Bitcoin.org is looking for sponsorship!

[Cøbra]

Description: Bitcoin.org is considering looking for a new sponsor. By sponsoring Bitcoin.org your website or business will be promoted at the footer of the website (where the Bitcoin Foundation logo is currently placed). The slot won't be shared with others and the minimum purchase time is 6 months. We aren't interested in working with certain types of services, these include porn sites, gambling sites, large mining pools, anything altcoin related, and suspicious services of low quality.

Traffic statistics: The site receives roughly between one million to two million unique visitors per month. On certain days when Bitcoin is featured heavily in the media, we can get a very large amount of visitors. For example the Newsweek situation had us pushing 200,000 unique visitors in the span of 24 hours. The traffic is largely made up of new users who are interested in Bitcoin and come to learn more about it and get involved. By purchasing the slot you are likely to be the first Bitcoin related "brand" or service they see. You are also likely to experience significant SEO improvements as you will have your site linked to by Bitcoin.org on every page of the site.

Where your money will be spent: The money you use to sponsor Bitcoin.org will go towards the following: design improvements, server fees, rewarding valued volunteers, translation improvements and stuff of that nature. You will be directly funding improvements on one of the most important resources to the Bitcoin community.

If interested, please email sponsorship@bitcoin.org. Alternatively you can private message me or contact Saivann (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=73755). We look forward to hearing from you!

[Cøbra]

Bump.

[Parsons]

6m seems a lot up front, how  many figures arr you expecting

[Justin00]

Bitcoin Foundation running out of money ?
:~(

[blockgenesis]

Cøbra: Thanks for starting the thread and spending some time on this!

[roslinpl]

Bitcoin Foundation running out of money ?
:~(

yes well this is interesting...

I though that Bitcoin.org is sponsored by Foundation ...

I think people from Bitcoin Foundation are not poor ... but perhaps wealthy, isn't?

I though that for them few BTCs is not enough to keep Bitcoin.org nicely developed ...


Anyway, good luck with finding someone who will help you and Bitcoin.org - I am out of money and hardly trying to manage founds for my own web sites (like btc-embassy.com) - so I dunno how to help....

Regards.

[blockgenesis]

Bitcoin Foundation running out of money ?
:~(

yes well this is interesting...

I though that Bitcoin.org is sponsored by Foundation ...

I think people from Bitcoin Foundation are not poor ... but perhaps wealthy, isn't?

I though that for them few BTCs is not enough to keep Bitcoin.org nicely developed ...


Anyway, good luck with finding someone who will help you and Bitcoin.org - I am out of money and hardly trying to manage founds for my own web sites (like btc-embassy.com) - so I dunno how to help....

Regards.

Thanks! Your help is welcome if you want to contribute on GitHub

But don't worry, AFAIK the Foundation is wiling to renew the sponsorship, we're just taking a look for alternatives.

For example, perhaps this sponsorship can be useful to some business in the space or bring some more money in the ecosystem, and allow the Foundation to spend more money on stuff that is generally harder to fund like open-source development, lobbying, etc.

[BitCoinDream]

6m seems a lot up front, how  many figures arr you expecting

Do u mean they are asking for 6 million USD equivalent in BTC for this spot ?

[Cøbra]

6m seems a lot up front, how  many figures arr you expecting

Five figures.

[roslinpl]

Well ... to have an advert @ Bitcoin.org that's must be very heavy traffic maker for sure
Maybe one day I will be able to pay for it but it seems a lot of money anyway ....

There are many wealthy Bitcoiners around so perhaps someone will consider to contribute with his BTCs.

Wish you all best. Bitcoin.org was 1st Bitcoin related page which I visit after heard about BTC.
So ... for me it is like a cradle.  Next one was Bitcoin.pl which I believe is not donated enough by Bitcoiners too...
Well ... maybe one day Bitcoin related portals admins will get what they need.


ps.
Hey btw. when you are here together I will ask you cause I sent you an e-mail but never got reply...

Is http://www.youtube.com/user/weusecoins a channel that belongs to you?

There is a video that you have on your main page as you know ...

I wanted to play this video on my BTC Online Embassy but I don't know is it acceptable by it's license..
Perhaps you do know something about it as you are playing this video on Bitcoin.org.

Kind regards.
-Roslinpl

[blockgenesis]

Well ... to have an advert @ Bitcoin.org that's must be very heavy traffic maker for sure
Maybe one day I will be able to pay for it but it seems a lot of money anyway ....

There are many wealthy Bitcoiners around so perhaps someone will consider to contribute with his BTCs.

Wish you all best. Bitcoin.org was 1st Bitcoin related page which I visit after heard about BTC.
So ... for me it is like a cradle.  Next one was Bitcoin.pl which I believe is not donated enough by Bitcoiners too...
Well ... maybe one day Bitcoin related portals admins will get what they need.


ps.
Hey btw guys when you are here together I will ask you cause I sent you an e-mail but never got reply...

Is http://www.youtube.com/user/weusecoins a channel that belongs to you?

There is a video that you have on your main page as you know ...

I wanted to play this video on my BTC Online Embassy but I don't know is it acceptable by it's license..
Perhaps you do know something about it as you are playing this video on Bitcoin.org.

Kind regards.
-Roslinpl

Thanks for the kind words!

WeUseCoins and bitcoin.org are two completely separate projects. I'll send you a private message to keep this thread focused on the sponsorship.

[WheelKing]

I have mid 4 figures for 3 months just to see if it works out, That is if you are cool with a betting site as a sponsor.

[gweedo]

We aren't interested in working with certain types of services, these include porn sites, gambling sites, large mining pools, anything altcoin related, and suspicious services of low quality.

Yet the foundation is a extremely low quality and is made up of suspicious services... Why the hate against these services? I mean Erik ran a gambling site, and he turned out to be a good person. Bitcoin is for everyone, but yet the domain doesn't support these services, that bitcoin gave new life to some of them.

Does sirius still own this domain? I really hope someone other than the greedy bitcoin foundation has this domain.



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[Pkuwag]

Bitcoin Foundation running out of money ?
:~(

Is it impossible that short of money

[Cøbra]

Yet the foundation is a extremely low quality and is made up of suspicious services... Why the hate against these services? I mean Erik ran a gambling site, and he turned out to be a good person. Bitcoin is for everyone, but yet the domain doesn't support these services, that bitcoin gave new life to some of them.

I don't hold a grudge against the types of services I listed in my original post. It's just not possible to get a change pushed through the Github repository in which the slot is occupied by one of those types of services.

[redwhitenblue]

Bitcoin Foundation running out of money ?
:~(

I don't think the bitcoin foundation controls bitcoin.org, I thought that I read that either coinbase or bitpay controls the domain (I forget which)

[gweedo]

Bitcoin Foundation running out of money ?
:~(

I don't think the bitcoin foundation controls bitcoin.org, I thought that I read that either coinbase or bitpay controls the domain (I forget which)

Blockchain.info owns bitcoin.com, this is for bitcoin.org, which was owned by sirius but sadly I think has been moved to the foundation's hands.

[BitCoinDream]

Bitcoin Foundation running out of money ?
:~(

I don't think the bitcoin foundation controls bitcoin.org, I thought that I read that either coinbase or bitpay controls the domain (I forget which)

Blockchain.info owns bitcoin.com, this is for bitcoin.org, which was owned by sirius but sadly I think has been moved to the foundation's hands.

I think bitcoin.org is not owned by foundation. If it were, this thread would not have been created for a sponsorship that would replace foundation itself.

By the way, I wonder, why they are not using adsense, buysellads or other interesting programs, if monetization is required.

[enhu]

Adsense may not be appropriate for such.
maybe the .org should have their own forum so they can monetize themselves.

[forsakenpnut]

I would suggest looking into ad networks.