Okay, sounds good.

If there are no bids by mid-day (BST) on the 9th I'll extend the auction for another week, if anyone makes a bid before then then the original end date stands.

Private bids also welcome. PM them through.

Thanks.

I'm about to take on other responsibilities and wont have time to work on it at all. I can either keep it or someone else can take it, extend it and promote it better than I know how to.

Under priced, the buyer is getting the most unique pixel advertising site there is, on the entire internet... this isn't your average carbon copy by any means.

No offence taken. Constructive criticism is always welcome.

If you took a look, and went through the user path of creating a block, you might have noticed this is very different from the other pixel sites. As mentioned in the description above it comes with its own payment processing system and all interactions are "real-time".

e.g. user creates block, every users sees update without page refresh

or... user deposits funds, instant notification upon receipt, then upon confirmation, etc.

or... user clicks (or visits) block, all users see this via an icon (and view/visit stats updated)

None of the other sites offer a zoomable map, which is one of the key mechanics which makes this site stand out, since users will have to compete for attention at the larger zoom levels (And thus buy bigger blocks).

It needs better PR, a rebrand and some design work. I have a personal connection to the guy who created the original Million Dollar HomePage, and if I can find some way of reaching him then a quick mention of the site would do it some good.

Description:

You are bidding for https://the-million-bitcoin-homepage.com/ - a pixel advertising site with a difference.

Unlike all the other pixel advertising sites currently out there we have instead focused on giving a rich UX, with a zoom-able map, a custom payment system with instant notifications, and real-time updates when blocks are added to the grid (including real-time stats for click-throughs).

The winning bidder will receive 100% profits that the site generates, the current domain name, SSL certificates and an additional (currently unused) domain http://thebitcoinhomepage.com/

A transfer of the server instance (as an Amazon AMI) including the codebase can be negotiated for an additional price.

Starting bid: 10BTC

End date and time: Midnight (UTC) on the 9th May 2014

Payment methods accepted: Bitcoin

Additional information: Along with the purchase of the site I am also offering my services as a full stack developer to add additional features or implement modifications at your request once an agreed rate is set on the deliverables.

Happy bidding

The_Fly

Linux sysadmin/provisioning
C/C++/JavaScript(browser+node)/Ruby/PHP/Python/Erlang
PostgreSQL/MySQL/MongoDB/Redis/RabbitMQ/ZeroMQ
HTML5/CSS3 (a lot of frontend experience)

Also posses skills in many other areas/disciplines. Please PM me with project details, then I will drop you a link to my webdev portfolio.

Thanks.

I'm interested.

I made https://the-million-bitcoin-homepage.com/

Full stack dev here and currently free to work on projects.

Thanks. By claiming the 10 free squares, twice, on both your twitter and facebook you've helped give the site a little exposure. However seems that you had problems when splitting your image over both blocks, which probably is best done by creating the image to size first, splitting it up (the cropping does not do any filtering/subsampling), and probably you'd have had better results by buying the 20-square block in a oner... costing you $5... but never mind.

If you want to amend the image please send me a link to download it (as a PNG for example), 320x64 pixels makes up the 20 squares you currently occupy. I'd be happy to update it for you, for free, of course.

I have "thebitcoinhomepage.com", is that short enough for you?

Again valid points and I appreciate your feedback.

I'm not interested in purchasing any more domains. The software as it stands functions well and has value perhaps to one of the domain holders, otherwise they can continue to squat on their domain indefinitely. They'll take a long time to develop what I did, alone, so the domain is worthless without the product (mine has many real-time aspects, and good UX).

Credit card payment (and withdrawal) is problematic, perhaps backending into localbitcoins might be an option... but I doubt anyone will make a bank transfer to an unknown person just to buy some pixels.

The site costs very little to run so I'll just see what happens, an explosion of BTC publicity later this year would be good for the site.

Do drop me a private message though, you're perfectly at liberty to counter offer.

You make a fair point about the domains, but I have thebitcoinhomepage.com if you are interested. It's perhaps a good alternative, short of trying to buy the other domains.

To clarify, I meant that in exchange for a price I would forfeit the site (either in its entirety or a profit share), depending on what deal is offered.

As for what I'm asking for the site I put a 50BTC figure on it in previous posts, although I'm open to negotiation. I'm currently talking with a few interested parties, do drop me a message if you are interested.

Sure, for now I'm just going to keep the site online and see what happens.

Drop me a PM about helping with promotion, if you have some interesting ideas I'd be happy to collaborate.

Again I'm also willing to transfer ownership of the site, for a price, and divert all BTC earned to the new owner... at some point.

No, you make fair points.

I had difficulty finding a competent marketing specialist who would be competent, both in social media and traditional media marketing.

Sure, that's on my list but since this is a side-project I can't say when that will be done. The site needs better branding and promotion, which I have a bit of budget to invest in that direction, but am currently busy because I've just moved country and am preoccupied with settling. One I'm free (and have suitable mobile devices to test on) I will work on it.

I'm still looking for a buyer to take the project off my hands since it has been difficult to market. As you can see even though I've slashed the pricing by several orders of magnitude people are only willing to use hacked twitter accounts to claim the 10 free squares several times over.

If you (or anyone) is interested then drop me a message.

Sign in and click the big blue "Claim Free Blocks" button in the header.

You'll then have 10 free squares that you can use to make some blocks.

Select a region of the map, upload your image and title/description...

And that's you done.

Good news!

We've updated the site and removed expiry dates from the blocks, now you can get permanent ad space on our site.

https://the-million-bitcoin-homepage.com/

Along with the free blocks promotion that means a totally free way to promote your Bitcoin business.

Cheers!

Good news!

We've updated the site and removed expiry dates from the blocks, now you can get permanent ad space on our site.

https://the-million-bitcoin-homepage.com/

Along with the free blocks promotion that means a totally free way to promote your Bitcoin business.

Cheers!

We've just launched a new promotion.

https://the-million-bitcoin-homepage.com/

In exchange for a facebook or twitter post we give you 10 free squares, to advertise your business.

This also gives you a chance to win FREE BITCOIN, sign up and give it a try today.

We've had quite a few signups and free blocks created today.

This is a good chance to get some free advertising!

Thanks to the kind generosity and support of a Bitcoin angel/donator here at BitcoinTalk I've been able to load the site with 10 BTC in prize funds.

Also have put in a campaign which gives users 10 free squares which they can use in exchange for posting a link on their Facebook or Twitter account.

The gold blocks are 3x3 squares in size and there are currently 200 of them on the grid, each with a value of 0.05 BTC.

1/((200*3*3)/(1024*1024)*10) ~= 1:60 chance of winning per user.

So I'm hoping that this drives some BTC awareness over social media in the coming days/weeks. We'll see.