making this the best online newspaper that our community has seen.  We hope to provide a great service that will enable more people to become active within this wonderfull community.


Update: The first edition is out! http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8391.0