THELOGICALINDIAN - Last anniversary Bitcoincom appear on Supload a new imagehosting account that pays users in bitcoin for angle on their uploaded images While the account has been able-bodied accustomed by bitcoiners some users accept aloft apropos that the accessible at ample is not administration their activity stereotyping it as aloof addition associate barometer website Bitcoincom investigates how bitcoin businesses can affected this accessible perception
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Public Perception of Affiliate Sites
User ‘Vigilante_Gamer’ wrote on Reddit that “Most of the time back I’ve aggregate images from Supload, it was accustomed aloof fine.” However, one instance his column drew 
negative acknowledgment causing him to annul the column and stop application the account “unless the accessible acumen changes.” He explained that “People in the cilia advised it a ‘shady’ website artlessly because they arrested out the armpit and saw that it said ‘earn bitcoin!’”
The abrogating acknowledgment he accustomed was not bitcoin-specific, but rather a acumen that Supload is “just addition associate barometer website,” which is why it appeared shady. A user told him that “People about spam their barometer links all over the abode acquisitive to get them accepted so they can accomplish money.” Others on this cilia agreed that associate sites arise to say “click this so I can accomplish money” rather than “I appetite to allotment article with you.”
The Revenue-Sharing Model
Arguably, Supload is not an associate website back it hosts images and shares announcement revenues with its users. Vigilante_Gamer compared its revenue-sharing archetypal to Youtube, which hosts videos and pays users a allocation of their acquirement as well. However, the affinity bootless to bell with some users. The acknowledgment he accustomed was:
While Youtube is not after its own spamming or worse problems, it’s perceived by the accessible as a “good video host – not because it makes money” said one of his detractors, abacus that “Aside from big YouTubers, not abounding bodies are authoritative money off it.”
With over a billion users worldwide, Youtube is generally 
subject to crooks absent to accomplishment its belvedere for budgetary gains. The aberration is that while Supload users appetite to acquire $.25 from their uploads, best Youtube spammers aim college than the baby bulk of revenue-share provided by Google. Thus, they market added aggressively.
Some of Youtube’s problems date aback abounding years. In 2009, Kaspersky Lab detected a spam attack with a articulation to YouTube that featured an unsolicited video advertisement. In 2014, Trend Micro discovered awful ads on the armpit that can advance to malware accomplishment kits. In 2015, Symantec found a trend in an SMS spam attack administering users to a YouTube video with a articulation to an developed website.
Patience is a Virtue
Changing accessible assessment takes a continued time and requires educational outreach. Wendy Salomon, carnality admiral of acceptability administration at Nielsen, explained that in abounding cases the acceptability of a accustomed cast is anon angry to its industry.
It may booty some time afore the accessible stops bond startups like Supload with associate sites in their minds. However, Salomon believes that alone companies can affected poor industry acceptability “by absorption on their alone acceptability and cogent their company’s different story.”
For Supload users and bitcoin promoters alike, absorption on aerial affection is the best tactic. Continued, abiding promotions of high-quality abstracts accept bifold benefits. Not alone do you accomplish added money from the beyond cardinal of prospects, but you additionally advice adapt that cast or artefact for others in the future. Mike Reilly, Supload co-founder and website programmer, told Bitcoin.com:
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