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WHAT 9000!?

DrG sent me some contact info, but I have not verified it at all.

The French moderators are in charge of the French section. If they don't want auto-translated stuff there, that's fine with me.

I don't really follow this stuff, but I've been hearing a lot of positive news about BFL recently, so I tend to think that it's probably not a scam. I'll reevaluate this if they haven't produced anything concrete by their current deadline.

While I might refuse their advertising, giving them a scammer tag is more complicated. I'm not sure what obligations and deadlines preordering implies. They'd probably have to stop all contact for several months for me to give them a scammer tag. I recommend against preordering anything from anyone in the Bitcoin community.

I did. I almost always change names on request.

Ads can't be deceptive like this.

Before anyone suggests it: For legal reasons and to avoid too much drama, you can't make assertions of fact that are potentially damaging and possibly false. For example, you can't say, "BFL is a scam," or, "BFL will never deliver." You can say, "BFL is probably a scam," or, "BFL is unlikely to deliver." OP's text is acceptable.

In order to collect more money for the creation of good forum software, the forum is selling ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page.

Ads are allowed to contain any non-annoying HTML/CSS style. No images, JavaScript, or animation (no marquee or blinking). Ads must appear 3 or fewer lines tall in my browser. Ads will be prefixed with "Advertisement:". Ad text may not contain lies, misrepresentation, or inappropriate language. Ads may not link directly to any NSFW page. Ads may be rejected for other reasons.

There are 10 total ad slots which are randomly rotated. So one ad slot has a one in ten chance of appearing. Seven of the slots are for sale here. Ads appear only on topic pages with more than one post, and only for people using the default theme.

The ad lasts 7 days starting from when I put it up.

Stats

Exact historical impression counts per slot:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstats

Info about the current ad slots:
https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adinfo

Auction rules

Post your bids in this thread. Prices must be stated in BTC per slot. You must state the max number of slots you want. When the auction ends, the highest bidders will have their slots filled until all eight slots are filled.

So if someone bids for 7 slots @ 5 BTC and this is the highest bid, then he'll get all 7 slots. If the two highest bids are 7 slots @ 4 BTC and 1 slot @ 5 BTC, then the first person will get 6 slots and the second person will get 1 slot.

The notation "2 @ 5" means 2 slots for 5 BTC each. Not 2 slots for 5 BTC 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.
- All bid prices must be evenly divisible by 0.25.
- The bidding starts at 0.5.
- I will end the auction at an arbitrary time no more than 12 days from now. (I will probably end the auction 1-3 days before the ads are scheduled to go up.)
- If two people bid at the same price, the person who bid first will have his slots filled first.
- Bids are considered invalid and will be ignored if they do not specify both a price and a max quantity, or if they could not possibly win any slots

If these rules are confusing, look at some of the past forum ad auctions to see how it's done. I also post periodic status updates which should help make things clear.

You must pay for your slots within 24 hours of receiving the payment address. Otherwise your slots may be sold to someone else.

Auction ended.

This sort of thing has happened before when a country tries to ban a site via BGP, but their ban propagates to other countries. It's a terrible system. That may be what happened here.

Are you anywhere near Turkey?

It is hopefully possible to speak your mind and still avoid ignore highlighting. I intend for people to only be highlighted if they are often overly aggressive, rude, trollish, or off-topic. None of which have anything to do with the ideas themselves, but the way that they are presented.

Current status:
Slots BTC/Slot Person
1 10 Entropy-uc
1 4.25 bit365
5 4 Inaba

Give it to them in person.

I said a long time ago that the prices would remain the same, so I can't change this policy now in any case.


Maybe. I haven't thought about it much yet. The forum doesn't need donations, so I'm not going to create another donator level soon.

The output of SHA-256 is less random than random data. Also, there are almost certainly fewer than 2³² distinct possible outputs given 32-bit input.

It's probably fine, though it'd be a little more secure to just use the random data as a private key directly.

I intend to add new, cheaper donator ranks. I won't decrease the price of the old ranks, though I may rename them (to "Donator+" and "VIP+" or something like that).

Current status:
Slots BTC/Slot Person
1 3 lleibowitz
3 2.75 InspiredEye
3 2.5 Inaba


No.

You may have seen images (which aren't allowed anymore for new signatures), but certainly not an iframe.