Updates

This is a long over due project of mine.
I would like to keep the first post(s)/page of this as “Read-Only”. The idea is this is to get up-to-date/remind yourself, in as least time consuming as possible.
You can reply, but when I ask mods for an update, we will be culling most/all replies.

We always say Read the Daily News, and yet that is still a lot of time consuming work, even with “Show Admin Only”. So much unneeded reading as well.

Right now, this is a work in progress. I started from the Day Marc introduced himself and c/p Admin Only posts that are still relevant, and well worth knowing about/referencing when helping others.
Unfortunately, Carlos is not included, save for yesterdays, I think. I would appreciate if anyone can gather his words, even more so, if you can summarize what he said, and just link to the specific thread/post. And any other pertinent posts that didn't make it to a News thread, namely from Andraz/Marc in random threads.
Which is something I will have to do and continue to do with the following lumped News/Updates. So far, I only have c/p, leaving grammar/spelling errors in place.

Marc's 1st Official Post

Things i'm gonna be working on:

-Legalizing MyTrafficValue
-Restructuring (and adding to) the current workforce
-Adding a LOT of products to the portfolio
-Creditcards for Paidverts
-Adjusting certain aspects of the website that seem to be impossible to legalize
-Meeting the entire staff in person and assure you guys MTV has actual programming offices (Which are expanding rapidly as well..)
-Creating a positive image of MTV in the market again
-Every day discussions/labour/oversight controlling this business

1st Big News Update under Marc's Reign 23rd June

This week i've been brainstorming new ideas for MTV (Or existing ones we didn't execute yet)

Here's the list I came up with:

Reduce the returns on investment plans (In order to be legalized)
Get creditcards for paidverts
Buy an online casino+ license and market it to the crowds. (Still brainstorming this option)
Reduce number of debt sw@ps to those that are really necessary (This sounds good to every one of you, i'm sure)
No longer creating extra paper shares
Change the ways of paying dividends (Complicated one, need to research a lot before I can go into specific details)
Build a platform on which we allow people to pitch their ideas/products.
Obey money-laundering laws (Carlos is already working very hard on this one)
Register MTV as a legal business
Market the idea of our legalisation to the crowds so they understand it's necessary and for the best. (I really want you to understand why we HAVE to do this)
Make the necessary adjustments to have an "indoor" sharemarket (Complicated one, need to research a lot before I can go into specific details)
Make a clear structure of the available funds (In progress, liquidity report will show up soon)
Get a programming queue on the site.
Login ads on paidverts?
Selling advertising space on the forum or just related to certain topics.
Example: Selling advertising in the "daily news" for a fixed price/day (Or use google adsense)
Reviving the side banners
Finish Multi-player poker
Build a bitcoin-casino
Build products based on one of my business partners ideas of bitcoin technology. (Complicated one, need to research a lot before I can go into specific details)
Build a bitcoin-exchanger
Expand our programmer-team, find guys that can deliver actual money-generating products
Give forum mods the option to delete topics instead of just posts.
Targeted ads on Paidverts.

Out of this list I made a priority list.. Pay close attention:

1) Creditcards for PV (1-2 weeks tops until we're finished!!)
2) Targeted ads (Huge potential revenue-maker)
3) Revive side banners on mtv (Can be done any day now)
4) Multi-player Poker (No ETA)
5) Have a look at the different options for a custom casino/gambling license (This will be one of my tasks)
6) Building a new platform to pitch certain businesses/projects which we'll build/own (No ETA)
7) Legalizing our company (Carlos/Emilio/business consultants are on this, currently i'm helping them where ever I can)

Also Carlos and I are currently talking to a few programmers who want to deliver us a bitcoin casino and a bitcoin exchanger..
I've seen a draft of both websites/ideas, they look very nice and might be an unexpected boost to our development, who knows what they'll deliver

1st Major Release under Marc's Reign

Release notes for 2015-06-25

[MyTrafficValue]
- Meta tags, site descrition
- 9 out of 10 Game
- Shut the box refinement, new competition structure*
- Sensible Gaming

[PaidVerts]
- Meta tags, site descrtiption
- Failed login attemps displayed
- Cashier calculation checkboxes
- 9 out of 10 Game
- Better error handling on all purchases done from my account page
- Crons re-do not to use temporary tables, adapted to galera cluster, step 1
- Sensible gaming, ban yourself from playing games for given period of time
- Test ad preview on campaign page (anyone can test questionable ads), demo drive
- Payment proof page, 200 BAP for any accepted upload, no older than 30 days
- Countries display optimization, one table join less, added Martinique, Sint Maarten, Curacao, Bonaire; Sint Eustatius; Saba, Mayotte
- Buyads page, more friendly error handling
- Pagination extension, jump to specific page
- Big banner spot, allow to upload 468x60
- Click Grid Game

Yesterday's/Today's releases explained in a bit more detail:

[MyTrafficValue]
- Meta tags, site description:
Meta tags added/improved along with site description to improve SEO results
- 9 out of 10 Game:
New game with highest chance to win (99% payout, only 1% house edge), and an option to compound your winnings with a single click (instead of doubling up the bets yourself, for example)
- Sensible Gaming:
Ban yourself from playing games for a period of up to 7 days, for a fee of $0.01 . This CAN'T be undone not even by support!

[PaidVerts]
- Meta tags, site descrtiption:
Meta tags added/improved along with site description to improve SEO results
- Failed login attemps displayed:
Displays amount of failed logins now.
- Cashier calculation checkboxes:
Click on checboxes to display a sum of all chosen balances
- 9 out of 10 Game:
Same as game on MTV, but due to BAPs being full numbers the wins are rounded down (i.e. if you bet 11BAP and win 110% you actually win 12 BAP, and NOT 12.1 BAP)
- Better error handling on all purchases done from my account page:
Self-explanatory - less chance of a payment not being recognized automatically
- Crons re-do not to use temporary tables, adapted to galera cluster, step 1:
Temporary tables on ad crons were poorly optimized for Galera, so Daniel is working on optimization for Galera/AWS. Additional optimization will be done by replacing NodeJS and RabbitMQ with AWS optimized SNS and Lambda. (same for chat, and later multiplayer games)
- Sensible gaming, ban yourself from playing games for given period of time
- Test ad preview on campaign page (anyone can test questionable ads), demo drive:
Anyone can now first preview how an ad campaign looks like, by going to ad campaign stats page.
- Payment proof page, 200 BAP for any accepted upload, no older than 30 days:
You can now go to http://www.paidverts.com/cashout_log.html, select "My cashouts", and then submit a picture of your payment proof. If approved (everything matches, and good enough picture), you will receive 200 BAP as a reward.
- Countries display optimization, one table join less, added Martinique, Sint Maarten, Curacao, Bonaire; Sint Eustatius; Saba, Mayotte:
This affects/improves every query that involves displaying countries/flags of countries
- Buy ads page, more friendly error handling
- Pagination extension, jump to specific page:
Heavily awaited function, really useful. Instead of going page by page, you can now jump to any specific page anywhere that pagination is present on PaidVerts.
- Big banner spot, allow to upload 468x60
- Click Grid Game:
Get 10 chances daily to win one of the below prizes by viewing an ad (10 chances will be increased to 25):
$100 x1
$2 x 50
$1 x 100
$0.10 x 1000
$0.01 x 10,000
$0.005 x 20,000
1 x 1 million BAP
10 x 10,000 BAP
100,000 * 10 BAP

The chances of winning are - possibilities divided by 2,000,000. Or in other words, on average every 14th adgrid view you should get some prize.

Along with this, we've added a new way to advertise on the AdGrid, a bit different than on other websites. Instead of selling regular clicks on the the clickGrid, advertisers buy the background image, and a link/description of their promoted website directly under the grid. Advertisers buy "impression-clicks", which only deducts after a user successfully views an ad by clicking on the grid while their background image is shown. If the ad view is not finished "impression-clicks" are not deducted. There is no limit to the number of background image impression (until impression-clicks are fully deducted), nor limit of clicks the advertiser can get from the link shown below the image. It might prove very effective for the advertisers, we'll adjust the price accordingly, based on it's effectiveness. Right now only "impression-clicks" are displayed in the stats of AG campaigns, but we'll add the click count on the link below the ad grid as well, as that's the relevant statistic.

Delayed Improvements that are queued + Costs
And there are still some queued improvements that have kept getting postponed due to server issues , such as max daily ad setting, visual captcha - we might have a very interesting solution (both for member and advertisers). And we'll finally begin work on things that will attract more advertisers - focused ad frame, targeting options, new ways of advertising, cross-website advertising etc.

Costs, etc. is something that someone hasn't been taking care of and updating the portfolio costs the past 6 months.

Carlos first needs to sort out some things, especially regarding the PayPal situation, see how much of a hit we take there, to create a proper liquidity report. From there we'll update the development fund stat, and start adding all costs properly so that the development fund stat is as up-to-date reflection of our liquid assets as possible.

We will also try to arrange some personal meetings to brainstorm and address all of these things in the following weeks.

As for example, adding server costs to some random /latest product is not a proper way of doing it. Instead we should create a new type of "portfolio products" (where these things could be segregated, to show a clear and exact report of the expenses for a specific "product", so we have weekly, monthly, yearly reports) i.e. "expenses" that don't return any profits themselves but are necessary for the upkeep of the site, and are calculated in the overall portfolio debt/return requirement.

2nd Development News under Marc's Reign 30th June

Development news
The Polish office programmers are working on a lot of things (besides the day to day tasks and improving/optimizing the code). Their new programmers are focused primarily on new features:

- Coding TicTacToe, which will be our first multiplayer game. After that they'll improve the chatroom code and continue on MultiPlayer poker.

- They're also recoding all of "Justin's games", which have horrible performance right now or are even disabled.

- Subsidiary payment-processor specific casino (first will be for perfectmoney). Graphics are already done, now one of their programmers is working on responsible design so these casinos will be well playable on all devices. As soon as that's done there's an estimates development time of a few weeks.

- As two of their new programmers are also skilled in app design, they are currently working on specs for the first PaidVerts app, which will open us to whole new market.

- Facebook login integration is also a new feature that will be completed soon.

- optional 2FA confirmation for cashouts via email is nearing completion.

- They're also improving crons and ad distribution on a daily basis, as they need adjusting almost on a daily basis in the current situation.

The AWS configuration is now very stable - in fact they were already thinking of scaling it down a bit - but to be extra safe we'll wait with that this month. Rather have some redundancy in place as we can't afford any further downtime in the following 30 days.

We've also got two scratch card games ready for installation in the Slovenian office, and the third one will likely be finished tomorrow. Just waiting for a bit of my time to have another final look and have someone from the dev team recheck and push them.

The last one looks really amazing, and we'll begin working on better quality games, and some perhaps really interesting game concepts. And I'll pass the build of "Super Slots" on to him, as that one has been waiting on me for way too long, and he's coding them faster than the designers can create the graphics.

We'll also likely begin work on a "slot machine game engine" which will allow us to produce new complex slot machines with just change of graphics and minimum coding time, allowing us to create lots of variety slots very fast and cheap.

along with increasing the chances for rewards (now you'll win something on average about every 5 clicks, where before it was about every 14 clicks).

Improved Click Grid Chances
Now it looks like this:

$100 x1
$2 x 50
$1 x 100
$0.10 x 1000
$0.01 x 10,000
$0.005 x 80,000
$0.001 x 200,000
1 x 1 million BAP
10 x 10,000 BAP
100,000 * 10 BAP

Neteller Go

You'll also notice that the payment option "Neteller" has been changed to "NetellerGo", as our merchant account has been upgraded. It's still the same, only that choosing Neteller as a payment option will now also allow you to make purchases UKash, Poli, SoFort and GiroPay (besides Neteller of course). The availability of these additional options however depends on your country.

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23/08/2015 06:13

Jo'a account & Marc's Salary, click here, not going to repost that + SuperSlots

My programmer is now working on super slots, in which we'll try to incorporate quite a few optimization techniques, which we intend to later use on all other games, in order to reduce server load and costs, amongst many other things that will reduce future costs by a lot.

TOS change for Ads plus Cashout email Confirmation

From now on, every time you request a cashout you will need to confirm/reject it via an email that is sent to your email address (obviously this requires you to have a valid email address).

The link is valid for one hour, then the cashout is automatically rejected. Funds are only deducted from your balance after approving a cashout, and if you meanwhile spend your balance and try to approve it the cashout will also be rejected.

A lot of programmers are working 2/3x as much as normal programmers and some of them don't even bill all of their hours!

3rd Development Update under Marc's Reign 10th July

Development update

Paul's working with one of their new programmers on the subsidiary PM casino site, that will later be adapted (copied) to crypto currencies and possibly several other payment processors. There's a few weeks of coding left, then a matter of separating the database and hosting to get it online.

One of their new programmers is working on TicTacToe as a „modular game engine“ so that most of the code can be reused for MultiPlayer poker, chatrooms and all other future multiplayer games.

Their developer with Java/app experience is working on a first simple Paidverts web app with basic functionalities (login, viewing etc.) and based on the initial response/performance we'll see if it's worth developing it further.

Another programmer is working on recoding all of the poorly coded „Justin's games“ such as Blackjack, Three Tower solitaire, etc. as they were/are all extremely buggy and we had to disabled them at multiple times already.

The programmer who did ClickGrid is working on another bigger project, crowd based FAQ as that's quite overdue as well, and can help convert a lot of our users.

During Marc's visit in Poland and Slovenia we will make plans for targeted advertising for paidverts, and a „copy of PaidVerts“, amongst many other things and potential products.

Daniel's recoded and optimized a huge part of the crons to fit AWS and has optimized ad delivery severely in the past weeks and along with Kamil helped deal with the day to day programming bugs, issues & updates.

My new programmer is working on the most complex game so far (super slots), my best guess is he'll need another 2 weeks to finish it. And afterwards we might begin work on some different „type“ of games, with possibly huge potential, but have to think it through a bit more first in the following weeks.

DBA & System admin are working on further optimizing our hosting, scalability, security, accessibility, error logging, error detection etc.

Recycler Update

recycled ads are in most times no longer sent in huge amounts of 100,200+ at once, rather they randomly divided between all the upgraded users. Should make it much more enjoyable for everyone. Additionally, $0.0005 ads are for the time being not being recycled (they are instead failed), in order to not over-spam the users and make owning a recycle upgrade much more manageable and appealing.

Once we're rid of the oldest 30s campaigns within a month or so, we'll start recycling everything again, as the 5s ad timer duration will make it more mane-gable.

Marc's report from the Polish Office 13th July
On to some other news:

I got some project ETA's for you after a long meeting with the polish programmers.

Perfect money+ Bitcoin casino's: 2-4 weeks.
Tic tac toe multiplayer-game: 2 weeks (+ maybe a week of testing)
Paidverts mobile app: 2-4 weeks (You won't be able to play games on your mobile though)
Multiplayer BAP poker: 2-2,5 months tops (This time we will actually deliver)

Some more projects I came up with and will be installed fairly quickly whenever they got time to start building it:

Paidverts login ads (We're gonna build the system in a way in which it forces you to log in again after 24 hours, this will add value to the login ads)
ETA once they start on it is gonna be: 2-3 days.

Daily news banner: A single banner that will appear above the top post of the day. Everyone that wants to read the daily news has to scroll past your banner, there's value there
ETA once they start on it is gonna be: 2-3 days

Reviving the side banners: The older users are familiar with it, we used to have 3 side banners at every page and we intend to bring them back.. They could pop up any day.

Also we discussed Paidverts targeted ads, as that's what i'm ultimately aiming for, but i'll get back to that subject after we meet tomorrow.
Also we discussed some apps and maybe a rebranding of certain things and we discussed the new platform..

All of these things you'll get updates from at a later date as it's way too early to give any concrete info about those, but just know we're really busy and working hard.
To be honest, the polish programmers really surprised me when they told me we're gonna have the casino's and the multiplayer games done so quick.. Hats off to them!

We got 8 programmers working in the Polish office.. And they're very intelligent!

Once we got some reserve in our accounts we'll increase the limits again.
Big News Update, rather than c/p it all, click here. Some of this was already posted. So, to clean up this post, I deleted those original links/data.

Default referrer/Jo's refferals
One of the programmers is currently working on the default referrer and transfering all Jo's referrals to the portfolio.
The ref-com the portfolio makes will be deducted off the balance and added to the development funds, so it serves everyone.
We got big projects coming up, those need funding to come to fruition.

PV FTQ/Shares buying explained

The reason we're currently not using PV's money to invest in FTQ/shares is that we currently have to be using this money directly for ad issue supplements, for the next week or so, in order to deliver as many views as possible. This money is basically PV buying and selling shares to itself at a increased price, as it bought a lot of shares under 2-3 cents. With current BAP in the system, PV has to sell its shares at about 6 cents average (which has risen from 5.5 cents since we stopped buying shares with it). If we at this time bought shares directly from the market, people would just abuse it for daytrading, and PV would get 0 extra money for ad issuing.

When clearing the main part of the ad view debt ends in a week or so, we'll be able to draw a final/exact line of how much money PV has left for investing into FTQ/shares. Should be pretty much on par with current money in its balance, but I'll do a proper, up-to-dollar exact accounting when I'm done with issuing extra ads every day.

And with no one meanwhile investing in FTQ, it won't make a difference in PV invests in it now, or in a week. Similarly for shares - the more stable the current price is, the better deal PV will get when it starts to buy shares again and in turn lowering its requirement to sell all of its shares for 100% (+) sustainability.

Andraz sharing out loud

The current structure of PaidVerts ad viewing/logging/etc. is highly unscalable/way too costly on the database side, but it is not due to "bad programmer's", it is simply that the original idea of paidverts ad viewing/logging is way too demanding because of several basically unnecessary things in the process. We could scale up the servers to "overcome" these issues, but the server hosting costs would get ridiculous if it was done that way.

It is more of a management decision to solve this problem once and for all - for example which parts of PaidVerts are completely unnecessary, but if removed would allow us to enable cost-effective scaling. These are mainly things related to ad history/interaction logs (no worries, they will remain, as will the transparency of everything, but it needs to be, for example time limited). The programmers will present a few optimal options in the next week or so, based on which we will make a decision on what to change, that will effect the logs etc. in the smallest way possible.

I will expand on this topic as we have the options clearly prepared. For now, just letting you know in short what's in store for further improving speed and reliability, with minimal rework time. But none of this is the programmers' fault. They've pretty much optimized what can be optimized for the current way things are handled, now it's a matter of deciding on adapting some parts of the website, that are preventing any further cost-effective optimization.

Carlos:
PayPal & Debit Card
My, 8x, Words: PayPal should be back soon, otherwise rehash. Debit Cards also should be here soon.

Yan's Incident
Some months ago we started a friendly claim against iWeb due to the theft committed by Yan and after a couple of months talking with them this was the answer iWeb lawyers gave us:

[carlos made a mistake and he forgot to post the email]

However in my last visit to London I asked about this, among other things, to the lawyers that were managing some affairs not only mine but of MTV. We decided after sending a huge amount of proofs to demand iWeb asking them an amount of $1M, in two separate demands, one as LTD and other as FBG.

I am waiting for any news about this and I ask anyone having any information about the current or past relationship of Yan with iWeb to send it to me. Absolute confidentiality.

Investing in Physical Buisness'

About this post from getter and others, I would remind you that before the happenings in the first months of the year (closing of paypal, lack of banking operativity and more) we were studying about investing in physical business, in order to assure the sustainability, propitiation and building of a physical structure that would sustain MTV, and in which the investors could take part.

As I remarked earlier I am having a meeting with Marc, where we will talk about practical themes and the working of MTV and after that we will also speak about the physical investment of our users.

We will talk about the results of that meeting in the next days, since I do believe that we can return real profits in any 'plan' or 'investment' of 5 to 15% after the established time for the maturity of that investment.

Lets be patient. We will be happy to receive any good ideas from our users.

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23/08/2015 06:31

damn, that's a long post

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23/08/2015 06:43

Sounds like a nice project.

One pointer: Increase the text size of subject titles by two sizes to make them stand out. Follow your concept of using links to the original reply. I'm not sure if you know, but if you right-click, inspect element on the blue down icon at the top left of any reply, you can locate the reply id 'p425067'. You then append this to the end of the page address as follows:

https://www.mytrafficvalue.com/forum/misc/worthwhile_read_condensed_newsupdates/1.html#p425067

This allows a direct link to a specific reply, which should function correctly so long as the reply remains and doesn't shift pages due to Mod reply deletions.

The only thing that could make this project better is if you could reverse the timeline so that the newest news was always the first post, however, since you cannot do this I suggest the following format:

1) Thread Title: Admin News - June 2015 - Week 3
2) Top header: Link to previous week, if applicable.
3) Main content: place all news topics, listed by day, within this area.
4) Bottom Footer: Link to next week, if applicable.

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23/08/2015 07:01

Also: to reduce the need for edits, compose most of you post in Notepad before posting to a forum reply box. Learning the BBCode used, here, for links and images and even tables is a major plus for good forum posting. There is some trial and error involved.

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23/08/2015 08:15

Actually, Michael, I was planning on condensing this A LOT more. I will summarize in my own words, maybe using some of their words. This current format is not what it will look like when I am "done".

First I had to gather the info, so I can more easily see whats what and just how best to restate it. I do hope that if something has been completely scratched off (like I read some updates about a Project Manager, that was just waiting on Carlos approval, has not come to fruition, not sure if that person is going to get hired, if Carlos even wants to hire someone for that role, so I made the decision to not even include that here.) I think the Sharemarket Rules are still being figured out and thus I believe I have so far kept some reference to them, but if they have decided to not go forward with anything, then it would be nice if they would post here saying so, and I will edit appropriately.

Things go so slowly around here that in actuality, almost all of this news, even though the oldest is over 2months old, could still have been part of the top of each News Thread (which IMO is way too long itself). Hence your 1-4 doesn't apply. I did use Open Office Writer with the URL BBCode. But yes, I will remind myself of other codes to use to make it even better and easy for you mods to delete the stuff I already posted and paste in my new edit. Remember, now that there is no "too old" code, this will stay in Top 20, and thus it will be wiser to allow ppl to bookmark it and go from there. I will probably limit rewriting big portions of my summary (once complete), until something becomes second nature/outdated info. As far as, direct to specific post, that could work, but often there are multiple updates the same day. Ppl who want a full explanation of proof (If they doubt my words about it), can go to the link, Show Admin Only and find it well enough. Now, that I think about it, I might use the standard number system, with a clickable link to the direct source, and at the bottom/2nd post, a summary of all my sources with their numbers...like Wiki and MoveOn do.

I was thinking of organizing via Categories:
Short Term News - PayPal, Cashout, Maintenance Update
Long Term News - Yan, Investing in Physical Business, Jo's Account, Marc's Salary, Legalization, ROI on investments reduced, reduce number of sw@ps to absolute min, no more paper shares, changing dividends
Developments Completed Recently - Recycled Ads, Click Grid, Cashout Confirm, NetellerGo, Scaled down AWS configuration, a few games, sensible gaming, payment proof page, country display, pagination extension
Developments Completed Soon - Super Slots, PM/BC Casino's, Tic-Tac-Toe, Credit/Debit Card
Developments Unknown Completion - Targeted Ads, Paidverts Ad Viewing, Multi Player Games, PV App, Visual Captcha, revive side banners on MTV, New platform for the Crowd to fully realize the dream, login ads for PV, advertising space on forum esp Daily news, BC exchanger, Own Payment Processor and Bank
Maybe even more, need to see just what makes sense.

Interesting, I started out just giving a few examples for each, now I feel like what I listed is most of it.
Just need to slightly expand that "example" list to 1 sentence max each item so no need to go to the link, include all updates including ones I didn't yet in that "example" list, and then just use the clickable link for sourcing.

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23/08/2015 12:10

WOW!

Amazing! Thanks for this effort

And for topic headings I usually use:

Bold, Underlined and Sometimes CAPITALIZED

The topics stand out a lot better that way as you are skimming

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23/08/2015 12:11

There is a fine line between fanatic and stalker

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23/08/2015 12:32

Too much reading.This is not condensed its expanded

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23/08/2015 13:07

Nice work!

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24/08/2015 02:43

This is awesome and thanks for the amazing post

I hope Marc someday approve you as Mod cause you really do hard work around the forum

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24/08/2015 02:59

I really enjoyed reading many of druth8x's postings even my poor simple minded brain cant quite follow it. I truly believe druth8x is our next genius with class and professionalism that JO does not have. Move over JO, Druth8x has taken over your best last remaining strength. No questions asked if Druth8x has some unlimited potential in her head if one need her for advises or suggestions

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24/08/2015 14:00

If you want to edit your posts with different formatting you can send me an email with a copy of the source in a text file. Just format the post how you want it to look then click the little page icon at the top right of the forum reply box format tools. Select all of the text and copy it to a notepad document this also saves it if something happens and you are unable to post it. Send it to my username at gmail.

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24/08/2015 17:57

Thanks, useful to have one go to post. Subscribed

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25/08/2015 02:49

Me too Subscribed !!

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25/08/2015 07:14

druth8x. Forum moderator!!!

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28/08/2015 08:20

Is it just me, or save for Carlos' posts, It seems like I messed up and didn't give us the first 3 weeks of Aug? I know that there was too many characters for 1 post, so I must have not copied from the very bottom? Cause no worthy updates in the first 3 weeks makes no sense.

There has been a lot of updates this week, so I've been impatient with updating this for the "week".

Looks like I need to get the rest of Aug as well, with this "weekend's" update?

And, yes, condensing this even further is still on the plate.

druth8x
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30/08/2015 11:50

A mix of first 2 posts and new format:

Aug 1st to Aug 30th

Andraz Development news Aug 3[sup]rd[/sup] & Marc talking about the Targeted Ads, Paidverts and Share buying
FirstSwissCard credit card integration (initially only for ad purchases on PaidVerts) is basically ready, but we're waiting for some API configuration changes, that have been dragging on for the past week. That could be any day now, or drag on another week, it just needs to pass this final testing phase, that we're waiting for.

Projects nearing completion:

- Perfect Money subsidiary casino is nearing completion. We're just waiting for our system admin to prepare a separate environment for it, then a few final tests. Considering the PV issues of the past few days, it will likely be at least a week before the new environment can be properly set up.

- Crowd Based FAQ is passing some final testing, and will initially be available only for admins/moderators to make sure everything works properly, then we'll release it for the crowd. It should add huge value to the business, as the explanation part of it often lacks hugely!

- Some old games are already reworked, a few still need be.

- TicTacToe is also in the testing phase. It is functional, but a few bugs have to be removed before going live.

- The hard parts of the PaidVerts app are ready (security & authorization), now the basic features, such as ad viewing need to be added.

- Along with Marc I've received a list of suggestions for a slightly simplified PaidVerts model changes from the programmers, that will be fairly easy to implement to improve rigidness, scalability and cost-effectiveness of PaidVerts, that will also serve as a basis for when we get to create a similar product to PaidVerts. Specifics for that are still on hold, as I've been swamped the past few weeks and haven't managed to analyze the data properly yet, off which we will base the reward model for the new site.

- InfoModel has done a first proper analysis of the data PaidVerts holds that we can use for the targeted ads, and prepared a detailed suggestion for the first version of it. As soon as some of the above tasks are cleared up, we will do a final review and finish the product specifications, so that we finally start working on something that should eventually become the main value of PaidVerts. I will try to post some specifics later today if I manage.

- We're also doing final testing, improvements and bug fixes on the Super Slots game, which I hope we can deliver within the next few days. This game is huge, and so many things to look into and make sure before launching it. It has huge potential - how it works, why it's so special, I will elaborate on when we get to finish and launch it. It will be our first game with progressive jackpots (not really counting TTS and STB here), and as such be the basis for other progressive jackpots. As we intend to work on some "modular progressive jackpots" to spice up the gameplay on many of our current games, by taking a percentage of all bets made on any of them - and the users will be able to win it from playing any of these games! This is one of the main factors in big casinos that make the games much more enticing, so it should be a great addition to promote gameplay. We'll initially add it to some new scratch games, then add it to the existing scratches, then explore the option of adding it to basically any other game.

- August we'll be focusing on expanding our casino games, then starting September I will work in my office to focus on getting more "non-casino" games released - skill/highscore based, as those hold huge potential. We would like to push the web technology limits here to even work on some quality graphics 3D games later down the line. Just as a thought for now, but a few of my workers have some neat ideas/skills here, that I will elaborate on when we can afford to start spending some time on pursuing these bigger projects. But I'm hoping we'll be able to come up with an idea for a simple game, that we could start working on quite soon, as a proof of concept.

And we've earlier bumped up the limit to create new posts to a minimum of $250 traffic value, as the spam topics from users not reading already existing topics about the same issue was out of hand. The posting limit remains at $1 minimum traffic value.
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Guys, some of you might have seen a post of Slosumo with details of the Paidverts targeted ads-spec, but i've decided to remove it.
We're gonna build this project without giving you any internal information about specs, certain drafts etc.
The reason i've decided to do so is very simple..

I don't want to give such valuable information to our future competitors (Google, Yahoo), other ptc's (TM etc) and others.
This project is gonna be life-changing for our business if we nail it and it's far too risky/stupid to expose the way you build it to your competitors.
We plan to make this 1 of our ultimate projects, 1 that will take a few years to get the ultimate form we're thriving for (And even then it will need constant adjustments).
We'll give you updates about progress, maybe some pictures every now and then.. But this project we won't be fully transparent about and I expect you guys to understand, as it's for your own good!

Thank you for your understanding.

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30/31 Days

The programmers are reducing our database-load on Paidverts, this will result in a cheaper hosting-bill and it will heavily increase the speed of Paidverts.

For you, the user there won't be a lot of difference..
We're removing the ability to look up certain ads/stats of a few months ago and we're reducing it to the last 30/31 days.
If you need any stats from a dated ad for any reason, you can contact the support and they'll supply you with the info.

This will reduce our hosting bill by a lot and the database will shrink by 100s of gigabytes.

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Polish Programming Update Aug 12th

pm casino games site - admin panel has been added, everything is prepared for testing live, in a meantime we're working on porting last games
- tic-tac-toe - game is now integrated with database, allows to review game play from admin panel, some minor bugs left
- db reduction - we've been working on it whole last week, one statistical thing left to finish the main part, this should give significant performance boost and better storage usage. However we still have to find a solution to archive old data.
-Jo's referrals - we'll do it during maintenance time reserved for db reduction
- mobile app - authorisation and ad browsing and viewing is almost done, we're on straight line to start tests
- blackjack - will be deployed this week

Pending cashouts over 7 days
In some payment processors there is currently still more cashouts being requested via them versus new funds coming in (STP, PM, BTC), which is causing some temporary delays. Carlos will be funding these methods additionally to bring them back on-time. We apologize for any inconvenience and ask for a bit of patience, while they're being additionally funded.

On the other hand, we've started with PayPal cashouts today. Right now they are paid manually which requires a bit higher minimum cashout limits, but as soon as mass payments are enabled we'll lower the minimum cashout limit.

FSC Credit cards
As some of you have noticed credit card integration is already visible in some places, but is unfortunately not yet complete, due to some integration issue, that has been dragging on a bit. We will be testing a potential solution in the following days to hopefully end the wait and start accepting credit cards.

As Marc already posted - several bigger projects the Polish office has been working on are nearing completion, but they all need to be thoroughly tested, and some require some environment preparation from our system admin.

Also they have made great progress in preparing some PV functionality changes to improve speed, reliability and scaling. Most of these are already ready - main thing left to do is archiving old data into flat files, for which they're actually in the midst of discussing the optimum way to do it, that will also allow extraction of this old data, only when needed of course.

Here's a basic list of the changes:
- history logs, such as baplog, balance log, referral log will only show the last 30/31 days of data on the user side. The rest will be archived - admins will still be able to extract this data and forward it to users on request, possibly even giving users the option to download these flat files of their own histories.

- pages such as top_earners, top_referrers, memberlist will also be narrowed down as they're hugely demanding, yet only "needed" in full in some very very very rare cases, but generally are a huge waste with tons of unneeded information.

- One of the main changes will also be a huge reduction in queries that ad viewing currently takes, with unnecessarily ridiculous detailed interaction logs. As currently every move/change of an ad is logged and this is taking absurd amount of resources/space. The main information about ad viewing/each ad interaction will still stay, but without several unneeded in-between steps that have been practically unneeded all this time.

- archiving old data, to save disk space, lower resource usage, improve performance, yet still be available on demand for miscellaneous reasons.

The above changes, while keeping all the needed functions, will be hugely effective as they're estimated to reduce resources needed by 20-50%.

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We now have a new full-time support worker, who will first be focusing on clearing all the verifications, and then start taking over a bunch of my chores/tasks, to ensure those are done on-time, and are not delayed whenever I simply can not follow through with all the workload. By the end of August I would like all tickets to be resolved within 24 hours max (naturally some possible exceptions excluded), with most being solved within hours.

Super slots are just waiting on me for some final checks and calculations, but the few extra days of attending to details, especially sounds, were well worth it. Should be super fun to play - especially when the in-game jackpots start climbing through the roof and the statistical payout crosses 100% [img=19x19]https://www.mytrafficvalue.com/assets20150828/images/forum/emoticons/smile.gif[/img]

The multi-game progressive jackpots will also be introduced with a few new games, that we'll now work on and shouldn't take long, and that I intend on adding to as many existing games as possible, to promote gameplay with the chance of winning the progressive jackpot while playing any of the games in the mix.

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Payment Proccesor Updates
Pending STP/PM/PayPal cashouts

Yesterday we received the first part of additional funding for STP and PM, but more is needed before they're brought down to within 7 days comfortably.

For PayPal cashouts we will have to wait for mass-payments to be enabled, hopefully it will be resolved by the end of the week.

All other payment processor cashouts are within the 7 days time - we ask for patience and understanding, while we bring STP and PM cashouts back to within 7 days.

We will try revisiting some payment processors definitely, but not likely before September as there are currently a ton of other priorities for Carlos and his team to sort out.

This is definitely something we will need to aim for, but is at this time quite tricky, while server configurations are still being optimized and a lot of current deployments require some juggling between the server admin and the main programmers, who don't work the same shift.

Next week's updates will help put a lot of strain off of our servers, help with scalability and help the main programmers and the system admin so that instead of using a lot of their time for upkeep issues, they will be able to work towards improving organization - but it is not just them, we have all had to "waste" so much time fixing past mistakes and work on 20 things at a time, mainly on communication.

August and likely September will still be "messy" in this regard, but we will get things under control. One step at a time.
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Development Update Aug 17th
We were hoping to push some changes live today, but unfortunately I have had some complications today, had to leave the office early, and was not able to finish/give the green light for a couple of things:

- PaidVerts Crowd FAQ
- FSC Credit card integration for ad purchases needs another final positive test tomorrow, with real credit cards, not in sandbox mode, which passed all tests.
*** As using credit cards will require account verification, we are catching up on account verification fast, and will be temporarily getting additional help, to catch up to ~0 wait time for verification as soon as possible. At this time my estimate is we'll require 1-2 weeks to catch up completely.

- Super slots some final statistic calculation keeps evading me, I will finish it by Wednesday the latest. It will be MTV version only for a week or so, while I keep an eye on everything - to ensure our game optimizations will suffice and to optimize probabilities for best user experience, based on a test period.

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The rest of the updates require some maintenance time, server configs changes and tweaks, which we aim to do at the same time to minimize any potential downtime:

- TicTacToe is ready, but needs some final tweaks to Node.js/server configurations, optimized for public use.
- HUGE optimization of PV's ad view handling, logs, queries (full details will be given in the release log) -> initially without archiving, which will be pushed live at a bit later date, and will require a shorter maintenance by itself.

** The date/time of any potential downtime will be preannounced & ads extended

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A few more planned updates following the above:
- Several interesting charts on PV memberlist page, which is basically useless and heavy DB expensive at the moment
- Blackjack rework
- New session system (which will prevent any leftover random logouts which might occur still) is basically ready, but will be deployed at least a few days after the main changes listed above

PerfectMoneyCasino is ready, but will have to wait for the above to be done first, as we will be putting it on gambling-supported hosting/domain (which need to be properly configured,, as one of the first measures towards full legal compliance of every part of the business. The next step in achieving that will likely be reviving the old project MoneyMyGame, to hold all games on a subsidiary website, which is long overdue. We will discuss the details of this in the following weeks, as Carlos and Marc will also hold several meetings, to properly address these issues and draw a proper path towards realizing them.

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We have finally dug our way out of the huge "debt" of undelivered ad views! Now the ad delivery blocks are mostly less than 500k daily, and only about 20mil 30s ads remain up to 14th May purchased campaigns. Over-delivery will drop severely in the following days, buffer will increase, amount of ads sent daily will reduce making PV a LOT more comfortable for everyone, especially after another week or two, when 5s ads will represent more than 95% of ad delivery.

Ad delivery times will become attractive to the advertisers again, and we will be able to begin work on ad delivery quality improvements from the eyes of the advertisers. Captcha improvements, possible forced ad views, and more, are all on the list.

Not just on bulk ads, but also the introduction of Targeted ads, specifics for which I aim to finish within the next two weeks (along with specifications for a website similar to PaidVerts) with the help of infoModel.

We realize that the past few weeks left bitter taste in several people's mouths, especially regarding some ad refunds. Please have some patience regarding those tickets, as we work on an amicable solution, which will amongst other things require additional heavy-query runs to determine the eligibility of such tickets. We apologize for the late responses in these cases - we will be working towards them later this week.

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Stay tuned for more, will be busy and visibly productive weeks ahead - will try to keep you updated on a regular basis, but apologies if I end up doing them only on a weekly basis [img=19x19]https://www.mytrafficvalue.com/assets20150828/images/forum/emoticons/smile.gif[/img]

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Some more Development Aug 19th
As you have noticed - our PayPal account is temporarily restricted, since it is under investigation due to increased transactions and a review for enabling mass payments. Carlos is pushing them for a fast resolution. So far they have worked real fast with us, lets hope it persists and that it is back fully operational with mass-payments enabled soon. We've disabled PayPal temporarily from the cashier options to avoid any confusion.

We have pushed some improvements to the scratch games earlier and some final fixes for the crowd FAQ, which our moderators helped test, and will be enabled for everyone tomorrow.

Credit card installation unfortunately didn't go through today as we had to juggle with their staff doing some final tests, but didn't manage to get them today to do one final test.

Super slots are prepared, just want to run it by a few more people tomorrow, to make any final adjustments to the game play before we release it, based on their input.

It seems that also archiving will be added along with the release of PV improvements from the get go, they will work through the final tests in the following days and then decide on a D-day for some required maintenance to put it all live.

*We're catching up quick with account verifications in preparation for the CC integration, so people who would like to use that option don't have to wait more than a few days to get verified.

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Marc's meeting with Carlos
I'm here to make some quick progress and bond with Carlos, we got lots of issues to solve and we need to work on both of our future visions.
I'll be here until the 14th of Septembre.
No big updates as of now as we only met once so far.. (As I was trying to take a holiday).

I did come up with some new ideas during the past few days though and i'll be changing a few things/post some updates soon.

One of them is that we really need some fresh blood in our moderating team and sadly we have to let go of a few ones that haven't been performing like we expected them to.

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New Mods & Languages plus what was done during the maintence
We can now offer support in our language specific topics in the following languages: Spanish, German, Portuguese,Greek, Slovenian, Dutch and Turkish. (The overall language to use on normal topics remains english)

Our current moderating team exists of 14 people, namely:

Mriley
Orhan1337
Agency
Stephanos9
Srcnckr
Tbiz
Hrjustinptc
Domen97
Catt
Vecors
Hispanomc
Michaelkline
Missi
Axiantor

Congratulations to our newest moderators and i'm sure they'll perform like I expect them to.

Here is a brief list of changes that were done, I will provide a more exact one, and what is left to do tomorrow:

PaidVerts memberlist page was replaced with PaidVerts charts - as the memberlist page was useless and consumed a lot of resources. Now we have a bunch of cool charts, and we'll be adding more and more as time goes by:

http://www.paidverts.com/general_charts.html

The following pages have had their default information gathering pruned to the last 31 days/1000 entries:

http://www.paidverts.com/campaigns.html
http://www.paidverts.com/top_referrers.html
http://www.paidverts.com/top_earners.html
My account balance, Baplog and referral commissions.

Admins are still able to view the full history - for now accessing any older data than 31 days from user-side will not be possible, but we will work on a solution for that - likely either via downloadable .csv files or ticket requests.

Our Server Admin will also begin utilizing the newest technology from AWS - Aurora, for further optimization, cost reduction, future scalability and speed. These changes will be done on the go during the following week, but will not require more than some random hours of downtime to properly implement.

Super slots has also finally been pushed, have a look at: http://www.mytrafficvalue.com/games/super_slots

Make sure to read the help page for all the features it offers, as the game play is unique. We will likely add some more detailed help/videos about the game, along with detailed statistics, etc.

But in short - the current house edge for the game is around 97% - and will go even above 100% when the progressive jackpots reach high enough values. And with this game there is the possibility of more surprises in store, to change it on the go for promotional/special days purposes.

I will write more about the game mechanics in the following days. A quick suggestion/tip if you wish to play statistically to the fullest:

Play the "mini slot" only with the purpose of gathering bonus points, to use for playing on the main game - super slots. That means that every win you shouldn't cash out straight away, but keep doubling through the wins, as even though that will result in converting your wins to bonuses - it will ensure you don't miss out any chances of doubling up from a small win, to the highest ones [img=19x19]https://www.mytrafficvalue.com/assets20150828/images/forum/emoticons/smile.gif[/img]
It's not the amount of wins, but size of them that counts [img=19x19]https://www.mytrafficvalue.com/assets20150828/images/forum/emoticons/smile.gif[/img]

On average around every 4-5 plays you win something, which is a winning ratio comparable to the simple 3 reel slot game. The beauty of it comes when playing super slots with the bonus points you win, with the illusion of betting small, but winning huge.

We also intend on possibly adding several "configurations" later on to suit your gameplay - from disabling animations for quicker playing, or even "adjusting" the gameplay to how you wish to play - do you want to win often, but smaller wins, or more rarely but huge wins.
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30/08/2015 11:50

Another version of the changes during the maintenance
We just finished our maintenance and we changed some important things.. (All ads were extended by 24 hours)

Here's a summary I got from one of our programmers:

- Memberlist tab sw@pped to system charts, we'll add more of them over time, also enable game stats subpage
- Top referrers page shows now only top 1000 sponsors
- Top earners page shows only only top 1000, not all 60k [img=19x19]https://www.mytrafficvalue.com/assets20150828/images/forum/emoticons/wink.gif[/img]
- Baplog limited to last 31 days, if there is something important to check, admin can access old archived history
- Balance history limited to last 31 days, if there is something important to check, admin can access old archived history. Some deposits/cashouts history is untouched from user side.
- Referral commission log is limited to the last 31 days as well.
- Fixed bug with captcha changing "on its own"
- Many improvements to ad view process, number of queries is cut by over 50%, so user experience should be much better, as it's basically faster -- it was our main task here, and the most time consuming
- Some game bugs fixes, discovered during pmcg tests
- Dozens of little improvements/validation in the entire project

So we greatly reduced our database which will save us a lot of hosting costs (I'm getting some exact numbers later on) and greatly increase the speed of paidverts for you!
We'll need a few more downtimes in the coming days for some additional changes to complete the database reduction and changes to paidverts.

Also we got some very cool charts of paidverts that you can find over here:

http://www.paidverts.com/general_charts.html

Additionally: We released Super slots today!
An amazing game with multiple bonus games and 4 progressive jackpots.
The multiple jackpots idea of super slots will be used for a number of other future and current games we're having as well.
Super slots is our most complex game we ever launched on mtv, which is why so many bugs popped up while building it.
It has nice sounds and effects and it's a very nice project of our Slovenian office!
Slosumo will give a proper explanation and guide of the game later this week as he's one of the builders of the game.

We also transfered all the referrals from Jo's account to Portfolio as it was bugging many of you.
That's the official final step we had to make to finish that chapter.

Due to our new moderating team and some changes to the forum mechanics our forum is back to a professional state again.
No spam, people get quick support (In 9-10 different languages) and it's worth spending your time on again!

As most of you noticed yesterday I started buying some shares with the Paidverts-account yesterday again.
I bought some small batches of shares with the intention of not bothering the current shareprice too much but simply stocking up on some shares for our Paidverts-engine to return the promissed profit in the future.
Also I invested 14k in our development funds so we'll have dividends on monday.

I hope you enjoy our newest game, I personally love playing it, the BAP version will be launched in the future but we're not giving any final date of deployment yet.

Play it here: http://www.mytrafficvalue.com/games/super_slots

It has been a great weekend for MTV!

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Credit Cards Live Plus upcoming Guide
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Yan Issue – Letter back from Iweb plus FBG's response plus BOTH PayPal
Lengthy Read, best just to go to the link below to read it yourself, if interested.
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Development Update 27[sup]th[/sup] Aug + Shares renamed
Everything's basically on the verge of deployment, just going through final tests/improvements for a bigger release:
- BlackJack rework optimization so it can be returned to PV after almost a year of being on the side!
- PaidVerts app notifications are being finalized, it will be deployed soon to app marketplaces

- Two of the programmers are also working on preparing RTBKit environment for ad targeting system on PaidVerts, while we finalize the specifications for the first part of targeting options.

- TicTacToe is still undergoing some tests and making sure all cases are handled properly, we'll also do a bigger stress live test when it's put uploaded to the live test server.

Perfect Money Casino Games (PMGC) is ready, but will have to wait for our system admin to prepare a new environment on gambling-allowed hosting for full legality, who will be working at least for a few days on first finishing database downsizing and Aurora migration on AWS. Then the PMCG hosting will be set up, and final tests of the website done on the live environment.

We have also got two new types of jackpot scratch games ready, just needs the jackpot module to be finished and then we will also add it to several existing games.

Some super slot improvements also planned, reducing bonus point value to allow for a lower minimum bet, along with a BAP version of the game.

Another multi-line "typical" slot game is in the works, with wilds, scatters, free games etc. After that we'll begin work on several highscore/skill type of games, that have been on the sidelines for too long.

A secondary advertising website similar to PaidVerts is also planned to begin its first stages next week. Several "operating" decision remain, but the model will be decided on, along with a name & graphics preparation.

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Payeer
We have yesterday increased payeer deposit fees to 25% as they are currently showing potential signs of collapse, and they are currently hard to exchange anywhere/for very high fees.

If the situation escalates we will increase the deposit fees for Payeer further and potentially even remove them from the list of available payment processors. Should their situation normalize, we will be lowering the fees.

If anyone is using Payeer we suggest caution at this time.

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Marc's Marketing Plans

We'll soon be using our emailing system frequently as well.

I'm planning on designing a number of shirts with a QR-code on the t-shirt that links to the website through your referral-link soon.

The shirts need to be of a good quality, catchy, well marketed and with a very, very low profit margin so our members would actually buy one.

Another idea (but actually more focussed to mtv) is once we turn legal to produce businesscards.
Not only for the staff, but also for our members.
If a few of you feel like you got what it takes to be a marketer, you could simply go to meetings, congresses, or even your city and simply wear a shirt that attracts attention and you could convince people personally and give them a businesscard which makes it more "real" to them.
If you're good at it, you can make a good living without having a "real" job.. You'll be making money doing what you like doing without having to run for a boss.. [img=19x19]https://www.mytrafficvalue.com/assets20150828/images/forum/emoticons/smile.gif[/img]

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21/09/2015 02:53

Long overdue...3 weeks total Aug 31st to Sep 20th.
I honestly don't feel like "sourcing". ESP since I'm just c/p atm.

1st Sep
Marc Update with Carlos and team:

Hello everyone, as some of you saw I posted some photo's with Carlos on my facebook yesterday. (Sorry, no time to upload the photo's)

It's a 6-men meeting most of the time, passionately firing ideas, solutions etc at each other. They're great brainstorming sessions and all of us got a different expertise.
Progress is being made, that's for sure, but it takes time for ideas to come to fruition.

Currently i'm working hard on an idea which I think is brilliant, but until i'm done drawing it, getting the basic idea on paper for the other guys and them approving (or denying) it, I can't tell anything about it.
Just know that there are gonna be some vast and sudden changes on mtv very soon.

2nd Sep
Cashout situation improving (My edit: PM and STP are still hard to get under 10 days also not everyone got their past 185 day ad campaign refund yet, I believe, many did though)

Some of the payment processors where cashouts are currently delayed have been additionally funded (and still will be) to bring cashouts back to our regular 7 day waiting time. For example, PM has been brought to just under 7 days waiting today, with $27,000 cashouts sent in total. Currently the only one above 7 days waiting is STP, which will be funded additionally as well.

PayPal we are still waiting on our account to be fully unlocked, when Marc/Carlos finish their meetings today we will hopefully have an update regarding that, so far it seems it is still being delayed.

Other payment processor cashouts are on-time. For anyone used to paypal, remember that you can now also use our credit card option for ad purchases on PaidVerts, which also gives you a free virtual card with FirstSwiss card, where we will alter be able to send cashouts, and from where you will be able to also order a debit card and transfer to/from your bank accounts. We will attempt to enable both of these options in the following month.

*Account verification approval is almost down to within 24 hours (tickets regarding account verification will be caught up in the next few days as well!)

I still need to sort out the tickets regarding ad campaign delivery, but I am being caught up every day in other matters, will make sure to keep up to the promise and get them solved by the end of the week.

Development update
He will also prepare a test environment for TicTacToe for a few final stress tests, which will be put live for everyone next week.

And as soon as Aurora migration is finished he will prepare a new environment on different hosting for PMCG, so that project finally goes live as well. One thing at a time, but with Aurora out of the way, we can focus on getting these projects out.

Revamped BlackJack and Jacks or Better will be released tomorrow.

We are also finishing the first shared jackpot scratch games, BAP version of Super Slots, followed by some improvements to both versions of super slots. Then we will be shifting from casino type games to skill/highscore games, Minesweeper will be the first.

Unbanned some users from the forum.
Please remember that if you've been forumbanned 2 or more times before, the next one will be a permanent ban.

We don't allow people to intentionally ruin the atmosphere for others here as we're building a serious company and that requires some professionalism on our forums.

Thanks for understanding and applying to our rules [img=19x19]http://www.mytrafficvalue.com/assets20150917/images/forum/emoticons/smile.gif[/img]

7th Sep
New week, big changes.

As most of you know i've been meeting with Carlos for the past 2 weeks to work on our way to legality and a number of other issues.
We decided on a few big changes which are required to fully legitimize our current system and all that we're gonna build from now on.

1.
Today we're changing the name of our profit shares to "Royalty Positions".
This has been announced before and won't be a surprise to many of you.
We're changing the name as they officially don't give you a vote in our company and the term Royalty Positions suits that explanation.
Changing the name of the positions will be a temporary measure until we can fully legalize our sharemarket.

2.
We're removing our 170.2%, 200% and 250% plans and today we're opening up a 115% investments plan.
We're making this change as we can't legalize our plans with such returns to the user as they think we're a ponzi, a pyramid scheme etc.
We will at least temporarily keep the 240% plan for Paidverts while we look for another method to come up with the 147% compensation.

115% will still make us stand out compared to banks and other crowdfunding platforms.. They offer 8-10% returns on your investments.

But we're giving you 2 more weeks to profit from our current returns.. As a very last opportunity!
Our 170.2%,200% and 250% investment plans will close at 21-9-2015 0:00.

Everyone that paid the fee for the 200% plan and has not received or is yet to receive a return of $11.400,- on their investments in the 200% plan, please write us a support ticket.
We'll refund a few $100 in Bonus Ad Points to those that are not fully compensated on their plan upgrades.

Please note that we won't be responding to your ticket within a few days as we're gonna have to think of a reasonable refund and we need to check if your account is indeed eligible for the refund.

3.
There´s a few changes upcoming for Paidverts.
Don´t worry, we won´t cut back the returns, we´re actually aiming at improving Paidverts and its position in the PTC market!
After those changes we will also focus on improving our advertising quality and other ways of making our website even more appealing to both advertisers and PTC-ers.

Here are some interesting stats regarding Paidverts:

http://postimg.org/image/db1knx18v/
http://postimg.org/image/mr571xvyb/

What do these show us?

We got the fastest website of the industry.
People spend a lot of time on our website.
We're close to entering the top 1000 alexa ranked websites and are becoming a serious competition to the PTC's that have been out there for way longer then we are.
And we're developing strategies on how to enhance our domain authority by creating more awareness of PaidVerts. Things are already in positive direction and upward trend but still a huge potential for growth for PaidVerts especially in the social media and search engine platforms..

Furthermore, our Perfect Money Games Casino has been finished.
We would have launched it already if there wasn't someone reporting us to our domain and hosting to make them aware that we're running a casino while their terms do not allow it.
As soon as we're done switching the domain and hosting we'll launch the PMGC website.
Please note that we WILL buy a license for all the casino's we will be launching soon and that we will build the MoneyMyGame-casino as soon as possible and we plan on making it amazing.
All kinds of promotions, referral bonusses, contests etc etc.
Once we launch MoneyMyGame we will take the games off of MyTrafficValue and make it that much easier to legalize our websites/companies.
But first we will finish building our bitcoin-casino.

Every investment recently made will remain active, same for the investments you will make in the next 2 weeks.

Regarding the 170% and 200% plans..

$6700 x 1,702=$11.403,-
$1000 upgrade+$5700 x 2= $11.400,-

So that's your breakeven point.

Due to a bug last week we changed the dividends cron.
The dividends will take longer to arrive now, but they won't clog the system anymore.
Dividends are being sent in batches of 3000/minute.

I don't understand the frustration here.
We're implementing these changes for YOU.
If we don't, there soon won't be a mtv and your investments will be gone, poof smoke..
We need to legalize in order to expand and conquer.

Also I'd like to mention that in the past few months NOONE showed any interest in our investment plans and now everyone seems so fond of them..
Even now that we gave you a last opportunity noone seems to grab it.

And for those of you saying: "We want to be sure we won't be debt sw@pped and we're waiting for your statement"..
Well let me tell you this: We do all we can to prevent a debt sw@p at any time, but if we HAVE to, we WILL.
There are no guarantees in investments, otherwise they wouldn't be called investments but loans. (And even then you often need a lawsuit to actually get your money)

We, the team of My Traffic Value are brainstorming, working, programming every single day of the year to improve and save our website/company.
Our company has been done a lot of harm in multiple ways and it requires a humongous amount of effort to get us out of the HYIP industry, aiming for stabil profits, legality and so much more.

BUT.. All big rewards/big goals require a lot of continuous effort, otherwise everyone would do what we're doing!

I hope you guys can at least put some of the things that are changing in perspective and see that we're finally trying to make this company a serious one, one with actual value, one you can be proud of..

Noone saw the part about licensing our new casino's in the daily news? Or the charts showing pv's position in the PTC market?

I can see negative messages get a lot of feedback, positive ones get a silent response, it used to be different here..
And we're aiming to spark the excitement in you guys again.. [img=19x19]http://www.mytrafficvalue.com/assets20150917/images/forum/emoticons/smile.gif[/img]

More coming up very soon!

Thanks for the trust, new changes are coming.
I'm currently at Carlos' office working on some other big projects/changes.
We are gonna make MTV great again!

David is our database admin and will soon be our development manager as well.
Alex has been with us from pretty much the start of MTV and he's still working for us.
You might see some more "administrators" pop up every now and then as we got a big group of programmers nowadays and they do various checks around the forum as well.

8th Sep
An email I just sent to the programmers:

"Hey guys, we've decided on a number of changes for the sharemarket as the current sharemarket has big flaws.
This is 1 of many changes we're making in order to make our business-model more effective and more attractive.

Changes i'd like to implement to the current RP market:

1% trading fee instead of 0.25%

The 1% profit will be divided like this:
0.5% goes to the portfolio, 0.5% gets deducted as development funds

All bids/sales on the market can not be removed and will remain on the market for at least 24 hours.
If the bid/sale is not accepted after 24 hours, it will remain but the user will have the option to cancel it.
(Leave the option open for an admin to remove any bids/sales)

Reset the minimum limit of $0.01 on the market as it used to be before.
The minimum BAP limit should be set at 30/share.

Put up a notice on the Royalty Position market-page when you implement these changes that shows that the rules have been revised and in short the changes made on the market.

Reset the entire Royalty Position market, the BAP market included (remove bids and sales) before implementing these changes.
This in order to remove all bids under $0.01 and to make sure every RP on the market is part of the 24-hour system."

Frankly, we really need some regulations.
After a long time of brainstorming and having discussed many, many options these are the softest, yet in our opinion the most effective changes we can provide within a short period.

We'll have to see if they're gonna be as effective as we think they'll be and otherwise we'll have to adapt.
Remember, at MTV we're building something that most did not build before and we're also dealing with other clients then most stockmarkets/banks deal with.

As you can see I added 0.5% of the costs to the development funds.
Why?
We decided on changing the business-model a bit so we get development funds from different sources as in the end that's what makes our portfolio grow and makes us able to run this website without too many debt sw@ps.
Lately the ftq plans haven't got the desired attention and since most of you think the repayment times are too long we'll have to adapt to the current market situation.

The bigger fees will also expand the margins that daytraders need in order to profit, so the market will become more volatile and more exciting to the smaller users as well.

There will be many changes coming soon, changes that should make our portfolio a lot more profitable/attractive again.

Also, we got a message of PayPal today asking us to explain them how people can make purchases on our website and how they make money.
So today i'll be working on a "Paidverts-guide" with Catt, in order to give them a quick response and get us re-accepted.

Blackjack and Jacks or Better are live now!

And our forum search has been fixed!

The devs are working A LOT on both of the websites, this causes the website to stress a bit every now and then. No worries though, as we already cut down a lot on our ads you should have plenty of time to finish them.

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