EVOLUTION OF SIGNATURE AD CAMPAIGNS (BEGINNING DAYS TO THE PRESENT)

[hatshepsut93]

This is great, but I wish it was some expanded post that tells the history of signature campaigns, highlights some key events, analyzes them, etc. I think people would really appreciate it, most of us weren't around the times of early campaigns, so it would be very educating to learn about the early times.

Hah, there were nice days in which you was able to recieve 0.1 btc/month...

Chipmixer is still paying more than that. Kinda crazy how they can afford that.

[kryptqnick]

Hah, there were nice days in which you was able to recieve 0.1 btc/month...

Chipmixer is still paying more than that. Kinda crazy how they can afford that.

Amazing, but you are correct! At first I thought it couldn't be true, but I've just checked the speadsheet! Speaking of Chipmixer, it seems that this is a company the OP missed, so I'll add the link here. All other companies I could remember because I took part in them are in that list. It's some impressive work by the op. Such a list is helpful to see how the payouts and requirements changed through time, but it's also a story of how various now highly trusted members were working on their reputation during their first signature campaigns.
I know a guy who basically earned his one Bitcoin through these early days sig campaigns and kept it since then.

[hatshepsut93]

Amazing, but you are correct! At first I thought it couldn't be true, but I've just checked the speadsheet! Speaking of Chipmixer, it seems that this is a company the OP missed, so I'll add the link here. All other companies I could remember because I took part in them are in that list. It's some impressive work by the op. Such a list is helpful to see how the payouts and requirements changed through time, but it's also a story of how various now highly trusted members were working on their reputation during their first signature campaigns.
I know a guy who basically earned his one Bitcoin through these early days sig campaigns and kept it since then.

It's actually interesting to see that the payments of some current campaigns are higher than campaigns from 2013. Of course no one is paying a quarter of Bitcoin per month, but by quickly looking at some threads I see there are early campaigns that were only paying 0.01 or 0.025 BTC per month or 2 weeks, which was just a few bucks at that moment. Nowadays good campaign pay a few dollars per single post. Maybe back in the day there wasn't many businesses around, or the demand for advertising wasn't high, but things really did change over the years.

[Asuspawer09]

Interesting to see how this signature campaign evolves in the past years.

So this is how they do it in 2013 and continue to evolve until today. Salute to you digging up all and collecting all this mess! This could be a helpful list in the forum. 

[20kevin20]

And here I am, a member from 2013 that has probably only joined sig campaigns for a timeframe of max 10 months. Guess there are some members out here currently owning over 10 BTC from these campaigns.

Quite interesting. It's the same lost opportunity as those who haven't held their accumulated BTC from Andresen's 5 BTC faucet. It's very interesting to see how this all progressed in 10 years. Ironically, I knew Bitcoin would become a thing back in 2013-2016 and yet I did not take the right steps to ensure my place in the game.

[Casdinyard]

what a work gathering all these signature campaigns man, look so cool to me.

It made me remember the campaigns that I joined when I was just a member, to full member up to senior back in 2015 to 2016, though I barely remember all of those but it's good seeing your past along with the improvement of the forum. And I know most of you guys know how huge our earnings on those campaign, those were the gold times that I am missing, we kinda lay low with the campaigns now especially with bounty.

[Kong Hey Pakboy]

I really wish i could go back in time and know about bitcoin because if i know about bitcoin and bitcointalk forum in the year of 2013, i could be really rich today if i would hold it until now because the rewards is low that time, but today it is really big and enough to support our daily needs. But i am still thankful that i met bitcoin because i have been able to earn cryptocurrencies and support my necessities, even i don't earn big amounts of bitcoin.

[TryNinja]

OP: Where is ChipMixer? I believe it's the highest paying campaign today, how could you forget it?

I really wish i could go back in time and know about bitcoin because if i know about bitcoin and bitcointalk forum in the year of 2013, i could be really rich today if i would hold it until now because the rewards is low that time, but today it is really big and enough to support our daily needs. But i am still thankful that i met bitcoin because i have been able to earn cryptocurrencies and support my necessities, even i don't earn big amounts of bitcoin.

Buy Bitcoin and keep holding then.

Chances are that Bitcoin will still rise a ton more. Either you buy now and profit in the future (less than if you bought earlier, but still profit) or you don't and you come back 7 years later saying that you "should have bought in 2020 and you would be rich today". If you believe BTC can be used in a global scale, then it will grow. Just think about the number of people that use BTC or even know it compared to the world population.

[gundala]

Time keeps running. The lesson we can take is that time can change everything, trends change. Fortunately for those who are patient and joined the crypto world earlier, especially those who were in this forum from the beginning. There are regrets because I only knew this forum four years ago. But I'm still grateful because I can still get something very valuable from here.

Signatures with BTC rewards are the only legitimate and guaranteed present, especially those handled by trusted bounty managers. I am very happy to be a part of this campaign. For all friends, don't give up and let's do the best you can do here.

[DarkDays]

I'd love to see somebody grab the spreadsheets for all that data and produce some insights, like the following;

1. Top 10 users by number of campaigns participated in
2. Most loyal signature wearer (user that stayed with one campaign the longest)
3. Most earned by a single member through signature campaigns for each user level
4. Highest paying campaign of all time
5. Campaign by most amount of money paid out (total)
6. Signature campaign managers by number of campaigns run

Five merits for anybody who produces two or more of these insights. PM me in case I don't see it myself.

[gentlemand]

Hah, there were nice days in which you was able to recieve 0.1 btc/month...

I recall some of the earliest ones were well over 1 BTC a month. My best effort was 0.18 a week for a while. Of course that was peanuts in 2015. The idea of getting $1800 a week for a bunch of dick jokes just goes to show the magic of Bitcoin.

Kudos to OP. I knew there were more than a few but didn't realise it was that sprawling.

[Maestro75]

But because they're not arranged by year, then it's hard to see but if there's a price in there, that's a big clue. Imagine people earning 0.08 btc per week or 0.0012 per post! Those were the sweet days I never saw:(

They were the sweet days if you are talking about the bitcoin price and payment but the value was not worth much then. That 0.08 btc would be worth less than $100 which today's $0.015btc is higher. It is the same way people will look at today's payment in future and compare them and then think those people today earned much.

[hd49728]

OP made a decent efforts to scrap all signature campaigns on the forum. I appreciated his time and efforts. If OP can move further and if he has time to do this in such dull time in the pandemic, would he mind including maximum of payments in BTC and in USDT over signature campaign history? I know this is a time-consuming work for OP.

Does the topic belongs to Beginners & Help? In my opinion, it belongs to the Meta board.

[gentlemand]

OP made a decent efforts to scrap all signature campaigns on the forum. I appreciated his time and efforts. If OP can move further and if he has time to do this in such dull time in the pandemic, would he mind including maximum of payments in BTC and in USDT over signature campaign history? I know this is a time-consuming work for OP.

Sheesh. I'd want a major payday to slog through that lot. That would take untold amounts of time.

[pixie85]

Hah, there were nice days in which you was able to recieve 0.1 btc/month...

There were much better paying campaigns. Some offered 0.4 -0.5 BTC per month. Imagine earning 5000 dollars a month for posting on a forum!

But there's more! Years ago there were no such strict rules for posting in certain sections or x posts a week. You were often paid once a month and could post anywhere you wanted to.

Easy money if you were around in 2013 and 2014 and were able to hold it for a few years.

What intersts me is the anumber of scam businesses that were promoted this way.

[hd49728]

There were much better paying campaigns. Some offered 0.4 -0.5 BTC per month. Imagine earning 5000 dollars a month for posting on a forum!

But there's more! Years ago there were no such strict rules for posting in certain sections or x posts a week. You were often paid once a month and could post anywhere you wanted to.

Easy money if you were around in 2013 and 2014 and were able to hold it for a few years.

What intersts me is the anumber of scam businesses that were promoted this way.

Payments from campaigns should be converted to fiat when you consider them as income. Because people (participants) have their financial need to spend their payments. So in a nutshell, 0.4 - 0.5 BTC per month as payments years ago was not worth $4000 or $5000. Of course, I as well as you and maybe others will look at past campaigns' payment rates in BTC and wish if we were here in that period but it is life. Even with participants of those campaigns, they did not actually earn $4000 - $5000 per month. I meant the earning from campaigns should be put in right contexts of BTC price.

[UserU]

There were much better paying campaigns. Some offered 0.4 -0.5 BTC per month. Imagine earning 5000 dollars a month for posting on a forum!

But there's more! Years ago there were no such strict rules for posting in certain sections or x posts a week. You were often paid once a month and could post anywhere you wanted to.

Easy money if you were around in 2013 and 2014 and were able to hold it for a few years.

What intersts me is the anumber of scam businesses that were promoted this way.

I wonder if the forum was like Cryptotalk way back when you mentioned there were no post restrictions. Even with the current ones in place, we still see those posters aplenty.

[romero121]

I'd love to see somebody grab the spreadsheets for all that data and produce some insights, like the following;

1. Top 10 users by number of campaigns participated in
2. Most loyal signature wearer (user that stayed with one campaign the longest)
3. Most earned by a single member through signature campaigns for each user level
4. Highest paying campaign of all time
5. Campaign by most amount of money paid out (total)
6. Signature campaign managers by number of campaigns run

Five merits for anybody who produces two or more of these insights. PM me in case I don't see it myself.

This is really a hard thing to produce the data. Few of the things can be made, which is highly time consuming.
Probably will try to make data on at least two of the mentioned.

[cryptoaddictchie]

I'd love to see somebody grab the spreadsheets for all that data and produce some insights, like the following;

1. Top 10 users by number of campaigns participated in
2. Most loyal signature wearer (user that stayed with one campaign the longest)
3. Most earned by a single member through signature campaigns for each user level
4. Highest paying campaign of all time
5. Campaign by most amount of money paid out (total)
6. Signature campaign managers by number of campaigns run

Five merits for anybody who produces two or more of these insights. PM me in case I don't see it myself.

These can be done, but it would take a lot of effort to compile all files and do the necessary research. I assume many can do it but I dont think they will prioritize anything out of campaign. But just in case they did, I am not only going to merit for 5 but more cause extracting and making all data acquisition for this could take very long. They will be needed to review all threads including payment history on sheets. I think this can be done by @Dmdrdmr and @tranthidung as they were the most specialist on data and reports. Even @LoyceV too but Im not sure if they will be interested to do these.


_{Thumbs up OP for a huge effort.}

[aioc]

Gambling signature campaigns are the best campaign to earned they paid good money and they are long term campaign like Bitvest and 777, Chipmixer is probably the highest, the one thing that I am really hoping is those ICO campaigns will pay Bitcoin eth or other tradeable coins in the market