Topic: The mysterious bitcoin flower opens once a day and reveals a free bitcoin - page 2. (Read 18326 times)

Yes, I placed Google Adsense and will leave it running for another 2 days. This is to get a rough feeling on how much revenue could be made with non-bitcoin ads.
Ad placement will get back to bitcoin-related ads on 24th of August and price will be i bitcoin for 24 hours as intended in the beginning.

I noticed referral ID in this ad, so possible that flower's admin haven't found advertiser and posted reflink.

Another concern is Google Ads. When I opened my service Dailybitcoins.org I have asked at Google Ads forum about suitability of my site for this program. They answered that accepted are only websites with original text content and Dailybitcoins.org does not qualify. Although virtually I can place Google Ads, they could suspend my account and forfeit funds at any time. Bitcoinflower.com is very similar to my site (identical idea, just different design) so probably its admin will have big trouble with receiving funds from Google.

Today I notice the bitcoinflower sponsor is ibfx  'a provider of online forex trading services'

I'm curious.. did this advertiser specifically choose to advertise on the bitcoinflower.com site, or are you just using some ad system so that this mob just happened to land a spot here?   

Perhaps you care for a hit of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jGaio87u3A

Dude... We did! But it was in "De Bitcoin Code" (DBE).


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Dude...don't make me look up what the hell a mandelbrot set is when I'm stoned...They should put some kind of epileptic warning message on this stuff..

Wonderful idea. I like the fun aspect of it.

I thought of something similar a while back. Might take a fair bit of coding though. It might be called The Mandelpot. It's like a treasure hunt for pots of gold (acctualy bitcoin prizes), randomly distibuted through an online rendering of the mandelbrot set. You would have to zoom in a bit to find the smaller bitcoin 'pots of gold' and explore the set even more carefully to find biger prizes. The colective prize money would replaced regularly as it is won, but randomly split so that the smaller chunks appear closer to 1:1 scale (say at a minimum of 100:1 for 100 satoshis), while a larger chunk would be calculated to be hiden deeper (say 1,000,000:1 for a 0.1 bitcoin prize). You can explore the set for as long as you please, but when you login you agree to have your GPU/CPU harvested for some machine cycles to generate bitcoin. So it's actualy a casual bitcoin mining farm also. While you are exploring you might notice various sponsorship ads swimming into view amidst the sweeping tendrills of the mandelbrot set. Also some of the pots might have a generous vouchers of genuine discount/gifts/introductory offers from the sponsors, rather than straight out bitcoin prizes.

I think this could be made so that bots have no better chance of finding the pots than the humans, but as long as they are there, they too have to contribute machine cycles to play, so they would contribute to the prize pool as much as (or more than) they are harvesting from it. The more hashing power you have the more quickly you can zoom, scroll, render and such, so it should possible to ballance the odds if done properly.

If somebody wants to code this up, I'd likely to be quite willing to put a reasonable sum of bitcoin in to help launch it. What would the coding for something like that be worth?

-DiamondPlus

Chrome?

firefox probably has an extension.
in opera just right click, select reload every, and choose custom time to auto refresh.
IE.. i just don't care.. and firefox i am just guessing. opera for the win.

This ---> http://www.myrefresher.com/  I didn't check on the price, but wanted to show such an animal exist.

Right now you have to refresh manually.

does the page auto refresh to show the open flower, Or do i have to keep tapping F5

WOW! ---> http://chartbeat.com/dashboard2/?url=bitcoinflower.com&k=45d4156495a40de15a8d84966ccbb28b#

You are right and I know that 2 BTC is much for 10K impressions. I wanted to go with 1 BTC, but here's the reason I had to raise the price:
I implemented an anti-bot method which is using lots of processing power from my cloud server hence generating real cost for me.

However, my ultimate goal is to bring down ad price to 1 BTC per day or increase traffic so that 2 BTC is a reasonable price.

2 BTC per day is very expensive. According to you stats, your flower generates about 10k impressions per day, i.e. you charge 0.2 BTC ($2) per 1000 impressions. First time you may get enough advertisers, but soon you would need to reduce the price.

I will definitely buy at least 1 one day banner ad at http://www.bitcoinflower.com/ once I get Bitcoin Leather's website up and running, because...


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Wow it's growing fast lol, thanks for making the stats page, at least we'll know how CPM it cost to advertise on the site.

THanks a lot for this service again

maxmint, I believe that the CDT comment by julz was directed toward me, which I've already address. It was my bad!

Since the site is only 3 days old I can't give really meaningful stats yet. But this is what Google Analytics tracked for the 24 hours of yesterday:
Unique visits: 1647
Pageviews: 9692
Average time on site: 10 minutes 44 seconds

I can't tell how many of these visitors are bots, but I think a great deal of them are real people as the current ad gets a nice click through rate (I don't think bots are clicking ads).
For those of you how would like to sponsor the flower, I just set up a simple banner booking system:
http://www.bitcoinflower.com/ads/

Absolutely right, thanks for pointing this out. I'll change that.


No, I don't build instruments myself but your concept sound kind of cool – let's discuss this via PM
Also, I'm still having the animated flower you suggested on my list but did not find the time yet to implement.

Very good point. I'm the one who made that faux pas (opted for the French word/phrase here since this is a global site). I first typed EST? but thought that didn't look right, deciding to go with the US timezone I live in--CDT (boy, I really screwed this up--I meant CST). The whole time I was writing/editing that sentence, I was thinking about using a Coordinated Universal Time, but didn't think that would CUT the mustard. I almost went with GMT, but didn't want to take the time to see if I spelled it correctly like I should of done with CDT. Either (or is it either) way, I felt the gist of the idea would come through. I believe it has, for I think I already read one comment on my idea.

Now, let's recap what we have so far: (remind me what I missed so that I can add it to the list)

• A Rotating Banner Ad
• Open More Than Once a Day
• Script to Fool the Bots
• Make it Animated

As an aside, maxmint, I just saw your music video. I like your voice but, moreover, I like your look (not in a gay way--not that the word gay is bad [got to cover all bases on this board]). Do you build any homemade musical instruments? I'm forming a group of musicians that build and play their own musical instruments--not the cheap plastic types, but good sounding instruments. I have an IN over at AGT that could get the group to the top 10, provided the sound is spot on. I already have the name of the group (secret) and the gimmick that will spring it to the Top 10. I'm hunting members now (in my spare time--haha, thanks to Bitcoin).

To give you an idea of what I have in the works, I'll show you these two images:


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