Topic: Blockchain.info - Bitcoin Block explorer & Currency Statistics - page 160. (Read 482345 times)

Hi,

I just browsed through the massive amount of charts at http://blockchain.info/charts . Really great

May I suggest one more? "Bitcoin Miners operating margin" sounds interesting but as electricity costs are a very wide range I'd like to see a graph:
"$$ mined per day with a 1Gh rig"
As you know many people switched off their mining. Today less than 70% of the machines that mined before are running today. The graph I suggested helps them decide when to switch back on as they know their costs.

If you could add the current USD price of BTC at the time of each block that would be useful.

Needs a support service, like UserVoice or something.   Maybe OSQA (Python, open source)?

So that this thread doesn't get the minutia, such as this:
  http://www.blockchain.info.  (trailing dot messes things)

please tell me you mean an actual usable app with the same features as the site?

Should be ok now.

Resumed development again today, started alerts & iPhone app

Chart data is stuck?  Flatlined at 0 for current day (on charts where market price is used).  [edited]

I can't load Blockchain.info website today. it is turning in browser but I don't get website.

i can't even find the FAQ link he posted above.

You might want to mention fees on the 'wallet' page. I was aware of fees and yet couldn't find it.

what version are you on ? i have the same issue with 0.5.1 (client and daemon - linux), it stalls block receiving for hours with over 40 active connections. Never had this happen on 0.4 though

Fees are on the FAQ http://blockchain.info/wallet/faq and shown before you send a transaction.


Blocks seem to be stalling occasionally, not sure why. I'm on holiday until the 3rd so can not take a look until then.

Perhaps you can charge for your web services that has the bitcoin data.  In a couple of months I will need a service to get this data reliably.  Would be willing to share any profits, if I make any.

is piuk still charging a 1% fee?  i don't see it listed anywhere on his site.

Ha!  This is awesome.  I am able to create a Send transaction to spend the funds received to My Wallet immediately -- before there is one confirmation even!

why does the last address under Receive Money "not sync" until i generate another address?

I don't think it's testing for you. It's new users testing your site for themselves to understand how it works and gain trust. I know for me it takes time to gain faith that this is workable for me. Even though I know you're not offering the same technology as MyBitcoin.com (whose name is already fading into bitdust) each new user has to trust the site, test it, see how well it works for them and then hopefully tell all their friends.

There is still an element of trust here as it's possible that one day JS code gets swapped and the user doesn't know. It's also possible to be the target of fake sites or CSS or MITM attacks.

I tend to favour a variant of the last suggested. Basic service, free. More features, pay.
But you wouldn't want to base it on transaction count as it's easy for someone to push a bunch of low value trx. just to get the features enabled.

Maybe indicate an optional fee as editable value. Then have a link to a menu of monthly fee vs. features. Users can choose to pay more or less but features are enabled according to past contributions (maybe over some window period). Maybe counted as credits instead of btc so you can revalue them easily.

I would have thought that google ads (text only) would have been a low-key more profitable revenue stream though. I've used that and at first it's peanuts but when you have thousands/millions of regular visitors it is huge. Look at PlentyofFish.com making $1 million/month with 2 million users (few years back now). You have the potential here that when Bitcoin really catches on, and you have situated yourself as the dominant wallet player due to exposure and feature set, you may end up with millions of regulars. You wouldn't want to lose the dominant position because users went elsewhere due to no fees.

I think also you could take a lesson from the Paypal play book. They don't charge to send money, only to receive it - because businesses see value in being able to receive more money but buyers are turned off by fees. Same goes for credit cards.

There are probably lots of creative value added features that could be charged for. Some you mention but also maybe escrow or advanced management, merchant services, reporting etc.

Yes washing multiple users' laundry simultaneously so that I get Unle Tom's underwear and Sally receives my socks.


Might work if not too complicated/intrusive. Limiting the wallet byte size and transaction frequency could align proportional to your own costs.

Scrambler? Do you mean a laundry type service?

The site already has advertising from cryptoexchange. Their Ad fits well into the design and is reputable, I don't want to have to add load of crappy Ads which just annoy people.


The problem with having fees for only large transactions is as I have no control over people's private keys they can just sign them using some other method. if the fee for transaction is 1 cent but it takes ten minutes to export your keys and sign tow transaction using some other method then your probably not going to bother, but if the fee is $10 then it is worth the extra time.

Another proposal:

Fees are optionally selected with a checkbox on the send transaction form. Making a certain number of paid transactions unlocks features in the interface. For example:

1 paid transaction per month enables live updating via web sockets.

2 paid transactions per month increases max number of addresses to 1000

3 paid transactions per month enables notifications

Might help encourage people to actually spend their bitcoins as well.