Quote from: giszmo on November 12, 2012, 03:13:08 PM

I'm happy you like the idea

People will know that tags can be bought easily. Show how much was paid for each of them.
Scammers will get scam-warning-tags just underneath and you get money for that.
You could distribute the money paid for tags against your TOS to those that tagged the tag as scam.
If you charge a minimum fee for tagging, you can afford to moderate the tags.

If patrolling/taking responsibility for tags is not what you want to do, I suggest you do as follows:
Provide a tool to efficiently embed messages in the blockchain in combination with a payment to one of your addresses.
Provide a site that lists all these comments.

What about this... The owner of a website puts a file on their website called bitcoin_tags.json or something like that. This would server a similar purpose to sitemap.xml but instead contains a number of bitcoin addresses and labels.

For example http://wikileaks.org/bitcoin_tags.json

{
"tags" : {
  "address" : "1HB5XMLmzFVj8ALj6mfBsbifRoD4miY36v",
  "tag" : "Donations",
  "sig" : "signature of concatenated tag and domain"
}
}

Once the owner of a website has added the file they can suggest that blockchain.info indexes it, once indexed blockchain.info will display the new tag accordingly. This has the advantage of.

* maintainable, webmaster can update bitcoin_tags.json as they choose. Deadlinks will be removed from the database.
* Decentralised, any service can index tags.
* More secure, both the domain and the address signature is verified. Tags can be independently verified if necessary and little moderation is needed.

Quote from: giszmo on November 12, 2012, 03:13:08 PM

Provide a tool to efficiently embed messages in the blockchain in combination with a payment to one of your addresses.

This can be done, but the main devs have made it clear they do not want messages embedded in the blockchain.

Quote from: Binford 6100 on November 12, 2012, 04:00:05 PM

ok, I can follow your chain of thoughts but can't find out if the limit was imposed by you or the payment processor

It is enforced by us and is unlikely to be changed for the foreseeable future, sorry.

Quote from: willphase on November 12, 2012, 11:22:42 PM

not showing my complete profit/loss either - not that I actually want to face the truth of knowing it Sad

PM me for details on my addresses if you need to test.

This is really hard for me to test because the results sets are large. I need to find an example of a specific transaction which is definitely missing.

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New donation button generator on address pages:

New chart trade volume vs transaction volume:

http://blockchain.info/charts/tx-trade-ratio (see http://codinginmysleep.com/measuring-bitcoin-speculation/)