Quote from: sirk390 on July 05, 2011, 06:38:14 AM

This is not real growth but websites starting to accept bitcoin again after the mtgox hack.

I've been counting the number of links on that page and there is a huge drop 2011-06-20.
This numbers are back to normal on 2011-07-02

2011-06-14: 450 links
2011-06-15: 458 links
2011-06-16: 461 links
2011-06-17: 470 links
2011-06-18: 485 links
2011-06-19: 500 links
2011-06-20: 505 links
2011-06-21: 468 links
2011-06-22: 470 links
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2011-07-02: 585 links
2011-07-03: 595 links
2011-07-04: 596 links

Yeah. What happened was that some offer had been deleted. The person offering reverted the deletion in a bit heavy-handed way and with this all additions of the 5 days before.
I've inserted these entries again on July 2th, therefore the number jumped up again.

Anyway, if that growth rate of number of entries is related to real trade (a big if), and it could be sustained for a year or two, this would become a remarkable market place.

But what kind of items are sold successfully? I made a page with photographs for my friend (she creates awesome images) but so far, nobody has bought for bitcoin. And I'd say this can be a really excellent way to sell things like photographs and music.

OTOH, there needs to be a point of intersection of people who are 1) technically savy, 2) have good and interesting offers, and people which 3) are technically savy as well and 4) have the money to afford these things. Selling art for income isn't easy.

Could you collect some hints for merchants, artists and creative people? What are your experiences?