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I took ads off my website 12 days ago in favor of Bitcoin donations
Last week I posted ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7412174 ) how the progress of the first 6 days went on my site after taking down all traditional ads and relying strictly on BTC donations to pay for the costs of my space website ( http://www.spaceindustrynews.com ). It's been 12 days, here's what I've learned.
The reaction of the BTC community has been awesome. Thank you!
Day 1: I received 0.0125 BTC which equals ~ $8.00 USD.
Day 2: 0.0015 BTC = ~ $0.95 USD
Day 3: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD
Day 4: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD
Day 5: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD
Day 6: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD
Day 6.5: 0.1761 BTC = ~$100.00USD -SIDE NOTE: Thank you!
Day 7: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD
Day 8: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD
Day 9: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD
Day 10: 0.0054 BTC = ~$3.00USD
Day 11: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD
Day 12: 0.00 BTC = $0.00USD
What did I learn?
In that time my site my site got 73,938 Pageviews and 26 BTC donations.
I learned: Traffic doesn't = donations
I took all of your suggestions into consideration, including adding a Paypal link to donate. Not one person donated via Paypal.
Paypal Donations : $0.00
What I learned:
Though I'm pretty sure that out of those 73,938 users I'd assume that some of them have a Paypal account. After all, there are over 110,000,000 Paypal users worldwide.
I've added links to explain what bitcoin is, hopefully this will spread the word of BTC a bit to those that have never heard of it, helping its mainstream appeal.
You can see this here : http://spaceindustrynews.com/birth-of-the-universe-detected-by-scientists/4229/
THANK YOU for all the PMs, encouragement and donations.
Since I'm getting a lot of PMs about donations, you can donate at this address: 1LaZC85Atb75XRxPdreWpAhF69UFpAT1am
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