Actually you're not an investor.  An investor gets a return on their investment.  You are simply a consumer, but the Trezor has large upfront bootstrapping costs. 

Soliciting funds for preorders is a LOT less risky for the makers of the Trezor then doing it the "traditional" way, which is taking out a loan and and paying the upfront bootstrapping and manufacturing costs with it, and finding investors and giving them equity in the company in exchange for bootstrapping funds.  It is, however, MORE risky for the consumer, because you just forked over $200+ and you're not gonna get anything for it in the near future.  Especially when dealing with bitcoin payments, the Trezor team could easily just disappear entirely.  I don't think that's probable - the guys behind it seem like good people with good intentions who want to make an honest buck.  But this has happened in the BTC community before, where someone solicits a large amount of funds then disappears.

It's also possible that they could hit a snag halfway through manufacturing.  Suppose they use two companies to produce the two parts of the product, then they combine the parts together to create the finished product.  They order 10,000 of Part A and 10,000 of Part B, but the company that makes Part B only makes 100 units before it goes out of business.  Now, the trezor guys have to find a new company to produce Part B.  But Part B costs 3x as much at this new company, and they've already reinvested the profit they've made, so they can't afford the extra costs and go out of business.  Once again, this is not a likely scenario, but just an example of the type of risk they're pushing onto the customer.

TL;DR; You have to preorder super long in advance so they can shift the risk onto you instead of having to bear the risk themselves.

It IS no less than $10.  It is MORE than $10.  Maybe you meant "I'll buy it if it's no more than $10"?

That's funny, because your server is hosted by GoDaddy in Scottsdale, AZ, so therefore all your collected data is under the jurisdiction of the NSA.  In fact, your "only keeping the hash of the email" security measure is effectively useless, because the email address and associated BTC address will be sent cleartext since you don't have a valid SSL cert.  So the US government will see the "private data" as it gets sent over the network to your USA server.

In which country are you located, and why on earth did you choose GoDaddy in the USA as your provider if you're not in the USA yourself?

If anyone wants to verify this information, just do a geoip lookup on the coinbook.me domain name. 

isn't this pretty much the purpose of firstbits?  plus firstbits doesn't make you reveal your email address at all.  I know you say you only keep the hash, but it doesn't matter, because you can LOOKUP by email address. 

So the feds say "oh we're investigating bob smith who has email bsmith@gmail.com" then they type bsmith@gmail.com into your database, and boom, bsmith's btc address is now tied to his email and full identity and all bitcoin transactions he has ever made. 

Just so you know, you're not the first person to have the idea of mapping email addresses to bitcoin addresses.  It has been suggested many times before, and shot down due to privacy concerns.

And I'd just like to point out, that you can claim you only save the hash all you want, but are you based in the USA?  Because they can send you a national security letter requiring you to keep the email addresses, and give you a gag order so that if you talk about it you get a 100 year prison sentence.  This is why Lavabit shutdown.  For all we know, you've already received that letter and as a condition of your gag order you are required to talk about how you only store the hashes and not the full email address.  This is the reality we live in now, and it really sucks, but we have to deal with it and be as cautious as possible.

The ads only show up when you actually use the service.  So if you drag the bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar, browse reddit, find a deleted comment, then click on the bookmarklet to show the deleted comments, some BTC ads will be overlayed in the bottom left and bottom right of the page. 

BTW I'm using coinurl and puppytwist for my ads right now, so if anyone knows of other bitcoin ad services I'd love to add those to the rotation and see how they perform.

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Hey reddit users who are also bitcoin users, check out http://uneddit.com.  It's free and uses bitcoin ad services to stay up and running. 


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