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40 pointsjbaudanza43 comments

Just 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.)

oh ya, whatcha selling?

I 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. :)

Clever! Reminds me of Million Dollar Homepage: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com

I have a spot on there but someone hijacked my domain when I let it expire. I guess I should deal with that eventually...

Hijacked? http://verysmartbrothas.com/images/Do-not-think-it-means.jpe...

Someone really should try that: A modern MDH powered by bitcoin.

People already have:

http://www.10x10bitcoin.com/

http://tenthousandbitcoinhomepage.com/

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/h7b0a/remember_mill...

Reminds me of http://www.displayofwealth.com/

That'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)

All 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.

What if instead of going to charity, the bitcoins went to the visitors of the page?

That way it could be self perpetuating?

Or half to charity and half to the page visitors. Then it keeps going AND does some good in the world.

"Internal Server Error" on the /queue page.

That would actually be a pretty funny message to leave.

I tried but somebody replaced it

Ok i think i fixed it now.. thanks!

Looks like the scammers are already showing up: http://i.imgur.com/5vz9Kew.png

Edit: added a screenshot of the actual homepage

Yeah.. that's a bummer. Trying to take money from a charity :/ I haven't seen any payments to that address yet.

How did you code up the handling of payments? Was this easy to make?

It'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.

also, the source is on github. https://github.com/jbaudanza/singleservingbitcoin

Which 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.

Look at the Rakefile under `task :generate_keypairs`. It's using the bitcoin-ruby gem

Does 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.

I'll investigate. what was your message?

http://btcbutton.com/messages/726

Thanks!

Looks like i'm over the rate limit for the blockchain api. working on a fix

Thanks for letting me know. Feel free to take like 3 hours to push out the fix. :-P

I'm donating some more to your message to knock off the scammer :)

Cool idea! I get an internal server error when I go here: http://btcbutton.com/queue

Yeah, encoding issues :/ working on it

Ok.

<$1.00 in BTC for Hacker News front page exposure.

Bit.

I've gotten 1,052 unique hits in the past 1 hour.

Meh, sent a few extra while ago and the site stopped updating.

https://blockchain.info/address/1HxzuTBUD9iEqgiFB4Mkpbo6RLJQ...

I'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

Gave you a few mBTC from Coinkite :)

Thanks!

Sent a few more :)

Sent few more, the website is not checking the Blockchain fast enough. :P

worst idea ever?

haha.. well I guess I have nowhere to go but up then.

Reminds 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?

Your content stays up for 1 hour, or until someone outbids you.

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