I've already posted this in the Italian section
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/idea-raddoppiare-ogni-volta-che-viene-affittato-uno-spazio-pubblicitario-1196095 but since this would be an international thing, I wanted to post it here too. I've only made an ASCII mockup and I'm shaping it with your opinions and suggestions like it's already happening in the Italian section.
So, the website's structure would be like the following (empty spots means that they're ads):
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| home | how it works | members | blog | faq | terms and conditions |
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Ads from California (based on your position). change
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| 1BTC | | 1BTC | | 5BTC | | 1BTC | | 9BTC | | 1BTC | | 1BTC |
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| | | rent | | | | rent | | | | rent | | rent |
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| rent | | rent | | | | rent | | | | rent | | rent |
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| rent | | rent | | rent | | rent | | | | rent | | rent |
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| rent | | rent | | rent | | rent | | rent | | rent | | rent |
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footer copyright etc
I'm going to explain how it works in ASCII; let's take an empty column. The starting price is 5mBTC (or 0.005BTC):
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| 5mBTC |
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| rent |
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The first advertiser rents an ad spot in that column for, you guessed, 5mBTC, and the price for the next advertiser will be 10mBTC.
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| 10mBTC |
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| | <-- first advertiser's ad
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| rent |
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The next advertiser (second one) rents that space for 10mBTC from which 5mBTC go to the first advertiser, which will be pushed one spot down the second one. The price will now double to 20mBTC. It goes on the same way until all the spots are taken. The first advertiser, having been refunded of his 5mBTC can choose between taking the first spot again pushing everyone down, or be satisfied having had free advertising.
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| 20mBTC |
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| | <-- second advertiser ad |
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------------- +5mBTC
| | <-- first advertiser ad |
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| rent |
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When all the columns are all taken, the last advertisers will be refunded of 25% and will have the right to repay the remaining 75% in the first spot at the next rounds spread over 75 rounds. This means that if the last advertiser paid $15, he'll be refunded of $3.75 and will have $0.15 in the first spot for 75 rounds, totaling $11.25 and repaying 100% of his spent BTC's.
What's your take, opinions and suggestions on this? I'm open to anything. Also, if this gets off the ground I'm willing to pay the one who finds the best domain name for it.