Why not use bitcoin-central?

I think the $1 value was just a rally because many people from the USA wanted to have it at $1.

I don't know about Mullvad, but I know from Kalyhost that they adjust the price of their services when the price for a bitcoin changes, to reflect other currencies. So, if price goes up you pay less btc.
One thing you could do is split the amount it costs for your services over time. (So 60btc vps for 6 months means buy 10btc per month). Sometimes you will pay more, sometimes you pay less and if there aren't that large fluctuations, you should be fine.

WOW! Someone sold a shitload of btc on BC! LRUSD and LREUR are down to 0.1 and 0.02.

Thank you for that. Freshmeat.net release submitted.

Slashdot effect (article about the $1 parity).

Drop is IMHO a correction to the artificial run to get the parity.

Just curious, how many wires per week and for what amount are we talking about? I've been looking at the EUR order book for the past week, not much is going on.

Some people explained the 50k on slashdot. It isn't a hard requirement to start the foundation, but a common practice to have some starting capital (and to give some trust to the people who you're going to cooperate with). IMHO 50K isn't that much (you can maybe have only 2 persons working full time for the foundation with that money), as long as they spend it well.

Also note that LO was once Star Office, which was made in Germany. I wouldn't be surprised if there are still people from the original company involved in the development of the code.

I know, although I'm not sure the xorg-x11 is the solution. Ebuild has multiple problems.

t3h, could you give an update on this?

Update:
I've added a simple blacklist to the site. When you remove a bid, it will be automatically banned from being able to bid with that ad on that site again. This is only a temporal solution, until I get a more advanced approval system up and running.

There should be a button "remove" beside the ad in the list, from the website detail. Click that and it should be removed (advertiser could however place it back, still working on the code to make this impossible).

Great to know you got it. Happy spending of it.

Get a second "branch" (new genesis block) of bitcoins. EUcoins, USAcoins, Chinacoins, etc.

Adblock looks for common used words on parts of sites and if it contains things like "ads" or "advertisement" it blocks it by default.
There is nothing I can do about that. Project Wonderful must have the same problems with this (they warn about it when entering their site, I might get something similar in place later, although many people who use ad blockers also have noscript (javascript is used to detect if the user is running adblock) and then it doesn't work any more.


Yes, about 10 - 15 sites (most of them getting 10-40 views per day), and only about 4 active advertisers.
1 site manages to get ~2200 views/day (in the weekends a bit less), current advertiser pays 0.26btc/day to have their ad displayed.

I've been tracking income over the past 2 weeks, there were no payouts (5% fee, based on 5 btc this is 0.25btc/payout), this gave about 0.15btc/week. The ad on the front page of the site has generated about 3 btc until now. It's not much, but I'm happy with the results so far.

BTW, I see that someone tried to do an SQL injection... which failed.

Your site is activated now. About the ads in the ads list, disable any ad blockers. I didn't see anything unusual in the logs or database, so my guess is it is that.


True, I see people slowly dropping the minimum bid to 0.

So, the best way then is to overflow the order book with buy orders for all prices and delete them when one has a hit? 

Liberty Reserve (some other form of e-cash).

Hi tuxsoul,

Sign in into your account, go to "Websites" and click on the website of your blog. Then click "website code". This gives the javascript code to load the ads. When everything works you'll see a placeholder image (like currently on this site: http://dylanw.dyndns.tv:8331/lvbx/ (Note the small orange section)) until it is approved by me. Then people can start bidding on the ad for your blog.

When testing please make sure that you've disabled any ad blocker, else you won't see anything.

I think the best way to help is participating (especially advertisers). There are quite some sites now (most have now reasonable minimum bids), but the amount of active advertisers could be a bit higher. If you want to help, but you don't have anything to advertise, take a foss project that you like (hint: bitcoin, there have been ad runs for that before) and place an ad about that.

If that's to much "work". I could open an address where people can donate to, to advertise bitcoin, or something else. In that case you could also help with providing nice graphics for ads.

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Donations can be send to: 13udpXVNV1R2uSBAvpnUosJ1NLxGgmN57W
I will use those btc partially to promote Bitcoin on non-Bitcoin centric sites and partially for the rent of the server (although with current bitcoin price we're covered until the next year, so most will go to promoting Bitcoin).
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@Quip, I'll activate your ad later today (have to go to work first). Also, a good way to help is get a lot of visitors.

Do you use the pgp/gpg interface, did you try to turn it off?

Do you see anything in your web server logs (that MBC calls the receipt script)?