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Show HN: Bid with Bitcoin to write whatever you want on my web page
- sktrdie 13y agoworst idea ever?
- jbaudanza 13y agohaha.. well I guess I have nowhere to go but up then.
- thoughtpalette 13y agoReminds me of the $1 for a pixel site awhile ago, except the proceeds are charitable. How are you going to manage content? Keep highest payer up until someone bids higher? or is it time-box based?
- jbaudanza 13y agoYour content stays up for 1 hour, or until someone outbids you.
- jbaudanza 13y agoAll the proceeds are going towards wishbone.org. It's a great non-profit that helps low-income high school students attends after-school and summer programs.
- mpotter 13y agoClever! Reminds me of Million Dollar Homepage: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com
- damon_c 13y agoI have a spot on there but someone hijacked my domain when I let it expire. I guess I should deal with that eventually...
- Splendor 13y agoHijacked? http://verysmartbrothas.com/images/Do-not-think-it-means.jpeg http://verysmartbrothas.com/images/Do-not-think-it-means.jpe...
- slig 13y agoSomeone really should try that: A modern MDH powered by bitcoin.
- knapp 13y agoPeople already have: http://www.10x10bitcoin.com/ http://www.10x10bitcoin.com/ http://tenthousandbitcoinhomepage.com/ http://tenthousandbitcoinhomepage.com/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/h7b0a/remember_million_dollar_homepage_heres_one_for/ http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/h7b0a/remember_mill...
- ryanthejuggler 13y agoReminds me of http://www.displayofwealth.com/ http://www.displayofwealth.com/
- pit 13y agoThat's hilarious. It's time to cut out the act of consumption and skip right to destroying goods as a show of power: > "In the potlatch, the host in effect challenged a guest chieftain to exceed him in his 'power' to give away or to destroy goods. If the guest did not return 100 percent on the gifts received and destroy even more wealth in a bigger and better bonfire, he and his people lost face and so his 'power' was diminished." -- Wikipedia (Potlatch)
- tocomment 13y agoCool idea! I get an internal server error when I go here: http://btcbutton.com/queue http://btcbutton.com/queue
- jbaudanza 13y agoYeah, encoding issues :/ working on it
- tocomment 13y agoHow did you code up the handling of payments? Was this easy to make?
- jbaudanza 13y agoIt's pretty simple. I generated a bunch of public/private keypairs. I kept the private keys offline and I hand out public addresses when people add a message. Then I poll blockchain.info for payments.
- jbaudanza 13y agoalso, the source is on github. https://github.com/jbaudanza/singleservingbitcoin https://github.com/jbaudanza/singleservingbitcoin
- tocomment 13y agoWhich part is generating the keypairs? Is it bitcoin specific? I'm curious how it's done. I'm thinking to code up something where people can have a small amount of bitcoins donated to every URL they visit. If it ever caught one if could be a way to fund content instead of ads.
- jbaudanza 13y agoLook at the Rakefile under `task :generate_keypairs`. It's using the bitcoin-ruby gem
- tocomment 13y agoWhat if instead of going to charity, the bitcoins went to the visitors of the page? That way it could be self perpetuating?
- mcherm 13y agoOr half to charity and half to the page visitors. Then it keeps going AND does some good in the world.
- aresant 13y agoOk. <$1.00 in BTC for Hacker News front page exposure. Bit.
- jbaudanza 13y agoI've gotten 1,052 unique hits in the past 1 hour.
- nvk 13y agoMeh, sent a few extra while ago and the site stopped updating. https://blockchain.info/address/1HxzuTBUD9iEqgiFB4Mkpbo6RLJQDHrhbu https://blockchain.info/address/1HxzuTBUD9iEqgiFB4Mkpbo6RLJQ...
- jbaudanza 13y agoI've had to slow down the polling so i don't overload the blockchain.info api. Bids should be showing up though. Email me at jon@jonb.org if it isn't
- Ellipsis753 13y agoJust tried to place a message. Selling Bitcoins... I figured that there's probably a market with the visitors. It's a pity that these messages will likely all be ads... (Like my own.)
- prlambert 13y agooh ya, whatcha selling?
- Ellipsis753 13y agoI generally sell at 15% above MtGox price. We could either trade in cash face-to-face if you're near Brighton in the UK or otherwise Paypal or Bank transfer also works. If you're interested email me at Shanee753@gmail.com. :)
- nvk 13y agoGave you a few mBTC from Coinkite :)
- jere 13y ago"Internal Server Error" on the /queue page. That would actually be a pretty funny message to leave.
- simplify 13y agoLooks like the scammers are already showing up: http://i.imgur.com/5vz9Kew.png http://i.imgur.com/5vz9Kew.png Edit: added a screenshot of the actual homepage
- jbaudanza 13y agoYeah.. that's a bummer. Trying to take money from a charity :/ I haven't seen any payments to that address yet.
- rhc2104 13y agoDoes the transaction have to be confirmed? I bid .03BTC, and got on the queue in a few minutes. I added .011BTC, and the amount hasn't incremented in 15 minutes.