What was the oldest ever signature campaing?

[thejaytiesto]

Just curious to see what were the rates back then when the first signature campaing business apparead and people started working for them. I wonder what the rates where. It must have been something ridiculous where you could make an entire BTC in a matter of hours or something. Or maybe they came late enough so that to make 1 BTC you would already need a lot of time and effort like you need now? Im just curious to learn about the most early rates when the price was really low.

[Morecoin Freeman]

Signature campaigns ruined bitcointalk.

[LMGTFY]

I don't know, but in June 2013 someone ran this "raffle". By November 2013 there was a thread about actual signature campaigns. I've not read too far into the thread, but it's possible it might answer some of your questions? (Obviously the OP has been edited to stay current, so it won't be as useful as later posts might be).

[Dannie]

Just curious to see what were the rates back then when the first signature campaing business apparead and people started working for them. I wonder what the rates where. It must have been something ridiculous where you could make an entire BTC in a matter of hours or something. Or maybe they came late enough so that to make 1 BTC you would already need a lot of time and effort like you need now? Im just curious to learn about the most early rates when the price was really low.

Not sure if this is the oldest sig campaign, but TradeFortress has run one in May 2013. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=198934.0 The payment rate was a lot higher than that of today, as bitcoin price was just above $100 back then.

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https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=153101.0 <- March 2013

but apparently people have been selling their signature space even before that.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54179.0 <- December 2011

edit for typo (see below). whoops.

[Quickseller]

but apparently people have been selling their signature space even before that.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=54179.0 <- December 2010

That thread is actually from 2011.

I think it is interesting just how little that person was selling his signature for.

Hi

0.5 btc a month

His asking price of .5BTC per month worked out to roughly $1-$2 per month based on the exchange rates at the time. Now you could expect to make at least $30-$40 per month for a fixed rate deal

I believe that BFL was renting out signatures in maybe 2012, however IIRC, they would strike private deals with everyone so pricing was not public.

[jacee]

Signature campaigns ruined bitcointalk.

Well I don't think so, not on every part tho. What I think is the signature campaigns also helped the forum. Well if it wasn't for the signature spammers, the forum will not be this noisy. Just my opinion.

Anyway OP there is a thread that lists all running signature canpaigns. You can check it for yourself to see which one is older. Why must you ask a question rather looking for it yourself.

[LMGTFY]

Signature campaigns ruined bitcointalk.

Well I don't think so, not on every part tho. What I think is the signature campaigns also helped the forum. Well if it wasn't for the signature spammers, the forum will not be this noisy. Just my opinion.

Some people worry that signature campaigns encourage posters to post just for the sake of the payment, without reading the thread.

Anyway OP there is a thread that lists all running signature canpaigns. You can check it for yourself to see which one is older. Why must you ask a question rather looking for it yourself.

Because the question isn't as easy to answer as that. The thread you mention is fairly recent (in a previous post, above, I refer to an older thread that served the same purpose). One problem with these threads is that the original post is updated frequently, to stay current. Another problem is that the first signature campaigns weren't necessarily discussed in these threads at all, but only in their own thread, which a few people also mention earlier in this thread.

[christycalhoun]

Selling signature space is not unique to bitcointalk. I have seen it done on Internet marketing forums years ago.

[Swordsoffreedom]

I am fairly certain the modern version of a sig campaign began with Inputs.io when Tradefortress started it
Before its epic collapse
The one that gained traction after inputs and became the base model was Primedice
That said I guess there were older ones but that 2011 one seemed to not get much attention.

[avatar_kiyoshi]

AFAIK tradefortress the oldest one.

But bitmixer is the oldest one too and still running until day.

[teddy5145]

Signature campaigns ruined bitcointalk.

Not really, thanks to all of the campaigns the traffic to btctalk is more massive

People created faucets to let the newbies to let them use and adopt bitcoin

We use signature campaigns to make the forum more living

See the similarities
People care about money

[jt byte]

Just curious to see what were the rates back then when the first signature campaing business apparead and people started working for them. I wonder what the rates where. It must have been something ridiculous where you could make an entire BTC in a matter of hours or something. Or maybe they came late enough so that to make 1 BTC you would already need a lot of time and effort like you need now? Im just curious to learn about the most early rates when the price was really low.

As far as i know it is this signature campaign.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=671689.0
This signature campaign is still active since June 30, 2014.

[alwinlinzee]

This is an interesting thread based on the question, i may say redcoin signature and primedice

[Gleb Gamow]

I'm curious as to what's the oldest sig still in place due to a user no longer being active.

[Swordsoffreedom]

I'm curious as to what's the oldest sig still in place due to a user no longer being active.

I can't remember the name of the service but I believe Gleb it's the one where there was a 1BTC raffle and John K took too damn long to settle it when he went into hibernation.
(Took me a while to recall it but it was coinroll I think that thread got buried dang hard I can't even look it up now)

Archived TF advertised as the oldest
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=198934.0

[thejaytiesto]

Signature campaigns ruined bitcointalk.

Wrong. Signature campaigns have allowed making BTC for the average person a reality, they help distributing BTC around. Thanks to them, I have managed to make a decent "stack". It's not much, but it's something. Of course it's just a small extra and my main way to get BTC is by buying them, but think about poor people all over the world who can't afford buying anything. I know some people on the Philippines making above minimum wage thanks to signature campaigns. Let's not demonize one of the best use cases of Bitcoin. Everyone that gets some BTC off a signature campaings gets hooked forever. The average person is not going to give a fuck about Bitcoin if they have to buy it, but if they start making some small extra money on the side, they will start seeing the point and studying it further. Most people aren't going to be bothered to exchange fiat for BTC to try it out, so you can thank sig campaigns for helping on that side.