Answer.Market: Answer questions for Bitcoin!

[answer.market]

http://answer.market/

See a question that you know the answer to? Post a sample and an answer to Answer.Market. Send the link to the person asking the question, and see if they buy your answer based on the quality of the sample.

It's all text, so can embed links to pictures, source, etc.

In action: https://voat.co/v/answermarket

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

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[grnqrtr]

Bye Bye

[Xylate]

Interesting. Hopefully something legit, not like some investment sites..

[mjglqw]

Very nice concept.

We do have some caching on payment, so they will need to refresh after they pay, maybe once or twice

This does mean making two payments which is kind of annoying and might be changed in the future

You should do something about these. I don't think some people would bother using your site if you have these issues. I suggest doing something about them first, since you need to make a good impression on your new users.

[Maldesto]

Are you the only one working on that project?

[answer.market]

Thank you for all of the replies!

It is just me working on it.

I'm not happy about the split payments, either. Unfortunately, the bitcoin: URI doesn't allow for split payments, which would be the ideal case.

I don't really like holding people's Bitcoin at all because the risk is way higher. But, I'm open to doing it. I started work on a project that would split payments, so you give it two addresses and the amount that goes to one, and the rest would go to the other (or roughly like that). And of course, that would take a fee on top as well, but probably pretty thin and enough for transaction fees. If I launch that, I'll integrate it for one payment.

On that note, would any of you be interested in a coin fee splitting service for cases like these? This would just be a JSON restful API and I can make it very redundant very easily.

[superiorus]

Interesting ideea, but I dont think that you will have many users to pay for the service ..

[answer.market]

Pretty big update. You only need to send one payment!

The fee did go up in the process, but I don't think it's exorbitant. This also means that you can use the same address as many times as you like.

Existing answers that have not paid the service fee are now free from a service standpoint. Future ones will have the fee added.

Here's the newest answer, with a single QR code. I already paid, so it's not so interesting.

http://answer.market/answers/1C94t5u1Rd ... NjriGcSf7d (I call it the 0.2 release.)

And here's what it looks like from a transaction perspective: https://blockchain.info/address/1C94t5u ... NjriGcSf7d

This is my payment processor for handling split payments: http://coinfee.net/

I'll make a separate post about that.

[grnqrtr]

Bye Bye

[bitaps.com]

Today we released feature for split payments:

more details on https://bitaps.com/api

POST/api/create/payment/smartcontract/{callback}[?confirmations=0-10]

Create an address by type: Smartcontract payment list.

Description:

Received payment will be paid by cascade to the list of addresses and rules. For example if you want pay 20% to address A and rest amount to address B, you have to specify in list [{"address":A,"quota":20}, {"address":B,"quota":100}]. Pay 100 000 satoshi to address A, 50% of rest amount to address B, and rest amount to address C: [{"address":A,"amount":100000}, {"address":B,"quota":50}, {"address":C,"quota":100},]. In case you not specify last item in list with qouta 100% rest amount will be added to transaction miner fee. Bitaps take 20 000 satoshi processing fee for each transaction.

URL Parametrs:

{callback} urlencoded callback
[confirmations] number of accepted confirmations (optional field, default 3)

POST Parametrs:

{
"type": "payment_list",
"payment_list": [
{"address": {addresss},
"amount | quota": {amount} | {qouta}},
... # up to 20 addresses
]
}

[answer.market]

That is fantastic! While I'd have to test it, it looks like it could be much cleaner than my coinfee. I didn't think you'd actually come through and launch it, but you did. I think it's also 10,000 Satoshis cheaper.

If coinfee turns out to be a hassle, I may switch over. But regardless, I'm really happy to see you in the market for split payments because it seems like a common problem that no-one else was solving, aside from BlockCypher with a high barrier to entry and a low number of addresses allowed for it.

Yours is also very different in that it's a callback instead of a polling design. Probably superior, but coinfee has polling for a reason -- it's a very unusual design on the backend.

Do you make a single transaction or multiple transactions?

Unfortunately, I am making multiple transactions off the input address, and given the low rates and fees involved, Blockchain.info would refuse to relay/accept it in certain cases. It just feels like a little bit of black magic to make it work.

[answer.market]

I made some adjustments. / is now /submit, and there's an about page. I'm hoping the workflow will be more obvious now.

I also added an answers index to explore the paid and unpaid content that's already there.

http://answer.market/answers

Let me know what you all think. I hope this is a step in the right direction.

[answer.market]

Couple more adjustments. Fee of 30,000 Satoshis + 10% has been brought down to 15,000 Satoshis + 10%. At current rates, this should mean that usually, after network fees, anyone buying an answer at the minimum price of 100,000 Satoshis should be paying under one US dollar. This is simply because of lowering the rates on coinfee.net: post35197.html#p35197

I've changed it so that you have to opt-in to answers being public in the index.

I've also added automatic redirection to the answer once submitted and have improved the explanations on the page.

Thanks for your interest!

[Rmcdermott927]

http://answer.market/

See a question that you know the answer to? Post a sample and an answer to Answer.Market. Send the link to the person asking the question, and see if they buy your answer based on the quality of the sample.

It's all text, so can embed links to pictures, source, etc.

In action: https://voat.co/v/answermarket

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

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The biggest problem I see you running into is quantifying the quality of the answer. How will someone know that an answer they are paying for is going to be good / accurate.

[answer.market]

http://answer.market/

See a question that you know the answer to? Post a sample and an answer to Answer.Market. Send the link to the person asking the question, and see if they buy your answer based on the quality of the sample.

It's all text, so can embed links to pictures, source, etc.

In action: https://voat.co/v/answermarket

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

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The biggest problem I see you running into is quantifying the quality of the answer. How will someone know that an answer they are paying for is going to be good / accurate.

That's totally fair. I rely on the reputation of the person sending the answer and the quality of the sample for that.

For pictures, it's really easy because you can just have a watermarked image. But for code, it's a bit harder.

I just ran into an issue where someone made a new Reddit account just to reply with an answer. This really concerns me as there's no identity to risk a hurt reputation if the answer is bad.

Here's the case in point: https://www.reddit.com/r/answermarket/c ... y/d980op8/

Now, if there was someone who replied who was very active on /r/ruby, talked about his personal life a little bit, had some Github links, I'd probably just go for it. But a brand new account? Unless they are just a guest lurker normally, it's fishy. So you do have things to watch out for. Just consider who's sending you the link. If Linus Torvalds is answering a Linux kernel question, I'd probably buy it. If Hillary Clinton is answering about her email server, I probably wouldn't buy it.

Does that make sense?

[rendravolt]

http://answer.market/

See a question that you know the answer to? Post a sample and an answer to Answer.Market. Send the link to the person asking the question, and see if they buy your answer based on the quality of the sample.

It's all text, so can embed links to pictures, source, etc.

In action: https://voat.co/v/answermarket

Let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

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Very nice, need to try this one.

[sega01]

I think there have been some front end changes since I last posted. But now the biggest change has been rewriting the backend to use the new coinfee library and API endpoint: https://github.com/coinfee/coinfee-python

For now, supporting both old and new answers is a bit painful, but I'll manage or find one way to handle both in a clean fashion.

http://answer.market/

[sega01]

Small update: I now have a USD equivalent which shows up on the index page for submitting a question.

http://answer.market/ ("Satoshis" section)

This is through a library I wrote today, which uses the Coinbase API: https://github.com/coinfee/bitcoin-fiat

[defcon23]

hmm.. this is indeed a super idea. it make me think a bit at "Darkleaks" (https://medium.com/@ZozanCudi/darkleaks ... .smuaartti) ,
( seem to me being a bit similar , technically , on the process itself ) as it offers the possibility to Sell and buys information anonymously , with the possibility to present to potentially interested users, to have some parts of the answer, wich offers them possibility to verify ( in part ) if the answer provides by someone correspond to their expectations.. ( chunks releases.. )
please, correct me if I am wrong..

by the way this maybe answer a bit to Rmcdermott927 :

The biggest problem I see you running into is quantifying the quality of the answer. How will someone know that an answer they are paying for is going to be good / accurate.

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best regards

Deffy

[sega01]

hmm.. this is indeed a super idea. it make me think a bit at "Darkleaks" (https://medium.com/@ZozanCudi/darkleaks ... .smuaartti) ,
( seem to me being a bit similar , technically , on the process itself ) as it offers the possibility to Sell and buys information anonymously , with the possibility to present to potentially interested users, to have some parts of the answer, wich offers them possibility to verify ( in part ) if the answer provides by someone correspond to their expectations.. ( chunks releases.. )
please, correct me if I am wrong..

by the way this maybe answer a bit to Rmcdermott927 :

The biggest problem I see you running into is quantifying the quality of the answer. How will someone know that an answer they are paying for is going to be good / accurate.

best regards

Deffy[/quote]

That is very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

I guess it's much more involved and peer to peer than answer.market. I may have to play around with it. Seems pretty fascinating.

[sega01]

I've had no customers for Answer.Market and since SporeStack is doing well and needing lots of my time, I've decided to shut down Answer.Market. coinfee.net will likely follow.

I've put the source up on Github if anyone else would like to continue with it: https://github.com/teran-mckinney/answer.market