This month 134 users were eligible. Old: theymos HostFat gmaxwell phantastisch OgNasty CanaryInTheMine SebastianJu malevolent qwk cygan fronti mprep Dabs Foxpup philipma1957 babo Cyrus Welsh Mitchell Ticked wwzsocki Timelord2067 stompix hilariousandco Avirunes Lydian mindrust buckrogers Lesbian Cow willi9974 JayJuanGee DaveF teeGUMES examplens nutildah minerjones irfan_pak10 BitcoinPenny yahoo62278 Royse777 LFC_Bitcoin sandy-is-fine Real-Duke klarki muslol67 actmyname The Pharmacist LeGaulois DarkStar_ TwitchySeal johhnyUA ekiller Jet Cash condoras bL4nkcode Lafu Coin_trader HCP crwth Ale88 bobita Baofeng be.open JollyGood xenon131 roycilik El duderino_ KTChampions Trofo Steamtyme Coin-1 icopress bavicrypto GreatArkansas o_e_l_e_o Maus0728 TheBeardedBaby tvplus006 MoxnatyShmel witcher_sense asche DdmrDdmr morvillz7z Husna QA Bthd fillippone taikuri13 abhiseshakana madnessteat COOLCRYPTOVATOR lovesmayfamilis DireWolfM14 TalkStar 1miau YOSHIE Ratimov geophphreigh zasad@ Rikafip bullrun2020bro New: theymos HostFat phantastisch OgNasty malevolent qwk cygan mprep Dabs Foxpup philipma1957 babo Welsh Mitchell vizique wwzsocki Timelord2067 jeremypwr EFS dbshck hilariousandco arulbero Avirunes mindrust buckrogers Buchi-88 Lesbian Cow willi9974 achow101 examplens nutildah minerjones irfan_pak10 BitcoinPenny bitbollo Royse777 zazarb LFC_Bitcoin o_solo_miner Real-Duke klarki actmyname LeGaulois DarkStar_ SFR10 TwitchySeal TryNinja johhnyUA BitcoinGirl.Club ekiller Jet Cash bL4nkcode polymerbit HCP crwth Ale88 Kryptowerk bobita Vispilio Baofeng be.open imhoneer krogothmanhattan roycilik CryptopreneurBrainboss El duderino_ KTChampions Trofo Steamtyme Coin-1 icopress sheenshane o_e_l_e_o 3meek logfiles joniboini Agrawas Maus0728 TheBeardedBaby coinlocket$ mole0815 witcher_sense bitmover DdmrDdmr morvillz7z Husna QA Bthd fillippone abhiseshakana COOLCRYPTOVATOR lovesmayfamilis DireWolfM14 1miau Harkorede YOSHIE rxalts efialtis Rikafip NotATether bullrun2020bro
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The forum sells ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page. This income is used primarily to cover hosting costs and to pay moderators for their work (there are many moderators, so each moderator gets only a small amount -- moderators should be seen as volunteers, not employees). Any leftover amount is typically either saved for future expenses or otherwise reinvested into the forum or the ecosystem. There are 10 total ad slots which are randomly rotated. So one ad slot has a one in ten chance of appearing. Nine of the slots are for sale here. Ads appear only on topic pages with more than one post. Hero/Legendary members, Donators, VIPs, and moderators have the ability to disable ads; these people don't increase the impression stats for your ads. Design & ad restrictionsAd text may not contain lies, misrepresentation, or inappropriate language. Ads may not link directly to any NSFW page. No ICOs [1], loggable mixers [2], banks, funds, or anything that a person can be said to "invest" in; I may very rarely make exceptions if you convince me that you are ultra legit, but don't count on it. Ads may be rejected for other reasons, and I may remove ads even after they are accepted. See the ad design rules for info on designing forum ads. When advertising a new service, you should always check with me in advance whether your service is OK. I will sometimes accept bids of people who don't do this, but such people are taking the risk of being rejected at the last minute. It's also a good idea for you to have me check your ad's HTML+CSS in advance, especially if this is your first time advertising. Duration/timing - Ad slots won in this auction will run from noon December 10 (US Eastern time) to noon January 10. (31 days.) - This auction will end sometime between December 1 and December 4, but December 2 is most likely. - You must pay within 48 hours of the auction ending. Only Bitcoin is accepted. If you fail to pay in time, your ad slots may be resold, and in cases where I feel that you're acting in bad faith, I may even give you a negative trust rating. - You must send me a valid ad (ie. one not breaking any of the styling or other rules) before noon December 9. If you fail to send a valid ad in time, then the ad round will start without you, and you will be "burning time". You can still send an ad after the deadline, and usually this ad will be put up fairly quickly, but no particular timeline is guaranteed after the deadline. - If extended downtime or similar issues cause your ad not to be displayed for a long time, we generally give prorated refunds (USD-denominated) for the lost time, but this is not guaranteed. StatsExact historical impression counts per slot: https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstatsInfo about the current ad slots: https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfoAuction rulesNew members are likely to have their bids rejected unless they PM me first, telling me what they're going to advertise. New members might also be required to pay some amount in advance. Additionally, if you have never purchased forum ad space before, and it is not blatantly obvious what you're going to advertise, say what you're going to advertise in your first bid, or tell me in a PM. Post your bids in this thread. Prices must be stated in mBTC per slot. (10 mBTC = 0.01 BTC.) You must state the maximum number of slots you want. When the auction ends, the highest bidders will have their slots filled until all nine slots are filled. So if someone bids for 9 slots @ 50 mBTC and this is the highest bid, then he'll get all 9 slots. If the two highest bids are 9 slots @ 40 mBTC and 1 slot @ 50 mBTC, then the first person will get 8 slots and the second person will get 1 slot. The notation "2 @ 50" means 2 slots for 50 mBTC each. Not 2 slots for 50 mBTC total.- When you post a bid, the bids in your previous posts are considered to be automatically canceled. You can put multiple bids in one post, however, like "5 @ 10 and 1 @ 50". - All bid prices must be evenly divisible by 2 mBTC. - The bidding starts at 2 mBTC. - The auction ends at an arbitrary time between December 1 and December 4. Times closer to 8:00AM December 2 (US Eastern time) are more likely. - If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first. If these rules are confusing, look at some of the past forum ad auctions to see how it's done. I reserve the right to reject bids, even days after the bid is made. Price flatteningAt the end of the auction, after the winning bids are all determined, I will do a "price flattening" operation. This has no effect on which bids actually win, but is instead just meant to make the prices actually paid by bidders more equal. For each bid, in order of lowest to greatest price/slot, I will reduce each bid's price/slot to the highest value which is equal to or only the minimum increment greater than the next-lower bid. This allows you to bid higher prices without worrying so much, but you still mustn't bid more than you're willing to pay. Example: This: Slots mBTC/Slot Person 6 200 A 1 160 B 1 80 C 1 80 D
Becomes: Slots mBTC/Slot Person 6 84 A [step 4: reduced to 82+2=84] 1 82 B [step 3: reduced to 80+2=82] 1 80 C [step 2: same as the next-lowest, unchanged] 1 80 D [step 1: the lowest bid is always unchanged] Payment, etc.You must pay for your slots within 48 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slots may be sold to someone else, and I might even give you a negative trust rating. I will send you the payment information via forum PM from this account ("theymos", user ID 35) after announcing the auction results in this thread. You might receive false payment information from scammers pretending to be me. They might even have somewhat similar usernames. Be careful. [1]: For the purposes of forum ads, an ICO is any token, altcoin, or other altcoin-like thing which meets any of the following criteria: it is primarily run/backed by a company; it is substantially, fundamentally centralized in either operation or coin distribution; or it is not yet possible for two unprivileged users of the system to send coins directly to each other in a P2P way. The intention here is to allow community efforts to advertise things like Litecoin, but not to allow ICO funding, even when the ICO is disguised in various ways.[2]: A loggable mixer is a service marketed primarily for improving transaction privacy which accepts full custody of cryptocurrency for a time and has the technical ability to log where the cryptocurrency comes from and goes to (even if they promise not to log).
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Auction ended, final result: Slots BTC/Slot Person 2 36 Panxora_COO 2 34 BK8.Official 2 34 winz.io 2 34 DNL 1 32 ColorlessK
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I was hoping for some serious fireworks, but I expected that they'd reach some sort of deal before the deadline, and it looks like they will, at least for the next 2 months. The game theory of the situation prohibits a default of more than a couple of weeks at the absolute most, and any default at all is always unlikely. If a default happened, very quickly the "bodies would start to pile up", so to speak, and the pressure would just continually build for the ceiling to be raised. Everybody would be running around with their hair on fire, with the temperature going up and up and the fire spreading more and more, and there'd really be no way to end it except for raising the debt ceiling. In this sort of situation, it's certain that either 10 Republicans would flip or all 50 Democrats would kill the filibuster: raising the ceiling is a foregone conclusion, one way or another. And everybody knows all of this, so the threat of default just isn't very good leverage. Maybe McConnell would've allowed a default to last a few hours -- just long enough to create a loud but ultimately meaningless crisis and blame it on the Democrats --, but I actually think that he would've been the one to flinch first if the Democrats had been willing to call his bluff, and he wouldn't have allowed even a brief default. This being the case, it was skillful for him to get even the minor concessions he got. Isn't the one with the crypto-related stuff the infrastructure bill,
They both have crypto-related stuff. The bipartisan bill adds ridiculous reporting requirements. The $3.5T bill isn't finalized yet, but last I heard it removes crypto's exemption from the wash sale and constructive sale rules, at least.
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This month 123 users were eligible. Old: HostFat gmaxwell phantastisch OgNasty malevolent Balthazar yxt fronti Dabs Foxpup Carlton Banks philipma1957 babo Cyrus Welsh Mitchell vizique Ticked Timelord2067 jeremypwr EFS dbshck greenplastic stompix hilariousandco arulbero Avirunes mindrust buckrogers Buchi-88 achow101 DaveF teeGUMES examplens nutildah sapta irfan_pak10 tmfp BitcoinPenny zazarb LFC_Bitcoin sandy-is-fine Real-Duke klarki muslol67 The Pharmacist LeGaulois SFR10 TwitchySeal phishead TryNinja johhnyUA bL4nkcode Coin_trader HCP finaleshot2016 crwth webtricks Ale88 bobita be.open krogothmanhattan JollyGood RaltcoinsB El duderino_ PHI1618 KTChampions Trofo Steamtyme icopress bavicrypto GreatArkansas sheenshane o_e_l_e_o 3meek joniboini Agrawas Maus0728 TheBeardedBaby coinlocket$ dkbit98 mole0815 witcher_sense asche DdmrDdmr cabalism13 morvillz7z Husna QA Bthd fillippone abhiseshakana madnessteat COOLCRYPTOVATOR lovesmayfamilis TalkStar YOSHIE Ratimov zasad@ Rikafip bullrun2020bro
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The forum sells ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page. This income is used primarily to cover hosting costs and to pay moderators for their work (there are many moderators, so each moderator gets only a small amount -- moderators should be seen as volunteers, not employees). Any leftover amount is typically either saved for future expenses or otherwise reinvested into the forum or the ecosystem. There are 10 total ad slots which are randomly rotated. So one ad slot has a one in ten chance of appearing. Nine of the slots are for sale here. Ads appear only on topic pages with more than one post. Hero/Legendary members, Donators, VIPs, and moderators have the ability to disable ads; these people don't increase the impression stats for your ads. Design & ad restrictionsAd text may not contain lies, misrepresentation, or inappropriate language. Ads may not link directly to any NSFW page. No ICOs [1], loggable mixers [2], banks, funds, or anything that a person can be said to "invest" in; I may very rarely make exceptions if you convince me that you are ultra legit, but don't count on it. Ads may be rejected for other reasons, and I may remove ads even after they are accepted. See the ad design rules for info on designing forum ads. When advertising a new service, you should always check with me in advance whether your service is OK. I will sometimes accept bids of people who don't do this, but such people are taking the risk of being rejected at the last minute. It's also a good idea for you to have me check your ad's HTML+CSS in advance, especially if this is your first time advertising. Duration/timing - Ad slots won in this auction will run from noon November 6 (US Eastern time) to noon December 10. (34 days.) - This auction will end sometime between October 26 and October 29, but October 27 is most likely. - You must pay within 48 hours of the auction ending. Only Bitcoin is accepted. If you fail to pay in time, your ad slots may be resold, and in cases where I feel that you're acting in bad faith, I may even give you a negative trust rating. - You must send me a valid ad (ie. one not breaking any of the styling or other rules) before noon November 5. If you fail to send a valid ad in time, then the ad round will start without you, and you will be "burning time". You can still send an ad after the deadline, and usually this ad will be put up fairly quickly, but no particular timeline is guaranteed after the deadline. - If extended downtime or similar issues cause your ad not to be displayed for a long time, we generally give prorated refunds (USD-denominated) for the lost time, but this is not guaranteed. StatsExact historical impression counts per slot: https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstatsInfo about the current ad slots: https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfoAuction rulesNew members are likely to have their bids rejected unless they PM me first, telling me what they're going to advertise. New members might also be required to pay some amount in advance. Additionally, if you have never purchased forum ad space before, and it is not blatantly obvious what you're going to advertise, say what you're going to advertise in your first bid, or tell me in a PM. Post your bids in this thread. Prices must be stated in mBTC per slot. (10 mBTC = 0.01 BTC.) You must state the maximum number of slots you want. When the auction ends, the highest bidders will have their slots filled until all nine slots are filled. So if someone bids for 9 slots @ 50 mBTC and this is the highest bid, then he'll get all 9 slots. If the two highest bids are 9 slots @ 40 mBTC and 1 slot @ 50 mBTC, then the first person will get 8 slots and the second person will get 1 slot. The notation "2 @ 50" means 2 slots for 50 mBTC each. Not 2 slots for 50 mBTC total.- When you post a bid, the bids in your previous posts are considered to be automatically canceled. You can put multiple bids in one post, however, like "5 @ 10 and 1 @ 50". - All bid prices must be evenly divisible by 2 mBTC. - The bidding starts at 2 mBTC. - The auction ends at an arbitrary time between October 26 and October 29. Times closer to 8:00AM October 27 (US Eastern time) are more likely. - If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first. If these rules are confusing, look at some of the past forum ad auctions to see how it's done. I reserve the right to reject bids, even days after the bid is made. Price flatteningAt the end of the auction, after the winning bids are all determined, I will do a "price flattening" operation. This has no effect on which bids actually win, but is instead just meant to make the prices actually paid by bidders more equal. For each bid, in order of lowest to greatest price/slot, I will reduce each bid's price/slot to the highest value which is equal to or only the minimum increment greater than the next-lower bid. This allows you to bid higher prices without worrying so much, but you still mustn't bid more than you're willing to pay. Example: This: Slots mBTC/Slot Person 6 200 A 1 160 B 1 80 C 1 80 D
Becomes: Slots mBTC/Slot Person 6 84 A [step 4: reduced to 82+2=84] 1 82 B [step 3: reduced to 80+2=82] 1 80 C [step 2: same as the next-lowest, unchanged] 1 80 D [step 1: the lowest bid is always unchanged] Payment, etc.You must pay for your slots within 48 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slots may be sold to someone else, and I might even give you a negative trust rating. I will send you the payment information via forum PM from this account ("theymos", user ID 35) after announcing the auction results in this thread. You might receive false payment information from scammers pretending to be me. They might even have somewhat similar usernames. Be careful. [1]: For the purposes of forum ads, an ICO is any token, altcoin, or other altcoin-like thing which meets any of the following criteria: it is primarily run/backed by a company; it is substantially, fundamentally centralized in either operation or coin distribution; or it is not yet possible for two unprivileged users of the system to send coins directly to each other in a P2P way. The intention here is to allow community efforts to advertise things like Litecoin, but not to allow ICO funding, even when the ICO is disguised in various ways.[2]: A loggable mixer is a service marketed primarily for improving transaction privacy which accepts full custody of cryptocurrency for a time and has the technical ability to log where the cryptocurrency comes from and goes to (even if they promise not to log).
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Umito's bids will not be accepted this round. Auction ended, final result: Slots mBTC/Slot Person 3 32* DNL 1 30* Baserank 3 30* Panxora_COO 2 22 Hhampuz * = price paid will be reduced due to the price flattening rule
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Umito's bids will probably not be accepted, though I'm not 100% sure about this.
Current status if Umito's bids are rejected (most likely): Slots mBTC/Slot Person 3 32* DNL 1 30* Baserank 3 30* Panxora_COO 2 22 Hhampuz * = price paid would be reduced due to the price flattening rule (this does not affect the auction process)
Current status if Umito's bids are accepted: Slots mBTC/Slot Person 3 32 DNL 3 32 Umito 1 30 Baserank 2 30 Panxora_COO
The auction continues.
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Note that I have pre-approved DNL and Baserank to bid, and Umito will probably be approved. 1 @ 15mBTC
Bids must be evenly divisible by 2 mBTC. When people break this rule, I always round their bid down to the next valid bid. Current auction status: Slots mBTC/Slot Person 3 16 Panxora_COO 5 14 Hhampuz 1 14 BaserankThe auction continues.
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These are the people who have the most good reports over the last year: +-------------------------+--------------+ | User | Good reports | +-------------------------+--------------+ | actmyname | 38580 | | Ratimov | 33267 | | eaLiTy | 13852 | | GazetaBitcoin | 4750 | | hosseinimr93 | 3800 | | friends1980 | 3090 | | DaveF | 2744 | | lovesmayfamilis | 1665 | | Rikafip | 1548 | | Csmiami | 1529 | | Mbitr | 1458 | | miner29 | 1403 | | xandry | 1225 | | mk4 | 1173 | | dkbit98 | 1165 | | suchmoon | 1162 | | Barcode_ | 1010 | | Lucius | 972 | | xhomerx10 | 852 | | LoyceV | 834 | | DdmrDdmr | 832 | | sandy-is-fine | 811 | | OmegaStarScream | 769 | | NotFuzzyWarm | 724 | | Xal0lex | 698 | | pooya87 | 677 | | SiNeReiNZzz | 595 | | DroomieChikito | 580 | | vareole | 569 | | UserU | 560 | | Lafu | 550 | | odolvlobo | 546 | | UnclWish | 511 | | alucard20724 | 504 | | Charles-Tim | 504 | | RickDeckard | 447 | | colires | 435 | | ETFbitcoin | 425 | | bluspirit | 418 | | LeGaulois | 364 | +-------------------------+--------------+ Thank you to all reporters, especially the top reporters actmyname, Ratimov, and eaLiTy! We couldn't do it without you.
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The bug exists because old deleted posts are eventually removed from the database, and I didn't account for this when implementing the selfmod stats, so the data on which posts were created by which users is missing for old deleted posts.
The message will now say something like "(9 posts by 1+ users with 3 merit deleted.)". The first and third numbers are accurate, but the second number is imprecise; the second number will actually be "distinct users whose posts were selfmod-deleted and whose deleted posts are not very old and therefore still happen to be in the database." I could add more logging so that an accurate count could still be determined, but I don't think that it's very important to give the absolute correct number here, especially since any recent selfmod activity will still increase the count.
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This month 133 users were eligible. Old: theymos HostFat OgNasty malevolent qwk fronti mprep Dabs Foxpup Carlton Banks philipma1957 Cyrus Welsh ibminer Mitchell Timelord2067 jeremypwr EFS dbshck greenplastic stompix hilariousandco Avirunes mindrust buckrogers willi9974 JayJuanGee achow101 nutildah irfan_pak10 BitcoinPenny yahoo62278 LFC_Bitcoin o_solo_miner sandy-is-fine Real-Duke klarki LoyceV actmyname LeGaulois DarkStar_ TryNinja bob123 eddie13 johhnyUA ekiller Jet Cash condoras bL4nkcode Lafu Coin_trader Yatsan HCP finaleshot2016 crwth Ale88 bobita Vispilio Baofeng be.open imhoneer krogothmanhattan JollyGood RaltcoinsB xenon131 roycilik CryptopreneurBrainboss El duderino_ KTChampions Trofo Steamtyme Coin-1 icopress GreatArkansas o_e_l_e_o logfiles joniboini Agrawas Maus0728 TheBeardedBaby tvplus006 coinlocket$ dkbit98 mole0815 asche DdmrDdmr cabalism13 morvillz7z Husna QA Bthd fillippone abhiseshakana madnessteat COOLCRYPTOVATOR lovesmayfamilis DireWolfM14 1miau zasad@ Rikafip bullrun2020bro
New: HostFat gmaxwell phantastisch OgNasty malevolent Balthazar yxt fronti Dabs Foxpup Carlton Banks philipma1957 babo Cyrus Welsh Mitchell vizique Ticked Timelord2067 jeremypwr EFS dbshck greenplastic stompix hilariousandco arulbero Avirunes mindrust buckrogers Buchi-88 achow101 DaveF teeGUMES examplens nutildah sapta irfan_pak10 tmfp BitcoinPenny zazarb LFC_Bitcoin sandy-is-fine Real-Duke klarki muslol67 The Pharmacist LeGaulois SFR10 TwitchySeal phishead TryNinja johhnyUA bL4nkcode Coin_trader HCP finaleshot2016 crwth webtricks Ale88 bobita be.open krogothmanhattan JollyGood RaltcoinsB El duderino_ PHI1618 KTChampions Trofo Steamtyme icopress bavicrypto GreatArkansas sheenshane o_e_l_e_o 3meek joniboini Agrawas Maus0728 TheBeardedBaby coinlocket$ dkbit98 mole0815 witcher_sense asche DdmrDdmr cabalism13 morvillz7z Husna QA Bthd fillippone abhiseshakana madnessteat COOLCRYPTOVATOR lovesmayfamilis TalkStar YOSHIE Ratimov zasad@ Rikafip bullrun2020bro
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The forum sells ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page. This income is used primarily to cover hosting costs and to pay moderators for their work (there are many moderators, so each moderator gets only a small amount -- moderators should be seen as volunteers, not employees). Any leftover amount is typically either saved for future expenses or otherwise reinvested into the forum or the ecosystem. There are 10 total ad slots which are randomly rotated. So one ad slot has a one in ten chance of appearing. Nine of the slots are for sale here. Ads appear only on topic pages with more than one post. Hero/Legendary members, Donators, VIPs, and moderators have the ability to disable ads; these people don't increase the impression stats for your ads. Design & ad restrictionsAd text may not contain lies, misrepresentation, or inappropriate language. Ads may not link directly to any NSFW page. No ICOs [1], loggable mixers [2], banks, funds, or anything that a person can be said to "invest" in; I may very rarely make exceptions if you convince me that you are ultra legit, but don't count on it. Ads may be rejected for other reasons, and I may remove ads even after they are accepted. See the ad design rules for info on designing forum ads. When advertising a new service, you should always check with me in advance whether your service is OK. I will sometimes accept bids of people who don't do this, but such people are taking the risk of being rejected at the last minute. It's also a good idea for you to have me check your ad's HTML+CSS in advance, especially if this is your first time advertising. Duration/timing - Ad slots won in this auction will run from noon October 7 (US Eastern time) to noon November 6. (30 days.) - This auction will end sometime between September 27 and September 30, but September 28 is most likely. - You must pay within 48 hours of the auction ending. Only Bitcoin is accepted. If you fail to pay in time, your ad slots may be resold, and in cases where I feel that you're acting in bad faith, I may even give you a negative trust rating. - You must send me a valid ad (ie. one not breaking any of the styling or other rules) before noon October 6. If you fail to send a valid ad in time, then the ad round will start without you, and you will be "burning time". You can still send an ad after the deadline, and usually this ad will be put up fairly quickly, but no particular timeline is guaranteed after the deadline. - If extended downtime or similar issues cause your ad not to be displayed for a long time, we generally give prorated refunds (USD-denominated) for the lost time, but this is not guaranteed. StatsExact historical impression counts per slot: https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstatsInfo about the current ad slots: https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfoAuction rulesNew members are likely to have their bids rejected unless they PM me first, telling me what they're going to advertise. New members might also be required to pay some amount in advance. Additionally, if you have never purchased forum ad space before, and it is not blatantly obvious what you're going to advertise, say what you're going to advertise in your first bid, or tell me in a PM. Post your bids in this thread. Prices must be stated in mBTC per slot. (10 mBTC = 0.01 BTC.) You must state the maximum number of slots you want. When the auction ends, the highest bidders will have their slots filled until all nine slots are filled. So if someone bids for 9 slots @ 50 mBTC and this is the highest bid, then he'll get all 9 slots. If the two highest bids are 9 slots @ 40 mBTC and 1 slot @ 50 mBTC, then the first person will get 8 slots and the second person will get 1 slot. The notation "2 @ 50" means 2 slots for 50 mBTC each. Not 2 slots for 50 mBTC total.- When you post a bid, the bids in your previous posts are considered to be automatically canceled. You can put multiple bids in one post, however, like "5 @ 10 and 1 @ 50". - All bid prices must be evenly divisible by 2 mBTC. - The bidding starts at 2 mBTC. - The auction ends at an arbitrary time between September 27 and September 30. Times closer to 8:00AM September 28 (US Eastern time) are more likely. - If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first. If these rules are confusing, look at some of the past forum ad auctions to see how it's done. I reserve the right to reject bids, even days after the bid is made. Price flatteningAt the end of the auction, after the winning bids are all determined, I will do a "price flattening" operation. This has no effect on which bids actually win, but is instead just meant to make the prices actually paid by bidders more equal. For each bid, in order of lowest to greatest price/slot, I will reduce each bid's price/slot to the highest value which is equal to or only the minimum increment greater than the next-lower bid. This allows you to bid higher prices without worrying so much, but you still mustn't bid more than you're willing to pay. Example: This: Slots mBTC/Slot Person 6 200 A 1 160 B 1 80 C 1 80 D
Becomes: Slots mBTC/Slot Person 6 84 A [step 4: reduced to 82+2=84] 1 82 B [step 3: reduced to 80+2=82] 1 80 C [step 2: same as the next-lowest, unchanged] 1 80 D [step 1: the lowest bid is always unchanged] Payment, etc.You must pay for your slots within 48 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slots may be sold to someone else, and I might even give you a negative trust rating. I will send you the payment information via forum PM from this account ("theymos", user ID 35) after announcing the auction results in this thread. You might receive false payment information from scammers pretending to be me. They might even have somewhat similar usernames. Be careful. [1]: For the purposes of forum ads, an ICO is any token, altcoin, or other altcoin-like thing which meets any of the following criteria: it is primarily run/backed by a company; it is substantially, fundamentally centralized in either operation or coin distribution; or it is not yet possible for two unprivileged users of the system to send coins directly to each other in a P2P way. The intention here is to allow community efforts to advertise things like Litecoin, but not to allow ICO funding, even when the ICO is disguised in various ways.[2]: A loggable mixer is a service marketed primarily for improving transaction privacy which accepts full custody of cryptocurrency for a time and has the technical ability to log where the cryptocurrency comes from and goes to (even if they promise not to log).
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Auction ended, final result: Slots mBTC/Slot Person 1 24 bitcarra 4 22 BK8.Official 2 22 Hashbon 2 20 Hhampuz
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Hashbon's bids will be accepted. Current auction status: Slots mBTC/Slot Person 2 18 Panxora_COO 4 18 BK8.Official 2 18 Hashbon 1 16 bitcarra
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2 @ 17 mbtc
Bids must be evenly divisible by 2 mBTC. When this rule is broken, I always round down to the next valid amount. I need more info from Hashbon. His bids may or may not be accepted. I will post here when I know for sure. 1 @ 20mBTC
Bids from 1xbit will not be accepted. Current auction status if Hashbon's bids are accepted: Slots mBTC/Slot Person 2 18 Panxora_COO 1 16 bitcarra 4 16 Hhampuz 2 16 HashbonIf his bids are not accepted: Slots mBTC/Slot Person 2 18 Panxora_COO 1 16 bitcarra 4 16 Hhampuz 2 14 BK8.OfficialThe auction continues.
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Current auction status: Slots mBTC/Slot Person 3 14 Panxora_COO 5 12 Hhampuz 1 10 BK8.Official
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Note that starting with the round being bid on here, we might stop attempting to bypass adblockers.
Currently, the page is structured so that it's impossible for traditional adblockers based on CSS selectors to block the bitcointalk.org ad area in general (without also breaking the page). However:
1) Adblockers can still block your ad in particular (as opposed to the ad area for all ads) if your ads are not designed in a very specific way, and advertisers almost never design their ads to be adblocker-resistant. In the past 2 years, I'd guess that there have been maybe one or two advertisers who designed their ads so that they couldn't easily be blocked. (If you're not sure whether your ad is adblocker-resistant, then it's not.) 2) Some adblockers such as uBlock have now extended the traditional adblocker capabilities in a way which can only really be bypassed by constantly making manual changes to the page structure to counteract their filters whenever they update them. 3) The current adblocker-bypassing capability requires mangling the page's HTML in a way which is maybe unfriendly to search engines and other automated tools.
Therefore, I think that stopping our attempt at bypassing adblockers will have little to no cost to advertisers (whose ads are probably already blocked, or are at least blockable), and continuing it is not worthwhile.
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The forum sells ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page. This income is used primarily to cover hosting costs and to pay moderators for their work (there are many moderators, so each moderator gets only a small amount -- moderators should be seen as volunteers, not employees). Any leftover amount is typically either saved for future expenses or otherwise reinvested into the forum or the ecosystem. There are 10 total ad slots which are randomly rotated. So one ad slot has a one in ten chance of appearing. Nine of the slots are for sale here. Ads appear only on topic pages with more than one post. Hero/Legendary members, Donators, VIPs, and moderators have the ability to disable ads; these people don't increase the impression stats for your ads. Design & ad restrictionsAd text may not contain lies, misrepresentation, or inappropriate language. Ads may not link directly to any NSFW page. No ICOs [1], loggable mixers [2], banks, funds, or anything that a person can be said to "invest" in; I may very rarely make exceptions if you convince me that you are ultra legit, but don't count on it. Ads may be rejected for other reasons, and I may remove ads even after they are accepted. See the ad design rules for info on designing forum ads. When advertising a new service, you should always check with me in advance whether your service is OK. I will sometimes accept bids of people who don't do this, but such people are taking the risk of being rejected at the last minute. It's also a good idea for you to have me check your ad's HTML+CSS in advance, especially if this is your first time advertising. Duration/timing - Ad slots won in this auction will run from noon September 9 (US Eastern time) to noon October 7. (28 days.) - This auction will end sometime between August 30 and September 3, but September 1 is most likely. - You must pay within 48 hours of the auction ending. Only Bitcoin is accepted. If you fail to pay in time, your ad slots may be resold, and in cases where I feel that you're acting in bad faith, I may even give you a negative trust rating. - You must send me a valid ad (ie. one not breaking any of the styling or other rules) before noon September 8. If you fail to send a valid ad in time, then the ad round will start without you, and you will be "burning time". You can still send an ad after the deadline, and usually this ad will be put up fairly quickly, but no particular timeline is guaranteed after the deadline. - If extended downtime or similar issues cause your ad not to be displayed for a long time, we generally give prorated refunds (USD-denominated) for the lost time, but this is not guaranteed. StatsExact historical impression counts per slot: https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstatsInfo about the current ad slots: https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfoAuction rulesNew members are likely to have their bids rejected unless they PM me first, telling me what they're going to advertise. New members might also be required to pay some amount in advance. Additionally, if you have never purchased forum ad space before, and it is not blatantly obvious what you're going to advertise, say what you're going to advertise in your first bid, or tell me in a PM. Post your bids in this thread. Prices must be stated in mBTC per slot. (10 mBTC = 0.01 BTC.) You must state the maximum number of slots you want. When the auction ends, the highest bidders will have their slots filled until all nine slots are filled. So if someone bids for 9 slots @ 50 mBTC and this is the highest bid, then he'll get all 9 slots. If the two highest bids are 9 slots @ 40 mBTC and 1 slot @ 50 mBTC, then the first person will get 8 slots and the second person will get 1 slot. The notation "2 @ 50" means 2 slots for 50 mBTC each. Not 2 slots for 50 mBTC total.- When you post a bid, the bids in your previous posts are considered to be automatically canceled. You can put multiple bids in one post, however, like "5 @ 10 and 1 @ 50". - All bid prices must be evenly divisible by 2 mBTC. - The bidding starts at 2 mBTC. - The auction ends at an arbitrary time between August 30 and September 3. Times closer to 8:00AM September 1 (US Eastern time) are more likely. - If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first. If these rules are confusing, look at some of the past forum ad auctions to see how it's done. I reserve the right to reject bids, even days after the bid is made. Price flatteningAt the end of the auction, after the winning bids are all determined, I will do a "price flattening" operation. This has no effect on which bids actually win, but is instead just meant to make the prices actually paid by bidders more equal. For each bid, in order of lowest to greatest price/slot, I will reduce each bid's price/slot to the highest value which is equal to or only the minimum increment greater than the next-lower bid. This allows you to bid higher prices without worrying so much, but you still mustn't bid more than you're willing to pay. Example: This: Slots mBTC/Slot Person 6 200 A 1 160 B 1 80 C 1 80 D
Becomes: Slots mBTC/Slot Person 6 84 A [step 4: reduced to 82+2=84] 1 82 B [step 3: reduced to 80+2=82] 1 80 C [step 2: same as the next-lowest, unchanged] 1 80 D [step 1: the lowest bid is always unchanged] Payment, etc.You must pay for your slots within 48 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slots may be sold to someone else, and I might even give you a negative trust rating. I will send you the payment information via forum PM from this account ("theymos", user ID 35) after announcing the auction results in this thread. You might receive false payment information from scammers pretending to be me. They might even have somewhat similar usernames. Be careful. [1]: For the purposes of forum ads, an ICO is any token, altcoin, or other altcoin-like thing which meets any of the following criteria: it is primarily run/backed by a company; it is substantially, fundamentally centralized in either operation or coin distribution; or it is not yet possible for two unprivileged users of the system to send coins directly to each other in a P2P way. The intention here is to allow community efforts to advertise things like Litecoin, but not to allow ICO funding, even when the ICO is disguised in various ways.[2]: A loggable mixer is a service marketed primarily for improving transaction privacy which accepts full custody of cryptocurrency for a time and has the technical ability to log where the cryptocurrency comes from and goes to (even if they promise not to log).
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Auction ended, final result: Slots BTC/Slot Person 5 6 Hhampuz 4 6 sportsbet.io
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