Does anyone make a living using bitcoin as their main transactional currency for normal trading in services/goods? (Not exchanges and not gambling.) I find the the fact it is naturally international very attractive as a means of exchange, but find some of the claims a bit wild which puts me off.

I got to an early prototyping/alpha stage last year with a project and it failed to go anywhere. (I learned a lot, and got a new job in development, so not a waste of time).

I was wondering whether to put any more time into it.

Nice site, and a great idea. Well done on getting something up there. Not an easy thing, I know. I have PM'd you anyway. But BUMP!

I love a good zither, goes with my bad piano. Sell it on my site. http://ww.moonsch.com

I don't understand why it is not showing for you. I just tried a few of the website performance tools and they show everything as OK, but obviously it is not OK for everyone. Will investigate this evening, thanks for highlighting this.

Any errors to report?

This suggests it works ... maybe check you're on http, not https?

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.moonsch.com

.com is a problem. Are we not being generous enough? We could add a country list to the sign-up, but we've got no real way of knowing if anyone's being truthful! I tend to pick the first in the list if it doesn't seem to matter, so end up as an Afghan...

BTC updated to 0.9.1. Well done BTC devs!

TYPO:

accounts@moonsch.com

You need the 's' after accounts!

Hello again all,

OK, we've done work on the look of the site and made it a bit cleaner, still not where it needs to be, but better I think. Also we've had a few sign-ups, some uploads and even some sales. Things are going slowly, but OK.

In order to propagate this thing around the world I came up with a 'regional referrer' idea. Basically, I can set any user up to receive moonsch's %age of sellers who sign up with, for example, a ".es" email address. In effect you become our national referrer.

So, if you like and understand the overall scheme and think you can promote it to your artistic friends in your region, email:

account@moonsch.com

We can see if it's a fit and if this thing has got legs.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.moonsch.com

Funciona en inglaterra! Es posible España me bloquea?!

Thanks for the replies.

@Tahur27: The link works for me. Can you try again?

@nidiagh: I didn't get an email. Can you try again?

Buenas Tardes,

Perdone, no hablo muy bien español!

Estoy buscando un socio espanol. Por favor mire mi sitio web:

http://www.moonsch.com

Se vende archivos digitales, y creo que es único.

Si desea unirse a mí, email accounts@moonsch.com para más información.

(¡Necesitará inglés bueno! Lo siento.)

Thanks for the feedback, good stuff. We're calling this the 'alpha' release rather than try to pretend we're finished. We've had some signups and some uploads, check it out! I'm going to spend a bit of time double-checking that the transactions are processing correctly and doing a bit of tidying within the existing design.

Cheers, logo smoothed out now! It looked OK on some resolutions but the transparency was playing up, making things awkward.

@GimmeFreeBtc: Can you elaborate on what you are having trouble doing? It'd be great to get a bit more detail!

Evening all, great comments and food for thought.

@ndonnard - what category do you want me to add? I think I can still add an option for you!

@techgeek - we make money on a small commission on each sale. I don't anticipate a circumstance where we'd have adverts. If the model is popular I'd like for us to be pretty transparent.

@swordsoffreedom - as far as creating a social element, we've catered for people to comment on files that they have bought but that's all. Your idea that the site should also be somewhere for creatives to meet is great and something that needs working out. I'd be happy to use other sites for this aspect, it has been done very well by others already.

Does anyone have experience of google's PageSpeed service?

Excellent news, we have a customer and everything worked properly.

I went for it with CloudFlare, what a great offer they have! The dns has propogated and it is working so far, so it looks good so far. Thanks for the tip off!

@gimmefreeBTC: The idea is my own! It came about when I was in the car with my wife, listening to the radio. I realised that if no-one in the world wrote another song, I wouldn't notice for about a year. I there were no new books, about three years. This came out of that conversation.

@techgeek: Looking at Cloudflare now, thanks for the tip. As for the video, I agree it definitely needs to be snappier. Not sure about sound, I don't really like it when I'm just browsing round and things start coming out of the speakers.

Thanks for the positive vibe.

The other thread is:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=511503.0

Please vote on it!