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As a way to celebrate becoming a Legendary Member, I have decided to giveaway 0.0012BTC to two forum members.

The person who guesses the last two digits of the block number of the first block found after July 11, 2021, 5:00 PM UTC will win 0.001BTC. The runner-up will be the person who guesses the last two digits of the block number of the block subsequent to the above block, and will win 0.0002BTC.

Rules:
-You must have received at least 5 merit in the past 120 days from at least 2 distinct forum members
-You must have registered your account prior to July 3, 2021
-Entries are on a first-come, first-serve basis -- if you guess a number that has been guessed by someone else, you can choose a different number
-One slot per person
-You cannot use multiple alt accounts to make multiple entries
-You cannot edit your entry post
-I will compile a list of entries in the below post that will serve as the authoritative list of entries -- in the event of a discrepancy between the below list and actual forum posts, the below list will override actual forum posts
-The winner must post a SegWit bitcoin address

Participants:

01   - xandry
02   - Coin-1
03   - Sterbens
04   - BTCLiz
05   - bullrun2020bro
06   - Timelord2067
07   - Ratimov
08   - mole0815
09   - 1miau
10   - MoparMiningLLC
11   - Mitchell
12   - malevolent
13   - geophphreigh
14   - Danydee
15   - casperBGD
16   - aoluain
17   - DroomieChikito
18   - notblox1
19   -
20   - ChiBitCTy
21   - Harkorede
22   - Lakai01
23   - techearn17
24   - YOSHIE
25   - -Lemming-
26   - nakamura12
27   -
28   - TopTort777
29   -
30   - pakhitheboss
31   - kxwhalexk
32   -
33   -
34   -
35   - hilariousandco
36   - -doubleU-
37   - examplens
38   - igehhh
39   -
40   - khaled0111
41   - DireWolfM14
42   - tweetious
43   - cygan
44   - bct_ail
45   -
46   -
47   - Coin_trader
48   -
49   - $crypto$
50   -
51   -
52   -
53   - bygun
54   -
55   - shahzadafzal
56   - AhmadM
57   - famososMuertos
58   -
59   - FatFork
60   - mprep
61   - icopress
62   -
63   - delfastTions
64   -
65   -
66   - worldofcoins
67   -
68   - my luck
69   - Real-Duke
70   - UserU
71   - GeorgeJohn
72   -
73   - Chato1977
74   -
75   -
76   -
77   - Royse777
78   -
79   - y2j89
80   -
81   - coupable
82   -
83   - haloxon
84   -
85   -
86   - Mbitr
87   - LeGaulois
88   - Buchi-88
89   - Strongkored
90   - ndalliard
91   - Fesatmas
92   -
93   -
94   -
95   - decodx
96   - acroman08
97   - rat03gopoh
98   - Betwrong
99   - shasan
00   - LoyceMobile

Congrats! I should be close to Legendary too, but as they say: "Merit destroyed my life" :P

Can I have number 00? Obviously, I won't join from LoyceV too.

I woukd like to join just for fun. I would like to choose 26.

Congratulation for becoming a legendary member.
I would like to take number 99 if it is available for now. Thanks.

Welcome to Legendary league @PrimeNumber7.
Take me number 37

if i am allowed to participate choose number, please permission to choose number 03  ;)

01

I have added all of you to the list

Good luck!

Congrats, I'd take number 56

Thanks

Hello,
I will take  numbler 21

Thanks,

Give me 77 buddy.

Congratulations to the elite club :-D

14 - Danydee

Thank you, and congrats :D

31-kxwhalexk
Congratulations again, I am lucky to be eligible to participate

I have added all of you to the list!

Good luck!

02

Congrats!!

Nr 53

Congratulations!

Number: 33

Congrats PM7 ..


i will choose 73 please.

Thanks and Good Luck to all.

Congrats!

28 - TopTort777

Congrats!

98

Congratulations!

17

Congrats!!! 💐 🍾

 63

49 - $crypto$

I have added all of you to the list. Good luck!

I'm sorry, but you do not qualify:

Congratulations @PrimeNumber7!

I would like to take the following spot:

#05

Good luck to all other participants! Cheers!

congratz PrimeNumber7 and welcome to da club ;D

43 - cygan

Congratulations!

68 - my luck

Congratulation, i would pick #88

regards

I'll take 60.

Congratulations and thank you for this giveaway.

#36 - -doubleU-

Why change what works ;D. Also, if I win (even the consolation prize), I'll know my new and scientifically proven^©®™ lucky number.

Congratz!

BTCLiz - 4

Happy Legendary, dude  8)

I will pick '66'

08

Thank you very much 8)

11

Well played

#20 Please and thanks... Congrats on Legendary! 

87

Because I know it's the winning number. Nostradamus told me

I have added all of your choices to the list. Good Luck!

I'm sorry, but you don't meet the merit criteria:
If either you or bentoel (who was disqualified for the same reason) is able to get sufficient merit to meet this requirement, I will allow you to make an entry, provided there are spots available.

edit:
I have added you to the list. GL

13
wonderful game.
thanks.
geo

42 - tweetious

thank you !  :)

79 - y2j89


thanks a lot!

09 - 1miau  :)

Nice requirement.  :)

congrats on making Legendary!

I will take "10"

12 – malevolent

Congrats.

Congratulations.

86- Mbitr please

Thanks :)

#47 - Coin_trader

Congratulations!

Congrats on reaching legendary!
I will choose number #40

Congrats on your new status, here is my pick - 15
all the best

69 - Real-Duke

Many thanks and welcome to the Legendary club! 8)

97 pls   canceled (unless you wanne tolerate and still count me),
sorry I missed the requiremetn

and congrats on your achievement

I have added each of you to the list. Good luck!

If you can make a post good enough that someone gives you at least two merit before all spots are filled, you can participate.

Sorry, you don't meet the criteria:
If you can get the necessary number of merit before all spots are filled, you can participate.

41   - DireWolfM14

Congratulations on ranking up your account.  It's been a tumultuous 2 years, I'm sure.  You lucked out with a low activity requirement, I think mine was like 980 or 994, now I don't remember.

congrats on the achievement

90 - ndalliard

Congrats PN7

40 - khaled0111

44 - bct_ail

Congratulations to be a Legendary Member.

I will pick number 02.

I am felicitating you on reaching the maximum rank! 8)

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Yeah, although I believe every experienced forum member can generate a SegWit Bitcoin address. This is not a difficult task. The winner is unlikely to get stuck at this step. :)

I am picking number 18.

Congrats!

I have added all of you to the list. Good luck!

You can choose an alternate number :)

Thanks. I did get a pretty good activity requirement. Assuming the distribution is uniform for the activity requirement, the average is about 902.

35

I hope I can receive 1 more merit before all spots are taken :P
Please don't merit this comment, I'm not begging  :)

I'll pick 06 thank you.

I've earned twenty-four merits in just the last thirty days alone, so that should qualify me for a spot in the competition...
Good-luck to all entrants.

I select 71

Congratulations PN7

I will pick number 81

I'll pick 96

Congrats on your achievement!

I will pick number 89

thanks and congrats for your achievment.

22 - Lakai01

Congrats and thx for the awesome raffle :)

Congratulations sir PN7
You deserve to be a legend

I want to order seat no 91

Number 38

congratz, I'll pick 11

I would prefer to take number 61.

I see #84 hasn't been taken yet

Update:
It looks as though all spots are not going to be filled as of July 11, 5:00 PM UTC. This is not something I had considered happening.

I am going to stop accepting entries as of July 11, 4:35 PM UTC. If your post is made after this time, it will not be accepted.

My reading of the rules is that if no one correctly guesses the first block found after July 11, 5:00 PM UTC, no one would win the grand prize (ditto for the runner up prize). This is obviously not what I want. As a result, once I stop accepting entries, the first block found after 5 PM UTC on July 11, that someone guessed will be the grand prize winner, and the first person to guess a block after the block awarded to the grand prize winner will get the second place prize.

The above means that you will either get a higher prize than you otherwise would, or you get the same prize you otherwise would.

GL to everyone!

One way to do it is select a block after your cut off - ie if at closing we are block 690250 - then maybe you pick block 690255 - if there is no winner at that time, you go with the next block(s) until a winner is found.

Edit - after reading your post above, I think that might be what you are planning.

Yes, that is another way of saying what I am planning.

I will pick the 1st block after the cutoff time, and if there is no winner, I will pick the next block, and will continue picking the next block until there is a winner.

My goal is to both ensure there is actually a winner and a second-place winner and to do so in a way that is fair and that there are no accusations of any kind of shady back-room dealings, or anything of the sort.

Congratulations!
-/57/-

I have added all of you to the list. Good luck!

I'm sorry, but neither of you meet the requirements:

Congratulations PM7! I'll take 11 if that's okay.

Congratulations!

I want to choose 55 please.

Grats!

Dibs on 70 ;D

Congratulations to: @PrimeNumber7 achievement (Legend)

I try to take: 24

count me pls, requirement met.

97 - rat03gopoh

Congratulations!

I want to choose 23, please.

Well done PrimeNumber7 !!

You have what it takes to become a legendary Member, you managed to
progress from a newbie in about 15 months, thats epic IMO.

So thank you for the competition I would like to choose 16

Congrats PrimeNumber7!

I'll take 59 if it's okay.

Congratulations from me too!

I want to choose 25.

Fingers are crossed  ;D

I have added all of you to the list. Good luck to you all!

I choose 95, please.
Thank you!

I have added you to the list. Good luck!

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Based on my calculations, number 89 is likely to win, although due to the number of empty spaces as of now, number 95 is the most likely to be the grand prize winner.

Participants can choose any open number, however, numbers 92 through 94 have the greatest chances of winning based on the current block number, estimated hash rate, and currently open slots.

Good luck to everyone.

Oh noes, look like I miscalculated. 

Well then, I wish the entries after me all the best! ;D

Hi!
I would like to choose 30.
Thanks.

Being that 690604 was the first block to be found after 5:00 PM UTC the winning number is 04, and the runner-up number is 05.

I ask BTCLiz and bullrun2020bro to each post a SegWit address they can receive their prizes to. I will send your prizes shortly, once you both post your respective addresses.

Thank you to everyone who participated. 

Yipppiiiiii!!! This is nice, thank you very much!

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oooh you use the block number itself?

I thought you would use the block hash itself. that is a lot more random. as when there is a cut off time it is rather easy to guess the block number within a dozen or so - as long as hash rate/diff has remained steady.

either way - awesome give away! and congrats to the winners!

I considered using the block hash, however doing so would result in there either being too few spots (if I only used the last digit), or way too many spots (if I used the last two digits).

Each spot can be guessed by only one person, so while you might be able to correctly guess the block number two hours out, there isn't a guarantee that spot will be unoccupied two hours prior to the cutoff time.

Sent -- 7de445730482f6e42422290f28610c49d103bf12e4c851c50ef07f8946e2007f (https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/7de445730482f6e42422290f28610c49d103bf12e4c851c50ef07f8946e2007f)

Once bullrun2020bro responds to my PM and/or posts his address in this thread, I will send his prize.

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Thank you to everyone who participated. I hope you all had as much fun as I did. I may host another giveaway sometime in the future.

I can agree here and can say it seems to be a very fraudulent giveaway!
It's not completely clear because you haven't given an example how it works and people don't find out easily!!

Not all numbers were equal like it is for selecting a block hash!



Where is it too many spots for last 2 digits? You know very well how giveaways are done!
Most giveaways are using last 2 digits.
Same number from 00 - 99.  ???

for example, using block hash

block 690644 - hash 0000000000000000000b6bb5fbd67c09325db936ec810fed36804f8e2e3a851a   --- 51 is the winner

block 690640 - hash 000000000000000000017b76de930f804b986d3d9551984934c2d90401b193f8  --- 38 is the winner

you do 00 thru 99 = 100 slots last 2 digits (not last two characters) can only be 00 thru 99


still - your giveaway, so you can do it your way. I think some of us just misunderstood - I def would calculated for what block range would have been at end time before picking a number - as it was, I was only 6 off so was still close.

Yes
For guessing block numbers, it's very easy to game just before a block is produced. Each block is 10 minutes - not much of a difference if people know and look up accordingly.

Many participants didn't have an equal chance.

I may consider doing that sometime in the future.

I was also thinking of hosting a giveaway something along the lines of allowing people to enter once per day, and allowing each space to be taken multiple times. The payout for the winner(s) would depend on how many shares they have in the winning number and how many shares were issued for the winning number. At first, each guess would allow the person to have many shares when choosing a number would be little more than a gamble, but over time, each entry would result in the participant fewer shares as guessing the number (or a range) becomes easier with certain assumptions.

As I noted above, you can guess within a range the correct block number, however there isn’t a guarantee that the door will be available if only one person can guess each number.

and that is why using a block hash can be considered more fair. either way it is a great thing you are doing and we all - I am sure - thank you!

Received, thank you!

Oh wow, I'm quite surprised about my 2nd place here. I actually also expected it to be about the block hash.

Since it feels a little bit odd to win that way, please send my BTC to @1miau who is handling a donation campaign for rice farms in the Philippines.

Donation address: 3Cii92orneregUnho24tRerWFEGqVywW2b
Link to the Donation campaign: [Donate] Building rice farms in the Philippines / Funding goal 0.007 BTC (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5334727.msg57116679#msg57116679)

Thanks a lot and good luck on your further journey here on Bitcointalk.

a0af7f52ee3142915548d52ad8168babd124cdc030b0e4e10e3ff03084012b05 (https://btc.com/btc/transaction/a0af7f52ee3142915548d52ad8168babd124cdc030b0e4e10e3ff03084012b05)

I have sent your prize to the requested address.

I apologize to anyone who may have been confused as to the requirements to win. I will be more clear in the future.

Congratulations to both winners.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL ... ^{[Nothing personal, but this is the first time I see someone using such a utopian way of determining the winner during the drawing].}