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Topic: [ANNOUNCE] CoinWorker.com beta - earn bitcoin in minutes via tasks in browser - page 4. (Read 13286 times)

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proprietor of http://coinworker.com
New stuff just added:

  • A new 'Extended Address' option, which lets you mix your address with a password to prevent any possible interference with your work history by others entering the same address. (There's been no evidence of that happening, but just in case!) See http://coinworker.com/extended for details.
  • A Help/FAQ page: http://coinworker.com/help

And, there are now over 20 kinds of tasks available, ranging from flagging adult images (3 points) to "Search for terms and record the search results" (32 points).

{Warge
member
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proprietor of http://coinworker.com
Suggestion: an option to delay payment until a certain amount is reached.

That's definitely under consideration.

During original testing, every task was paid individually... no matter how small.

Now, payments are batched (currently every 20 minutes) to minimize network transaction count/costs. So there will be some combination of smaller amounts into a single payment for busy users.

What don't you like about many small quick payments? What threshold would you suggest?

I might go to a system where balances under a certain threshold must reach a certain age (perhaps up to one full day) before being paid. But, balances over a certain threshold would be paid as soon as possible. If that were the system, what do you think would be a good threshold?

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legendary
Activity: 1736
Merit: 1006
Suggestion: an option to delay payment until a certain amount is reached.


No kidding!

24 micro payments? yuck.
newbie
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Merit: 0
Suggestion: an option to delay payment until a certain amount is reached.
member
Activity: 94
Merit: 10
proprietor of http://coinworker.com
These jobs seems highly difficult for me to do. Any chance that you will have easier work for bitcoiners to do?

There's no way to predict in advance what tasks will be offered. Most tasks that I've seen have involved a lot of search result or text interpretation. I expect there will some that are more visual in nature or involve writing as well.

Also, at one point during early testing I saw a large batch of tasks that appeared to be in German, and other regional/language targeting is said to be possible from the backend.

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legendary
Activity: 980
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These jobs seems highly difficult for me to do. Any chance that you will have easier work for bitcoiners to do?
member
Activity: 94
Merit: 10
proprietor of http://coinworker.com
Who's paying for these work anyway?

The tasks come via CrowdFlower, a San Francisco-based company that specializes in crowdsourcing... but they originate with other companies/projects/researchers/individuals.

CrowdFlower lists Microsoft, Harvard University, eBay, Random House, AT&T, and a bunch of tech startups on their 'featured customers' page:

http://crowdflower.com/customer

It's not revealed who the purchaser is behind any one task-set, so I have no idea which entities are responsible for tasks that have been offered so far at CoinWorker.

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legendary
Activity: 980
Merit: 1020
Who's paying for these work anyway?
member
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Merit: 10
proprietor of http://coinworker.com
After a long pause, there are again new tasks available. (However, regions outside North America still might not see them.) Currently on offer...

(12 points) Would you buy this item?

"Imagine you could see what people are shopping for online. Your task is to decide if you would buy an item from a list of search results."

(13 points) How relevant are these items?

"In this task you will be asked to judge several items for how well they match a given search query. To do well at this task you will want to use all the available information displayed in the search and the product listing to decide whether the item matches the intent of the query."

There's a good chance of more task diversity soon as well.

{Warge
member
Activity: 94
Merit: 10
proprietor of http://coinworker.com
In the UK: No tasks available here...
Also what's going on here... looks like somebody has been cheating the system:

Sorry there's not yet any tasks for your region.

Regarding those earnings, rates and totals of activity are being watched for anything suspicious. Note that the 'earned' times aren't exactly when tasks were completed, but when reporting catches up. (It's also the case that if there are reporting hiccups, several tasks' earnings could be rolled into one line: for example, even with only 22-point tasks, you might see a 66-point or larger earnings report under certain network conditions.)

So a burst of apparently super-human earnings may not in fact be any sort of cheating. Still, I welcome reports of anything that appears anomalous. (Thanks again if you are also the person who tweeted this log to @CoinWorking.) Part of the idea of having the logs in the open, like the Bitcoin blockchain itself, is to enable a public discussion of the possibilities.

(Depending on the level of interest and any issues that come up, there could be things like minimum delays/thresholds to be paid, probationary periods for new addresses, a more involved sign-up, and so forth in the future. But for as long as possible I'd like to run with the pure approach: "I only need your address and your thinking!")

{Warge

sr. member
Activity: 322
Merit: 251
In the UK: No tasks available here...
Also what's going on here... looks like somebody has been cheating the system:


Those aren't txid hashes ... those are wallet hashes, lol.
sr. member
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CEO of Privex Inc. (www.privex.io)
In the UK: No tasks available here...
Also what's going on here... looks like somebody has been cheating the system:
member
Activity: 94
Merit: 10
proprietor of http://coinworker.com
gave it a try...but there was no tasks available

It's possible the back-end provider varies the offerings by region/browser, so everyone may not see the same set of tasks. That's my guess why you wouldn't have seen any, while others (and my automatic poll which feeds the 'Tasks Available' indicator on the homepage) see tasks.

I'm taking the steps to get a larger variety of tasks, and some might even be targeted at speakers of other languages. I'll update this thread and the @CoinWorking twitter account whenever a big change like that occurs.

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sr. member
Activity: 322
Merit: 251
gave it a try...but there was no tasks available

I was able to get right into a task. Pretty neat!
member
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Merit: 10
gave it a try...but there was no tasks available
member
Activity: 94
Merit: 10
proprietor of http://coinworker.com
Hello!

I've made a new service where anyone can earn bitcoin in a web browser.

You enter your payment address, perform analytic tasks that a paying company needs completed, and receive bitcoin as a reward soon afterward. (In minutes, when all is working.)

You could think of it as mining with your own mind, rather than a specialized GPU.

http://CoinWorker.com

I initially announced it on the Newbie board (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60769.0;all) a couple weeks ago. There was good feedback and I worked through a few issues, and now would  love for more people to try it out and let me know what they think.

Thanks!

{Warge @Geoshington
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