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User talk:Belcher

2021-01-08T17:33:50Z

FishDawg: Request Page Edit Permission

==Atomic Swap edit on 30 Nov 2018==

Hi... I think you added a sentence to [[Atomic swap]] that reads
Atomic swaps can be used for trading between bitcoin and another cryptocurrency, or for trading bitcoins of privacy purposes.

It seems like there might be some words missing in "for trading bitcoins of privacy purposes" (i.e., what are "bitcoins of privacy purposes"?).
--[[User:Jhfrontz|Jhfrontz]] ([[User talk:Jhfrontz|talk]]) 00:11, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
:Hello, I've made a grammatical error which I think adds a lot to the confusion. By that I'm talking about coinswap which can be understood as an atomic swap on the same blockchain done for privacy purposes. I'll correct the grammar and add a link to the coinswap page to make this clearer. [[User:Belcher|Belcher]] ([[User talk:Belcher|talk]]) 13:50, 18 December 2018 (UTC)

== dump.bitcoin.it ==

Can haz backup? https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Talk:Main_Page&oldid=66704 --[[User:RiskNerd|RiskNerd]] ([[User talk:RiskNerd|talk]]) 19:50, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
:I've asked on the IRC channel but no reply. [[User:Belcher|Belcher]] ([[User talk:Belcher|talk]]) 16:03, 5 October 2019 (UTC)

==Request Page Edit Permission==

Hi, I'd like to add a link to the [[Earning_bitcoins]] wiki page in [[Getting_started]]. Could I get edit permissions on [[Getting_started]]? --[[User:FishDawg|FishDawg]] ([[User talk:FishDawg|talk]]) 17:33, 8 January 2021 (UTC)

Earning bitcoins

2020-05-01T01:12:12Z

FishDawg: Undo revision 67456 by Tyler (talk) Please don't move your link to the top of the list. Links are in the order they were added. It's not fair for a new website to jump to the top.

Some websites have bonus programs that allow you to earn bitcoins by doing things like taking surveys, trying apps, viewing advertisements, and making online purchases. Some of these websites have many of the same offers (but they give different payouts for participating in those offers).

== Earning with Offers ==

* [https://www.freedigitalmoney.com/Bitcoin Free Digital Money] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 1000 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer.

* [http://www.bitcoinget.com BitcoinGet] Earn bitcoins for watching videos, completing tasks, and completing offers. No signup required. Just enter your Bitcoin address to start earning. No minimum payout. Payments are made daily to reduce transaction fees.

* [http://www.bitcoinreward.net Bitcoinreward] Earn Bitcoins by completing simple tasks such as watching videos, checking search engine results and small surveys. Payouts range from 250 to 1,000,000 Satoshi (0.01 BTC) and users are paid every 24 hours for balances of 10,000 or more Satoshi. No sign-up is required, you get 1,000 Satoshi just for entering your Bitcoin address. They also offer a 50% referral scheme for life.

* [http://www.coinrebates.com CoinRebates] Earn bitcoins for shopping at your favorite stores. Get between 1% and 20% of your purchase as "cash back" rewards paid exclusively in bitcoin.

* [http://www.btcsurveys.com BTCsurveys.com] Earn Bitcoin by answering fun and interactive surveys for popular brands. Get paid in Bitcoin per survey completion with earnings up to $8 per hour. BTCsurveys is open to users in 53 countries.

* [http://www.lolli.com Lolli] Lolli is a rewards browser extension that gives you bitcoin when you shop at your favorite stores. Install the Lolli extension on your favorite browser. Shop the web. You'll be notified when you're on one of their partner stores. Earn bitcoin when you checkout using Lolli.

* [http://foldapp.com/ Fold] Get up to 20% cashback in bitcoin when you shop at Amazon, Uber, Target and many more. Shop with your credit card or digital wallet at retailers in-store or online. Earn cash back on eligible purchases, and spend your bitcoin rewards, save them for later or withdraw them to your personal wallet.

== Additional Resources ==

* [https://thebitcoinstrip.com/free-bitcoins/#bonus-programs Guide To Earning Free Bitcoin] by TheBitcoinStrip — contains information about bonus programs and other free Bitcoin schemes.

==See Also==

* [[Getting_started|Getting Started]]

Earning bitcoins

2020-03-30T21:16:44Z

FishDawg: Undo revision 67429 by Tyler. Please don't move your link to the top of the list. Links are in the order they were added. It's not fair for a new website to jump to the top. (talk)

Earning bitcoins

2020-03-27T19:16:32Z

FishDawg: Put links in order they were submitted.

Earning bitcoins

2020-03-05T22:59:38Z

FishDawg: Put newest links at the end of the list. Fix links and descriptions.

Some websites have bonus programs that allow you to earn bitcoins by doing things like taking surveys, trying apps, viewing advertisements, and making online purchases. Some of these websites have many of the same offers (but they give different payouts for participating in those offers).

== Earning with Offers ==

* [https://www.freedigitalmoney.com/Bitcoin Free Digital Money] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 1000 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer.

* [http://www.bitcoinget.com BitcoinGet] Earn bitcoins for watching videos, completing tasks, and completing offers. No signup required. Just enter your Bitcoin address to start earning. No minimum payout. Payments are made daily to reduce transaction fees.

* [http://www.bitcoinreward.net Bitcoinreward] Earn Bitcoins by completing simple tasks such as watching videos, checking search engine results and small surveys. Payouts range from 250 to 1,000,000 Satoshi (0.01 BTC) and users are paid every 24 hours for balances of 10,000 or more Satoshi. No signup is required, you get 1,000 Satoshi just for entering your Bitcoin address. They also offer a 50% referal scheme for life.

* [http://www.coinrebates.com CoinRebates] Earn bitcoins for shopping at your favorite stores. Get between 1% and 20% of your purchase as "cash back" rewards paid exclusively in bitcoin.

* [http://www.btcsurveys.com BTCsurveys.com] Earn Bitcoin by answering fun and interactive surveys for popular brands. Get paid in Bitcoin per survey completion with earnings up to $8 per hour. BTCsurveys is open to users in 53 countries.

* [http://www.lolli.com Lolli] Lolli is a rewards browser extension that gives you bitcoin when you shop at your favorite stores. Install the Lolli extension on your favorite browser. Shop the web. You'll be notified you when you're on one of their partner stores. Earn bitcoin when you checkout using Lolli.

* [http://foldapp.com/ Fold] Get up to 20% cashback in bitcoin when you shop at Amazon, Uber, Target and many more. Shop with your credit card or digital wallet at retailers in-store or online. Earn cashback on eligible purchases, and spend your bitcoin rewards, save them for later or withdraw them to your personal wallet.

== Additional Resources ==

* [https://thebitcoinstrip.com/free-bitcoins/#bonus-programs Guide To Earning Free Bitcoin] by TheBitcoinStrip — contains information about bonus programs and other free Bitcoin schemes.

==See Also==

* [[Getting_started|Getting Started]]

Free Digital Money

2020-03-05T22:56:34Z

FishDawg: Update to URL and description

https://www.freedigitalmoney.com/Bitcoin

Get unlimited Bitcoins sent to you instantly when you try new apps, fill out surveys, view advertisements, sign up for trial subscriptions, and much more!

There are approximately 1000 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer.

[[Category:Services]]

Help talk:Getting started

2019-09-27T18:33:51Z

FishDawg: Please fix links in the See Also section

==Upgrading links http → https==

I want to upgrade http → https for links to sites I know support it: Bitcointalk.org, Stack Exchange, etc. However, this page is protected (for obvious reasons). Would somebody with the appropriate privileges please either make this minor edit, or let me do so? Thanks.

[[User:Nullius|Nullius]] ([[User talk:Nullius|talk]]) 16:33, 30 December 2017 (UTC)

== Fix redirects ==

The following internal links should be fixed in order to avoid redirects:
* [[Introduction]] --> [[Help:Introduction]]
* [[Getting started installing bitcoin-qt]] --> [[Help:Installing Bitcoin Core]]
* [[Buying Bitcoins (the noob version)]] --> [[Buying Bitcoins (the newbie version)]]
* [[FAQ]] --> [[Help:FAQ]]

[[User:Fturco|Fturco]] ([[User talk:Fturco|talk]]) 13:41, 27 January 2018 (UTC)

== A couple of suggestions ==

Hi! Since the page is protected, I am suggesting here:

1. IMHO this should be deleted: "(Hint: You can't buy them with Paypal or credit cards)". There are at least tens of exchanges where you can buy Bitcoins with your credit or debit card.

2. I also suggest adding a link to [https://exchangerates.pro ExchangeRates.Pro] that's a new Bitcoin price comparison website, monitoring offers from exchanges and p2p marketplaces in 255 countries.

== Please fix links in the See Also section ==

I suggest removing the obsolete "Bitcoin Businesses" link. And add a link at the end of the list to "Earning bitcoins" (which is a good complement and alternative to "Trading bitcoins").

Please make these updates or give me access to fix them. Thanks!

--[[User:FishDawg|FishDawg]] ([[User talk:FishDawg|talk]]) 18:33, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Earning bitcoins

2019-09-27T18:28:11Z

FishDawg: Update section header to match page name.

Bonus Programs

2019-09-27T18:25:44Z

FishDawg: FishDawg moved page Bonus Programs to Earning bitcoins: Rename page for consistency with other pages.

#REDIRECT [[Earning bitcoins]]

Earning bitcoins

2019-09-27T18:25:44Z

FishDawg: FishDawg moved page Bonus Programs to Earning bitcoins: Rename page for consistency with other pages.

Earning bitcoins

2019-09-27T18:15:34Z

FishDawg: Removed dead links. Removed empty sections. Improved introduction text. Restored and verified current offer programs.

Earning bitcoins

2019-08-20T17:30:35Z

FishDawg: Remove dead links

Some websites have bonus programs that allow you to earn bitcoins by doing things like taking surveys, answering questions, trying apps, viewing advertisements, referring others to the website, and making purchases at other websites. Some of these have many of the same offers (but they give different payouts for participating in those offers).

== Additional Resources ==

* [https://thebitcoinstrip.com/free-bitcoins/#bonus-programs Guide To Earning Free Bitcoin] by TheBitcoinStrip — contains information about bonus programs and other free Bitcoin schemes.

==See Also==

* [[Getting_started|Getting Started]]
* [[Bitcoin_Affiliate_Programs|Affiliate Programs]]

==References==

Earning bitcoins

2015-08-11T15:01:06Z

FishDawg: Order list by date created

Earning bitcoins

2014-09-04T08:35:01Z

FishDawg: /* Offer Programs */ Order links by date added

Earning bitcoins

2014-07-21T06:25:05Z

FishDawg: Order links by date added

Talk:Trade

2014-03-10T02:08:27Z

FishDawg: /* Referral Links */

==Proposed Listing Standards==
I propose the following standards be required for listing on the [Trade]. The listed site must
# Be currently functional (downtime of less than 48 hours is acceptable)
# Be currently accepting bitcoins
# Have clear instructions for paying with bitcoins from the link given
# Prices must be sane within an order of magnitude (non-sane prices indicate that the website has not been updated to match bitcoin deflation)
The standards will help keep the list manageable and easy to use.

This is a talk page, so please sign your contributions. I mostly agree, but the "sane prices" criterion seems a bit subjective ; there is a risk that we exclude goodwilling merchants, who would otherwise be willing to update their prices when contacted. [[User:ThomasV|ThomasV]] 10:43, 12 February 2011 (GMT)

:Here is an example [http://bitcoin2cash.com/]. When I say "sane", I mean reasonable within an order of magnitude. I moved your other comment to a separate section for clarity [[User:Ptd|Ptd]] 12:59, 13 February 2011 (GMT)

Sounds reasonable. --[[User:Sirius|Sirius]] 07:09, 23 February 2011 (GMT)
Reasonable. What about defining a practice for ordering the list of sites? I've got one to add, so I'll just tack it at the bottom, but it's going to be an ugly list after awhile. Alphabetical? Chronologically ordered by add date?
[[User:JulianTosh|JulianTosh]] 00:19, 10 May 2011 (GMT)

I'd say somewhat unreasonable regarding the clear instructions. A lot of my customers are the types who would get confused if I listed my native currency and Bitcoin side by side. I want to offer Bitcoin for Bitcoin users, but not at the risk of confusing other potential customers and potentially losing sales as a result. As such, I make it possible for customers to switch to using Bitcoin during the checkout process. [[User:Orbixx|Orbixx]] 18:39, 02 June 2011 (GMT)

Every link that does not go to a page that CLEARLY states they are accepting bitcoins should be removed. Try to go to the website Orbixx has added again, there is simply no way to check they accept bitcoins, and I believe they don't actually. I couldn't figure it out. So I think the rules should be that if the link does NOT arrive at a page that says the site is accepting bitcoins, it should be removed. Orbixx, companies can just create a separate page for it, and you link to that page, not simply to your homepage if you think it would be too confusing on the home page.
[[User:Berend|Berend]] 21:21, 2 June 2011 (GMT)

On Exoware.net payment methods are not stated at all until the checkout process; this is incredibly common. It should be evident that we accept Bitcoin because we are listed on this page and there should be no need to plaster it all over some landing page or on the site. As for your belief that "they don't actually [accept bitcoins]", you're welcome to try us - we do. The mere fact that you nonchalantly removed our listing in the first place for apparently not accepting Bitcoin without even getting in contact with us in the first place is ridiculous. Then to come on here after I email you with screenshots showing the page where you can change your currency to BTC and say that somehow you still maintain that we do not accept Bitcoin is preposterous. Do not remove any listings without first solidly verifying your inadequate assumptions. [[User:Orbixx|Orbixx]] 04:01, 03 June 2011 (GMT)

It's not unreasonable to expect a merchant to have a bitcoin logo among the mastercard, visa, paypal, google checkout, etc. buttons that clutter a corner of nearly every website that takes money. If they accept bitcoin, they should add a bitcoin logo there. if they take money, they should have a section that fits the description. it's that simple. no reason not to be able to tell at a glance. [[User:aarcane|aarcane]] 04:54, 03 June 2011 (UTC)

I suggest we vote on this. Vendors who have hidden the fact they accept bitcoin extremely well (try finding it on Orbixx's site) do not deserve to be listed here. We could create a separate page for them (i.e. unverifiable entries). [[User:Berend|Berend]] 22:24, 11 August 2011 (GMT)

I agree that a site that accepts bitcoin must Clearly Say So on any page that mentions payment options, and their front/landing page. Any site that does not say so Up Front, should not be listed as Accepting Bitcoin. How do you verify that they accept bitcoin until you've already selected a product/service, and gone to the checkout page, and Finally see an option for using Bitcoin? This is a ridiculous thing to do. If I only have a Mastercard, and I'm on a site that only accepts Visa, I'd be pretty upset to not find that out until I'm already at the checkout page!! Every site I have EVER used to purchase Anything online says, Up Front, what kinds of payment methods they accept. No confusion. [[User:Krepta3000|Krepta3000]] 17:47, 25 August 2011 (MST)

I am an established merchant who about one year ago began accepting BitCoins. I want to support the idea of BitCoins and I want users of BitCoins to know I exist, this wiki page I have found probably has the best presence for casual BitCoin users to find merchants accepting BitCoins, and the goal (as I understand) is to promote and list merchants like myself so the BitCoin community grows. I do not agree with the idea that the landing page must advertise BitCoin acceptance.

You should not be dictating to the merchant how they present themselves or you will scare away people like ourselves. I would like to link to our main landing page but I will not place BitCoin advertising there, just like I do not advertise credit cards there, it is not the aesthetic I desire. An alternative is I point to some obscure help page but that is not an intuitive location to send people, or I could make a BitCoin specific landing page but why should I have to? You should make this as inclusive and easy as possible, the rule should be BitCoins are accepted. I agree with Orbixx on this point, if it can be seen in the check out then what is the issue, BitCoins are accepted (if you were dishonest then adding a BitCoin logo to the landing page is not guaranteeing BitCoin acceptance any more than having it as a payment option during checkout).

You should be trying to attract as many mainstream merchants and vendors as possible, not making them "tow the party line" with forced BitCoin advertising. Many sites do not market their payment methods on their main pages, we do not. [[User:Sventhebarbarian|Sven The Barbarian]] ([[User talk:Sventhebarbarian|talk]]) 05:33, 24 September 2013 (GMT)

==Should we put addresses on the wiki?==
We just had some bitcoin address spam. perhaps it would not have happened if we did not put bitcoin addresses on the wiki ? [[User:ThomasV|ThomasV]] 23:50, 12 February 2011 (GMT)
: Page is now semi-protected. [[User:MagicalTux|MagicalTux]] 08:28, 16 February 2011 (GMT)

Yea i suggest not to put the bitcoin addresses of donation-accepting orgs on the wiki. this opens it up to vandalism in hopes of getting misdirected bitcoins. just link to the relevant webpage of the donation-accepting organization, and that's all. that way also we don't have to worry about the addresses changing.--[[User:Nanotube|Nanotube]] 04:41, 24 February 2011 (GMT)

==Hide Contents of Adult?==
Should the contents of Adult be displayed by default, or might it be reasonable to expect that to be a hidden that requires an action for the contents of the category to be rendered? - [[User:sgornick]] 06:22, 23 February 2011 (GMT)

Should be hidden or moved to another page. --[[User:Sirius|Sirius]] 07:05, 23 February 2011 (GMT)

I'm all for censoring it as much as the community will tolerate. --[[User:Luke-jr|Luke-jr]] 13:27, 23 February 2011 (GMT)

Why hide adult section? They are just links to sites, and section is clearly labeled "Adult". What's the big idea on the censorship? --[[User:Nanotube|Nanotube]] 04:39, 24 February 2011 (GMT)

I suggest do not censor or hide. Consider for example genjix's calm reference to drugs in his presentation. Should he have been afraid and contemplative of censoring or preventing from communicating such things? Such is a kind of debate generally influenced by religi*** motivations. See [[Trade_R]] for adult content [[User:Mizerydearia|Mizerydearia]] 15:04, 27 April 2011 (GMT)

Against censorship of site links. They should simply be labeled as adult oriented and the vagues possible genre references.
[[User:JulianTosh|JulianTosh]] 00:21, 10 May 2011 (GMT)

The problem with listing every site together with adults sites is that automatic scanning software might label your business in the same group. You don't want that to happen, else your legitimate businesses will very quickly disappear from this page
[[User:Berend|Berend]] 21:18, 2 June 2011 (GMT)

The header for the page claims 'Products or services illegal in US or Japan are not fit to be listed here - such links will be removed immediately. Any attempt to get those links up again will result in the account being blocked. This includes pornography and many mind-altering drugs'. As pornography is not actually illegal in Japan or in the US, it should be clarified whether the restriction is the result of an editor attempting to enforce their ideology, a requirement that all porn comply with Japanese censorship regulations (i.e. mosaic over certain body parts - which I suspect fairly few bitcoin-accepting sites actually comply with), or an administrative decision whose force stems from private property rights rather than from .us/.jp law. [[User:Deekoo|Deekoo]] 05:54, 15 August 2011 (GMT)

== Drugs Section Empty ==

The "psychoactives" section appears to consist entirely of dead links. [[User:Ironwolf|Ironwolf]] 03:54, 28 March 2011 (GMT)

I deleted the Drugs section, since Bitcoin is still far too vulnerable to government actions against it -- there are many single points of failure. The most glaring to me is the DNS system -- the bitcoin.org domain could be taken down if the US government wishes to.

:This is a terrible decision. My company was removed because of this decision, and it disgusts me. Not all drugs are illegal. My company operates a physical storefront in the US. We ONLY sell drugs that you can buy at the supermarket down the road. Just because it is a "drug" or "psychoactive" doesn't mean that the government is trying to shut it down. Nicotine is a drug, aspirin is a drug, alcohol is a drug. Lotus petals are psychoactive, and so is chamomile and kava - but you can go into Walmart or Walgreens/CVS and buy them. These are the only drugs for sale. Stop freaking out about it. People have swept our business off this list twice because of this ridiculous mindset. We're a hippy art store - not a head shop or drug market. --[[User:Metagnosis|Metagnosis]] 17:59, 22 June 2011 (GMT)

I apologize to those merchants who may not get as many customers now, but really, it's probably better this way. Anyone who needs to can get a connection by asking around, I'm sure. My goal is only to reduce the "criminal" perception of Bitcoin. [[User:AaronM|AaronM]] 01:18, 27 April 2011 (GMT)

We want a payment medium that resists the authority of the state. That is going to be "criminal". The real fix is providing adequate fallbacks and replacements for single points of failure [[User:STH|STH]] 01:04, 20 November 2011 (GMT)

== What is a Notable Website ==

I started accepting bitcoin at http://la.indymedia.org and a couple other sites on the slaptech.net site. What's the standard for adding this to the list of sites? [[User:Johnk|Johnk]] 16:30, 17 April 2011 (GMT)
:Just go for it. Even MezeGrill has no verifiable info on their business accepting BTC. We need some level of organisation to sort things out and it is good practice to give all necessary information that makes it easy for others to verify your information but for now if you have an actual business that's better than the worst of those listed here already.
:--[[User:Giszmo|Giszmo]] 13:24, 28 September 2011 (GMT)

== New section for services that are not considered "Professional services"? ==

I'm wondering whether it might be advisable to add a section for services that are not really "professional services" as that term is ordinarily used in vernacular English.

For example, I just added a dump-truck haulage service to ''Professional services/Other''; but dump truck haulage is not generally considered a professional service. Ought we to consider adding a new section to the page? [[User:1ECVX6EAk53VER2NH5NKharUUGpfw8iUP6|1ECVX6EAk53VER2NH5NKharUUGpfw8iUP6]] 01:49, 4 May 2011 (GMT)

:i'm a massage therapist wanting to trade bitcoin for massage. what section do i put my services in?
:[[User:zenbunny|zenbunny]] 20:52, 25 May 2011 (GMT)

== donation accepting organizations ==

perhaps a separate page should be created for them ?
I guess donations do not belong to "trade".
[[User:ThomasV|ThomasV]] 23:17, 5 May 2011 (GMT)

:Definitely. It's a bit sad that there is no place to list all Bitcoin-accepted organizations, particularly smaller non-profit ones since they don't sell anything and the organizations page has a notability requirement. I'll create one if no one objects and/or does it before me. [[User:Blues|Blues]] 20:36, 25 May 2011 (GMT)

I've added RYT (Roll Your Tasks) under 'Productivity' again (has been deleted by user Luke-jr, probably because there is no force to pay for this service). Donations are accepted, but I'm not an organization of any kind. Moreover RYT is an app for enhancing productivity without political or similar intent, beside that I want to give others the opportunity to use it. I think it's good to also give non- or part-commercial efforts a chance to be listed here. If someone wants to have some specific (RYT) improvements, feel free to suggest a deal...

Listing criteria above are fullfilled:
Be currently functional (downtime of less than 48 hours is acceptable) -> fullfilled.
Be currently accepting bitcoins -> Yes.
Have clear instructions for paying with bitcoins from the link given -> Yes (bitcoin address).
Prices must be sane within an order of magnitude (non-sane prices indicate that the website has not been updated to match bitcoin deflation) -> Very sane (free, if you don't want to donate).
[[User:Hartrock|Hartrock]] 03:57, 25 September 2011 (GMT)

== Alternative listings for bitcoin-related directory and merchant sites ==

Because this wiki is censored and not allowing of certain contents or sites, I have set up http://bitcoinsites.witcoin.com/ to allow for all bitcoin-related sites to be posted. Feel free to also use this medium for commenting and reviewing sites as well. [[User:Mizerydearia|Mizerydearia]] 05:28, 25 May 2011 (GMT)

* Since witcoin.com is subject to US and/or Canada law, I would expect it to be censored as well eventually. But perhaps not a bad idea to make an alternative site for the ratings/reviews idea anyway... I won't use it if it's based on witcoin though, since they require paying to comment/rate... --[[User:Luke-jr|Luke-jr]] 18:27, 25 May 2011 (GMT)

Witcoin still down [[User:STH|STH]] 00:58, 20 November 2011 (GMT)

[http://payco.in payco.in : bitcoin currency directory] - I've started a links list of my own (I admit I wanted to get my own site, [http://lorna-morgan.com Lorna Morgan], listed somewhere I wouldn't be removed!) I didn't like the design of witcoin ... and Bitcookies seems to be down at the moment. --[[User:Lorna Morgan|Lorna Morgan]] 05:36, 28 July 2011 (GMT)

payco.in still up [[User:STH|STH]] 00:58, 20 November 2011 (GMT)

[http://bitcookies.com Bitcookies] - A community resource to list businesses, events, and classifieds that are related to Bitcoin. The server is privately owned and therefore not subject to any controlling interests. The site does not, nor will it ever have censorship in terms of the types of businesses/traders/websites listed. The site is free to all community members and was developed with funds from my mining operations. [[User:Miner249er|Miner24934]] 16:25, 27 May 2011 (GMT)

Bitcookies still down [[User:STH|STH]] 00:56, 20 November 2011 (GMT)

== Bloomberg Esque Data Suite: Compiling Transaction info from merchants to measure demand ==

I am included on the list of many who are very interested in seeing bitcoin succeed and want to be a part of that success, but there is one serious uncertainity that is keeping me from getting in: are people actually using their coins for more than just buying drugs and slim jims, and is all of the buying concentrated in one website or product and one consumer demographic? Demand for the coins is necessary for their success. This can be determined by consumption rates and habits. I have perused the website listing, but still feel that information is lacking.

It would be nice to see an economic indicator that acquires data from merchants (and compensates them in bitcoin for their effort) on the dollar value (and perhaps sector) of the bitcoin transactions. We could then weigh a derivative of total dollar amount and number of transactions against the number of bitcoins mined to get a better understanding of the economic health of the currency.

== Require description of changes ==

It's impossible to read this pages's history, because most people seem to forget to:
- use the "description" line when committing a change
- use the "preview" button, and do several changes in a row just because they forgot the label on a link

The first point is the most important, because of changes like [https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Trade&diff=prev&oldid=11246 that one], that suppresses and adds random links without even explaining why. Such changes should be immediately reverted, by policy. On the technical side, one small improvement could be to require the "description" field to be non-empty. People could still write random characters, but that would still be a different action. --[[User:Davux|Davux]] 23:15, 22 June 2011 (GMT)

== Huge chunk of deletions reverted ==

Hi,

I've tracked down a huge set of deletions wich was probably done in error, [https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Trade&diff=next&oldid=11252 see link]. I've reverted each deletion individually because otherwise, new entries would have been deleted.

It's probably necessary to watch out for that. --[[User:Joise|Joise]] 18:55, 29 June 2011 (GMT)

== Vetting ==

I realise this is probably a difficult issue — we don't realistically have the time or work to vet all listed sites — but should ones which are clearly scams be removed from the wiki page, or should each be discussed first before deletion (perhaps, by moderator staff)?

For example: <blockquote>[https://sites.google.com/site/wwjdtd/ Time Warp interactive], is a fiction/nonfiction mmorpg that is in alpha and is selling the game only through bitcoins</blockquote>This, to me, is clearly a scam. Going through their Google Sites website (which is the new GeoCities), it becomes clear very quickly that this is not a product that it pretends to be, and is instead just some fly by night website setup by a couple of teenagers in hopes of some free cash from unsuspecting visitors.

I doubt anybody would actually send any BTC their way anyway, but in my opinion having hoaxes like this damages the credibility and trustworthy of Bitcoin accepting merchants as a whole.

Could we come up with some way of pruning false merchants like this?

::I think that links which are very clearly scam should not be promoted. However I see two difficulties:
::# It might be hard to see whether something is simply a low budget project or not serious.
::# What is reputable and what not certainly will vary widely. If you want to promote a bank, I'd likely want another neighborhood than if you just try to sell psychodelically designed pizza containing extremely high concentrations of capsain.
::# The more profound issue is that the not-to-reputable looking enterprises might be exactly the ones which bring the stongest kicks to innovation. I am thinking in the term "garage firm". And obviously grandparents will tell the kids some day that the whole bitcoin economy started with alpaca socks, online poker and fancy glass beads.

::My proposal: Create a playground / dockland / bitcoinpunk section which can collect the fringe of the fringe. And let largely visitors decide what they are going to trust. --[[User:Joise|Joise]] 19:21, 4 July 2011 (GMT)

== proposal ==

Separated pages for trading, bitcoin accepting online stores, games, free coins etc.

== Major clean-up ==
Mediawiki has a perfect way to deal with collections. That's '''categories'''. It also has great tools to get a consistent look. That's '''templates'''.
This cluttered list of non-verifiable (every child here knows [http://www.mezegrill.com/ meze grill] accepts bitcoins but there is no word indicating this is true if you follow the link), outdated (o-crep is on this list but the [http://o-crepes.com/bitcoin/# link] leads you to a one time offer) or even scam. Often there is not even a link to brick and mortar businesses but only a street address.

I suggest everybody who wants to promote his business here makes a small [[myBitcoinBusiness site]] for it and makes strong use of categories and templates.
--[[User:Giszmo|Giszmo]] 13:24, 28 September 2011 (GMT)
:I'd like to bump this suggestion. Are there any objections to creating a separate page for every Business and put it into all relevant categories? --[[User:Giszmo|Giszmo]] ([[User talk:Giszmo|talk]]) 05:21, 26 August 2012 (GMT)

== Please add us www.fnib.co ==

First National Innovation Brokers has been accepting btc to fund forex and gold trading accounts since June, 2011.
www.fnib.co Please add us on the Trade list and help get the word out.
:It's a wiki. Add yourself. Wikipedia rules of no articles about yourself don't apply here. If you take yourself for relevant and others disagree, after an edit-war you might give up or become relevant ;) --[[User:Giszmo|Giszmo]] ([[User talk:Giszmo|talk]]) 05:22, 26 August 2012 (GMT)

== Is bittit.info appropriate? ==

bittit.info is a place for users to sell their photos. It's free to use (no fees) and it also has a NSFW section. I wonder if that last thing makes it inappropriate for this wiki. It's not a porn site, almost all the pictures are in the SFW section but I hesitate to add it here. If someone could advice me on that matter I would be grateful. --[[User:Tritonio|Tritonio]] 20:25, 6 November 2011 (GMT)

== Geographical ==

Perhaps as a start there should be something to deal with location.
We could have a separate non-geographical section for things like online services and places that post globally.

A plumber accepting BTC in USA probably isn't much interest to someone in Japan.

== Duplication ==

Pages [[Buying bitcoins]] and [[Selling bitcoins]] list exchanges as well. Perhaps separating this information is a good idea (into a page named like "List of Exchanges") to avoid duplication and "overcluttering" of Trade page?

== Referral Links ==

I am constantly finding referral links on this page and others. Whenever I see them, I change them back to regular links without the referral code. --[[User:FishDawg|FishDawg]]

Is there some action we should be taking to block those users who keep adding their referral codes to links?
: Admins can/should block their accounts. We could create a bot to detect these easy to detect links and revert them automatically. I never made a bot but saw many in action. Also I believe the pages should make clear that referral spam will not be tolerated and patrol the referrers and black list certain origins like this wiki for example and exclude those spammers for future referrals. --[[User:Giszmo|Giszmo]] ([[User talk:Giszmo|talk]]) 14:17, 22 July 2012 (GMT)

There appears to be no wiki policy regarding referral links. There should be so that the current contention on the Trade page can end.
--[[User:Ohm|Ohm]]

List of users who have been spamming referral links:
* [[User:OÄAB|OÄAB]]

== DailyBtc.com ==

Daily bitcoin lottery paid out every day

== Wikileaks ==

Why isn't WikiLeaks listed? Under Political Activism?

: I suppose because they aren't selling something. They are accepting donations, aren't they? --[[User:Tritonio|Tritonio]] ([[User talk:Tritonio|talk]])

== Coinster Search Engine (no censorship) ==

[http://coinster.info Coinster.info] has very open listing guidelines.

== Pharmacy ==

The listed sites are the same sites that probably send you your daily spam. The India one is listed twice (with different domains) and the Swiss one has no pharmacy license according to their homepage. Listing such sites here is kind of an endorsement and I would prefer not to list those sites here. I don't like censorship, but I don't see any reason to promote them either. --[[User:Http|Http]] ([[User talk:Http|talk]]) 12:52, 1 April 2013 (GMT)

== one page per "thing" with categories ==

Mediawiki is exceptionally good at organizing categories. You can use categories for many things. German pirate party even uses categories for an [http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Kategorie:Benutzer_kann_PGP experts listing] resulting in users being in dozens of categories because the feel like sharing they know french sort of.
I think we should use the same power here to get things sorted a bit. One business, one wiki page, many categories. The category pages can be unedited (they just group the businesses), be categorized themselves or contain general information about what belongs there and what not.
We should use the power of mediawiki! (I know, just do it :( Would be cool if others could do it ;) )
--[[User:Giszmo|Giszmo]] ([[User talk:Giszmo|talk]]) 20:03, 2 April 2013 (GMT)

I agree, Just Do It! Honestly - a lot of categories could be listed in table/sortable formats. I'll personally be doing this for a few categories of interest over the next few months. While doing that, I'll move them ontospecific relevant pages - thanks for the kick on that idea :-)
[[User:Erth64net|Erth64net]] ([[User talk:Erth64net|talk]]) 15:53, 17 July 2013 (GMT)

== Hosting services cleanup ==

The "Virtual Private Server" column is redundant when the support status of each major VPS technology is immediately listed in the same row, so I've removed the redundant column.

I've also added the "IPv6" column. Internet connectivity is a critical core aspect of hosting services, and support for the next generation internet protocol (IPv6) now in use by many major sites should be a highly relevant topic when selecting a hosting provider. As a result, I've surveyed each of the listed companies, and indicated if they support IPv6, by using the IPv6 listing criteria detailed at [[Talk:Virtual_private_server]].

[[User:Erth64net|Erth64net]] ([[User talk:Erth64net|talk]]) 15:50, 17 July 2013 (GMT)

== Removal policy ==

When should we remove the entry for a business which doesn't exist any more? Should a note with a timestamp be made first on the page's talk section, and after 48 hours the whole entry could be removed? [[User:Akaihola|Akaihola]] ([[User talk:Akaihola|talk]]) 11:52, 21 August 2013 (GMT)

How does one determine if a business doesn't exist? Expired whois? Public records information? Posting on business site? [[User:Erth64net|Erth64net]] ([[User talk:Erth64net|talk]]) 23:23, 21 August 2013 (GMT)

== Adding a category for Electronic Cigarettes. ==

Could we add a section for Electronic Cigarette vendors? There are at least 4 eCigarette vendors (including myself) on the list, as well as a number of others that haven't yet listed themselves here. A separate category seems appropriate, as most of these vendors are listing themselves in the "Electronics" section. My site focuses less on the electronic cigarette hardware and more on the eLiquid used in such devices. Thanks for your consideration! [[User:FrontierVapor|FrontierVapor]] ([[User talk:FrontierVapor|talk]]) 20:49, 27 January 2014 (GMT)

Help:FAQ

2014-03-10T01:55:14Z

FishDawg: Remove sneaky referral link added by OÄAB.

Here you will find answers to the most commonly asked questions.

== General ==
=== What is Bitcoin? ===
Bitcoin is a distributed peer-to-peer digital currency that can be transferred instantly and securely between any two people in the world. It's like electronic cash that you can use to pay friends or merchants.

=== What are bitcoins? ===
Bitcoins are the unit of currency of the Bitcoin system. A commonly used shorthand for this is “BTC” to refer to a price or amount (e.g. “100 BTC”).
There are such things as [[physical bitcoins]], but ultimately, a bitcoin is just a number associated with a [[Address|Bitcoin Address]]. A physical bitcoin is simply an object, such as a coin, with the number carefully embedded inside. See also an [[Introduction|easy intro]] to Bitcoin.

=== How can I get bitcoins? ===

There are a variety of ways to acquire bitcoins:

* Accept bitcoins as payment for goods or services.
* The most common way to buy bitcoins are the [[Buying bitcoins|Bitcoin Exchanges]]
* There are several services where you can [[Buying_Bitcoins_(the_noob_version)|trade them]] for traditional currency.
* Find someone to trade cash for bitcoins in-person through a [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Category:Directories local directory].
* Participate in a [[Pooled mining|mining pool]].
* If you have a lot of mining hardware, you can solo mine and attempt to create a new [[block]] (currently yields 25 bitcoins plus transaction fees).
* Visit sites that provide [[Trade#Free_Samples_and_Offers|free samples and offers]].
* Visit [http://wheretobuycryptocoins.com WhereToBuyCryptoCoins.com] to get a guide how to start with bitcoins and cryptocurrency in general. Shows a list of markets, faucets, exchanges, miner's pools and more.

===Does Bitcoin guarantee an influx of free money?===

Since Bitcoin is a new technology, what it is and how it works may be initially unclear. Bitcoin is sometimes presented as being one of three things:
<ol style="list-style-type: upper-alpha;">
<li>Some sort of online 'get-rich-quick' scam.</li>
<li>A loophole in the market economy, the installation of which guarantees a steady influx of cash.</li>
<li>A sure investment that will almost certainly yield a profit.</li>
</ol>
In fact, none of the above are true. Let's look at them independently.

;Is Bitcoin a 'get-rich-quick' scheme?
:If you've spent much time on the Internet, you've probably seen ads for many 'get-rich-quick' schemes. These ads usually promise huge profits for a small amounts of easy work. Such schemes are usually pyramid/matrix-style schemes that make money from their own employees and offer nothing of any real value. Most convince one to buy packages that will make them earn hundreds a day, which in fact have the buyer distribute more such ads, and make minute profits.

:Bitcoin is in no way similar to these schemes. Bitcoin doesn't promise windfall profits. There is no way for the developers to make money from your involvement or to take money from you. That bitcoins are nearly impossible to acquire without the owner's consent represents one of its greatest strengths. Bitcoin is an experimental, virtual currency that may succeed or may fail. None of its developers expect to get rich off of it.

:A more detailed answer to this question can be found [http://bitcointalk.org/?topic=7815.0 here].

;Will I make money by installing the client?
:Most people who use Bitcoin don't earn anything by doing so, and the default client has no built-in way to earn Bitcoins. A small minority of people with dedicated, high-performance hardware do earn some Bitcoins by "''mining''" (generating new bitcoins, see [[#What is mining?|What is mining?]]) with special software, but joining Bitcoin shouldn't be construed as being the road to riches. Most Bitcoin users get involved because they find the project conceptually interesting and don't earn anything by doing so. This is also why you won't find much speculation about the political or economic repercussions of Bitcoin anywhere on this site: Bitcoin developers owe their dedication to the project's intellectual yieldings more than to those of a monetary nature. Bitcoin is still taking its first baby steps; it may go on to do great things but right now it only has something to offer those chasing conceptually interesting projects or bleeding edge technology.

;As an investment, is Bitcoin a sure thing?
:Bitcoin is a new and interesting electronic currency, the value of which is not backed by any single government or organization. Like other currencies, it is worth something partly because people are willing to trade it for goods and services. Its exchange rate fluctuates continuously, and sometimes wildly. It lacks wide acceptance and is vulnerable to manipulation by parties with modest funding. Security incidents such as website and account compromise may trigger major sell-offs. Other fluctuations can build into positive feedback loops and cause much larger exchange rate fluctuations. Anyone who puts money into Bitcoin should understand the risk they are taking and consider it a high-risk currency. Later, as Bitcoin becomes better known and more widely accepted, it may stabilize, but for the time being it is unpredictable. Any investment in Bitcoin should be done carefully and with a clear plan to manage the risk.

=== Can I buy bitcoins with Paypal? ===

It is possible to buy [[physical bitcoins]] with PayPal but it is otherwise difficult and/or expensive to do so for non-physical bitcoins, because of significant risk to the seller.

There is a [https://www.virwox.com?r=5495d workaround] that can be done in order to use Paypal to buy Bitcoins but it holds within it higher transaction fees. Using the [https://www.virwox.com?r=5495d Virtual World Exchange] you can buy Second Life Lindens (SLL) with Paypal and then convert your SLL to Bitcoins. This process will charge you transaction fees of around 6% but will let you purchase Bitcoins pretty quickly as opposed to a wire transfer. The reason this method works is because you do not buy Bitcoins with Paypal directly, you only buy SLL with Paypal (which is acceptable by Paypal's TOS) and then exchange your SLL to Bitcoin.

While it is possible to find an individual who wishes to sell Bitcoin to you via Paypal, (perhaps via [http://www.bitcoin-otc.com/ #bitcoin-otc] ) most exchanges do not allow funding through PayPal. This is due to repeated cases where someone pays for bitcoins with Paypal, receives their bitcoins, and then fraudulently complains to Paypal that they never received their purchase. PayPal often sides with the fraudulent buyer in this case, which means any seller needs to cover that risk with higher fees or refuse to accept PayPal altogether.

Buying Bitcoins from individuals this way is still possible, but requires the seller to have some trust that the buyer will not file a claim with PayPal to reverse the payment.

=== Where can I find a forum to discuss Bitcoin? ===

Please visit the [[Bitcoin:Community_portal#Bitcoin_Community_Forums_on_various_platforms|Community Portal]] for links to Bitcoin-related forums.

=== How are new bitcoins created? ===

New bitcoins are generated by the network through the process of "[[#What is mining?|''mining'']]". In a process that is similar to a continuous raffle draw, mining nodes on the network are awarded bitcoins each time they find the solution to a certain mathematical problem (and thereby create a new [[block]]). Creating a block is a [[proof of work]] with a difficulty that varies with the overall strength of the network. The reward for solving a block is [[Controlled Currency Supply|automatically adjusted]] so that, ideally, every four years of operation of the Bitcoin network, half the amount of bitcoins created in the prior 4 years are created. A maximum of {{formatnum:10499889.80231183}} bitcoins were created in the first 4 (approx.) years from January 2009 to November 2012. Every four years thereafter this amount halves, so it should be {{formatnum:5250000}} over years 4-8, {{formatnum:2625000}} over years 8-12, and so on. Thus the total number of bitcoins in existence can never exceed {{formatnum:20999839.77085749}} and counting. See [[Controlled Currency Supply]].

Blocks are [[Mining|mined]] every 10 minutes, on average and for the first four years ({{formatnum:210000}} blocks) each block included 50 new bitcoins. As the amount of processing power directed at mining changes, the difficulty of creating new bitcoins changes. This difficulty factor is calculated every 2016 blocks and is based upon the time taken to generate the previous 2016 blocks. See [[Mining]].

=== What's the current total number of bitcoins in existence? ===

[http://blockexplorer.com/q/totalbc Current count]. Also see [https://blockchain.info/charts/total-bitcoins Total bitcoins in circulation chart]

The number of blocks times the coin value of a block is the number of coins in existence. The coin value of a block is 50 BTC for each of the first {{formatnum:210000}} blocks, 25 BTC for the next {{formatnum:210000}} blocks, then 12.5 BTC, 6.25 BTC and so on.

=== How divisible are bitcoins? ===

A bitcoin can be divided down to 8 decimal places. Therefore, 0.00000001 BTC is the smallest amount that can be handled in a transaction. If necessary, the protocol and related software can be modified to handle even smaller amounts.

=== What do I call the various denominations of bitcoin? ===

There is a lot of discussion about the naming of these fractions of bitcoins. The leading candidates are:

* 1 BTC = 1 bitcoin
* 0.01 BTC = 1 cBTC = 1 centibitcoin (also referred to as bitcent)
* 0.001 BTC = 1 mBTC = 1 millibitcoin (also referred to as mbit (pronounced em-bit) or millibit or even bitmill)
* 0.000 001 BTC = 1 μBTC = 1 microbitcoin (also referred to as ubit (pronounced yu-bit) or microbit)

The above follows the accepted international SI prefixes for hundredths, thousandths, and millionths. There are many arguments against the special case of 0.01 BTC since it is unlikely to represent anything meaningful as the Bitcoin economy grows (it certainly won't be the equivalent of 0.01 USD, GBP or EUR). Equally, the inclusion of existing national currency denominations such as "cent", "nickel", "dime", "pence", "pound", "kopek" and so on are to be discouraged; this is a worldwide currency.

One exception is the "satoshi" which is smallest denomination currently possible

* 0.000 000 01 BTC = 1 satoshi (pronounced sa-toh-shee)
which is so named in honour of Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of the inventor of Bitcoin.

For an overview of all defined units of Bitcoin (including less common and niche units), see [[Units]].

Further discussion on this topic can be found on the forums here:

* [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=14438.msg195287#msg195287 We need names]
* [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8282.0 What to call 0.001 BTC]

=== How does the halving work when the number gets really small? ===

Eventually the reward will go from 0.00000001 BTC to zero and no more bitcoins will be created.

The block reward calculation is done as a right bitwise shift of a 64-bit signed integer, which means it is divided by two and rounded down. The integer is equal to the value in BTC * 100,000,000 since internally in the reference client software, all Bitcoin balances and values are stored as unsigned integers.

With an initial block reward of 50 BTC, it will take many 4-year periods for the block reward to reach zero.

=== How long will it take to generate all the coins? ===

The last block that will generate coins will be block #6,929,999 which should be generated at or near the year 2140. The total number of coins in circulation will then remain static at 20,999,999.9769 BTC.

Even if the allowed precision is expanded from the current 8 decimals, the total BTC in circulation will always be slightly below 21 million (assuming everything else stays the same). For example, with 16 decimals of precision, the end total would be 20,999,999.999999999496 BTC.

=== If no more coins are going to be generated, will more blocks be created? ===

Absolutely! Even before the creation of coins ends, the use of [[transaction fee|transaction fees]] will likely make creating new blocks more valuable from the fees than the new coins being created. When coin generation ends, these fees will sustain the ability to use bitcoins and the Bitcoin network. There is no practical limit on the number of blocks that will be mined in the future.

=== But if no more coins are generated, what happens when Bitcoins are lost? Won't that be a problem? ===

Because of the law of supply and demand, when fewer bitcoins are available the ones that are left will be in higher demand, and therefore will have a higher value. So, as Bitcoins are lost, the remaining bitcoins will eventually increase in value to compensate. As the value of a bitcoin increases, the number of bitcoins required to purchase an item '''de'''creases. This is a [[Deflationary spiral|deflationary economic model]]. As the average transaction size reduces, transactions will probably be denominated in sub-units of a bitcoin such as millibitcoins ("Millies") or microbitcoins ("Mikes").

The Bitcoin protocol uses a base unit of one hundred-millionth of a Bitcoin ("a Satoshi"), but unused bits are available in the protocol fields that could be used to denote even smaller subdivisions.

=== If every transaction is broadcast via the network, does Bitcoin scale? ===
The Bitcoin protocol allows lightweight clients that can use Bitcoin without downloading the entire transaction history. As traffic grows and this becomes more critical, implementations of the concept will be developed. Full network nodes will at some point become a more specialized service.

With some modifications to the software, full Bitcoin nodes could easily keep up with both VISA and MasterCard combined, using only fairly modest hardware (a single high end server by todays standards). It is worth noting that the MasterCard network is structured somewhat like Bitcoin itself - as a peer to peer broadcast network.

Learn more about [[Scalability]].

==Economy==
=== Where does the value of Bitcoin stem from? What backs up Bitcoin? ===
Bitcoins have value because they are useful and because they are [[Controlled Currency Supply|scarce]]. As they are accepted by more merchants, their value will [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_%28economics%29 stabilize]. See the [[Trade|list of Bitcoin-accepting sites]].

When we say that a currency is backed up by gold, we mean that there's a promise in place that you can exchange the currency for gold. Bitcoins, like dollars and euros, are not backed up by anything except the variety of merchants that accept them.

It's a common misconception that Bitcoins gain their value from the cost of electricity required to generate them. Cost doesn't equal value – hiring 1,000 men to shovel a big hole in the ground may be costly, but not valuable. Also, even though scarcity is a critical requirement for a useful currency, it alone doesn't make anything valuable. For example, your fingerprints are scarce, but that doesn't mean they have any exchange value.

Alternatively it needs to be added that while the law of supply and demand applies it does not guarantee value of Bitcoins in the future. If confidence in Bitcoins is lost then it will not matter that the supply can no longer be increased, the demand will fall off with all holders trying to get rid of their coins. An example of this can be seen in cases of state currencies, in cases when the state in question dissolves and so no new supply of the currency is available (the central authority managing the supply is gone), however the demand for the currency falls sharply because confidence in its purchasing power disappears. Of-course Bitcoins do not have such central authority managing the supply of the coins, but it does not prevent confidence from eroding due to other situations that are not necessarily predictable.

=== Is Bitcoin a bubble? ===
Yes, in the same way as the euro and dollar are. They only have value in exchange and have no inherent value. If everyone suddenly stopped accepting your dollars, euros or bitcoins, the "bubble" would burst and their value would drop to zero. But that is unlikely to happen: even in Somalia, where the government collapsed 20 years ago, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_shilling Somali shillings] are still accepted as payment.

=== Is Bitcoin a Ponzi scheme? ===
In a Ponzi Scheme, the founders persuade investors that they’ll profit. Bitcoin does not make such a guarantee. There is no central entity, just individuals building an economy.

A ponzi scheme is a zero sum game. Early adopters can only profit at the expense of late adopters. Bitcoin has possible win-win outcomes. Early adopters profit from the rise in value. Late adopters, and indeed, society as a whole, benefit from the usefulness of a stable, fast, inexpensive, and widely accepted p2p currency.

The fact that early adopters benefit more doesn't alone make anything a Ponzi scheme. All good investments in successful companies have this quality.

=== Doesn't Bitcoin unfairly benefit early adopters? ===
Early adopters in Bitcoin are taking a risk and invested resources in an unproven technology. By so doing, they help Bitcoin become what it is now and what it will be in the future (hopefully, a ubiquitous decentralized digital currency). It is only fair they will reap the benefits of their successful investment.

In any case, any bitcoin generated will probably change hands dozens of time as a medium of exchange, so the profit made from the initial distribution will be insignificant compared to the total commerce enabled by Bitcoin. Many of the earliest users of Bitcoin have traded their coins at valuations below $1 US, or other amounts which are small compared to contemporary prices.

===Won't loss of wallets and the finite amount of Bitcoins create excessive deflation, destroying Bitcoin? ===
Worries about Bitcoin being destroyed by deflation are not entirely unfounded. Unlike most currencies, which experience inflation as their founding institutions create more and more units, Bitcoin will likely experience gradual deflation with the passage of time. Bitcoin is unique in that only a small amount of units will ever be produced (twenty-one million to be exact), this number has been known since the project's inception, and the units are created at a predictable rate.

Also, Bitcoin users are faced with a danger that doesn't threaten users of any other currency: if a Bitcoin user loses his wallet, his money is gone forever, unless he finds it again. And not just to him; it's gone completely out of circulation, rendered utterly inaccessible to anyone. As people will lose their wallets, the total number of Bitcoins will slowly decrease.

Therefore, Bitcoin seems to be faced with a unique problem. Whereas most currencies inflate over time, Bitcoin will mostly likely do just the opposite. Time will see the irretrievable loss of an ever-increasing number of Bitcoins. An already small number will be permanently whittled down further and further. And as there become fewer and fewer Bitcoins, the laws of supply and demand suggest that their value will probably continually rise.

Thus Bitcoin is bound to once again stray into mysterious territory, because no one exactly knows what happens to a currency that grows continually more valuable. Many economists claim that a low level of inflation is a good thing for a currency, but nobody is quite sure about what might happens to one that continually deflates. Although deflation could hardly be called a rare phenomenon, steady, constant deflation is unheard of. There may be a lot of speculation, but no one has any hard data to back up their claims.

That being said, there is a mechanism in place to combat the obvious consequences. Extreme deflation would render most currencies highly impractical: if a single Canadian dollar could suddenly buy the holder a car, how would one go about buying bread or candy? Even pennies would fetch more than a person could carry. Bitcoin, however, offers a simple and stylish solution: infinite divisibility. Bitcoins can be divided up and trade into as small of pieces as one wants, so no matter how valuable Bitcoins become, one can trade them in practical quantities.

In fact, infinite divisibility should allow Bitcoins to function in cases of extreme wallet loss. Even if, in the far future, so many people have lost their wallets that only a single Bitcoin, or a fraction of one, remains, Bitcoin should continue to function just fine. No one can claim to be sure what is going to happen, but deflation may prove to present a smaller threat than many expect.

For more information, see the [[Deflationary spiral]] page.

=== What if someone bought up all the existing Bitcoins? ===
Bitcoin markets are competitive -- meaning the price of a bitcoin will rise or fall depending on supply and demand at certain price levels. Only a fraction of bitcoins issued to date are found on the exchange markets for sale. So even though technically, a buyer with lots of money could buy all the bitcoins offered for sale, unless those holding the rest of the bitcoins offer them for sale as well, even the wealthiest, most determined buyer can't get at them.

Additionally, new currency continues to be issued daily and will continue to do so for decades; though over time the rate at which they are issued declines to insignificant levels. Those who are mining aren't obligated to sell their bitcoins so not all bitcoins will make it to the markets even.

This situation doesn't suggest, however, that the markets aren't vulnerable to price manipulation. It doesn't take significant amounts of money to move the market price up or down, and thus Bitcoin remains a volatile asset.

===What if someone creates a new block chain, or a new digital currency that renders Bitcoin obsolete?===

That the block chain cannot be easily forked represents one of the central security mechanisms of Bitcoin. Given the choice between two block chains, a Bitcoin miner always chooses the longer one - that is to say, the one with the more complex hash. Thusly, it ensures that each user can only spend their bitcoins once, and that no user gets ripped off.

As a consequence of the block chain structure, there may at any time be many different sub-branches, and the possibility always exists of a transaction being over-written by the longest branch, if it has been recorded in a shorter one. The older a transaction is though, the lower its chances of being over-written, and the higher of becoming permanent. Although the block chain prevents one from spending more Bitcoins than one has, it means that transactions can be accidentally nullified.

A new block chain would leave the network vulnerable to [[double-spending|double-spend]] attacks. However, the creation of a viable new chain presents considerable difficulty, and the possibility does not present much of a risk.

Bitcoin will always choose the longer Block Chain and determines the relative length of two branches by the complexities of their hashes. Since the hash of each new block is made from that of the block preceding it, to create a block with a more complex hash, one must be prepared to do more computation than has been done by the entire Bitcoin network from the fork point up to the newest of the blocks one is trying to supersede. Needless to say, such an undertaking would require a very large amount of processing power and since Bitcoin is continually growing and expanding, it will likely only require more with the passage of time.

A much more distinct and real threat to the Bitcoin use is the development of other, superior virtual currencies, which could supplant Bitcoin and render it obsolete and valueless.

A great deal of careful thought and ingenuity has gone into the development of Bitcoin, but it is the first of its breed, a prototype, and vulnerable to more highly-evolved competitors. At present, any threatening rivals have yet to rear their heads; Bitcoin remains the first and foremost private virtual currency, but we can offer no guarantees that it will retain that position. It would certainly be in keeping with internet history for a similar system built from the same principles to supersede and cast Bitcoin into obsolescence, after time had revealed its major shortcomings. Friendster and Myspace suffered similar fates at the hand of Facebook, Napster was ousted by Limeware, Bearshare and torrent applications, and Skype has all but crushed the last few disciples of the Microsoft Messenger army.

This may sound rather foreboding, so bear in mind that the introduction of new and possibly better virtual currencies will not necessarily herald Bitcoin's demise. If Bitcoin establishes itself sufficiently firmly before the inception of the next generation of private, online currencies so as to gain widespread acceptance and general stability, future currencies may pose little threat even if they can claim superior design. This is known as the network effect.

=== Is Bitcoin open to value manipulation? ===

The current low market cap of Bitcoin means that any investor with deep enough pockets can significantly change/manipulate the rate. Is this a problem?

This is only a problem if you are investing in Bitcoin for short period of time. A manipulator can't change the fundamentals, and over a period of 5-10 years, the fundamentals will win over any short term manipulations.

==Sending and Receiving Payments==

=== Why do I have to wait 10 minutes before I can spend money I received? ===

10 minutes is the average time taken to find a block. It can be significantly more or less time than that depending on luck; 10 minutes is simply the average case.

[[Blocks]] (shown as "confirmations" in the GUI) are how the Bitcoin achieves consensus on who owns what. Once a block is found everyone agrees that you now own those coins, so you can spend them again. Until then it's possible that some network nodes believe otherwise, if somebody is attempting to defraud the system by reversing a transaction. The more confirmations a transaction has, the less risk there is of a reversal. Only 6 blocks or 1 hour is enough to make reversal computationally impractical. This is dramatically better than credit cards which can see chargebacks occur up to three months after the original transaction!

Ten minutes was specifically chosen by [[Satoshi]] as a tradeoff between first confirmation time and the amount of work wasted due to chain splits. After a block is mined, it takes time for other miners to find out about it, and until then they are actually competing against the new block instead of adding to it. If someone mines another new block based on the old block chain, the network can only accept one of the two, and all the work that went into the other block gets wasted. For example, if it takes miners 1 minute on average to learn about new blocks, and new blocks come every 10 minutes, then the overall network is wasting about 10% of its work. Lengthening the time between blocks reduces this waste.

As a thought experiment, what if the Bitcoin network grew to include Mars? From the farthest points in their orbits, it takes about 20 minutes for a signal to travel from Earth to Mars. With only 10 minutes between new blocks, miners on Mars would always be 2 blocks behind the miners on Earth. It would be almost impossible for them to contribute to the block chain. If we wanted collaborate with those kinds of delays, we would need at least a few hours between new blocks.

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=== Do you have to wait until my transactions are confirmed in order to buy or sell things with Bitcoin? ===

YES, you do, IF the transaction is non-recourse. The Bitcoin reference software does not display transactions as confirmed until six blocks have passed (confirmations). As transactions are buried in the chain they become increasingly non-reversible but are very reversible before the first confirmation. Two to six confirmations are recommended for non-recourse situations depending on the value of the transactions involved.

When people ask this question they are usually thinking about applications like supermarkets. This generally is a recourse situation: if somebody tries to double-spend on a face-to-face transaction it might work a few times, but probabalistically speaking eventually one of the double-spends will get noticed, and the penalty for shoplifting charges in most localities is calibrated to be several times worse than the proceeds of a single shoplifting event.

Double-spends might be a concern for something like a snack machine in a low-traffic area with no nearby security cameras. Such a machine shouldn't honor zero-confirmation payments, and should instead use some other mechanism of clearing Bitcoin or validating transactions against reversal, see the wiki article [[Myths#Point_of_sale_with_bitcoins_isn.27t_possible_because_of_the_10_minute_wait_for_confirmation|here]] for alternatives.

Applications that require immediate payment processing, like supermarkets or snack machines, need to manage the risks. Here is one way to reverse an unconfirmed payment:

A [[Double-spending#Finney_attack|Finney attack]] is where an attacker mines a block containing a movement of some coins back to themselves. Once they find a block solution, they quickly go to a merchant and make a purchase, then broadcast the block, thus taking back the coins. This attack is a risk primarily for goods that are dispatched immediately, like song downloads or currency trades. Because the attacker can't choose the time of the attack, it isn't a risk for merchants such as supermarkets where you can't choose exactly when to pay (due to queues, etc). The attack can fail if somebody else finds a block containing the purchasing transaction before you release your own block, therefore, merchants can reduce but not eliminate the risk by making purchasers wait some length of time that's less than a confirm.

Because pulling off this attack is not trivial, merchants who need to sell things automatically and instantly are most likely to adjust the price to include the cost of reversal fraud, or elect to use special insurance.

=== I was sent some bitcoins and they haven't arrived yet! Where are they? ===

Don't panic! There are a number of reasons why your bitcoins might not show up yet, and a number of ways to diagnose them.

The latest version of the Bitcoin-Qt client tells you how far it has yet to go in downloading the blockchain. Hover over the icon in the bottom right corner of the client to learn your client's status.

If it has not caught up then it's possible that your transaction hasn't been included in a block yet.

You can check pending transactions in the network by going [https://www.biteasy.com here] or [http://blockchain.info here] and then searching for your address. If the transaction is listed here then it's a matter of waiting until it gets included in a block before it will show in your client.

If the transaction is based on a coin that was in a recent transaction then it could be considered a low priority transaction. Transfers can take longer if the transaction fee paid was not high enough. If there is no fee at all the transfer can get a very low priority and take hours or even days to be included in a block.

=== Why does my Bitcoin address keep changing? ===

Unlike postal or email addresses, Bitcoin addresses are single-use.
This means that whenever you want to receive a payment, you need to generate a new address.

While it is technically possible to receive coins multiple times with a single address, this compromises your wallet's security as well as the privacy of the entire Bitcoin network, and also makes it impossible to know for certain who sent the coins or why.

===How much will the transaction fee be?===

Some transactions might require a [[transaction fee]] for them to get confirmed in a timely manner. The transaction fee is processed by and received by the bitcoin miner. The most recent version of the Bitcoin client will estimate an appropriate fee when a fee might be required.

The fee is added to the payment amount. For example, if you are sending a 1.234 BTC payment and the client requires a 0.0005 BTC fee, then 1.2345 BTC will be subtracted from the wallet balance for the entire transaction and the address for where the payment was sent will receive a payment of 1.234 BTC.

A fee might be imposed because your transaction looks like a denial of service attack to the Bitcoin system. For example, it might be burdensome to transmit or it might recycle Bitcoins you recently received. The wallet software attempts to avoid generating burdensome transactions, but it isn't always able to do so: The funds in your wallet might be new or composed of many tiny payments.

Because the fee is related to the amount of data that makes up the transaction and not to the amount of Bitcoins being sent, the fee may seem extremely low (0.0005 BTC for a 1,000 BTC transfer) or unfairly high (0.004 BTC for a 0.02 BTC payment, or about 20%). If you are receiving tiny amounts (''e.g.'' as small payments from a mining pool) then fees when sending will be higher than if your activity follows the pattern of conventional consumer or business transactions.

As of Bitcoin 0.5.3 the required fee will not be higher than 0.05 BTC. For most users there is usually no required fee at all. If a fee is required it will most commonly be 0.0005 BTC.

=== What happens when someone sends me a bitcoin but my computer is powered off? ===

Bitcoins are not actually "sent" to your wallet; the software only uses that term so that we can use the currency without having to learn new concepts. Your wallet is only needed when you wish to spend coins that you've received.

If you are sent coins when your wallet client program is not running, and you later launch the wallet client program, the coins will eventually appear as if they were just received in the wallet. That is to say, when the client program is started it must download blocks and catch up with any transactions it did not already know about.

=== How long does "synchronizing" take when the Bitcoin client is first installed? What's it doing? ===

The popular Bitcoin client software from bitcoin.org implements a "full" Bitcoin node: It can carry out all the duties of the Bitcoin P2P system, it isn't simply a "client". One of the principles behind the operation of full Bitcoin nodes is that they don't assume that the other participants have followed the rules of the Bitcoin system. During synchronization, the software is processing historical Bitcoin transactions and making sure for itself that all of the rules of the system have been correctly followed.

In normal operation, after synchronizing, the software should use a hardly noticeable amount of your computer's resources.

When the wallet client program is first installed, its initial validation requires a lot of work from your computer's hard disk, so the amount of time to synchronize depends on your disk speed and, to a lesser extent, your CPU speed. It can take anywhere from a few hours to a day or so. On a slow computer it could take more than 40 hours of continuous synchronization, so check your computer's power-saving settings to ensure that it does not turn its hard disk off when unattended for a few hours. You can use the Bitcoin software during synchronization, but you may not see recent payments to you until the client program has caught up to the point where those transactions happened.

If you feel that this process takes too long, you can download a pre-synchronized blockchain from [http://eu2.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/ http://eu2.bitcoincharts.com/blockchain/]. Alternatively, you can try an alternative "lite" client such as Multibit or a super-light client like electrum, though these clients have somewhat weaker security, are less mature, and don't contribute to the health of the P2P network.

==Networking==
=== Do I need to configure my firewall to run Bitcoin? ===

Bitcoin will connect to other nodes, usually on TCP port 8333. You will need to allow outgoing TCP connections to port 8333 if you want to allow your Bitcoin client to connect to many nodes. [[Testnet]] uses TCP port 18333 instead of 8333.

If you want to restrict your firewall rules to a few IPs, you can find stable nodes in the [[Fallback Nodes|fallback nodes list]].

=== How does the peer finding mechanism work? ===

Bitcoin finds peers primarily by forwarding peer announcements within its own network and each node saves a database of peers that it's aware of, for future use. In order to bootstrap this process Bitcoin needs a list of initial peers, these can be provided manually but normally it obtains them by querying a set of DNS domain names which have automatically updated lists, if that doesn't work it falls back to a built-in list which is updated from time to time in new versions of the software. In the reference software initial peers can also be specified manually by adding an addr.txt to the data directory or via the addnode parameter.

==Mining==
===What is mining?===
[[Mining]] is the process of spending computation power to secure Bitcoin transactions against reversal and introducing new Bitcoins to the system.

Technically speaking, mining is the calculation of a [[hash]] of the a block header, which includes among other things a reference to the previous block, a hash of a set of transactions and a [[nonce]]. If the hash value is found to be less than the current [[target]] (which is inversely proportional to the [[difficulty]]), a new block is formed and the miner gets the newly generated Bitcoins (25 per block at current levels). If the hash is not less than the current target, a new nonce is tried, and a new hash is calculated. This is done millions of times per second by each miner.

===Is mining used for some useful computation?===
The computations done when mining are internal to Bitcoin and not related to any other distributed computing projects. They serve the purpose of securing the Bitcoin network, which is useful.

===Is it not a waste of energy?===
Spending energy on creating and securing a free monetary system is hardly a waste. Also, services necessary for the operation of currently widespread monetary systems, such as banks and credit card companies, also spend energy, arguably more than Bitcoin would.

===Why don't we use calculations that are also useful for some other purpose?===
To provide security for the Bitcoin network, the calculations involved need to have some [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/5617/why-are-bitcoin-calculation-useless/5618#5618 very specific features]. These features are incompatible with leveraging the computation for other purposes.

===How can we stop miners from creating zero transaction blocks?===
The incentive for miners to include transactions is in the fees that come along with them. If we were to implement some minimum number of transactions per block it would be trivial for a miner to create and include transactions merely to surpass that threshold. As the network matures, the block reward drops, and miners become more dependent on transactions fees to pay their costs, the problem of zero transaction blocks should diminish over time.

===How does the proof-of-work system help secure Bitcoin?===
Bitcoin uses the [[Hashcash]] proof of work with a minor adaption. To give a general idea of the mining process, imagine this setup:

payload = <some data related to things happening on the Bitcoin network>
nonce = 1
hash = [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA2 SHA2]( [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA2 SHA2]( payload + nonce ) )

The work performed by a miner consists of repeatedly increasing "nonce" until
the hash function yields a value, that has the rare property of being below a certain
target threshold. (In other words: The hash "starts with a certain number of zeroes",
if you display it in the fixed-length representation, that is typically used.)

As can be seen, the mining process doesn't compute anything special. It merely
tries to find a number (also referred to as nonce) which - in combination with the payload -
results in a hash with special properties.

The advantage of using such a mechanism consists of the fact, that it is very easy to check a result: Given the payload and a specific nonce, only a single call of the hashing function is needed to verify that the hash has the required properties. Since there is no known way to find these hashes other than brute force, this can be used as a "proof of work" that someone invested a lot of computing power to find the correct nonce for this payload.

This feature is then used in the Bitcoin network to secure various aspects. An attacker
that wants to introduce malicious payload data into the network, will need to do the
required proof of work before it will be accepted. And as long as honest miners have more
computing power, they can always outpace an attacker.

Also see [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash Hashcash] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof-of-work_system Proof-of-work system] and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA2 SHA2] and on Wikipedia.

===Why was the "Generate coin" option of the client software removed?===

The option wasn't removed, but it is now only accessible via the command-line or the configuration file. The reason for this is that many users were complaining after they turned on and expecting to receive coins. Without specialized mining hardware a user is exceptionally unlikely generate a block on their own at the network's current [[difficulty|security level]].

==Security==

===Could miners collude to give themselves money or to fundamentally change the nature of Bitcoin?===

There are two questions in here. Let's look at them separately.

;Could miners gang up and give themselves money?

Mining itself is the process of creating new blocks in the block chain. Each block contains a list of all the transactions that have taken place across the entire Bitcoin network since the last block was created, as well as a hash of the previous block. New blocks are 'mined', or rather, generated, by Bitcoin clients correctly guessing sequences of characters in codes called 'hashes,' which are created using information from previous blocks. Bitcoin users may download specialized 'mining' software, which allows them to dedicate some amount of their processing power – however large or small – to guessing at strings within the hash of the previous block. Whoever makes the right guess first, thus creating a new block, receives a reward in Bitcoins.

The block chain is one of the two structures that makes Bitcoin secure, the other being the public-key encryption system on which Bitcoin trade is based. The block chain assures that not only is every single transaction that ever takes place recorded, but that every single transaction is recorded on the computer of anyone who chooses to store the relevant information. Many, many users have complete records of every transaction in Bitcoins history readily available to them at any point, and anyone who wants in the information can obtain it with ease. These things make Bitcoin very hard to fool.

The Bitcoin network takes considerable processing power to run, and since those with the most processing power can make the most guesses, those who put the most power toward to sustaining the network earn the most currency. Each correct guess yields, at present, twenty-five Bitcoins, and as Bitcoins are presently worth something (although the value still fluctuates) every miner who earns any number of Bitcoins makes money. Some miners pull in Bitcoins on their own; and some also join or form pools wherein all who contribute earn a share of the profits.

Therefore, first answer is a vehement “yes” – not only can miners collude to get more money, Bitcoin is designed to encourage them to do so. Bitcoin pools are communal affairs, and there is nothing dishonest or underhanded about them.

Of course, the real question is:

;Can they do so in ways not sanctioned by Bitcoin network? Is there any way to rip off the network and make loads of money dishonestly?

Bitcoin isn't infallible. It can be cheated, but doing so is extremely difficult. Bitcoin was designed to evade some of the central problems with modern currencies – namely, that their trustworthiness hinges upon that of people who might not have users' best interests in mind. Every currency in the world (other than Bitcoin) is controlled by large institutions who keep track of what's done with it, and who can manipulate its value. And every other currency has value because people trust the institutions that control them.

Bitcoin doesn't ask that its users trust any institution. Its security is based on the cryptography that is an integral part of its structure, and that is readily available for any and all to see. Instead of one entity keeping track of transactions, the entire network does, so Bitcoins are astoundingly difficult to steal, or double-spend. Bitcoins are created in a regular and predictable fashion, and by many different users, so no one can decide to make a whole lot more and lessen their value. In short, Bitcoin is designed to be inflation-proof, double-spend-proof and completely distributed.

Nonetheless, there are a few ways that one can acquire Bitcoins dishonestly. Firstly, one can steal private keys. Key theft isn't something that Bitcoin security has been designed to prevent: it's up to users to keep their keys safe. But the cryptography is designed so that it is completely impossible to deduce someone's private key from their public one. As long as you keep your private key to yourself, you don't have much to worry about. Furthermore, one could theoretically create a new block chain, but due to the way in which the block chain is constructed, this would be extremely difficult and require massive amounts of processing power. A full explanation of the difficulties involved can be found in the [[block chain]] article.

Bitcoin can be ripped off – but doing so would be extremely hard and require considerable expertise and a staggering amount of processing power. And it's only going to get harder with time. Bitcoin isn't impenetrable, but it's close enough to put any real worries in the peripherals.

;Could miners fundamentally change the nature of Bitcoin?

Once again, almost certainly not.

Bitcoin is a distributed network, so any changes implemented to the system must be accepted by all users. Someone trying to change the way Bitcoins are generated would have to convince every user to download and use their software – so the only changes that would go through are those that would be equally benefit all users.

And thus, it is more or less impossible for anyone to change the function of Bitcoin to their advantage. If users don't like the changes, they won't adopt them, whereas if users do like them, then these will help everyone equally. Of course, one can conceive of a situation where someone manages to get a change pushed through that provides them with an advantage that no one notices, but given that Bitcoin is structurally relatively simple, it is unlikely that any major changes will go through without someone noticing first.

The fact that such changes are so difficult to make testifies to the fully distributed nature of Bitcoin. Any centrally controlled currency can be modified by its central agency without the consent of its adherents. Bitcoin has no central authority, so it changes only at the behest of the whole community. Bitcoins development represents a kind of collective evolution; the first of its kind among currencies.

==Help==
===I'd like to learn more. Where can I get help?===

* Read the [[Introduction|introduction to bitcoin]]
* See the videos, podcasts, and blog posts from the [[Press]]
* Read and post on the [[:Bitcoin:Community_portal#Bitcoin_Community_Forums|forums]]
* Chat on one of the [[:Bitcoin:Community_portal#IRC_Chat|Bitcoin IRC]] channels
* Listen to [http://omegataupodcast.net/2011/03/59-bitcoin-a-digital-decentralized-currency/ this podcast], which goes into the details of how bitcoin works
* Ask questions on the [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com Bitcoin Stack Exchange]
* Use [http://wheretobuycryptocoins.com WhereToBuyCryptocoins]. It shows an cryptocurrency introduction, a getting started guide for beginners, also lists of markets, faucets, exchanges.

==See Also==

* [[Man page]]
* [[Introduction]]

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Here is a generic [[Bitcoin_Newbie_Guide|Getting Started guide]].
* For an introductory site see [http://wheretobuycryptocoins.com WhereToBuyCryptocoins.com]. Explains what is a cryptocoin, how it works, and have many lists of markets, exchanges, faucets, sites to spend money, prices, etc. For starters and reference.
* Get free bitcoins and learn to use them in 5 minutes: [https://trybtc.com TryBTC]
* Start by watching [http://weusecoins.com/ this 2 minute vid].
* Learn why it [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2834/what-are-the-perceived-advantages-of-bitcoin-as-a-store-of-value could be a good investment]
* Learn why it's objectively [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/305/what-are-the-perceived-advantages-of-bitcoin-as-a-means-of-exchange better as a means of exchange].
* Get a [[Clients|client]] and try it out yourself.
* Use an online wallet that you trust. (Examples: [[File:Coinkite.gif|20px|link=https://coinkite.com/promo/beginners]] [https://coinkite.com/promo/beginners Coinkite], [[File:Bci.gif|20px|link=https://blockchain.info/]] [https://blockchain.info/wallet/ BCI])
* Explore bitcoin with a [[:Category:Block chain browsers|block chain browser]] such as [https://www.biteasy.com Biteasy]
* [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/ Ask questions]
* [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/118/how-much-bitcoin-will-i-mine-right-now-with-hardware-x Can I generate Free Money on my computer?] - TL;DR - Not really.
* [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ Read the FAQ]
* [[Buying Bitcoins (the noob version)|Where can I buy bitcoins?]] (Hint: [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2293/how-can-i-buy-bitcoin-via-a-credit-card-or-paypal You can't buy them with Paypal or credit cards])
* Earn free bitcoins through [[Bonus_Programs|bonus programs]]

If you're looking for how to get started with Bitcoin-Qt, [[Getting started installing bitcoin-qt|this is the article you're looking for]].

==See Also==

* [[Introduction|Bitcoin Introduction]]
* [[Bonus_Programs|Bonus Programs]]
* [[Trade|Bitcoin Businesses]]

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Here is a generic [[Bitcoin_Newbie_Guide|Getting Started guide]].
* For an introductory site see [http://wheretobuycryptocoins.com WhereToBuyCryptocoins.com]. Explains what is a cryptocoin, how it works, and have many lists of markets, exchanges, faucets, sites to spend money, prices, etc. For starters and reference.
* Get free bitcoins and learn to use them in 5 minutes: [https://trybtc.com TryBTC]
* Start by watching [http://weusecoins.com/ this 2 minute vid].
* Learn why it [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2834/what-are-the-perceived-advantages-of-bitcoin-as-a-store-of-value could be a good investment]
* Learn why it's objectively [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/305/what-are-the-perceived-advantages-of-bitcoin-as-a-means-of-exchange better as a means of exchange].
* Get a [[Clients|client]] and try it out yourself.
* Use an online wallet that you trust. (Examples: [[File:Coinkite.gif|20px|link=https://coinkite.com/promo/beginners]] [https://coinkite.com/promo/beginners Coinkite], [[File:Bci.gif|20px|link=https://blockchain.info/]] [https://blockchain.info/wallet/ BCI])
* Explore bitcoin with a [[:Category:Block chain browsers|block chain browser]] such as [https://www.biteasy.com Biteasy]
* [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/ Ask questions]
* [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/118/how-much-bitcoin-will-i-mine-right-now-with-hardware-x Can I generate Free Money on my computer?] - TL;DR - Not really.
* [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ Read the FAQ]
* [[Buying Bitcoins (the noob version)|Where can I buy bitcoins?]] (Hint: [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2293/how-can-i-buy-bitcoin-via-a-credit-card-or-paypal You can't buy them with Paypal or credit cards])
* [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bonus_Programs Earn bitcoins through bonus programs]

If you're looking for how to get started with Bitcoin-Qt, [[Getting started installing bitcoin-qt|this is the article you're looking for]].

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Here is a generic [[Bitcoin_Newbie_Guide|Getting Started guide]].
* For an introductory site see [http://wheretobuycryptocoins.com WhereToBuyCryptocoins.com]. Explains what is a cryptocoin, how it works, and have many lists of markets, exchanges, faucets, sites to spend money, prices, etc. For starters and reference.
* Get free bitcoins and learn to use them in 5 minutes: [https://trybtc.com TryBTC]
* Start by watching [http://weusecoins.com/ this 2 minute vid].
* Learn why it [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2834/what-are-the-perceived-advantages-of-bitcoin-as-a-store-of-value could be a good investment]
* Learn why it's objectively [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/305/what-are-the-perceived-advantages-of-bitcoin-as-a-means-of-exchange better as a means of exchange].
* Get a [[Clients|client]] and try it out yourself (you can get a bit of free money from [http://www.bitcoinget.com BitcoinGet] or [[Bitcoin Faucet|The Bitcoin Faucet]]).
* Use an online wallet that you trust. (Examples: [[File:Coinkite.gif|20px|link=https://coinkite.com/promo/beginners]] [https://coinkite.com/promo/beginners Coinkite], [[File:Bci.gif|20px|link=https://blockchain.info/]] [https://blockchain.info/wallet/ BCI])
* Explore bitcoin with a [[:Category:Block chain browsers|block chain browser]] such as [https://www.biteasy.com Biteasy]
* [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/ Ask questions]
* [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/118/how-much-bitcoin-will-i-mine-right-now-with-hardware-x Can I generate Free Money on my computer?] - TL;DR - Not really.
* [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/FAQ Read the FAQ]
* [[Buying Bitcoins (the noob version)|Where can I buy bitcoins?]] (Hint: [http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/2293/how-can-i-buy-bitcoin-via-a-credit-card-or-paypal You can't buy them with Paypal or credit cards])
* [https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bonus_Programs Earn bitcoins through bonus programs]

If you're looking for how to get started with Bitcoin-Qt, [[Getting started installing bitcoin-qt|this is the article you're looking for]].

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The purpose of this page is to provide a general overview of the Bitcoin system and economy.

==Basic Concepts==

===Currency===

Alice wants to buy the [http://www.grasshillalpacas.com/alpacaproductsforbitcoinoffer.html Alpaca socks] which Bob has for sale. In return, she must provide something of equal value to Bob. The most efficient way to do this is by using a medium of exchange that Bob accepts which would be classified as currency. Currency makes trade easier by eliminating the need for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coincidence_of_wants coincidence of wants] required in other systems of trade such as barter. Currency adoption and acceptance can be global, national, or in some cases local or community-based.

===Banks===

Alice need not provide currency to Bob in-person. She may instead transfer this value by first entrusting her currency to a bank who promises to store and protect Alice's currency notes. The bank gives Alice a written promise (called a "bank statement") that entitles her to withdraw the same number of currency bills that she deposited. Since the money is still Alice's, she is entitled to do with it whatever she pleases, and the bank (like most banks), for a small fee, will do Alice the service of passing on the currency bills to Bob on her behalf. This is done by Alice's bank by giving the dollar bills to Bob's bank and informing them that the money is for Bob, who will then see the amount the next time he checks his balance or receives his bank statement.

Since banks have many customers, and bank employees require money for doing the job of talking to people and signing documents, banks in recent times have been using machines such as ATMs and web servers that do the job of interacting with customers instead of paid bank employees. The task of these machines is to learn what each customer wants to do with their money and, to the extent that it is possible, act on what the customer wants (for example, ATMs can hand out cash). Customers can always know how much money they have in their accounts, and they are confident that the numbers they see in their bank statements and on their computer screens accurately reflect the number of dollars that they can get from the bank on demand. They can be so sure of this that they can accept those numbers in the same way they accept paper banknotes (this is similar to the way people started accepting paper dollars when they had been accepting gold or silver).

Such a system has several disadvantages:
* It is costly. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_funds_transfer EFTs] in Europe can cost 25 euros. Credit transactions can cost several percent of the transaction.
* It is slow. Checking and low cost wire services take days to complete.
* In most cases, it cannot be anonymous.
* Accounts can be frozen, or their balance partially or wholly confiscated.
* Banks and other payment processors like PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard may refuse to process payments for certain legal entities.

Bitcoin is a system of owning and voluntarily transferring amounts of so-called ''bitcoins'', in a manner similar to an on-line banking, but pseudonymously and without reliance on a central authority to maintain account balances. If bitcoins are valuable, it is because they are useful and limited in supply.

==Bitcoin Basics==

===Creation of coins===
The creation of coins must be limited for the currency to have any value.

New coins are slowly [[Mining|mined]] into existence by following a mutually agreed-upon set of rules. A user [[Mining|mining]] bitcoins is running a software program that searches tirelessly for a solution to a very difficult math problem whose difficulty is precisely known. The difficulty is automatically adjusted regularly so that the number of solutions found globally, by everyone, for a given unit of time is constant: an average of 6 per hour. When a solution is found, the user may tell everyone of the existence of this newly found solution, along with other information, packaged together in what is called a "[[Block|block]]".

Blocks create 25 new bitcoins at present. This amount, known as the block reward, is an incentive for people to perform the computation work required for generating blocks. Roughly every 4 years, the number of bitcoins that can be "mined" in a block reduces by 50%. Originally the block reward was 50 bitcoins; it halved in November 2012. Any block that is created by a malicious user that does not follow this rule (or any other rules) will be rejected by everyone else. In the end, no more than 21 million bitcoins will ever exist.

Because the block reward will decrease over the long term, miners will some day instead pay for their hardware and electricity costs by collecting [[Transaction_fee|transaction fees]]. The sender of money may voluntarily pay a small transaction fee which will be kept by whoever finds the next block. Paying this fee will encourage miners to include the transaction in a block more quickly.

===Sending payments===
To guarantee that a third-party, let's call her Eve, cannot spend other people's bitcoins by creating transactions in their names, Bitcoin uses [[Wikipedia:Public-key_cryptography|public key cryptography]] to make and verify digital signatures. In this system, each person, such as Alice or Bob, has one or more addresses each with an associated pair of public and private keys that they may hold in a [[Wallet|wallet]]. Only the user with the private key can sign a transaction to give some of their bitcoins to somebody else, but anyone can validate the signature using that user’s public key.

Suppose Alice wants to send a bitcoin to Bob.
* Bob sends his address to Alice.
* Alice adds Bob’s address and the amount of bitcoins to transfer to a message: a 'transaction' message.
* Alice signs the transaction with her private key, and announces her public key for signature verification.
* Alice broadcasts the transaction on the Bitcoin network for all to see.

(Only the first two steps require human action. The rest is done by the Bitcoin client software.)

Looking at this transaction from the outside, anyone who knows that these addresses belong to Alice and Bob can see that Alice has agreed to transfer the amount to Bob, because nobody else has Alice's private key. Alice would be foolish to give her private key to other people, as this would allow them to sign transactions in her name, removing funds from her control.

Later on, when Bob wishes to transfer the same bitcoins to Charley, he will do the same thing:
* Charlie sends Bob his address.
* Bob adds Charlie's address and the amount of bitcoins to transfer to a message: a 'transaction' message.
* Bob signs the transaction with his private key, and announces his public key for signature verification.
* Bob broadcasts the transaction on the Bitcoin network for all to see.

Only Bob can do this because only he has the private key that can create a valid signature for the transaction.

Eve cannot change whose coins these are by replacing Bob’s address with her address, because Alice signed the transfer to Bob using her own private key, which is kept secret from Eve, and instructing that the coins which were hers now belong to Bob. So if Charlie accepts that the original coin was in the hands of Alice, he will also accept the fact that this coin was later passed to Bob, and now Bob is passing this same coin to him.

===Preventing [[double-spending]]===
The process described above does not prevent Alice from using the same bitcoins in more than one transaction. The following process does; this is the primary innovation behind Bitcoin.

* Details about the [[Transactions|transaction]] are [[Network|sent and forwarded]] to all or as many other computers as possible.
* A constantly growing chain of [[Blocks|blocks]] that contains a record of all transactions is collectively maintained by all computers (each has a full copy).
* To be accepted in the chain, transaction blocks must be valid and must include [[proof of work]] (one block generated by the network every 10 minutes).
* Blocks are chained in a way so that, if any one is modified, all following blocks will have to be recomputed.
* When multiple valid continuations to this chain appear, only the longest such branch is accepted and it is then extended further.

When Bob sees that his transaction has been included in a block, which has been made part of the single longest and fastest-growing block chain (extended with significant computational effort), he can be confident that the transaction by Alice has been accepted by the computers in the network and is permanently recorded, preventing Alice from creating a second transaction with the same coin. In order for Alice to thwart this system and double-spend her coins, she would need to muster more computing power than all other Bitcoin users combined.

===Anonymity===
When it comes to the Bitcoin network itself, there are no "accounts" to set up, and no e-mail addresses, user-names or passwords are required to hold or spend bitcoins. Each balance is simply associated with an address and its public-private key pair. The money "belongs" to anyone who has the private key and can sign transactions with it. Moreover, those keys do not have to be registered anywhere in advance, as they are only used when required for a transaction. Transacting parties do not need to know each other's identity in the same way that a store owner does not know a cash-paying customer's name.

A [[Address|Bitcoin address]] mathematically corresponds to a public key and looks like this:

:1PC9aZC4hNX2rmmrt7uHTfYAS3hRbph4UN

Each person can have many such addresses, each with its own balance, which makes it very difficult to know which person owns what amount. In order to protect his [[Anonymity|privacy]], Bob can generate a new public-private key pair for each individual receiving transaction and the Bitcoin software encourages this behavior by default. Continuing the example from above, when Charlie receives the bitcoins from Bob, Charlie will not be able to identify who owned the bitcoins before Bob.

===Capitalization / Nomenclature===
Since Bitcoin is both a currency and a protocol, capitalization can be confusing. Accepted practice is to use ''Bitcoin'' (singular with an upper case letter B) to label the protocol, software, and community, and ''bitcoins'' (with a lower case b) to label units of the currency.

==Where to see and explore==
You can directly explore the system in action by visiting [https://www.biteasy.com/ Biteasy.com], [http://blockchain.info/ Blockchain.info], [http://btc.blockr.io/ Blokr.io Bitcoin Block Explorer] or [http://blockexplorer.com/ Bitcoin Block Explorer].
The site shows you the latest blocks in the block chain. The [[Block_chain|block chain]] contains the agreed history of all transactions that took place in the system.
Note how many blocks were generated in the last hour, which on average will be 6. Also notice the number of transactions and the total amount transferred in the last hour (last time I checked it was about 64 and 15K).
This should give you an indication of how active the system is.

Next, navigate to one of these blocks.
The block's [[hash]] begins with a run of zeros. This is what made creating the block so difficult; a hash that begins with many zeros is much more difficult to find than a hash with few or no zeros. The computer that generated this block had to try many ''Nonce'' values (also listed on the block's page) until it found one that generated this run of zeros.
Next, see the line titled ''Previous block''. Each block contains the hash of the block that came before it. This is what forms the chain of blocks.
Now take a look at all the transactions the block contains. The first transaction is the income earned by the computer that generated this block. It includes a fixed amount of coins created out of "thin air" and possibly a fee collected from other transactions in the same block.

Drill down into any of the transactions and you will see how it is made up of one or more amounts coming in and out.
Having more than one incoming and outgoing amount in a transaction enables the system to join and break amounts in any possible way, allowing for any fractional amount needed. Each incoming amount is a past transaction (which you can also view) from someone's address, and each outgoing amount is addressed to someone and will be part of a future transaction (which you can also navigate down into if it has already taken place.)

Finally you can follow any of the [[Address|addresses]] links and see what public information is available for them.

To get an impression of the amount of activity on the Bitcoin network, you might like to visit the monitoring websites [[Bitcoin Monitor]] and [[Bitcoin Watch]]. The first shows a real-time visualization of events on the Bitcoin network, and the second lists general statistics on the amount and size of recent transactions.

===How many people use Bitcoin?===

This is quite a difficult question to answer accurately. One approach is to count how many bitcoin clients connected to the network in the last 24 hours. We can do this because some clients transmit their addresses to the other members of the network periodically. In September 2011 this method suggested that there were about {{formatnum:60000}} users.

==See Also==
* For an introductory site see [http://wheretobuycryptocoins.com WhereToBuyCryptocoins.com]. Explains what is a cryptocoin, how it works, and have many lists of markets, exchanges, faucets, sites to spend money, prices, etc. For starters and reference.
* [https://www.trybtc.com/ TryBTC] easiest way to get started using bitcoin. Gives you free coins to create a bitcoin wallet and start spending.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um63OQz3bjo What is Bitcoin?] video introduction
* Installing Bitcoin [[getting started]]
* [[Using Bitcoin]]
* A gentle introduction to Bitcoin - [[BitcoinMe]]
* [http://coinlab.com/2011/12/bitcoin-primer Bitcoin Primer] from CoinLab
* Another introduction, ''The Rebooting Of Money'' podcast is found at [[Bitcoin Money]]
* A beginner's step-by-step guide to using Bitcoin, use of alternative wallets, and generally keeping your money and computer secure - [http://BitcoinIntro.com BitcoinIntro.com]
* [http://howtobitcoin.info howtobitcoin.info] Directory of bitcoin links for beginners
* Amazon Kindle Book [http://www.amazon.com/Bitcoin-Step-by-ebook/dp/B00A1CUQQU Bitcoin Step by Step] $3.99 (USD). The author walks you step by step through getting started.
* [http://dpassport.com/free-reports/Free-Bitcoin-Report.pdf Free Bitcoin report] by Brad Gosse and Jennifer Wozniak

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These websites have bonus programs that allow you to earn bitcoins by doing things like taking surveys, answering questions, trying apps, viewing advertisements, referring others to the website, and making purchases at other websites. Some of these have many of the same offers (but they give different payouts for participating in those offers).

== Offer Programs ==

* [http://www.freedigitalmoney.com/Bitcoins Free Digital Money] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 1000 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer. No account is needed to participate in offers.

* [http://www.iwantfreebitcoins.com/ iWantFreeBitCoins] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 700 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. You receive a currency called BitPoints added to your balance immediately after you participate in each offer. Your BitPoints can be converted to bitcoins when you request a payout, which will be processed the following Wednesday or Sunday. The referral program pays 25% of everything earned by each user you refer. An account is needed to participate in offers.

* [http://www.rugatu.com/ Rugatu Q&A] Get bitcoins by answering questions that other members have posted. A great way to do some freelancing job if you have an area of expertise and help support the bitcoin community. Sometimes higher value bounties are posted for programmers or media artists. You can login with your existing google, facebook, yahoo or openid account.

* [http://www.bitvisitor.com/ Bitvisitor] Earn bitcoins by visiting participating websites. Enter a bitcoin address to start visiting websites. No signup required. Each visit must last 5 minutes and requires entering a captcha. Payment is sent immediately after each visit. Website owners bid on how much they will pay for each visit.

* [http://www.earnfreebitcoins.com EarnFreeBitcoins] Similar to Bitvisitor, you earn bitcoins for visiting websites. No signup, but you must visit each website for the specified period of time, and also enter a captcha in order to receive payment. Payments are queued to reduce transaction fees.

* [http://www.bitcoinget.com BitcoinGet] Earn bitcoins for watching videos, completing tasks, and completing offers. No signup required. Just enter your Bitcoin address to start earning. No minimum payout. Payments are made daily to reduce transaction fees.

* [http://bitbucks.com/ BitBucks] Earn bitcoins by filling out surveys and participating in promotional offers. Roughly 2000+ offers available worldwide: most are free but some require minor deposits (however the bitcoin-payout is usually comparatively larger than the deposit). Some offers require Facebook authentication [no personal information is collected]. The referral system pays 10% commissions on all earnings made by users who use your referral-link. No account is needed and you can earn bitcoins from any computer, phone or tablet.

* [http://bfg.swfchan.com/?start The BFG Program] Link to swfchan.com and earn bitcoins. BFG stands for "Bitcoins For Gets". The site is a flash archive and when someone watches or downloads a flash they make a "get". Each new IP that you bring to the site and that makes a get adds points into your account, which will be converted to bitcoins upon withdrawal.

* [https://www.trybtc.com/ TryBTC] Features interactive tutorials in which users are given a small amount of Bitcoin to send to charitable causes and share with friends. In the process they are taught about concepts such as wallets, addresses, transactions, and the Bitcoin Blockchain. You get to keep up to 5 cents in BTC at the end.

== Find more bonus programs ==

* [http://bonusbitcoin.weebly.com/ BonusBitcoin List] A list of bitcoin bonus offers. Updated almost every day.

== Affiliate Programs ==

* [https://www.bitcoin.de/en/registrieren Bitcoin.de] Every new user currently gets 0.01 Bitcoins for free. Affiliate program – users get Bitcoins for advising bitcoin.de to other users.

* [https://bitcoinera.net/ Bitcoinera.net] Bitcoin investments. Earn bitcoins by referring new investors to Bitcoinera.net, earn 2% monthly of the money your referrals deposit (1% and 0.5% for 2nd and 3rd tier referrals)

* [https://bitmillions.com/ BitMillions - Bitcoin Lottery] Earn bitcoins by sharing your custom affiliate betting address. Earn 20% of house fees for life. Our affiliate program uses a 60 days cookie. Affiliate earnings will be paid btw 1 and 5 blocks, expect real time winnings! Earning are sent without deducting any transaction fee! Banners provided for affiliates. More info at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155027.0

* [http://www.royalbitcoin.com/ RoyalBitcoin] Earn bitcoins by sharing your custom affiliate betting address. Affiliates earn 1% of the total volume of bets that are placed through their addresses. Payments are made daily in BTC. No minimums or maximums, 1% is paid regardless of whether players have won or lost.

* [http://satoshi36.com/affiliate Satoshi36 Bitcoin lottery] Get bitcoins by referring new people to Satoshi36. Enter your bitcoin adress to generate the unique url. You will get 50% of lottery profit from every winning player, who visits the site via your url.

* [https://satoshibet.com/affiliate SatoshiBet Bitcoin Casino] Earn bitcoins by referring new people to SatoshiBet, introduce a new player and earn '''25% of house edge of all bets made, forever'''! There is no limit to how much you can earn.

* [https://strikesapphire.com/ StrikeSapphire Casino] StrikeSapphire offers professional affiliates up to 35% revenue shares. Affiliates are paid through their StrikeSapphire casino account. The program is only available outside the US. Affiliates are approved individually. To qualify, prospective affiliates must email help (at) StrikeSapphire.com.

* [https://btc-asia.com/ BTC-Asia - Secure Bitcoin Escrows] Earn bitcoins by sharing your affiliate links. Become an affiliate and share 30% of our escrow transaction fees for each completed transaction you refer to us. Banners provided for affiliates. More info at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=237121.0

==See Also==

* [[Trade|Bitcoin Businesses]]

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These websites have bonus programs that allow you to earn bitcoins by doing things like taking surveys, answering questions, trying apps, viewing advertisements, referring others to the website, and making purchases at other websites. Some of these have many of the same offers (but they give different payouts for participating in those offers).

== Offer Programs ==

* [http://www.freedigitalmoney.com/Bitcoins Free Digital Money] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 1000 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer. No account is needed to participate in offers.

* [http://www.iwantfreebitcoins.com/ iWantFreeBitCoins] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 700 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. You receive a currency called BitPoints added to your balance immediately after you participate in each offer. Your BitPoints can be converted to bitcoins when you request a payout, which will be processed the following Wednesday or Sunday. The referral program pays 25% of everything earned by each user you refer. An account is needed to participate in offers.

* [http://www.rugatu.com/ Rugatu Q&A] Get bitcoins by answering questions that other members have posted. A great way to do some freelancing job if you have an area of expertise and help support the bitcoin community. Sometimes higher value bounties are posted for programmers or media artists. You can login with your existing google, facebook, yahoo or openid account.

* [http://www.bitvisitor.com/ Bitvisitor] Earn bitcoins by visiting participating websites. Enter a bitcoin address to start visiting websites. No signup required. Each visit must last 5 minutes and requires entering a captcha. Payment is sent immediately after each visit. Website owners bid on how much they will pay for each visit.

* [http://www.earnfreebitcoins.com EarnFreeBitcoins] Similar to Bitvisitor, you earn bitcoins for visiting websites. No signup, but you must visit each website for the specified period of time, and also enter a captcha in order to receive payment. Payments are queued to reduce transaction fees.

* [http://www.bitcoinget.com BitcoinGet] Earn bitcoins for watching videos, completing tasks, and completing offers. No signup required. Just enter your Bitcoin address to start earning. No minimum payout. Payments are made daily to reduce transaction fees.

* [http://www.bitbucks.com/ BitBucks] Earn bitcoins by filling out surveys and participating in promotional offers. Roughly 1300+ offers available worldwide: most are free but some require minor deposits (however the bitcoin-payout is usually comparatively larger than the deposit). Some offers require Facebook authentication [no personal information is collected]. The referral system pays 10% commissions on all earnings made by users who use your referral-link. No account is needed and you can earn bitcoins from any computer, phone or tablet.

== Affiliate Programs ==

* [http://www.royalbitcoin.com/ RoyalBitcoin] Earn bitcoins by sharing your custom affiliate betting address. Affiliates earn 1% of the total volume of bets that are placed through their addresses. Payments are made daily in BTC. No minimums or maximums, 1% is paid regardless of whether players have won or lost.

* [https://www.bitcoin.de/en/registrieren Bitcoin.de] Every new user currently gets 0.01 Bitcoins for free. Affiliate program – users get Bitcoins for advising bitcoin.de to other users.

* [https://bitmillions.com/ BitMillions - Bitcoin Lottery] Earn bitcoins by sharing your custom affiliate betting address. Earn 20% of house fees for life. Our affiliate program uses a 60 days cookie. Affiliate earnings will be paid btw 1 and 5 blocks, expect real time winnings! Earning are sent without deducting any transaction fee! Banners provided for affiliates. More info at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155027.0

* [https://satoshibet.com/affiliate SatoshiBet Bitcoin Casino] Earn bitcoins by referring new people to SatoshiBet, introduce a new player and earn '''25% of house edge of all bets made, forever'''! There is no limit to how much you can earn.

* [https://strikesapphire.com/ StrikeSapphire Casino] StrikeSapphire offers professional affiliates up to 35% revenue shares. Affiliates are paid through their StrikeSapphire casino account. The program is only available outside the US. Affiliates are approved individually. To qualify, prospective affiliates must email help (at) StrikeSapphire.com.

==See Also==

* [[Trade|Bitcoin Businesses]]

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==Proposed Listing Standards==
I propose the following standards be required for listing on the [Trade]. The listed site must
# Be currently functional (downtime of less than 48 hours is acceptable)
# Be currently accepting bitcoins
# Have clear instructions for paying with bitcoins from the link given
# Prices must be sane within an order of magnitude (non-sane prices indicate that the website has not been updated to match bitcoin deflation)
The standards will help keep the list manageable and easy to use.

This is a talk page, so please sign your contributions. I mostly agree, but the "sane prices" criterion seems a bit subjective ; there is a risk that we exclude goodwilling merchants, who would otherwise be willing to update their prices when contacted. [[User:ThomasV|ThomasV]] 10:43, 12 February 2011 (GMT)

:Here is an example [http://bitcoin2cash.com/]. When I say "sane", I mean reasonable within an order of magnitude. I moved your other comment to a separate section for clarity [[User:Ptd|Ptd]] 12:59, 13 February 2011 (GMT)

Sounds reasonable. --[[User:Sirius|Sirius]] 07:09, 23 February 2011 (GMT)
Reasonable. What about defining a practice for ordering the list of sites? I've got one to add, so I'll just tack it at the bottom, but it's going to be an ugly list after awhile. Alphabetical? Chronologically ordered by add date?
[[User:JulianTosh|JulianTosh]] 00:19, 10 May 2011 (GMT)

I'd say somewhat unreasonable regarding the clear instructions. A lot of my customers are the types who would get confused if I listed my native currency and Bitcoin side by side. I want to offer Bitcoin for Bitcoin users, but not at the risk of confusing other potential customers and potentially losing sales as a result. As such, I make it possible for customers to switch to using Bitcoin during the checkout process. [[User:Orbixx|Orbixx]] 18:39, 02 June 2011 (GMT)

Every link that does not go to a page that CLEARLY states they are accepting bitcoins should be removed. Try to go to the website Orbixx has added again, there is simply no way to check they accept bitcoins, and I believe they don't actually. I couldn't figure it out. So I think the rules should be that if the link does NOT arrive at a page that says the site is accepting bitcoins, it should be removed. Orbixx, companies can just create a separate page for it, and you link to that page, not simply to your homepage if you think it would be too confusing on the home page.
[[User:Berend|Berend]] 21:21, 2 June 2011 (GMT)

On Exoware.net payment methods are not stated at all until the checkout process; this is incredibly common. It should be evident that we accept Bitcoin because we are listed on this page and there should be no need to plaster it all over some landing page or on the site. As for your belief that "they don't actually [accept bitcoins]", you're welcome to try us - we do. The mere fact that you nonchalantly removed our listing in the first place for apparently not accepting Bitcoin without even getting in contact with us in the first place is ridiculous. Then to come on here after I email you with screenshots showing the page where you can change your currency to BTC and say that somehow you still maintain that we do not accept Bitcoin is preposterous. Do not remove any listings without first solidly verifying your inadequate assumptions. [[User:Orbixx|Orbixx]] 04:01, 03 June 2011 (GMT)

It's not unreasonable to expect a merchant to have a bitcoin logo among the mastercard, visa, paypal, google checkout, etc. buttons that clutter a corner of nearly every website that takes money. If they accept bitcoin, they should add a bitcoin logo there. if they take money, they should have a section that fits the description. it's that simple. no reason not to be able to tell at a glance. [[User:aarcane|aarcane]] 04:54, 03 June 2011 (UTC)

I suggest we vote on this. Vendors who have hidden the fact they accept bitcoin extremely well (try finding it on Orbixx's site) do not deserve to be listed here. We could create a separate page for them (i.e. unverifiable entries). [[User:Berend|Berend]] 22:24, 11 August 2011 (GMT)

I agree that a site that accepts bitcoin must Clearly Say So on any page that mentions payment options, and their front/landing page. Any site that does not say so Up Front, should not be listed as Accepting Bitcoin. How do you verify that they accept bitcoin until you've already selected a product/service, and gone to the checkout page, and Finally see an option for using Bitcoin? This is a ridiculous thing to do. If I only have a Mastercard, and I'm on a site that only accepts Visa, I'd be pretty upset to not find that out until I'm already at the checkout page!! Every site I have EVER used to purchase Anything online says, Up Front, what kinds of payment methods they accept. No confusion. [[User:Krepta3000|Krepta3000]] 17:47, 25 August 2011 (MST)

==Should we put addresses on the wiki?==
We just had some bitcoin address spam. perhaps it would not have happened if we did not put bitcoin addresses on the wiki ? [[User:ThomasV|ThomasV]] 23:50, 12 February 2011 (GMT)
: Page is now semi-protected. [[User:MagicalTux|MagicalTux]] 08:28, 16 February 2011 (GMT)

Yea i suggest not to put the bitcoin addresses of donation-accepting orgs on the wiki. this opens it up to vandalism in hopes of getting misdirected bitcoins. just link to the relevant webpage of the donation-accepting organization, and that's all. that way also we don't have to worry about the addresses changing.--[[User:Nanotube|Nanotube]] 04:41, 24 February 2011 (GMT)

==Hide Contents of Adult?==
Should the contents of Adult be displayed by default, or might it be reasonable to expect that to be a hidden that requires an action for the contents of the category to be rendered? - [[User:sgornick]] 06:22, 23 February 2011 (GMT)

Should be hidden or moved to another page. --[[User:Sirius|Sirius]] 07:05, 23 February 2011 (GMT)

I'm all for censoring it as much as the community will tolerate. --[[User:Luke-jr|Luke-jr]] 13:27, 23 February 2011 (GMT)

Why hide adult section? They are just links to sites, and section is clearly labeled "Adult". What's the big idea on the censorship? --[[User:Nanotube|Nanotube]] 04:39, 24 February 2011 (GMT)

I suggest do not censor or hide. Consider for example genjix's calm reference to drugs in his presentation. Should he have been afraid and contemplative of censoring or preventing from communicating such things? Such is a kind of debate generally influenced by religi*** motivations. See [[Trade_R]] for adult content [[User:Mizerydearia|Mizerydearia]] 15:04, 27 April 2011 (GMT)

Against censorship of site links. They should simply be labeled as adult oriented and the vagues possible genre references.
[[User:JulianTosh|JulianTosh]] 00:21, 10 May 2011 (GMT)

The problem with listing every site together with adults sites is that automatic scanning software might label your business in the same group. You don't want that to happen, else your legitimate businesses will very quickly disappear from this page
[[User:Berend|Berend]] 21:18, 2 June 2011 (GMT)

The header for the page claims 'Products or services illegal in US or Japan are not fit to be listed here - such links will be removed immediately. Any attempt to get those links up again will result in the account being blocked. This includes pornography and many mind-altering drugs'. As pornography is not actually illegal in Japan or in the US, it should be clarified whether the restriction is the result of an editor attempting to enforce their ideology, a requirement that all porn comply with Japanese censorship regulations (i.e. mosaic over certain body parts - which I suspect fairly few bitcoin-accepting sites actually comply with), or an administrative decision whose force stems from private property rights rather than from .us/.jp law. [[User:Deekoo|Deekoo]] 05:54, 15 August 2011 (GMT)

== Drugs Section Empty ==

The "psychoactives" section appears to consist entirely of dead links. [[User:Ironwolf|Ironwolf]] 03:54, 28 March 2011 (GMT)

I deleted the Drugs section, since Bitcoin is still far too vulnerable to government actions against it -- there are many single points of failure. The most glaring to me is the DNS system -- the bitcoin.org domain could be taken down if the US government wishes to.

:This is a terrible decision. My company was removed because of this decision, and it disgusts me. Not all drugs are illegal. My company operates a physical storefront in the US. We ONLY sell drugs that you can buy at the supermarket down the road. Just because it is a "drug" or "psychoactive" doesn't mean that the government is trying to shut it down. Nicotine is a drug, aspirin is a drug, alcohol is a drug. Lotus petals are psychoactive, and so is chamomile and kava - but you can go into Walmart or Walgreens/CVS and buy them. These are the only drugs for sale. Stop freaking out about it. People have swept our business off this list twice because of this ridiculous mindset. We're a hippy art store - not a head shop or drug market. --[[User:Metagnosis|Metagnosis]] 17:59, 22 June 2011 (GMT)

I apologize to those merchants who may not get as many customers now, but really, it's probably better this way. Anyone who needs to can get a connection by asking around, I'm sure. My goal is only to reduce the "criminal" perception of Bitcoin. [[User:AaronM|AaronM]] 01:18, 27 April 2011 (GMT)

We want a payment medium that resists the authority of the state. That is going to be "criminal". The real fix is providing adequate fallbacks and replacements for single points of failure [[User:STH|STH]] 01:04, 20 November 2011 (GMT)

== What is a Notable Website ==

I started accepting bitcoin at http://la.indymedia.org and a couple other sites on the slaptech.net site. What's the standard for adding this to the list of sites? [[User:Johnk|Johnk]] 16:30, 17 April 2011 (GMT)
:Just go for it. Even MezeGrill has no verifiable info on their business accepting BTC. We need some level of organisation to sort things out and it is good practice to give all necessary information that makes it easy for others to verify your information but for now if you have an actual business that's better than the worst of those listed here already.
:--[[User:Giszmo|Giszmo]] 13:24, 28 September 2011 (GMT)

== New section for services that are not considered "Professional services"? ==

I'm wondering whether it might be advisable to add a section for services that are not really "professional services" as that term is ordinarily used in vernacular English.

For example, I just added a dump-truck haulage service to ''Professional services/Other''; but dump truck haulage is not generally considered a professional service. Ought we to consider adding a new section to the page? [[User:1ECVX6EAk53VER2NH5NKharUUGpfw8iUP6|1ECVX6EAk53VER2NH5NKharUUGpfw8iUP6]] 01:49, 4 May 2011 (GMT)

:i'm a massage therapist wanting to trade bitcoin for massage. what section do i put my services in?
:[[User:zenbunny|zenbunny]] 20:52, 25 May 2011 (GMT)

== donation accepting organizations ==

perhaps a separate page should be created for them ?
I guess donations do not belong to "trade".
[[User:ThomasV|ThomasV]] 23:17, 5 May 2011 (GMT)

:Definitely. It's a bit sad that there is no place to list all Bitcoin-accepted organizations, particularly smaller non-profit ones since they don't sell anything and the organizations page has a notability requirement. I'll create one if no one objects and/or does it before me. [[User:Blues|Blues]] 20:36, 25 May 2011 (GMT)

I've added RYT (Roll Your Tasks) under 'Productivity' again (has been deleted by user Luke-jr, probably because there is no force to pay for this service). Donations are accepted, but I'm not an organization of any kind. Moreover RYT is an app for enhancing productivity without political or similar intent, beside that I want to give others the opportunity to use it. I think it's good to also give non- or part-commercial efforts a chance to be listed here. If someone wants to have some specific (RYT) improvements, feel free to suggest a deal...

Listing criteria above are fullfilled:
Be currently functional (downtime of less than 48 hours is acceptable) -> fullfilled.
Be currently accepting bitcoins -> Yes.
Have clear instructions for paying with bitcoins from the link given -> Yes (bitcoin address).
Prices must be sane within an order of magnitude (non-sane prices indicate that the website has not been updated to match bitcoin deflation) -> Very sane (free, if you don't want to donate).
[[User:Hartrock|Hartrock]] 03:57, 25 September 2011 (GMT)

== Alternative listings for bitcoin-related directory and merchant sites ==

Because this wiki is censored and not allowing of certain contents or sites, I have set up http://bitcoinsites.witcoin.com/ to allow for all bitcoin-related sites to be posted. Feel free to also use this medium for commenting and reviewing sites as well. [[User:Mizerydearia|Mizerydearia]] 05:28, 25 May 2011 (GMT)

* Since witcoin.com is subject to US and/or Canada law, I would expect it to be censored as well eventually. But perhaps not a bad idea to make an alternative site for the ratings/reviews idea anyway... I won't use it if it's based on witcoin though, since they require paying to comment/rate... --[[User:Luke-jr|Luke-jr]] 18:27, 25 May 2011 (GMT)

Witcoin still down [[User:STH|STH]] 00:58, 20 November 2011 (GMT)

[http://payco.in payco.in : bitcoin currency directory] - I've started a links list of my own (I admit I wanted to get my own site, [http://lorna-morgan.com Lorna Morgan], listed somewhere I wouldn't be removed!) I didn't like the design of witcoin ... and Bitcookies seems to be down at the moment. --[[User:Lorna Morgan|Lorna Morgan]] 05:36, 28 July 2011 (GMT)

payco.in still up [[User:STH|STH]] 00:58, 20 November 2011 (GMT)

[http://bitcookies.com Bitcookies] - A community resource to list businesses, events, and classifieds that are related to Bitcoin. The server is privately owned and therefore not subject to any controlling interests. The site does not, nor will it ever have censorship in terms of the types of businesses/traders/websites listed. The site is free to all community members and was developed with funds from my mining operations. [[User:Miner249er|Miner24934]] 16:25, 27 May 2011 (GMT)

Bitcookies still down [[User:STH|STH]] 00:56, 20 November 2011 (GMT)

== Bloomberg Esque Data Suite: Compiling Transaction info from merchants to measure demand ==

I am included on the list of many who are very interested in seeing bitcoin succeed and want to be a part of that success, but there is one serious uncertainity that is keeping me from getting in: are people actually using their coins for more than just buying drugs and slim jims, and is all of the buying concentrated in one website or product and one consumer demographic? Demand for the coins is necessary for their success. This can be determined by consumption rates and habits. I have perused the website listing, but still feel that information is lacking.

It would be nice to see an economic indicator that acquires data from merchants (and compensates them in bitcoin for their effort) on the dollar value (and perhaps sector) of the bitcoin transactions. We could then weigh a derivative of total dollar amount and number of transactions against the number of bitcoins mined to get a better understanding of the economic health of the currency.

== Require description of changes ==

It's impossible to read this pages's history, because most people seem to forget to:
- use the "description" line when committing a change
- use the "preview" button, and do several changes in a row just because they forgot the label on a link

The first point is the most important, because of changes like [https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Trade&diff=prev&oldid=11246 that one], that suppresses and adds random links without even explaining why. Such changes should be immediately reverted, by policy. On the technical side, one small improvement could be to require the "description" field to be non-empty. People could still write random characters, but that would still be a different action. --[[User:Davux|Davux]] 23:15, 22 June 2011 (GMT)

== Huge chunk of deletions reverted ==

Hi,

I've tracked down a huge set of deletions wich was probably done in error, [https://en.bitcoin.it/w/index.php?title=Trade&diff=next&oldid=11252 see link]. I've reverted each deletion individually because otherwise, new entries would have been deleted.

It's probably necessary to watch out for that. --[[User:Joise|Joise]] 18:55, 29 June 2011 (GMT)

== Vetting ==

I realise this is probably a difficult issue — we don't realistically have the time or work to vet all listed sites — but should ones which are clearly scams be removed from the wiki page, or should each be discussed first before deletion (perhaps, by moderator staff)?

For example: <blockquote>[https://sites.google.com/site/wwjdtd/ Time Warp interactive], is a fiction/nonfiction mmorpg that is in alpha and is selling the game only through bitcoins</blockquote>This, to me, is clearly a scam. Going through their Google Sites website (which is the new GeoCities), it becomes clear very quickly that this is not a product that it pretends to be, and is instead just some fly by night website setup by a couple of teenagers in hopes of some free cash from unsuspecting visitors.

I doubt anybody would actually send any BTC their way anyway, but in my opinion having hoaxes like this damages the credibility and trustworthy of Bitcoin accepting merchants as a whole.

Could we come up with some way of pruning false merchants like this?

::I think that links which are very clearly scam should not be promoted. However I see two difficulties:
::# It might be hard to see whether something is simply a low budget project or not serious.
::# What is reputable and what not certainly will vary widely. If you want to promote a bank, I'd likely want another neighborhood than if you just try to sell psychodelically designed pizza containing extremely high concentrations of capsain.
::# The more profound issue is that the not-to-reputable looking enterprises might be exactly the ones which bring the stongest kicks to innovation. I am thinking in the term "garage firm". And obviously grandparents will tell the kids some day that the whole bitcoin economy started with alpaca socks, online poker and fancy glass beads.

::My proposal: Create a playground / dockland / bitcoinpunk section which can collect the fringe of the fringe. And let largely visitors decide what they are going to trust. --[[User:Joise|Joise]] 19:21, 4 July 2011 (GMT)

== proposal ==

Separated pages for trading, bitcoin accepting online stores, games, free coins etc.

== Major clean-up ==
Mediawiki has a perfect way to deal with collections. That's '''categories'''. It also has great tools to get a consistent look. That's '''templates'''.
This cluttered list of non-verifiable (every child here knows [http://www.mezegrill.com/ meze grill] accepts bitcoins but there is no word indicating this is true if you follow the link), outdated (o-crep is on this list but the [http://o-crepes.com/bitcoin/# link] leads you to a one time offer) or even scam. Often there is not even a link to brick and mortar businesses but only a street address.

I suggest everybody who wants to promote his business here makes a small [[myBitcoinBusiness site]] for it and makes strong use of categories and templates. Sure this wiki has a strong emphasis on content and is weak on wiki-expertise but you can [[User:Giszmo|buy even that]] for bitcoins.
--[[User:Giszmo|Giszmo]] 13:24, 28 September 2011 (GMT)

== Please add us www.fnib.co ==

First National Innovation Brokers has been accepting btc to fund forex and gold trading accounts since June, 2011.
www.fnib.co Please add us on the Trade list and help get the word out.

== Is bittit.info appropriate? ==

bittit.info is a place for users to sell their photos. It's free to use (no fees) and it also has a NSFW section. I wonder if that last thing makes it inappropriate for this wiki. It's not a porn site, almost all the pictures are in the SFW section but I hesitate to add it here. If someone could advice me on that matter I would be grateful. --[[User:Tritonio|Tritonio]] 20:25, 6 November 2011 (GMT)

== Geographical ==

Perhaps as a start there should be something to deal with location.
We could have a separate non-geographical section for things like online services and places that post globally.

A plumber accepting BTC in USA probably isn't much interest to someone in Japan.

== Duplication ==

Pages [[Buying bitcoins]] and [[Selling bitcoins]] list exchanges as well. Perhaps separating this information is a good idea (into a page named like "List of Exchanges") to avoid duplication and "overcluttering" of Trade page?

== Referral Links ==

I am constantly finding referral links on this page and others. Whenever I see them, I change them back to regular links without the referral code.

Is there some action we should be taking to block those users who keep adding their referral codes to links?

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2012-07-09T19:57:07Z

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2011-11-03T18:00:13Z

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2011-10-29T17:56:01Z

FishDawg:

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==See Also==

* [[Trade|Bitcoin Businesses]]

Earning bitcoins

2011-10-25T07:56:36Z

FishDawg:

These websites have bonus programs that allow you to earn bitcoins by doing things like taking surveys, trying apps, viewing advertisements, referring others to the website, and making purchases at other websites. Some of these have many of the same offers (but they give different payouts for participating in those offers).

== Bonus Program Websites ==

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==See Also==

* [[Trade|Bitcoin Businesses]]

Earning bitcoins

2011-10-25T07:52:37Z

FishDawg:

These websites have bonus programs that allow you to earn bitcoins by doing things like taking surveys, trying apps, viewing advertisements, referring others to the website, and making purchases at other websites. Some of these have many of the same offers (but they give different payouts for participating in those offers).

== Bonus Program Websites ==

[http://www.freedigitalmoney.com/Bitcoins Free Digital Money] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 700 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer. No account is needed to participate in offers.

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[http://www.iwantfreebitcoins.com/ iWantFreeBitCoins] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 200 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. You receive a currency called BitPoints added to your balance immediately after you participate in each offer. Your BitPoints can be converted to bitcoins when you request a payout, which will be processed the following Wednesday or Sunday. The referral program pays 25% of everything earned by each user you refer. An account is needed to participate in offers.

[https://bitcoinbonus.com/ Bitcoin Bonus] Get cash back in bitcoins by making purchases on other websites using the provided links and codes. There are approximately 300 offers available. All offers generally require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer. The referral program pays an unspecified one-time commission for each user you refer. An email address is needed to create an account.

==See Also==

* [[Trade|Bitcoin Businesses]]

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2011-10-03T19:59:44Z

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2011-10-03T19:38:41Z

FishDawg: Start "See Also" section.

These websites have bonus programs that allow you to earn bitcoins by doing things like taking surveys, trying apps, viewing advertisements, referring others to the website, and making purchases at other websites. Some of these have many of the same offers (but they give different payouts for participating in those offers).

== Bonus Program Websites ==

[http://www.freedigitalmoney.com/Bitcoins Free Digital Money] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 200 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer. No account is needed to participate in offers.

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[http://www.iwantfreebitcoins.com/ iWantFreeBitCoins] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 200 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. You receive a currency called BitPoints added to your balance immediately after you participate in each offer. Your BitPoints can be converted to bitcoins when you request a payout, which will be processed the following Wednesday or Sunday. The referral program pays 25% of everything earned by each user you refer. An account is needed to participate in offers.

[https://bitcoinbonus.com/ Bitcoin Bonus] Get cash back in bitcoins by making purchases on other websites using the provided links and codes. There are approximately 300 offers available. All offers generally require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer. The referral program pays an unspecified one-time commission for each user you refer. An email address is needed to create an account.

==See Also==

* [[Trade|Bitcoin Businesses]]

Earning bitcoins

2011-10-03T08:26:10Z

FishDawg: Created page with "These websites have bonus programs that allow you to earn bitcoins by doing things like taking surveys, trying apps, viewing advertisements, referring others to the website, a..."

These websites have bonus programs that allow you to earn bitcoins by doing things like taking surveys, trying apps, viewing advertisements, referring others to the website, and making purchases at other websites. Some of these have many of the same offers (but have different payouts for participating in those offers).

== Bonus Program Websites ==

[http://www.freedigitalmoney.com/Bitcoins Free Digital Money] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 200 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer. No account is needed to participate in offers.

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[http://www.iwantfreebitcoins.com/ iWantFreeBitCoins] Earn bitcoins by participating in sponsored offers. There are approximately 200 offers available. Some offers are free and some require a purchase. You receive a currency called BitPoints added to your balance immediately after you participate in each offer. Your BitPoints can be converted to bitcoins when you request a payout, which will be processed the following Wednesday or Sunday. The referral program pays 25% of everything earned by each user you refer. An account is needed to participate in offers.

[https://bitcoinbonus.com/ Bitcoin Bonus] Get cash back in bitcoins by making purchases on other websites using the provided links and codes. There are approximately 300 offers available. All offers generally require a purchase. Bitcoins are sent to you immediately after you participate in each offer. The referral program pays an unspecified one-time commission for each user you refer. An email address is needed to create an account.