This is really good point -- these buttons really ARE advertisements. Personally, I've had a hard time figuring out how to get any ads on my personal blog. The

This is really good point -- these buttons really ARE advertisements. Personally, I've had a hard time figuring out how to get any ads on my personal blog. The costs of hosting are very low (about $75 including AWS, a cheap SSL cert, and DNS). It should be easy to break even However, because my blog has so few impressions and is hosted on a subdomain (bryce.fisher-fleig.org) I can't use Google Adsense. Flattr or Coinbase could be great for hard-monetize situations.