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Hey shazow. What would your rates be for a banner for my minecraft server about the size of the ones at minestatus.net?
Given that the exchange rates are pretty high right now, I'll do a draft for 2 BTC and a digitally inked version for 5 BTC on top of that. |
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Thats awesome  , thx. Tip sent (2 extra coins). Thank you sir.  |
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Ha that's really great. Well done sir!
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Thats difficult to say, we could give it a shot if it's ok for you. With simplistic I basically mean a better smily, kinda like that guy: Ended up doing a vector version:  Inkscape .svg here: http://db.tt/XjBz9rMHope this is better. - shazow |
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Thx, you'll receive your coins in a minute. What I originally had in mind was more simplistic, like a circle, tooth and a cigar, but I like this too . Do you think you'd like the simplistic circle one more? Looking back, this one kind of looks like a Simpsons character.  |
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Well I'd then like to order the two drawings (poker face / grin guy like described) for 5 btc if thats ok. I'm not yet sure about vectorization though, I like your drawings but it's a lot of coins.
Hey randomguy7, here you go. Sorry for the delay!  I hope this is what you had in mind. I wasn't sure whether you wanted something more realistic or cartoony, so I did both. Happy to make a cleaner digital version for you if you're interested. Let me know which one you like more. - shazow |
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What about a physical mailbox?
Imagine having an anonymous address that you can ship anonymous goods to using anonymous currency.
- shazow
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49 BTC times 3.3 equal 161.70 USD divided by 8 hours come out 20.125 per hours worked. Not bad at all.
If you ever got increased demand, it is conceivable that you could make a living off of it.
Indeed, this definitely worked out better than expected. Any ideas for increasing demand? Also, my supply of time is fixed, so increased demand will inevitably yield increased prices. - shazow Edit: Also keep in mind, more than half of what I earned came before BTC broke 1.0. So really at least two thirds of that is simply lucky investing.  |
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Well I'd then like to order the two drawings (poker face / grin guy like described) for 5 btc if thats ok. I'm not yet sure about vectorization though, I like your drawings but it's a lot of coins.
Sounds good. I'll take a crack at in the next couple of days. For what it worths, I really think you have a real talent for this stuff. I'm pretty sure you'll make quite some bitcoins with this activity. Keep on the good work.
Thanks. I've always enjoyed drawing but it's not something I've ever considered I could make any kind of money on (except for that $5 I once made in grade 6 for doing a sketch from a Warcraft 2 manual). I think he already got a good healthy sum of bitcoin.
Easy enough to find out. Forum commissions: http://blockexplorer.com/address/1D7FRyhu1QzvdvjePVR6geui4DNaSgrM2E Received transactions: 13 Received BTC: 29.42 Forum tips (a few random commission payments went here too): http://blockexplorer.com/address/1BZYH24gDB5KZfr3fh2LahkqbYrGppZTPS Received transactions: 6 Received BTC: 19.55 Considering I did at least 12 drafts, plus a couple of digitally inked and a couple vectored. Even at 10 min per draft, 30 min per sketch/vector (very optimistic) that's at least 4 hours of contiguous work (probably closer to 7~8 hours in reality). So, non-recurring 49 BTC for a solid day's work. Not exactly something I can make a living on just yet, but I hope you guys got more out of it than came out of your pockets. - shazow |
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I really wanted guns, as it is not clear what the intent of the guys with forks is. On the communist version, it seems that they are about to attack, where I wanted them to look like they are watching and preventing from escaping. Also, there are too many people in the circle and it is not clear what they are doing. They don't seem to be working, but rather camping. Also, the perspective for the tent is wrong in the communist version. Thanks for your effort anyway.
Ah all fair points. Thank you for the feedback. If I have some time, I'll see if I can do another more simple take on it. - shazow |
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I updated the root post which affects all new requests: Update 2: I've had a lot of fun doing this, huge thanks to everyone for participating. I fear this has taken up far more of my time than I expected, so I'm going to have to increase the minimum draft commission fee to 5 BTC (and the post-draft vectorizing remains at 10 BTC). If anyone is still interested, keep posting requests.
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Sent payment.
Will publish it soon.
I updated the image to be a little clearer, use this one for publishing:  Wow thats sick work
Thanks.
I am hoping to commission a bitcoin comic for 1.66 BTC.
A bitcoin comic on the divisibility, the durability, and the fungibility of bitcoin. In other words, what make bitcoin good money?
(Feel free to start with a comic that explain one of the property of bitcoin. Be happy to pay for additional comics if needed be.)
I thank you for your patronage so far, kiba, but I fear I must decline. I've been using up more of my time than I should on this fun exercise, and full comics take more time than most other requests. I'm going to have to start being more selective about the work and pricepoints I accept now. I hope you understand. nice work  . How much do you charge for vector editions of it? Can you draw me two more? Both should mainly consist of the face/head down to about the shoulders, the face with black sun glases and having a big cigar in the mouth. Both should basically be the some pic but differ in how the face looks, one neutral, with its poker face set up and one with a big grin, like this smiley: . How much do you charge for this? As it says in the root post, vector editions of existing drafts are 10 btc. If you toss in 15 btc, I'll do all of them in vector, including the big grin dude. I have to say I am not very happy with it  , but I reckon you tried hard so I'll send you the two bitcoins, don't worry. What bitcoin address should I use? Oh no! Was it the pitchforks? Lack of sadfaces? Something else? I'd love your feedback so I can improve at taking requests in the future. Don't worry about paying. If you're not going to use it, I wouldn't feel right taking your coins. My apologies. - shazow |
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Why shackle this into a tweet-driven communication protocol (requiring 4+ tweets per transaction) at all? I suggest making a service completely independent of twitter, let's call it haveacoin.com or something (actually that's a pretty good domain, someone register it). 1. You go on haveacoin.com and say "I want to give 1 btc to @shazow" (or internets or carrots or whatever you want to call it). You can give your name if you want (let's pretend you're @stonetz). 2. It gives you a unique address to send your 1 btc, you do so and carry on. 3. I get a tweet saying "@shazow You have a fan! @stonetz sent you a bitcoin, collect it here! http://haveacoin.com/1234" 4. I go to the URL, it asks me to authenticate ownership of the @shazow account (via oauth). 5. This logs me in and I can withdraw the balance associated with the @shazow account by sending it to my wallet. Once that's out and live, you can move on to email or Facebook or SMS or as many authentication sources as you can implement (I'm assuming it's obvious what the verification processes are for email/facebook/sms). Now we have a Twitter-independent service that spans multiple communication mediums and doesn't require any fancy polling or stream monitoring. Win! - shazow |
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Sent payment.
Will publish it soon.
Thank you sir. If you wait until tomorrow, I can take another photo in daylight which should look better. Sorry for the blurries. - shazow |
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Alright boys and girls, here we go... I would like a drawing that is not exactly bitcoin related. Rather, it would picture a caricature of the difference between capitalism and communism. At least in my mind. Both pictures would represent a circle of armed men, with a worker inside. The worker can do anything, for instance he can mine something (not bitcoins, the idea is that he has to be a symbol of labour). In the communist version, guns are pointed inside the circle. Towards the worker, preventing him from escaping. And the worker has a unhappy face In the capitalist version, guns are pointed outside the circle. They aim at protecting the worker's product of labour. The worker has a happy face. No legend. I'll add it myself. 2 BTC.  I hope this is what you had in mind. This one took the most time of all requests so far due to all the amount of detail, and I decided to go with pitchforks instead of guns for a more timeless feel and I skipped the faces for consistency in style (we can toss those on if you really want). If you like it, I hope you'll consider tossing a tip my way for the extra effort. I am willing to commission a comic about public key cryptography for 2.5 BTC. Explains them in as many comic strip you want.
 This one was conceptually the most challenging one out of all requests so far. How on earth do you describe public key crypto in a simple stickfigure comic? Like a boss, that's how. I hope this makes as much sense to everyone else as it does to me. Well the vague idea is some kind of cool looking poker avatar and as I'm kinda uncreative I totally trust your skills on this . Payment of 2.03 BTC will be sent in a minute.  After the other two, this one was fun and refreshing. So much so that I did three. I figured you were a Doyle Brunson kind of guy. Let me know if you want a vector version of any of those. Shazow - 2 btc for a betco.in themed avatar?
I'm thinking a dude reveling in all the bitcoins stacked around him, or something to that effect
You got it. Maybe I can score some kind of monopoly on all the betco.in avatars. Again, please make it something like 2.04 BTC so I can tell your payment apart, send it over to 1D7FRyhu1QzvdvjePVR6geui4DNaSgrM2E. If I forgot anyone on this thread, please remind me. There's a few commissions going in private, I'm still getting to those. - shazow |
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Ok going to get some commissions done today. Hang tight! This is awesome man, keep up the nice work Thank you kind sir! Will do. shazow, can you draw me some cool avatar to use at betco.in? is 2 btc ok?
Indeed I can! Any preferences/theme/requests etc? I'll do a simple draft like the others for 2btc. If you really like it, you can commission a higher quality version later. Make it 2.03 or something so I can tell your payment apart and send it over to 1D7FRyhu1QzvdvjePVR6geui4DNaSgrM2E. Just for the heck of it, Ill do what he's doing for the same price, but in color. simple Animations starting 15 BTC/ 1 minute + 10 for every additional minute
That's a great idea! Though I suggest starting your own thread for that. It'll be easier to track who requests are directed to. Link it here when it's up! - shazow |
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It seems you are correct, that referrer is transferred when linking to another SSL site. I will have to think about this, but as I don't have outgoing SSL links, it should be fine at the moment. Redirecting in the way you describe would be an option, but I'm not sure I like it much. I consider seeing your actual wallet link in the address bar a usability feature.
I agree that having the wallet link in your address bar is a usability feature (though it could also be done with hash fragments). Perhaps a better approach is to make sure that all outgoing links go through a redirector? E.g. http://redirect.instawallet.org/?url=http://google.com/ -> http://google.comThis will make sure all the referrer information is cleansed before leaving the site. Also great job. I worry what your wallet data looks like after I tried a bunch of random urls and they all worked. Sorry about that. - shazow |
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When will you complete the comic for the public key cryptography?
Hey Kiba, sorry for stagnating on you. I really haven't been able to come up with a good idea for that. The whole notion of one-way public encryption and private decryption is really weird to represent IRL. It's like being able to speak a foreign language but not understand it. Actually that just gave me an idea. Ok ok, I'll have something for in a couple of days too. (I think Monday will be a drawing day.) - shazow |
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I would like an drawing that is not exactly bitcoin related. Rather, it would picture a caricature of the difference between capitalism and communism. At least in my mind. Both pictures would represent a circle of armed men, with a worker inside. The worker can do anything, for instance he can mine something (not bitcoins, the idea is that he has to be a symbol of labour). In the communist version, guns are pointed inside the circle. Towards the worker, preventing him from escaping. And the worker has a unhappy face In the capitalist version, guns are pointed outside the circle. They aim at protecting the worker's product of labour. The worker has a happy face. No legend. I'll had it myself. 2 BTC. That's a cool idea. Should it include some sad people outside of the capitalist circle looking in, and some looking out? Say Canadian corporations affected by the differences in copyright laws between the US, or vice versa (Pandora/Hulu/etc). Or entrepreneurs who want to start a business in the US but can't do it due to immigration laws. I'll whip up a draft in the next few days. - shazow |
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I call it THE GAVINATOR:  (Hope you can see the resemblance. ) - shazow |
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