Announcing MillionBitcentHomepage.com - Own a piece of Bitcoin history!

[WilcoLaad]

Hello fellow bitcoiners,

Today I launched MillionBitcentHomepage.com - a site where you can buy pixels on the page @ 1 pixel per bitcent.

It may take some time to fill (if it ever does), but I think once it does it will be interesting to look back upon in the years and decades going forward.

I am not just doing this to enrich myself but hopefully the entire bitcoin community. First, by giving back 50% of income to whoever refers buyers to the site - just sign up with the bitcoin address where you want to receive your commission payments at http://millionbitcenthomepage.com/referrals.

I'm also giving 30% of income to non-profit organizations - but the catch is that they must accept bitcoin donations. This will hopefully get the ball rolling on some larger organizations who may be hesitant or technically inept - after all who can resist free money. Only organizations benefitting the greater good - no political, partisan, religious organizations, etc.

Please check out the site and hit me with suggestions! First 10 replies get 100 pixels (of any dimension) free!

Thanks for reading

[n1c]

This is neat. Wonder what I should do with my 100 pixels

[Tom5342]

I will have some thanks really good idea. Please contact me as how to get the pixels

[AuroraHF]

I would love to get 100 pixels on that page. Do contact me on how to claim those 100 pixels, please and thank you.

[Ravocado]

Ah, I see what you did here...although old idea i hope you succeed. Nice to give some of your income to charity!

[WilcoLaad]

Thanks for checking it out. Just use the site to upload the image you want and click the spot you want it to go, with the link and hover text. In the contact email put some text there (doesn't actually check if it's an email), then respond here with what you put there so I can associate the pixels to you and skip the transaction check.

[Tom5342]

I put "Thanks for the free pixels "

EDIT: I may have put to many pixels in the image. Let me know if it is ok or not

[WilcoLaad]

That's fine - I'll let it slide since you're the first one It's live now, go check it out!

[Tom5342]

Yay, thanks! Working on my site now :3

[BTChap]

Hey Man,
Interested in this,il get in touch to get my pixels. Cheers man

[cxboyminer]

Interested. The 10th response... yay!!!

[Tom5342]

Yay, my website is done! If anyone wants to take a look, go to http://www.millionbitcenthomepage.com/ and click on Donate!

[WilcoLaad]

Looks great! Just use the upload form and get in touch here when you're done.

Also is this the correct forum to post this announcement? I wasn't sure

[Tom5342]

You have already given me my pixels

[zebigfoot]

this is a cool idea - pinterest + bitcoin
i hope i`m lucky number 9 and made it just in time

EDIT : the text i entered in the email space is "be kind at donate to 1LuV2ECxJ1nSjbjUZRBemvKLm86HbG8HCv"
do I qualify for the free space?
 

[malefice]

get rich quickly scheme

[WilcoLaad]

Well, the image you submitted is 80x80 which is a little big..Can you cut that down to around 100 total px?

[melacs]

Are there any guarantees in how long this website will stay up? It would be cool to know (for example at least 5 years).
It seems a little pricey, if the price of bitcoin goes up any further, it will become very very pricey.

[Vod]

Are there any guarantees in how long this website will stay up? It would be cool to know (for example at least 5 years).
It seems a little pricey, if the price of bitcoin goes up any further, it will become very very pricey.

His website claims it will keep your pixels "on this page until the end of the Internet."

But he's only registered the domain for one year.  

You give to this site and you're just throwing your coins away.

[WilcoLaad]

That's hardly proof that I intend to take the money and run after a year. I plan to live in my house for at least another 10 years, but I won't be prepaying the government 10 years of property tax.

The domain registration automatically renews. Why would anyone register a domain name for longer than a year for a project that has yet to launch? Also, I'd prefer to eventually transfer the site to a registrar and host that accepts bitcoin payments so I never have to convert the site's reserves into fiat currency. I think I will be able to do that soon, so why would I pay more than a year in advance now?

I will guarantee the site will be online for at least 5 years, and probably much longer than that. It's already a very easy and cheap site to run, using a reverse proxy caching requests it could serve lots of visitors very cheaply. And hosting costs continue to plunge. While currently it costs around $100 / year to host, I imagine that cost dropping under $10 and probably will eventually be free as all it will have to do is serve static assets. So that leaves the registrar fee - at $10 / year, if the site sells 1 million bitcents, that's enough to fund the site for the next 1,120,000 years at current exchange rates.

As for the price - indeed it is pricey. When I started building the site the exchange rate was around $180 / BTC. I hadn't anticipated it would rise so quickly - I'm not complaining as I've been investing in bitcoin since 2012, but this is obviously not good for the MBH. That's why I'm offering the 50% referral fee and giving 30% away to charitable organizations that accept bitcoin. Maybe I'll make additional accommodations. Either way, it'll be fun to see this experiment play out.