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RESULTS ARE IN ! for your Bitcoin Favorites for 2011!

Check out the winners!  Congratulations to Bit-Pay who cleared out 3 categories!  

Bitcoin Company of the year,  Bitcoin-start up of the year  & Bitcoin Merchant of the year!

overall, the contest provided an interesting insight into everyone's favorites thank you everyone  who participated in voting.

We will be doing this again at the end of the year of 2012!

http://bitcoinawards.bitcoinbetas.com/ (http://bitcoinawards.bitcoinbetas.com/)

With the new year winding down and a new one fast approaching its time for Bitcoin 2011 Awards!

Every winner in their category will get a Bitcoin Award Icon (can list on their website or avatar!) + a small amount of bitcoins as a reward.

You can vote here:  http://bitcoinawards.bitcoinbetas.com/ (http://bitcoinawards.bitcoinbetas.com/)[/b]

The contest/voting will start 2nd of January and end 6th of January 12:00 am with winners announced Saturday, January 7th.

Good luck to all your entries and if you have any other additions additional categories you want added you can still contact or reply below and it will added on the fly!. After people have voted I can't change it I can only add a category you deem fit. Thanks.

Happy New Year! ;D

Not a suggestion for 'own category', but a suggestion nonetheless.

Humor Gold
Fails

We're a thick skinned community (for the most part) capably of taking a couple jabs.

~Bruno~

Humor Gold and Fails are pretty good. There seems to have been some classic moments regarding this ;)

Great! Only 3 posts into this, and you feel a need to imply the heaviest:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=5236;type=avatar

Oh gosh that is classic haha  I noticed your in the running for "Best Bitcoin Community Achievement Award" for your Bitcoin100   as Austin Powers would say veryyy niiiiceee...

http://foxallaccess.blogs.fox.com/files/2011/08/122.jpg

The Bitcoin Community Achievement Award of 2011 has to go to Bruce Wagner, who united the Bitcoin community, though perhaps not in the way he intended.

Maybe, the "Bitcoin Accidental Achievement Award" then  ;)  I noticed someone already but a column up for "Worst Bitcoin Business"  Mt. Gox  :D ahaha

WOW! That was kind of whom ever did that of which, by the way, was not me. I just visited that speadsheet for the first time a couple minutes ago. I thought I would get nominated for the Get Smart Award, with most here being well aware of my detective skills. (I once offered up proof that Jacob Goldstein with NPR was Tom Williams)

http://www.greenwichlibrary.org/blog/eds_blog/2009/04/13/039_14080~Get-Smart.jpg

~Bruno~

Donated a couple of coins!
I like this idea very much.
Cheers!

I missed the donation page. I just sent 1 BTC. Here's the address, Folks: 19EMfcpF36uXzQtuDBFaL4dYnqdm5fcMmM

~Bruno~

Thanks Coinabul! it will be interesting to see who votes for who and Happy Holidays!

Thanks Phinnaeus Cage got it!  I'll keep you posted! ;D

Thanks to everyone who put bitcoins toward the winners of the 2011 Bitcoin Awards!

we are up to 5.65 BTC!  keep on nominating. To add to the winning "pool"  send BTC to: 19EMfcpF36uXzQtuDBFaL4dYnqdm5fcMmM

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkSt3A7AqiRSdHlCaVBSLVY5UU96U1ZMcEFjMUxaTHc (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkSt3A7AqiRSdHlCaVBSLVY5UU96U1ZMcEFjMUxaTHc)

wow this is awesome! Sending some coins now.

Thanks to everyone who nominated Bitinstant, myself, Roger Ver, Gareth Nelson, and 'Yankee' to their respective categories  ;D

If we win, we would like to donate the winnings to the Bitcoin100 to be used for Charity

Have a great weekend and happy new year!

Charlie

Thanks Charlie for any donation! Good idea about the bitcoin100 donation great idea. I figured it would be a good way to end 2011 with a bang!  ;D  Everyone works so hard its time to acknowledge this. The voting will open January 2nd so stay tune!

Category suggestions:

Most Audacious Bitcoin Scam
Best MtGox Hardware Failure
Best MtGox Software Failure
Best MtGox Security Failure

I believe  the "most audacious bitcoin scam" is already on there  :o  and Mt.Gox is all over there.

One thing. I looked on there and saw someone added bitcoinconsultancy.com, intersango.com, bitcoinmedia.com, libbitcoin.org, bitgroups.org. FYI, we're the same group :) Usually we say Bitcoin Consultancy is the umbrella (although it's more accurate to call it the R&D arm).

So probably you want to make that as one entry.

Also maybe consolidate Startup and Company? Bitcoin is still young, and every company listed is also a startup.

I added buttcoin on there. They are cool.

Yes, noticed that was done! I'll make note of it. Yes, I suppose there are "older" bitcoin company's like mt.gox for example and young one's like Dialcoin.com.  Excellent addition of Buttcoin! ;D

I just watched someone delete a couple people including myself off of the Person of the Year list. I added myself back, of course. :)

That was me! we have the "Best forum member of the year"  I moved you over there :P

Well, I'm not just a forum member. I run www.bitvps.com  ;D

Lol I know , I know  Bitvps.com is in category or 2 I believe?  and you ( forum handle) is over at the "best forum member of the year"   :P

Can you make some 'Nominated' badges for each category?

The respective nominees can put it on their sites to push the awards, get the word out, and attract votes!

Good thinking.  You have till Midnight Sunday not sure if to short of notice ? I'm not a graphic designer :( can anyone come up with some sort of "bitcoin nominated" badge?

We will have a booth at CES starting on January 10.  if Bit-Pay wins any awards I will print it out on a nice poster and hang it in our booth! 

I can mock one up quick. Do I have your permission to use http://bitcoinawards.bitcoinbetas.com/myaward_logo.jpg ?


Fuckin A guys!!

Yes, of course! that would be friggin awesome!   and wow Bit-Pay now your talking  - hope you win ;)   Also, most of the nominees have been put into the voting poll so things are getting there. Will be looking once in awhile to see what else is added and add when necessary.

Here you go:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14454595/nominated.jpg

I've also attached the PSD file, anyone can feel free to edit/change to their liking
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14454595/nominated.psd

Brillant !  ;D  I'll post this on the main Awards website so people can modify to their liking and post it thanks Charlie!

[updated] Nominee Badge added!

Felt like it needed an explosion:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1661445/fixed.png

(You did say that I could change it to my liking ;) )

I can't... not after the incident...  :'(

I'm sorry, I didn't know you had a soft spot for ducks after 'the incident'  :-\

That's what I was going to do! Not to be out done, I will match any winnings donated to Bitcoin100, plus donate the prize pool of which I'm nominated for--even if I don't win (which, by the way, I don't care if I win or not, though I've never won a thing in my life  :'().

~Bruno~

EDIT: Originally posted by the wrong user name (Bitcoin 100).

Category recommendations:

Most entertaining forum member
Most wordy forum member
Most likely to succeed
Least likely to succeed

Also, as requested:

https://i.imgur.com/iLNti.jpg

I can only imagine what the bitcoin awards ceremony will look like.


https://i.imgur.com/Wn9y5.jpg

how can I nominate this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBfeLdjNVKY

My favourite bitcoin things:
- buttcoin
- Bitcoin Rap
- Bitcoin Boomdeyada http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10fOzt-Hxfg
- BitcoinPorn

OMG why is this the first time I'm seeing this, THIS IS AMAZING

This spreadsheet needs some moderation. Too many vandals.

I love it too. My post about it got ignored though D:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=55559.0

BUY HIGH
SELL LOW

Don't worry I got back up copies and I'm doing some moderation.

It was one of the funnier bitcoin related videos I've seen haha

I found it tickling how someone keeps removing my name and someone else keeps adding it, then still someone else keeps changing it  to "Matthew "assdouche" N. Wright" and someone else keeps correcting it.

I knew I had some stalkers, but this is ridiculous.

ahaha to funny . By the way its up to you if you want me to keep you in the category they've so chosen you get the final word on it.

To be honest I don't know why there is a "best" or "worst" forum member since that doesn't really make any sense. Are there "better" people than others? I understand "Most annoying", "biggest troll", "Least likely to succeed in real life", etc, but "best/worst"?

True it is pretty generic lol

Time to VOTE! get to  it!

http://bitcoinawards.bitcoinbetas.com/

 ;D

You forgot to de-vandalize it...

haha hey I can remove you if you want  :P

• Eligius belongs under Company, Service, Start-Up, and Pool
• Luke-Jr belongs under Person and Developer
• Tonal Bitcoin belongs under Project
• Ars is basically dead, so probably shouldn't be an option for Pool

If this whole thing is a big troll, I suggest donors and sponsors should demand their money back.

• Eligius belongs under Company, Service, Start-Up, and Pool

  first I have no clue what this is ?

• Luke-Jr belongs under Person and Developer

Luke Jr. will be moved to the proper spot.

• Tonal Bitcoin belongs under Project

Note made.

And no this isn't one big troll "thing"  I'm tried to deal with vandalism as best as I could its just the nature of having it "open" like this.

Update: nevermind once the vote is in can't change/delete out sorry  just the way it goes  nothing is perfect in this world  :-[

Seriously? Something like this should be moderated by someone who knows something about the Bitcoin community, I'd think.  :P
Eligius is the 5th biggest pool, and one of the oldest.

Well, that was why I had suggested it needed moderation... :p

Lol , I don't claim to know EVERYTHING about Bitcoin you could email/pm'd me if it was such a big issue :P  As I said above you could volunteered to moderate? yes/no ? ;) Next Year?

What the shit!? Only one of the community efforts listed is even a 'community' effort. Also, the bitcoin purchases category is seriously lame. Silk road should have been in there, duh.

It's more like a "benefit to the community" not a "community effort" so to speak that was done by and company/individual.  Silk Road a bitcoin achievement? Nevermind got what you meant.  Keep in mind this isn't suppose to be a scientific poll this has some humor in it also or tried to have some! people so up-tight  :P   It was hard enough dealing with all the vandalism changes people were doing !

Amir Taaki also should be on Developers at least.
BitEgg/BitPizza for services, too.

I'll keep posting other things... maybe the next few days should be a "trial run" and the real poll begin after a reset when everything is cleared up?

Good suggestions.  Nobody else was doing this so for the first year of it there is going to be hiccup's and hopefully with people like yourself help with things  ;D  On a good note at least your winning your category!

I intentionally didn't list myself under the "forum" headings because I don't really do much on the forum. ;)

Also missing:
"Nanotube" (Developer)
Bitcoin-OTC (Service?)

Probably everyone on https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/People should be on there

I just saw the final list..

Ummmm where is my nomination ?

This didnt seem to work very well.

No point to voting.. Ill wait for the next one done right

Is this "voting" really serious ?

• "Pools" category is missing BTCguild, one of top3 mining pools.
• "Miner" category is missing poclbm (or GUIminer) - almost the first GPU miner and almost the most popular one
• "Nefario being denied entry to the US after mentioning Bitcoins" - where did you get that info ? The article says that he was not allowed to enter USA because he had not enough cash/funds to live there or failed to prove it.

No, its not a scientific poll your welcome to come up with your own ?  And yes Nefario was denied entry because he mentioned he only had bitcoins not cash ?

Vandalism just the way it is. Next time I'll come up with a better way the first go-around's always have hiccup's.

People have donated rewards based on the implied assumption this would be conducted properly/fairly. If that isn't the case, please figure out how to refund them so they can donate them to someone else who can conduct a proper 2011 award contest.

I'll let them decide that. It isn't up to you or me for that matter. So far nobody has asked for a refund and no I never guaranteed an accurate poll where did I state that ?

Ok, but what's the point of making knowingly inaccurate one ?
I mean, why throw out a top3 pool and top GPU miner from the list ?

So they would allow entry if he didn't said anything about bitcoins, but just not having cash ?
Yes, you can say "USA customs don't account bitcoins as convertible currency", but you CAN'T say that wasn't allowed to enter because he mentioned bitcoins.

And who determines its accurate ? everyone has an opinion and since one thing is misplaced doesn't make the poll  in accurate. Like I said you can equally come up with a poll and put it out there nothing is stopping you?

I never threw anything out I went with the latest revision I had wrong or right I went with what I had. You had ample time to correct it or PM me to correct my contact information was everywhere.

As far as Nefario I know it sure didn't help mentioning bitcoins since that was the main point he was there and the main reason he was turned around ?  The whole reason it was an article was based on that point ?

I checked the Google spreadsheet and everything was fine there.

Actually, the lastest one only had 3 and none of the people you mentioned where in there. So obviously, vandalism . I don't have time to monitor every person and what they were doing to the sheet obviously the erased it for a reason. I knew that wasn't right so I went with one that had a few more in it and still neither of what you mentioned was there.

I tried. You merely reassured me that you had it under control and not to worry about it:

back-ups = revisions tracking that google docs has and once in awhile I saved a copy but every time I went back people have erased to many things I had to go with some something.

edit: Keep in mind its a double edge sword if "locked it down" with  who I thought should be there  someone surely would complain regardless or let everyone at least have a chance to put in who they think ( whether accurate or not)  I would be damned either way so I went with one of the lesser of two evil's and stuck with a transparent method.

LOL awesome poll. ;D

LOL I try ....thanks!  ;D

Saying you're doing one thing (moderating it) while doing the opposite (not moderating it) is NOT transparent.

I never said I was a perfect Moderator ? and I never said I wasn't moderating it ?  I just have no say in what should be included and what shouldn't its not up to me it was up to you all. On obvious things I did my best.

Leaving out the most popular pools, high profile developers, etc while including dead pools, etc, is not moderation. If you made a decision to do so, it's basically trolling. If you didn't make a decision (I think you mentioned you just took it as-is at some point), it's unmoderated.

First, I'm not going to be able to get every developer ( wasn't up to me duh its called "nominees" for a reason) and obviously not everyone put those in so of course someone is going to get left out and your going to complain about it right ? Secondly, my moderation was only the obvious ( Grant it I don't know much about pools ) I wasn't going to "research" every entry and sure as hell wasn't going to ask everyone again what is right in wrong since its all subjective anyways. Also, like I said this isn't a scientific poll even if I did include a dead poll who cares I wanted as much humor in it as possible also if that is trolling then don't vote!  ;D

Astana has been removed from the list of Worst Forum Member of the Year, I remember to see him on the list.

I believe Astana was moved in and out a couple of times.

Also a mid-week [bump]  the votes are close ! so keep voting!

Nice idea and the site works well.  Thanks for doing this.  I just sent a wee bit to the fund.

bitcoinbetas wins the award for running the most successful scam

Thanks and you're welcome. If you did send some bitcents lemme know I didn't see it arrive.

I can see why you are 2nd place for worst forum member  :P Looks like the only winning around here will be you!

Yep, I sent .2 from

1HuRS5U9Lg31hmmVUsYJkcPcUgxHY7v6dQ (Instawallet) to
19EMfcpF36uXzQtuDBFaL4dYnqdm5fcMmM.

Hope you get them.

Thanks Alphonso. I see it now for some reason it wasn't showing up on the Donation total strange stuff. Thanks again!

LAST DAY TO VOTE! http://bitcoinawards.bitcoinbetas.com/

Why no love for Mt.Red on the pools award?  : (

:(

I know what OP was trying to do and I truly commend them for it. Unfortunately, as could be expected  with a forum newbie trying to organize an awards ceremony based on historical data that only a veteran user would know from experience, this poll has turned out unimpressive to say the least.

Under normal circumstances I would just troll the OP, push them to correct their mistakes, and offer my assistance privately, but in this special case that the OP has refused to correct course I have decided to step up.

Feel free to continue to participate freely, but let it be known that BitTalk.TV is hosting our own awards ceremony that will be broadcast on BitTalk.TV announcing the winners. We are in no rush to hurry and for this reason we will allow a full two weeks for entries.

Since this particular award thread seems to more focused on giving away bitcoins to anyone willing to participate than actually doing a good job creating a fair contest, we will focus on rewarding individuals the proper way.

To combat cheating, add value to the votes, raise money for charity, and ensure that only serious bitcoiners are participating in the contest as contestants or voters, a microtransaction will to a specified bitcoin address will be necessary. This amount will differ slightly for those nominating themselves.

All finalists of the BitTalk.TV Best of 2011 contest in each category will:

1) be published in the BitTalk.TV magazine's January issue;
2) be broadcast in a special presentation on BitTalk.tv;
3) receive a free year subscription to the BitTalk.TV magazine (est. $30 value)
4) receive a FREE casascius coin in the mail!

The categories will be soft-listed on the official forum thread. Feel free to petition for additional categories if you believe it is appropriate.

Good luck to everyone!





https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56887

Fair enough and good luck. Wait till you get the first person who nominates themselves who you don't agree with ( or better yet everyone doesn't agree with) such as say Buttcoin.org  or something what are you going to do?  My system allowed people to freely nominate as much as  freely erase who they think shouldn't be nominated and at some put "cut it off" or "last man standing" so to speak.

My poll is about as un-biased as you can get and maybe missed/inaccurate on one or two things but rather have that then being a biased based award system like yours is going to turn out to be . To be clear anyone and ample amount of time  to contacted me prior to listing it up to vote if things weren't accurate. In your poll won't allow that.   Just my 2 cents and like I said good luck! ;D

Please vote Buttcoin.org for best blog. Every vote can save a starving puppy in africa.

^^ haha  how is the sale going?

Should have some exciting news next week  ;D

I just realized your in 2nd place LOL   and awesome do let us know ;)  did you put up a "nominee badge" ?

Nope, but I do now!

voted

-=-=-

can anyone point where i can read more about this event:

"Nefario being denied entry to the US after mentioning Bitcoins"

Thanks for the vote Serge!

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/bitcoin_developer_denied_entry_us_confused_customs_agents

brillant good luck buttcoin.org!

edit: I just saw its 1 vote difference in the bitcoin moment of the year award  between the Cosby Hack & Bitcoin trades for $32   lol

thank you

crazy story
whenever i travel i try to carry as little cash as possible too, only once been asked on international flight why i had only couple of hundreds on me, i showed them plastic and that was it, probably would have gotten myself in trouble too for being not too nice if they were to ask how much balance i had on CCs

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2011/07/27/bitcoin-expert-turned-away-by-u-s-customs-over-lack-of-real-money/

It was more about the not having money part, not the bitcoins that caused it.  Customs expects you to have money for your trip, cause if you don't they'll assume you are here to work and not allow you entrance.  

apologies OP for threadjacking, hope you don't mind a little bump )


true, don't know about many other countries, few that i visited didn't care much coming from US. but US is anal about these sort of things (while our borders almost wide open), they need documented assurances that you won't stay after your visa expires and that you have enough money for the trip or that someone can support you here with their financials

Awesome, thanks guys!! 

We owe alot of thanks to our merchants and those who voted for us.  We have a couple hundred merchants using our service and only a small percentage of them are involved in the forum.  Most of them are too busy trying to grow their businesses, which is why they let us do all of the bitcoin processing for them.  But they are excited about bitcoin and the benefits it gives them!

I will print some "WINNER" banners and hang them in our booth at CES.  Maybe it will catch the attention of a reporter walking by, if for some reason Alison doesn't get their attention. :)

Results are in! Thank you everyone who participated and who voted. We will be doing this every year from here on out!


Bit-pay! amazing job congradulations on taking 3 categories!  I look forward to what you show at your both for CES if you could post your pictures that would be great! ;D  maybe with Alison in them? ;)

http://bitcoinawards.bitcoinbetas.com/

where can we see the results?

Serge, I re-opened the pools so you can see the results.

I won, I won!

http://buttcoin.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/ralph-won.png

Me blog bitcoin? That’s unpossible!

http://bitcoinawards.bitcoinbetas.com/small_myaward_logo.jpg Buttcoin.org

If this went down any different, I would have had to reconsider this whole Bitcoin thing all together.   All is right in the world.

Me too. 2011 was buttcoin, hands down. We'll see about 2012!

Btc-e.com !   :)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=57325.0