Hey guys,
This forum is awesome, it's been really lucky for me! My very first post won me
BTC0.01, and a search here for Bitcoin in my country led me to a bounty for African forums over on
Bitcoin.co.ke. The bounty was
BTC0.01 per forum!
Considering all the competitions, faucets, paid-click sites and such that newbies (myself included) visit for rewards in the satoshis, I could hardly believe my good fortune. No one had claimed any of this bounty since weex posted it in January. Bitcoin has risen a lot since then, so I checked with weex that his offer was still valid before I dove in with a list of 100 South African forums. He kept his side of the bargain although I don't think he expected me to hit the offer so hard (I'm now organising the data in Excel and also signed on as a moderator for the forum, so on balance I feel it's a fair day's work for a fair day's pay).
The reward has now been lowered to
BTC0.0025 for each forum. Still good money, about $1.20 for 4 search hits at Bitcoin's current pricing - and who knows how much more those
BTC will be worth in future? Just like with mining, the earlier you get in the better you do... And there's still
plenty more coin to find!
It seems I've got enough of the South African forums (fora?) to satisfy weex, but this leaves Kenya, Nigeria, Egypt and some other heavyweight African countries! There's also all the up-and-coming nations (check out Botswana, one of the fastest growing economies in the world), and they're all yours to investigate as of right now!
Here are the criteria weex will be checking for in your results:
1) The forum must be exclusively African, not an African sub-forum on some larger international forum.
2) The forum must have recent activity no older than two months.
3) No duplicates will be credited. First poster of a forum gets the credit, no one else.
4) Make sure the site is working properly, try checking it with another browser if possible.
5) No more South African sites.
And here are some of my tips to make your work easier:
1) Organise your results by a single country per post.
2) Number your results to make counting your earnings easier on weex.
3) Please follow the format I laid out: forum name, link, brief description of the forum's primary focus.
4) Google, more so than Bing which I also tried, seems to give the
best results with the following search term: "[country] + [topic] forum"
5) When seeking topics, I had good results from cars, sport and hobbies, pretty much in that order.
6) If you get stuck, try some of my forum themes but just change the country!
That's it! Go forth and and search out your Bitcoins!
->The link to the bounty thread is right here.<- Good luck!
P.S. I'm really amped to see the launch of Bitcoin-based African business. There's a ton of opportunity here in Africa, waiting patiently to be recognised by the world just like weex's outsize bounty went unnoticed for months... Wake up to the the giant opportunity that is Africa, guys! Help us identify, research, and fund the next African Bitcoin success story over in
this new thread.
