[Launch] The Million Bitcoin Homepage - Real-time pixel advertising with Bitcoin

The_Fly

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Interesting. Could you please be more specific.

This soft launch has steered the path, I'm in the process of implementing some key changes and in a few days I will be making an announcement regarding the site.

techgeek

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Lack of R&D? Some one else is doing this, but not in this format.

The_Fly

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That's to cover a single medium instance. Elastic load balancing would be a better way to reduce expenses by scaling in a more granular fashion, but this particular project doesn't justify using it.

Laugh all you like, but you've just joined the immature crowd by doing so. Well done.

b!z

legendary

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> I'm paying $100/month for it so that it can absorb spikes in traffic.

lol

The_Fly

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Thank you! Cheesy

predictbits

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Great job on the UX!

The_Fly

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Quote from: muldoonski on February 14, 2014, 06:06:45 PM

Quote from: The_Fly on February 14, 2014, 07:11:38 AM

Thanks, I need good luck.

I've spent a lot of money on hosting, SSL certificates, and advertising.

You host your domain with amazon (which includes the SSL certificates) - that's cheap. Where are you advertising?

This reeks of someone taking a years old idea and trying to grab some btc off it.

Sent to a "random charity"? Hmmm

Also... wat?

Domain/SSL cert is from GoDaddy, servers from Amazon. How is that cheap... and yes... random charity indeed...

from schema.sql...

Code:

CREATE TABLE charity_addresses(
	id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
	title CHAR(256) NOT NULL,
	address CHAR(34) NOT NULL,
	created_at TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
);

CREATE UNIQUE INDEX charity_addresses_address_unique_index ON charity_addresses(address);

INSERT INTO charity_addresses(title, address) VALUES('Sean''s Outpost', '1M72Sfpbz1BPpXFHz9m3CdqATR44Jvaydd');
INSERT INTO charity_addresses(title, address) VALUES('IndySci.org', '1DxCiQM3c3h4T7MpRtrkzfBrNPQtz3qbv7');
INSERT INTO charity_addresses(title, address) VALUES('Bitcoin 100', '1BTC1oo1J3MEt5SFj74ZBcF2Mk97Aah4ac');

and from charity_payout worker process the query is...

Code:

SELECT address FROM charity_addresses OFFSET random()*(SELECT count(*)-1 FROM charity_addresses) LIMIT 1

Now please get lost.

The_Fly

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God this is really getting boring, please behave more constructively... instead of posting your vacuous and destructive criticism.

If I was purely in it for the money I'd say "0% to charity and 0% for users to win back", that's not the case here.

I genuinely care about fair redistribution of wealth in the world, I made this site as a microcosm/metaphor of Bitcoin itself, that was the underlying principle. It is not your average pixel advertising site, this one blows the rest out the water!

Look at the clickthrough rate so far, it's damn cheap compared to any other ads (facebook, reddit) you get, plus you know that your audience is bitcoin-centric... that does have value.

Trying to "grab" money would mean a cheap shot at it, instead I've put months of work and achieved a very polished result. I'm proud of it, none of the empty criticism has put a dent in my pride (but it does offend me, hence my passionate reply).

The website is to act as a portal for many Bitcoin businesses, small and large alike. They may regulate how much they wish to spend on advertising (by the block lifetime), and if they want to spend less can buy blocks off to the edges of the map. They are given instant and real-time feedback on block clicks and visits, which would help them determine whether a continued campaign is necessary.

My project has the capability to support: website/app developers, radio shows, youtube channels, sex workers (Bitcoin does have a strong liberalist movement behind it after all), anyone wanting to link to their portfolio/resume, etc.

Natural curiosity will lead to much of the grid being explored, once populated this will be very fun indeed. Any block which is spitting out ? icons is being inspected by the current visitors.

Hosting is not "cheap", I'm paying $100/month for it so that it can absorb spikes in traffic. I've spent money on the domain, SSL certs, the CDN traffic to delivery js/css/fonts/images, and also a lot of my time. I've spent money on the advertising campaigns.

All this and I am not here demanding anything back other than basic decency and respect. Nobody is forcing you to use my website...

So go away, and don't come back posting here until you have something of value to say.

muldoonski

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Quote from: The_Fly on February 14, 2014, 07:11:38 AM

Thanks, I need good luck.

I've spent a lot of money on hosting, SSL certificates, and advertising.

You host your domain with amazon (which includes the SSL certificates) - that's cheap. Where are you advertising?

This reeks of someone taking a years old idea and trying to grab some btc off it.

Sent to a "random charity"? Hmmm

The_Fly

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What u saying brah!?

I want my 4.7% of all bitcoins that ever will be!

Tongue

(srsly face: The aim was never to make $1m, nowhere near that, I'll be happy if I reach my 50BTC and manage to give 10 or 20 BTC away to the charities)

runam0k

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Touchdown

The million satoshi homepage might have been an easier target.

The_Fly

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All the example blocks I put up have expired also and so the 3 blocks up there are genuine purchases.

I was quite pleased to see them go in, easily pleased clearly.

The_Fly

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Please note that I sent 0.1 BTC up to prepopulate with some example blocks, so my earnings are actually ~ 0.08 BTC right now.

Thought I'd say that before people start crying "GREED!"

20% to charity and 10% to the user is quite fair IMO.

The_Fly

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Thanks, I need good luck.

I wish I could have grabbed, themillionbitcoinhomepage.com but instead I could only get the-million-bitcoin-homepage.com

I've spent a lot of money on hosting, SSL certificates, and advertising.

There is nothing in the prize balance, yet, because more needs to be spent.

Currently my reserve balances stand like this:

block_earnings | 0.12661733 BTC
charity | 0.03617650 BTC
gold | 0.01808816 BTC

Charity payout happens at 1 BTC, gold will be split into 0.01 BTC blocks when it goes over 0.1 BTC

I was hoping the thought of donating to charity would have been enough, but clearly not. It's good value for money advertising given the clickthrough rate on the current ads.

hostmaster

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Quote from: hostmaster on February 14, 2014, 06:56:16 AM

Good idea but very bad practice. At least you can afford your own domain 10 dollars... if you dont trust project why you not spend 10 dollars and at thee same time ask from people to pay...

EDIT seemed me as sub domain of free services at first sight (blogspot or freehomepage) let me correct have a good luck Tongue

thx

hostmaster

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Good idea but very bad practice. At least you can afford your own domain 10 dollars... if you dont trust project why you not spend 10 dollars and at thee same time ask from people to pay...

The_Fly

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