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Show HN: ClearCoin – the ad blocker that rewards you

• jeromebaek 8y ago
  Interesting idea, I'd be on board if the coin weren't so niche.
  • elwell 8y ago
    You can trade our coin on various exchanges, the biggest being HitBTC. We're trying to grow our own ad economy however. That's why our Ad Bidder platform [0] only accepts ClearCoins (XCLR) as payment for placing your ad. [0] - https://platform.clearcoin.co https://platform.clearcoin.co
• elwell 8y ago
  Our extension is open source. Check out the code here: https://github.com/clearcoin/extension https://github.com/clearcoin/extension We use the users's private key of their Ethereum wallet to sign every ad impression [0]. Combine that with our KYC requirement, and now advertisers know that every ad impression was a real person. [0] - https://github.com/clearcoin/extension/blob/dev/app/scripts/metamask-controller.js#L1055 https://github.com/clearcoin/extension/blob/dev/app/scripts/...
• circuitman 8y ago
  Interesting project elwell!
• seanwilson 8y ago
  What's to stop users faking ad views/clicks to earn coins?
  • elwell 8y ago
    You can't earn coins until you complete a KYC application. If a user's behavior is flagged as fraudulent, we ban them on a ID level. Also, to clarify, only views can earn XCLR, clicks do not.