Bitcoin Forum

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Happy Birthday Bitcoin! On 03rd January 2009, an unknown anonymous figure on the internet called themselves by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto mined the very first genesis block of a digital currency called Bitcoin. The genesis block which was mined had the following text : "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks". Today 1 Bitcoin is worth approximately $33,000 and has been one of the trending names in the tech world since then. Today lots of investors are jumping into bitcoin as a way to make them the reserve asset for their corporation and the price of 1 Bitcoin has pumped more than twice since the last raffle which was conducted on November 5th.

No one is sure how high Bitcoin might go, but this topic is being created during one of the ATH times. We do have disappointments since even after reaching an all time high our local board is still rotting down to hell with very few newbies joining the forum. As of today, the price is around $33,000 ~ ₹26,00,000 per bitcoin (Indian exchanges) which is a 2x rise since the last raffle and the winner would be receiving ₹2,500.

As I have already said in the ANN topic, these fun lotteries will be hosted each month and the rules are same as the previous. With the May cooling period coming to an end, @Lender can start participating in these raffles starting from this month until they win another.

About the Game :

1. This is a pretty simple and quite interesting game, where there would be 16 spots from 0-9 and a-f. Each person should pick one character and post in the reply of this topic along with their bitcoin address.

2. Once all the 16 spots are filled, I will choose one single future block to be mined. For instance person X has chosen '8' as their spot and I have chosen block #664335. Here the hash of the block #655548 is 0000000000000000000275247afe518c68598e0dfb0836a9b73fde6727f9c028 which determines that 8 is the winning character.

3. The person who has chosen the correct character wins the prize amount of 0.001BTC (Please note that 0.001BTC is no more cheaper but in terms of our economy it costs around 2,500 INR)

As per rules, they are mostly the same as followed in the previous raffle topics

Rules :

1. The game is strictly restricted only to Indian forum members. If you are someone outside India or hailing from nearby countries like Bangladesh, Pakistan or Sri Lanka, you are not allowed to participate in this game.

2. Previous raffle/lottery winners cannot participate in the upcoming games for 6 months. Let us give others a chance to win some bitcoins. You can consider this 6 months as a cooling period like if some X has won the game in May, they can participate only in the December raffle. Our local community is so small such that I have reduced the period to 6 months. If in future, we rise up to one of the most populated local boards I might change the rule such that the game winners cannot participate in the upcoming lotteries for over a year.

3. There are 16 spots and only 1 slot per person is allowed and more importantly I cannot give you any random spots. Once I have updated the slot in OP, there is no changing of slot numbers. Please see to the filled spots in OP/ have an eye on picked up spots by others before posting your slot number in reply.

4. Newbies are allowed to participate, but you shouldn't have made your first post in this topic and You might have been a old guy but isn't really an active poster.

5. This topic is only for playing the game and all the other discussions and doubts regarding the raffle or future game ideas should be posted only in the Indian Raffle Discussion (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5213474.0) topic.

6. Bounty Hunters are not allowed to participate in the game. Even though if you are from India, the board doesn't need bounty hunters who are chiming here only for profits or earning money from this forum.

Previous Raffle Winners :


Spots :



Escrow Wallet : 31ndia1cACc51Ge4hGdtPjgt5HfxQR4oj8

Signed Message :

since it's 12th bday of bitcoin. I will take the number 2.

I will take the number 1  ;D as it was the 12th Birthday of Bitcoin yesterday.

Number "9"

1AqJuvEu35MwJfVsVjmj6f6MPWTaX4DWBX




thanks

I'll take the letter A

Hope to get lucky...

Since it's 12th bitcoin bday, I take 'C'. 0xC is 12 in decimal. :P

3G8uPe3XKGhyQ2HGZfrmT7yJSxeQ6kJHK4

0 for me.

1NrVeRLmXRixnbwbNHbTHRJUUqHpiM4fpS

8 is my luck number lets check it.


Bitcoins address update later.

Number: 7

Address: 1NEBA2A5K3tWK5QEQmswoQAHM7H3XQsLv9

Here we go, hoping for the best :D

EDIT:

SegWit Address: bc1qmhmf8jgdy80a7vkj7ucqz094tfxqnex6us0d2d

Added Segwit address

Number 5

3MPw2eMtp822rL5SChacXNaYvv1GE9HHh2

B for Bitcoin Exchange India (https://BitcoinExchangeIndia.com) :)

15sHM3ND24tSNVanYz3ovBBMeV37rptrUN

Hey everyone, If possible please try to provide a segwit bitcoin address (starting with bc1 or 3) instead of Legacy addresses starting with 1. It will help us in saving unnecessary fees and we can help the network by occupying less space in the block. From next raffle onwards segwit bitcoin address will be made mandatory and if you don't have a segwit address, try to install Electrum and provide one. We should minimize the usage of Legacy addresses as much as possible.

Updated post with segwit address

i am going with E

My BTC Segwit Address will be update letter.

I will take the number "5"  :)

lonely "e" for me.

bc1qvanpq3kgzlvz6r0gvxkwn7m5tgnnam9yacm73f

I will go for 'f'


My BTC wallet address
3CJqjPw6AL5EWxRi8eBHFwXbfjakmLwC5S

My number is 4 and I hope I will be the winner for raffle 9 😁😁😁

Btc address 1KDxbQGZrS8SEKfBwzB6jB9SDhaAiQNRgc

I am going with 'B'

3HV5wKtaJBVcc6BdjetyeAe92WSFWUzjKx

@sureshnsnet already chose E


Please choose another character  :)

@chennappa121 please update with segwit address to prevent higher fees.

@baapmusic and @Mustujab67 are banned from all the future raffles and this raffle as well.

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These free raffles are organized to engage the contributors and to increase the participation of Indian local board. The whole event would become worthless if people are trying to rake in profits even on a good cause. I do hope people posting here might be aware of this and if you aren't contributing anything here, please try not to participate in future raffles.

My choice 3

Segwit Address : bc1q4xrts9lwlkgkvtjfwn4xntpru9j5z6ll998zxh

D

bc1qcz0maspd6aha9ltdm4m0jknj2tjy9uur9s80n7

I have never joined a Raffle before but tying my luck,

I will take the number 6. It seems the only number available!

Segwit: bc1qpap4pmturdqg9vahlq9mg7hd0hdwrg46npctge50us7xlwudpuwqysweu2

We are full and Block #668750 will decide a winner for this Bitcoin Birthday Raffle.

Good Luck everyone and may the force be with you!!!

Congratulations! You won. :)

https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/block/668750 = 00000000000000000005cc320f6966fffe91ef6394b8fde72faf8e525c6283f2

Block #668750 - 00000000000000000005cc320f6966fffe91ef6394b8fde72faf8e525c6283f2 (https://www.blockchain.com/btc/block/668750)


Congrats pawanjain for winning this birthday raffle. Please post your BTCitcoin address (if possible add a bech32 address to prevent high fees) so that I can PM @DarkStar_ for the payment.

Wow, finally I won the Raffle. Seems like the bitcoin birthday raffle was indeed a gift for me from bitcoin itself  ;D ;D

Here's the bech32 address : bc1qdyd5v78pd2p65z550uqvd6trr3swffuh752wxs

Thanks for organizing the raffle

Congrats  :)
Your prize has been paid: https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/03e4b1a98d9242ef2a0d5e03d9c3a4333e659dbbfbcd6967717172580adc7562

Congrats bro... This has been long overdue in your case... 😀