[ANNOUNCE] CoinUploads.com - File storage and sharing for Bitcoin

gweedo

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Quote from: Lip on December 21, 2012, 04:44:23 PM

Want to support the Bitcoin fundation? Just leave blank your bitcoin address and we donate all your earnings.

You may want to re-think that or can you put on the site if someone has chosen that option, cause a lot of bitcoiner's views do not align to those of the foundation, and really would not like to support them at this time.

sega01

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Very nice site! I had the same idea today, to find you guys already did it and made a very nice job of it :-).

I'm curious, how many files do you get per day? Do you have any other stats?

Lip

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New features:

Want to support the Bitcoin fundation? Just leave blank your bitcoin address and we donate all your earnings.
Easy file uploads: just upload your file and set your price .
Affiliate program (35% instant payout after each download): you can earn commission on other people uploads. Just put your bitcoin address at the end of the url (?ref=YOUR_BITCOIN_ADDRESS)

videos4btc

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I believe the downloads are broken! :/

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You should manually approve accounts but everything else should be manual.

Agreed. And got what you meant ha.. Grin

Sorry, we are sort of hijacking coinuploads thread here ...

videos4btc

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I guess your service will be super successful if you do it right. My ideas of what might go wrong:

Thanks! I hope so also should give good exposure to Bitcoin!

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The competition will have a nicer site online faster than you

There is always that possibility but I figured why not go out a on a limb and give it a go first mover type thing!

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You run into legal fun over not paying taxes or child porn on your site

Taxes will be paid on any revenue earned. The site is monetized based on advertising right now. We can prevent child porn for now because everything is manual for the moment just
for that reason but good point!

She is doing pretty good so far over $5+ earned for her so far (1) video clip and is in the process of making a few more. Stay tune and thanks for the support!

edit: another one should be popping up very soon! I'll see if we can do " free teasers" although I think the lowest coinupload goes is 1 cent? so not totally free...

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Quote from: videos4btc on November 25, 2012, 10:06:22 PM

Thanks Giszmo! All the things you mentioned are in the works! Just getting it out there to start but I agree getting the clients hungry is a good idea! Yes, was afraid people might think that :/ Thanks for the feedback.

I guess your service will be super successful if you do it right. My ideas of what might go wrong:

The competition will have a nicer site online faster than you
You run into legal fun over not paying taxes or child porn on your site

videos4btc

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Quote from: giszmo on November 25, 2012, 09:47:39 PM

Quote from: videos4btc on November 25, 2012, 05:26:18 PM

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videos4btc.info just started to use our API. Very cool example how can you use embedded downloads.

Thanks, coinuploads. Works very good have had a few purchases! Wink

You two I wanted to talk to:
CoinUploads: I wanted to try your service but uploading a small gif fails. Tried another which failed the same way. Both result in a promising progress bar that suddenly resets to 0% and then at 60% again it shows an alert about a failed upload.
All the fuzz around Kim.Com should accept bitcoin got this thing started, huh? Wish you all the luck to get it smoother. A lot smoother. I guess it could be a mega big thing Wink

videos4btc: Showing 4 photos with nothing at all to it will not get your clients attention. Allow the girls to upload teaser material, a profile, a guest book, ...
Generally have the first 20s of videos for free or do something else to get your clients hungry. As is, it looks like a cheap scam to get people to send you some coins.

Thanks Giszmo! All the things you mentioned are in the works! Just getting it out there to start but I agree getting the clients hungry is a good idea! Yes, was afraid people might think that :/ Thanks for the feedback.

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Quote from: videos4btc on November 25, 2012, 05:26:18 PM

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videos4btc.info just started to use our API. Very cool example how can you use embedded downloads.

Thanks, coinuploads. Works very good have had a few purchases! Wink

You two I wanted to talk to:
CoinUploads: I wanted to try your service but uploading a small gif fails. Tried another which failed the same way. Both result in a promising progress bar that suddenly resets to 0% and then at 60% again it shows an alert about a failed upload.
All the fuzz around Kim.Com should accept bitcoin got this thing started, huh? Wish you all the luck to get it smoother. A lot smoother. I guess it could be a mega big thing Wink

videos4btc: Showing 4 photos with nothing at all to it will not get your clients attention. Allow the girls to upload teaser material, a profile, a guest book, ...
Generally have the first 20s of videos for free or do something else to get your clients hungry. As is, it looks like a cheap scam to get people to send you some coins.

videos4btc

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videos4btc.info just started to use our API. Very cool example how can you use embedded downloads.

Thanks, coinuploads. Works very good have had a few purchases! Wink

Lip

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Quote from: btcworkers on November 04, 2012, 09:03:46 PM

More importantly, where are your keys stored?

The secret encryption key is stored in the URL now. Not even us are able to decrypt your files without the key. This is a powerful feature.

videos4btc.info just started to use our API. Very cool example how can you use embedded downloads.

Lip

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Quick update

Reddit discussion about CoinUploads:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/12lviz/coinuploads_file_storage_and_sharing_for_bitcoin/

New feature coming soon: embedded downloads.

Let your website visitors pay and download without leaving your website.

Demo:
http://www.coinuploads.com/embedded_download.html

btcworkers

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Quote from: Sukrim on November 04, 2012, 09:45:49 AM

Quote from: Lip on November 04, 2012, 05:15:33 AM

Quote from: Sukrim on November 03, 2012, 05:18:51 PM

Anyways: How are the keys for the files generated?

It's a random string not hash

Of which length and how generated (/dev/random, /dev/urandom, some library...)?!
How and where are these keys stored?

He said AES-256, which means the key size is always 256 bits.

Quote from: Lip on November 04, 2012, 05:15:33 AM

Quote from: Sukrim on November 03, 2012, 05:18:51 PM

Anyways: How are the keys for the files generated?

It's a random string not hash

More importantly, where are your keys stored?

starsoccer9

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would be very cool feature if you make it so we can list the download for free and put ads to make money in btc. for example using coinads or w.e.

Sukrim

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Quote from: Lip on November 04, 2012, 05:15:33 AM

Quote from: Sukrim on November 03, 2012, 05:18:51 PM

Anyways: How are the keys for the files generated?

It's a random string not hash

Of which length and how generated (/dev/random, /dev/urandom, some library...)?!
How and where are these keys stored?

All in all the only thing that this encryption is good for is that if someone gets onto one of your storage nodes, the attacker still needs to break the database with your key(s). All the data can be decrypted without the uploader's knowledge by you and it gets transmitted in plaintext over the net... this leads me to https support: planned?

Also in the end all you do is provide a front-end to AWS... make sure you don't get a high bill because someone writes a script to upload billions of 1 byte files *cough*...

By the way:
I upload a file, don't enter a bitcoin address and close the web page - what happens?! File gets deleted, file gets deleted after 1 week, ...?!

Flowz

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Bitcoin = Money for the people, by the people.

I like it! I might use it to sell some products of mine later on!

Lip

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Quote from: Sukrim on November 03, 2012, 05:18:51 PM

Anyways: How are the keys for the files generated?

It's a random string not hash

FreeMoney

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Strength in numbers

Typo under "Earn Money", "Receive your it on your Bitcoin address after every download."

And I'm not an expert but I don't think a colon is appropriate here in the FAQ, maybe a semicolon or a separate sentence.

"Bitcoin uses peer-to-peer technology to operate with no central authority: managing transactions and issuing money are carried out collectively by the network."

ryu-fk

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well done great idea

gweedo

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Quote from: Sukrim on November 03, 2012, 05:18:51 PM

Quote from: Lip on October 31, 2012, 03:25:14 AM

You have right. It was a serious typo. All files are AES-256 encrypted.

Seems like your first language is german...

Anyways: How are the keys for the files generated?

Edit:

Example link:
VLC 2.0.4
"Filesize: 21.9 MB (min. fee per download: $0.0213)"
I set the fee to 1 USD...
http://www.coinuploads.com/downloads/5c74eaee42dbfd9fd9700c53c9ee275a

Hashes of the original file:
Adler32: 4C253181
CRC32: A3F07BE1
MD5: E03F2F24BCA457A35E1E26732AFE4A2F
SHA-1: 0A335D3B790FD4AE3371E73806B2CDF59FB384C6
SHA-256: EC2A1B497894D6B696953DD868B2894B6DEC2AAACCD259A8D80B167A36B9CB0C

This is illegal

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However, you should know that it is STRICTLY forbidden to use the VideoLAN trademarks to spread, distribute, advertise or sell software or hardware if the license is NOT open-source (OSI meaning).

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