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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 up and finish and for this reason we will allow a full two weeks for entries.

Since other similar contests seemed 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 to a specified bitcoin address will be necessary.

To ensure a fair contest, no members  of BitTalk Media, including myself, or any individuals directly affiliated with them may claim candidacy. Any nominations for these individuals will be ignored.

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!



To vote for your favorite nominee:

1) Send 0.10BTC to 132kGxDjTyRjYRtsco9p99Y9uznSybskFg

2) Reply to this thread in the following format:



All fees collected less cost of Casascius coins will be donated to the highest voted Bitcoin Charity.

Cool.
But if different people will say that they sent fee from the same address - how will you resolve this ?
By asking them for a private key of this address ?

I think that you should create an address for each nominee and just count the received TXes.
This won't be fair since anyone can send unlimited number of TXes, but at least more sane than wrong fee collection.

hmmm... if two people say they sent from the same address, first one that posted this address gets the votes.

problem solved?

I was thinking the same thing. I hadn't seen any complications in doing it this way but if there are any that anyone spots, please do let me know. I want this to be flawless of course.

Can we please get a category for "Best past SolidCoin troll" so I can win something too for once ;D ?

If that's what the community really wants, but something tells me that Best of 2011 is less about this forum and more about bitcoin. Who knows. I'm an open book.

+1

Best Influence to Bitcoin
Buttcoin.org

I'm slightly confused withe the rules/voting aspect, quoted above. Would you be so kind, Matthew, as to elaborate a tad more? And why the last line in 6pt font?

Overall, I look forward to your awards show. Can you give me an idea when you're planning on broadcasting this episode? I want to make sure my A, E, F, R and T keys are cleaned and readied for action.  ;D

~Bruno~

I'd like to see a category for Best Best of 2011 Contest.

i fucked up and sent two tx, 0.01 and 0.09 from respective addresses 1G11vmcQmbGkUTDpVymyDgVy9QeVbYwEk3 and 1DmwNts2kQxGaEtsVRUV12eGYqQRqa678R

Best Influence to Bitcoin
Ben Bernanke

Best Bitcoin Event
Bruce's NYC Bitcoin Conference

Best Mining Pool
bitcoinpool

Most Helpful Bitcoiner
nanotube

Most Interesting Bitcoin Project
#bitcoin-otc web of trust sorry nano gotta go with PLATO'S BITCOIN ROADTRIP (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4752.0)

Most Inspiring Bitcoin Start-up
Silk Road

Most Deserving Bitcoin Charity
i don't know of any deserving bitcoin charities

Plato you won a category for our Bitcoin Awards: http://bitcoinawards.bitcoinbetas.com/   ;D

Hopefully, I would win! ;)

I think this whole concept needs a reboot. Since I didn't clear this with my colleagues and they seem to think there are both one too many awards efforts in the tiny community to matter, and that it doesn't actually support bitcoin or help bring anyone new into it, I think it might be better to reboot this as a "Most Promising for 2012" awards, or otherwise scrap it altogether.

I love sharing, I love giving away, and I love entertaining people. This entire thread is just the result of thinking we could do a better job but that might have been in vain since the interest from get involved in this kind of awards from most people might just not be there anymore.

Your guys' call. We've got plenty to do at BitTalk.TV to not worry about this, but if you think a "Most Promising of 2012" awards ceremony would be better, I'll reformat to that instead.

does that mean I win by default?

lol touche!   sometimes people think they can solve every problem.

We've been Atlas'd  :D

I'll wait 2 weeks and if nothing happens from this, we'll scrap it and try a different approach that people might be interested in more. Thanks guys!

1AttYpTBxc85tdZAd4weDCupBn97taSSfB
and 18Cdf8CUGLqpuDs7BSupp7twDSCGBtAZBN
gotta love not being able to pick where your coins are sent from  :-\
Best Influence to Bitcoin
Bitcoin Church ( #bitcoin-church on freenode)

Best Bitcoin Event
Prague Bitcoin Conference

Best Mining Pool
Slush(http://mining.bitcoin.cz/ (http://mining.bitcoin.cz/))

Most Helpful Bitcoiner
maged(poor guy puts up with all our shit in the trading section)

Most Interesting Bitcoin Project
bittit.info (http://bittit.info)

Most Inspiring Bitcoin Start-up
bitinstant

Most Deserving Bitcoin Charity
There are no charites directly accepting bitcoins that i am currently aware of

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Because this thread needed a bear.

For now, I reserve the right to edit this post to change my nominations/votes.

My address: (this step was extremely difficult even for me as a bitcoind developer! see below for help)
1MZCuosVctRDu4KnF1Hrh71mK64RTDfukB
Message:
2012-01-10: This address is owned by Luke Dashjr for the purpose of signing his BitTalk.TV Best of 2011 Contest votes.
Signature:
G6sUj+mg22y1m/me8m2FekxvO6/tc+TGLpo0Uo4G4NM1QEvgl4KmJD2mH0XrOJWSZrMqq7aYYd1qOWAVDcrmbQA=

Best Influence to Bitcoin
Mark Karpeles aka MagicalTux
and/or
Daniel Folkinshteyn aka nanotube

Best Bitcoin Event
...

Best Mining Pool
p2pool (I am affiliated with Eligius, but p2pool is clearly better for Bitcoin, even if it can't provide the same level of service as Eligius)

Most Helpful Bitcoiner
...

Most Interesting Bitcoin Project
Tonal Bitcoin (can I nominate/vote for it, even though I created the Bitcoin adaptation? I did not create Tonal, at least...)

Most Inspiring Bitcoin Start-up
...

Most Deserving Bitcoin Charity
...

This hack of a patch will add prevout to 'gettransaction', which you can lookup on Block Explorer even before your transaction confirms, to see your sending address.

I suggest people who can't figure this all out, post your transaction ID ;)

I think 2012 should be done in a year, and 2011 now. :p