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Summing up the Bitcointalk Awards 2022 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5422131), I would like to express my gratitude to everyone who took part in the voting, as well as to everyone who supported this initiative. Congratulations to all the winners (we have thirty winners this year) and thank you to everyone who continues to make Bitcointalk better.

Year after year we repeat that public recognition is the most prestigious award, but we also want to give the winners modest prizes sponsored by 🦊 Betnomi and Cryptios. All the winners will be sent some bitcoins and those of you who won first place will receive a Custom Cold Wallet (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5406852.msg61232337#msg61232337) and a collectible item in addition (to everyone who believes that their privacy will not be violated and those in whose countries international delivery works).

• Prize distribution ^{[more details can be found [here] (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/136AP78-ooBgkT84RfnpvaVginJwYPH4l2fL2_pVnaLI/edit?usp=sharing)]}.

• Custom Cold Wallet for 1st place Winners

• Additional Prizes for 1st place Winners

[1] Delivery of Custom Cold Wallets starts after they arrive at MJ.
[2] I want to express my special thanks to GazetaBitcoin, Cyrus & Sorsis as he did a great job for you guys to see the results of the vote.

BTC_Mouse, burugcrypto, PaperWallet, ShafixNero, Popkon6, halim50_, Rbolisna, Atikah92, satoshi, Lauda, asu

hilariousandco, creep_o, HostFat, kano, phantastich, tranthidung, Mitchell, d5000, HagssFIN, stompix, HCP, arulbero, DireWolfM14, EFS, FP91G,
garlonicon, Husna QA, mocacinno, NeuroticFish, NotFuzzyWarm, philipma1957, Pmalek, ranochigo, sabotag3x, Zlatan, albert0bsd, Agbe, Ale88, BitGoba, darxiaomi,
Hispo, m.lov, Porfirii, Queentoshi, RickDeckard, serhack, Skot, turtlecute, Igebotz, Csmiami, alexrossi, conilmionome, Lillominato89, mendace, MindlessElectron,
mole0815, TheBeardedBaby, The Cryptovator, holydarkness, Rizzrack, Timelord2067, $crypto$, Amph, Dave1, duesoldi, FatFork, lucius, ScamViruS, Shasan, Stalker22,
cygan, jack0m, jeremypwr, LegendaryK, xhomer10, CR02, cryptofrka, irfan_pak10, MrCryptHodl, Shahzadafzal, so98nn, Trofo, Yatsan, BADecker, FortuneJack,
larry_vw_1955, MikeJ_NpC, QuestionAuthority, Quickseller, nullius, Lesbian Cow, BitcoinBunny, Disruptivas, Fattcatt, Helena Yu, Majestic_milf, mk4, Sandra_hakeem, womanderful

I would appreciate it if the winners would post their bitcoin addresses here.

I will process payments by Monday (or when I have a complete list)  ;)

LOL.  I didn't even realize the bitcointalk Youtube channel got any votes for Failure of the Year.  Ouch.

A'ight I didn't want votes or to win anything, but I'm no sucker and will gratefully accept my 3rd place win:

bc1qhaxv7dathsjwfpyntfep5rl475cfuygatmu0z4

Congrats to all the winners!  It was a shitty year overall, but at least this contest was some fun.

Congrats to all the winners!!! You all deserved every nomination. Can't wait to see what the next contest brings.

Congratulations to all the winners, this contest never disappoints in bringing the community together, and this one didn't too. Well Done icopress and GazetaBitcoin for the seamless organization of this Bitcointalk award show yet again. Great gesture from the sponsors as well: Betnomi and Cryptios, to add rewards to it. Thank you all.

I know some of the first place winners woudn't accept the physical items they've won for privacy reasons, it is what it is, and as Bitcoiners it is completely understandable, but it is great there's a Bitcoin reward, and of course no problem about privacy violation on that one (part of the reason we love Bitcoin eh ;D). Cheers guys!

Thank you icopress and GazetaBitcoin, last year’s award had the most unbiased voting process since three years. Everything went smoothly. Congratulations to all the winners. Well deserved. I see we have some winners again from the same category as the previous year, maybe we should have an award for two-time bitcointalk award winners  :D

Finally, we can see a list of some of the winners of this bitcointalk community award contest. We appreciate and appreciate what GazetaBitcoin and icopress are doing, as well as the sponsors to support this event.

Once again congrats to the winners the community voted for the nominees by their votes meaning that they are very enthusiastic about this way.

But is this event really going to happen every year?
Just want to know. :D

Great event, nice to see so many different winners! Well deserved to you all and finally jayce takes home the craft master category - can't think of anyone who deserves it more. I bet I don't only speak for myself when I say that a lot of campaigns/promos and similar here on bitcointalk would not run without your amazing graphics jayce.

Thank you to organizers, apologies for not getting my votes in but looking at the totals it would have made no difference.

Please give my winnings to jayce, he deserves it :)

Congrats to all the winners and runners up! I hope we can see some new people in the future because the same names are on there from last years. Maybe a way of not removing votes for these members but only counting 1/2 of a point for each vote? We might get some new members that were runners up and unlucky because of popularity.

Congrats to the other 29 winners!

Thanks @icopress, @GazetaBitcoin, @Cyrus, @Sorsis, Betnomi and Cryptios!

I can't accept the physical prizes, but I'll happily take the BTC: bc1q2yz2gmgt9yz2z0rl2r72tdlfany5uqs397996a :)

This award (really) means a lot to me, and I hope I can find ways to add value to the forum for many years to come. Thanks, everyone!

Wow, great list and I guess it took some effort and time to count all votes.  :D
Congratulations to all winners!

I've presented the result already in our German topic here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5422351.msg61694601#msg61694601) as citb0in from our local board has won a small prize in "Discovery of the year".
Maybe you could correct his name, looks like a small typo in his name:  


Many thanks @icopress and @GazetaBitcoin for managing our 2022 Bitcointalk Community Awards and Betnomi + Cryptios for a very generous sponsorship!
I'm already looking forward to our next round.  :)

Wow, what an interesting surprise. I really didn't expect it.
I have to thank the organizers too @icopress and @GazetaBitcoin for managing this community awards, and sponsors as well. of course, everyone who participated in the vote.

My BTC addy: 3FWdmutJ8pqH9D3VNd7j2BLBUXJv49qZxW
thx.

Congratulations to all that have won in each category and also to the ones that made the second and third place , you are all winners !
As 1miau have written already im happy to read that one of our Local Board ( citb0in ) has made it to the 3rd place in "Discovery of the year"
Saddly it was not possible for me to get a spot in the 2 categories i was nominated , but to be on the List is already a honor and maybe next year i have a chance.

Congrats to @icopress and @GazetaBitcoin for an awesome Contest , i looking forward to next year !

Oh, yeah. I've still got it. Send the prize to 1PSrpqmMzyaPWDLhCyXYKwa1wyYoLV6QQe (bitcoin:1PSrpqmMzyaPWDLhCyXYKwa1wyYoLV6QQe).

https://d.furaffinity.net/art/jungleanimal/1284832581/1284832581.jungleanimal_sexy_rita.png

Congratulations to all the other winners, condolences to all the losers, and thanks to everyone who participated. As always, it was fun!

Congratulations to all the winning participants in this great contest.
All the winners selected by category in my opinion deserve the award. But there was one that made me smile when I saw Foxpup who was selected in the Miss Bitcointalk category. Really interesting.

My appreciation to icopress as the owner of innovation in making this contest.

Hopefully this year (2023) there will be new things that bring a lot of innovation.
Congratulations to everyone.

Regards,
aylabadia05

Oh my goodness, I was close to have a place. Seriously there are no point to have Miss bitcointalk category anymore. We don't know anyone's true gender. A nick is not enough to judge the sex of a user. Hero of Good, Golden Feather, Bitcointalk Ninja, Bitcoin Geek, Discovery of the Year, Craft Master, Antihero, Event of the Year, Fail of the Year are some well deserved categories.

I can imagine it's a lot of work for team GazetaBitcoin and icopress. They deserve applaud, perhaps some recognition too only because hosting the event and volunteering for it.

Overall it's fun to see this event for last few years. Congratulations to the winners.

A BIG THANKS to @icopress and @GazetaBitcoin for organizing, distributing wins and managing something like this. Many thanks also to @1miau, who is doing an exemplary and unrestricted job not only for the German sub-area. Thanks to all supporters and also a thank you to all winners who make a great contribution to enrich the forum qualitatively and help other readers.

Please send my winnings to the address --> bc1qqnrjshpjpypepxvuagatsqqemnyetsmvzqnafh

Thank you.
citb0in

Congratulations to all the winners,you have done so much and have also contributed to see the forum grow in your various ways. The price is a way to encourage you to continue with your good work and your tired less effort in the community is noticed by forum members. Those other people who didn't get a price due to the low vote count, don't be discouraged,you are still recognized and don't be discouraged,maybe next time you might fall in the prize positions.
Keep it up everyone.  @Ico press and @GazetaBitcoin,you the men

Congrats to all the winners! Very well deserved.

And of course a big thank you to @icopress, @GazetaBitcoin, @Cyrus & @Sorsis for the great organization of the event and counting the votes.

I am looking forward to the next round in 2023. These community events are always big fun! Thumbs up!

I am very grateful to everyone who voted for me. The forum has really become a second family for me, and I want to thank everyone who organized this holiday. @icopress and @GazetaBitcoin, my sincere thanks.
I also want to congratulate everyone who won.

I will be grateful if my prize is sent to this address.  bc1q3r73df3p5hjg6urmu3vd2tassk8c88tc4qz8sn


As for the physical prize, if possible, let it go to one of our organizers.
Thanks again!!!

Wow, 3 second prizes :D It instantly reminded me of Seinfeld (https://youtu.be/vAxsAO8Yzf8?t=24) :P

Congratulations too all winners! @fillippone: wear the Golden Feather title with pride :)

bc1qv9gswlk6l0hts3gxf9xrcdvdwg4xreu447xgzd

Thanks guys :)

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Now how am I going to change my personal text?

• Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Three Times Second?
• Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Three Times Almost?
• Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and 2nd HoG, GF and BCTN?

Or should I dwell on the past with:

• Thick-Skinned Gang Leader and Golden Feather 2021?
• Just only Thick-Skinned Gang Leader?

Many thanks to all who participated and made the event possible: Cyrus, GazetaBitcoin, icopress and Sorsis.
(Order is not ranking but alphabetical) :)

Congratulations to all the users mentioned and especially to those who managed to get a top ranking through many votes.

Congratulations to all winners of this competition! You really deserve the awards.  :)

Thanks to everyone who was involved in this competition and organized it so well and invested their time in it. Without all of you, none of this would be possible.  :)

Congratulations LoyceV. I would vote for the last two titles.
You should use of the this two. One world cup is more important than seven ballon d'Or's to Messi.
One World Cup title ended the Messi Vs. Ronaldo Debate. Golden Feather 2021 should be your main priority. That's just my personal opinion. Rest is in your hand. Congratulations to everyone else who won the community awards!

theymos, LoyceV, The Scyptical Chymist, Hhampuz, Jayce, TryNinja, Ratimov, DdмrDdmr, o_e_l_e_o, Fillippone, achow101, JayJuanGee, PowerGlove, n0nce, citboin, GazetaBitcoin, lovesmayfamilis, exemplens, SFR1o, Royse77, JollyGood, Foxpup, suchmoon

I'd also like to congratulate all winners! Chapeau!

I thank to icopress for his determination in (1) creating this event, (2) reiterating it in the second year, no matter the struggles his country faces and (3) managing to hold the event for the third consecutive year! Those who did not create topics with complex BBCodes have no idea how much it takes just to create the topics he created for the contest. Even to modify them takes a lot...

I thank to everybody which was involved by any mean in organizing the event. I also thank to all which showed their support and asked if we need help. Much appreciated!

I thank to all participants and, as a consolation for those which were not able to participate due to eligibility rules I will say this as encouragement: there is enough time to earn 50 merits until next iteration of the event! Bo good forum contributors and I am sure that many of you will be eligible. One example which just comes in my mind now is the case of Gladitorcomeback (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5422131.msg61325247#msg61325247), which had less than 50 merits when he voted (he had 16 merits). Yet, in just two months, when the topic was locked, he managed to earn no less than 62 merits, thus his vote became eligible! See? It's possible!

I also thank to all which came with suggestions and feedback. Their thoughts were very valuable and improved the event from year to year.

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That's an interesting idea. Maybe we can make a nomination for those which succeeded that, like there is a position inside some companies named Honorary Chairman... Like a sign of recognition.


I am very glad to hear that. It means the new (and enforced :p) rules enhanced the process.

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There was a debate inside Discussion topic, from post 368 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5277804.msg61259260#msg61259260) to 423 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5277804.msg61320388#msg61320388):


The outcome was this: absolutely all which offered their feedback were against this idea Oo

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Hopefully :) So far it was held three years in a row :)

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Why is that?  :D

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Thank you for the kind words. One mention though, you should have phrased "team icopress and GazetaBitcoin". icopress made the master plan and he recruited me :p


So now you have two families  ::) And, as BitcoinGirl.Club anticipated (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5277804.msg61322997#msg61322997), now you have even more kids  :D I think you had a premonition when you created your account and you wrote the plural of "family" :) Congrats for the triple winning!

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Looooooooool! I remember that scene, I laughed like crazy!


I think that any choice would suit you well  :D

Congratulations to all the winners! Some great names up there, really glad to see.

I've personally gone for the 'dwell on the past' route already. :P

Edit: Just realized, that I've also won something as 2nd place, thank you so much! bc1qjhuj8hdpeylpndqruts3g7kg0atxwx9p8u679z

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Thanks icopress, GazetaBitcoin and Cyrus for an incredible contest once again! 🏆

Great to see familiar names of the forum on the podium, hope those that didn't make it don't feel left out, making the nomination list says you are special to the forum and worth the mention...all in all congrats to all the winners  8)

And not forgetting the organizers, thanks for making the awards possible and a big shout out to us the voters  ;D

Looking forward to the 2023 edition ;)

You are made in Chinese 😂

Now I know the dirty mind is icopress. 😘

Congratulations for your success team icopress and GazetaBitcoin. There are too many information to suck up, I was not even aware who Sorsis is until I had to search for the name and learnt he is from Betnomi.

No, it's her third, hopefully it's enough to make a football team now 😉

Once again, congratulations to all winners that came out of this event! Not only the community spoke once again but the fact that some winners are the same that last year really shows that winning the prize didn't deter them to continuously give even more to the forum and evolve as an individual, be it in helping others with issues or voicing their opinion in the numerous debates that we have over the year. It's a great sign that we also got some new names in the awards (looking at you PowerGlove), it gives me hope that in the coming years we'll see perhaps a more diversified range of users taking the awards (showing that we are still able to attract users that really want to contribute in a positive and organic way to our forum).

Sadly I didn't took part into the voting section since I wasn't very active in the last year (due to personal reasons), but I intend to take part in the next one! Last but not the least, thank you for the dedication and time put into running this event and also by sponsoring it with extra goodies (looking at you icopress, Cyrus, GazetaBitcoin, Cryptios and Betnomi)!

First of all, thank you icopress, GazetaBitcoin, Cyrus, sorsis, and Cryptios for making this happen for the 3rd time. It definitely encourages people to recognize each other especially to those who contributing much for the forum. And I personally thank you to everyone who supported and voted me, not only for this season, but also in the previous ones. Even if I didn't win, I still feel grateful can be recognized by people here.

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Thank you very much for your support Hhampuz! But even if you win it, I don't mind at all as I'm fully aware of your efforts and innovations as a campaign manager. You often enlightened me with your ideas and your patience is a top level when I got stuck. It's a great pleasure to work with you sir!

And thank you for your generous gesture Hhampuz, but I don't think that I deserve it. You are doing a great work for the forum and you deserve a prize for that ;)

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It really catches my attention too, as it's a super tiring work to create a neat and attractive BBCode thread like what icopress does in all of his threads. And even with the current situation in his country. It simply shows us that he loves bitcointalk that huge. And you also did a great work with him for creating this event. Thank you to both of you!

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And finally this is my bitcoin address;  bc1q7sjnm6u8h92cvl6a9lufpgke27a6wfg5sy9naj

WoW!
Thank you very much for everyone who voted for me for the Golden Feather Category, and as well to anyone who voted for me on other categories!
Such a great event this year, little drama, much fun.



I am humbled by the amount of votes I received.
I am taking the title with much pride, but above all I confirm my intention to go on with the role: you can continue to look at me as someone always available to listen and hopefully able to give you good ideas, with trust and wisdom.
In addition to that, I like the avatar, as it is the most resembling to my physical appearance!

Congratulations to all the other winners, and a big thank you to the organizers, @GazetaBitcoin, @Cyrus and everyone involved in this contest. Of course the sponsors as well.

Updating the personal text.
See you next year!

great all of them
I thank those who voted for me (they certainly made a mistake in giving me the vote, it fits! I'm just a funny guy)

Thanks also to whoever organizes this event, I must say it's very funny

a compliment to fillippone this boy has come a long way
I remember when he was a newbie and in need of pampering and attention

now he has entered the world of the white rabbit and has himself become the snow white one

Many thanks to icopress and the rest of the team for another successful year!

And many thanks to the community for honoring me once again with the Bitcoin Geek award for the third year in a row! I humbly accept of course, albeit with the same reservations (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5390008.msg59654375#msg59654375) I've had the last two years. What can I say? I just like talking about bitcoin. :)

I will PM icopress with my address.

As compared from the previous year's result, I am now well aware of the of the place I got on this year's community awards  :D

And of course thank you to those who voted me as Craft Master as well as to those who appreciates my artwork submissions in various bitcointalk art contest. Appreciated it a lot.

Many thanks to organizers @GazetaBitcoin, @Cyrus and everyone involved in this event! You guys just gave me another reason to continue creating masterpieces  :D

https://i.postimg.cc/yNdXPFsX/image.png

This category was interesting, congrats R + J

It's nice to know who the winner is, and congratulate all of you.

Several nominations were still won by the same users as last year, but several other nominations were won by new users. @PowerGlove won this year's discovery, he really deserves it and this user has been quite helpful for forum. I was surprised that @LoyceV didn't win any nominations in first place, but he did win 3 different nominations in second place. Likewise with @lovesmayfamilis.

LOL.  That brings me back big time.  And hey, this is kind of like poker; three 2nd place wins is better than one 1st place win--and certainly better than my hand (though I'm still grateful for the votes that were dealt to me). 

That's funny, because I didn't realize there was a bitcoin prize.  Maybe there should be a category next year along the lines of "shortest attention span" or "details ignoramus", in which case I would have to come in first place with little competition. 

Hear, hear.  You might think my enthusiasm for the contest was muted at best based on what I posted in this thread, but things like this and other contests on the forum are great morale boosters and motivators for members who perhaps haven't been here that long or who don't participate that much.  If you consider the forum as a whole to be one big community, it's an honor just to get some votes in any of the categories, you know?

Yes definitely.
Shows that you do everything (or at least some) right 8)
Always find initiatives and such events entertaining and enjoy watching them.




Even without winning anything ;D

Congrats to the winners. Well deserved!

What about having a custom title for the winners? It doesn't take much time for theymos to add them. People will see Golden Feather 2021, 2022 and thus, more people will know about the yearly contest too.
I think we can create a petition thread to convince theymos that Bitcointalk Community awards winner should have a custom title.
Thoughts?

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks icopress and all your helpers for completing one more Bitcointalk Community Awards.
LoyceV and lovesmayfamilis smashed everyone else with winning rewards in three different categories, but I think it was well deserved.
My suggestion for next year is to make few changes, maybe we could have randomly selected winners for stuff like hardware wallets and collectibles.

New categories to consider:
- Peacemaker
- Troublemaker
- Drama Queen

EDIT:
- Reporter

Congratulations to all those nominated, and even more so to those in the category podiums.

@GazetaBitcoin, do you happen to have the total count of valid voters ?

I'm presuming it's in the 250-300 range. I wanted to get an idea of the percentage of potential voters that cast their vote, out of the potential pool. I didn't make any sort of count at the end of the voting period, but if I look at it today, in order to get a rough idea of the potential pool, there are 2.825 accounts with 50 or above earned Merits. In practical terms though, 1.723 have been active since November 2022, which seems more like the potential pool's practical upper limit.

Note 1:
BTC address: bc1qlc0l83fhrafxuae3rv87uyghczjm4j4y78x976

Note 2:
As I stated on my local board at some point, being just a thought, it could be interesting to consider something related to local boards in future events.

This is a very nice idea, as I think local boards are the core of this forum.

Of course, it would be very difficult to have meaningful voting, as every local board is a different island, and of course, we want to prevent the local hero merit source from winning the competition.

Wow wow!! Is that a back to back ninja award? Does that mean I can finally buy a katana and graduate as a real ninja? :o

Thank you everyone for voting for me. A few years ago I couldn’t imagine being known and remembered by so many people. As a developer since I was little, I always dreamt of coding stuff people actually used on a daily basis, so I’m very glad to be making a difference. Every short userscript someone installs, every notification my bot sends is a reason for me to keep working on them (and more).

Thank you! ;D

Also, is it right that I’ve won a Ledger? Mine broke a few months ago and I was just postponing on buying a new one. And a new X model? :o

Thank you icopress for running this very well done contest, as always. I wouldn’t be able to pull off 10% of what you’re doing. And thank you Betnomi and Cryptios for the very generous prizes!


edit: btc addr
bc1qdhlrf9fq4cz65mzync6ama9gvlzwrpthyl6zs5

Let's see some more competition for the spambuster next year ;). Congratulations to everyone that was a nominee of course.

Could easily be done with the permission of Icopress & co to elect certain prominent users of the local sections. There will be less work to do since there won't be as many users voting, and at least you'll get more tightly knitted users voting for their stand out users each year. Plus, you could potentially narrow down some of the categories to make it better fit. That way, they could vote on their local community awards, and the main one without too many issues. Otherwise, some users who predominately post within their local section will never have a chance, despite potentially being a great candidate for a vote.

Congrats to the other winners! I'm touched that so many people went out of their way to vote for me.

I decline any prize. Please reassign it to someone else, donate the value to Evidence Action (https://www.evidenceaction.org/donate/), or keep it.

Thanks for organizing this, icopress!

Congrats to all winners and thank you to those active users (it's already mentioned who are they) who organized this contest.
I'm now thinking about what will be the next contest this year.

Well said and I just want to thank them.
It's been my honor they voted for me for that category.

Winning Event of the Year is pretty cool and I appreciate everyone who participated.  Very appreciative for the help Theymos and Cyrus provided me with, as well as all the users who helped keep things in line, helped with the pictures etc.  You all were a huge help and I can't thank you enough. I think I will be running it again next year if there's interest.

I see I'm on the wall of shame for meriting someone's post lol. I do apologize, I read the rules but quickly.  Obviously MinerJones and I don't need merit, I was just appreciative of him listing me as a scambuster.  But again sorry about that Icopress ( I know you know it wasn't merit farming or whatever but rules are rules).

I would do it quite the other way round. If there's a previously winning member in the Top 3 in the respective category, I would give an award to place number 4 as well + spilt the BTC prize money between the previous winner and the runner up.
For example, votes have been counted as following:

- CryptoLion (45)
- CryptoShark (41)
- CryptoDolphin (21)
- CryptoFish (18)
- CryptoLOL (11)
- CryptoROFL (7)

But CryptoLion has been a winner previously in the same category. Now, CryptoFish would also win an award (as runner up) and prizes are split between CryptoLion and CryptoFish evenly.
If CryptoShark has been a winner previously in the same category as well, same procedure applies and CryptoLOL will also win an award + prize money is split between CryptoShark and CryptoLOL evenly.

Such a solution would make it more fair to reward more members.  :)

I'm not entirely sure about that. More members, sure - more fair, I don't know.

For instance, let's take SpamBuster category and assume it is objectively ranked by most successful (true positives) spam reports.
Assume it is 2022; UserA reported 1000 posts in the year, and UserB (ranked second) reported 100 posts, everyone else under 100 posts. UserA wins the category and takes home first place.
Let's say in 2023, the numbers are exactly the same. UserA again reported 1000 posts and the next best user only reported 100. So UserA did the exact same job, and everyone else performed exactly the same, too. Now, only because this is the second year, UserA will have to share their prize, even though nothing changed.

By knowing about this rule, UserA may be discouraged from reporting 1000 posts again, since they could just as well aim for second (or lower) spot instead with much less work involved.
I'm all about encouraging instead of discouraging, so therefore I lean against such a solution.

I am pretty sure that we discussed such ideas at length in the [Discussion] thread, in fall of 2022.

That's a cool idea!

Although, I think it would be even nicer to add a BCA forum badge with the specific award(s) in the tooltip, like this:

https://imgvb.com/images/2023/02/03/e6d79855ca4edc7fdd5043fdbe7dba88.png

Edit: Some people may want to opt out of wearing these badges, but with so few eligible that could easily be handled over PM.

Congratulations to all the winners. I also want to appreciate the sponsors (Betnomi) and the organizers (Icopress and others). It's not easy to properly organize events and get the desired results. Last year the world had some natural disasters such as flooding, famine, war, and others. And some members went out of their way to give support to some of these victims. I think this selflessness should be recognized by the forum. I am suggesting that an award section be created to recognize such selfless service.

Congratulations to all the winners in each of the different categories of this annual awards.
The sponsors, organizers and all the users involved in this awards are absolutely amazing. I don't know if they have selected the users by the right category but it doesn't really matter anymore as we have got the winner.

There aren't lot of new users winning nominations, it's still being won by most of the old users who were last year's award winners too. But for whatever reason, it must be special to keep it for different years.

Very nice idea, and I guess easily doable (not expert about SMF here).
Or maybe next year the award could include a customized badge for each category.

It's all doable with a mere plugin. Install, upload the icons, and assign to the profiles that match the condition/ criterion. :)

If it's not a secret how exactly your ledger hardware wallet broke exactly?
Was it physical damage, problem with display or some other kind of software and hardware problem?

How about creating next year category for people who are making most good reports to moderators?
This could increase number of reports all around the forum, it will make everything cleaner, and people will have a bit more motivation to do it.
Category name could be something like Best Reporter.

Congratulations to all the winners, this contest was really nice and cute.
A round of applause to my Filipino compatriot and thank you for letting us participate in this contest
and also thanks to those who organized it and to the sponsors

This sounds nice and, if I remember well, this was discussed as a possible prize for first edition of the contest but, for some reason, this prize could not be implemented back then.


On the other hand, maybe theymos would listen to vox populi, in case such a petiotion would be signed by many users. Who knows? Feel free to try :)

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Thank you for these suggestions :) Would you like to elaborate a bit more about the new categories? I mean to say a few words about their description or what type of users would fit in each category...? Maybe give some examples that cross your mind right now, together with some links to topics showing why X can be considered Peacemaker, why Y can be considered Troublemaker or why Z can be considered Drama Queen? This may be helpful.

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We had 141 eligible voters.


Would you like to elaborate a bit on the subject? What do you have in mind? :)

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Please don't take it this way, don't feel bad about it. I just had to mention the out of the ordinary situations too. (Otherwise maybe I was questioned if I closed my eyes at rule-breaking cases :)). Seriously, there was no intention to make you feel like being placed at the wall of shame. You are a very good scam buster!


Relax, I am certain that nobody would ever think about you as a merit farmer, lol. However, it's important to read rules carefully.

I'm ashamed to admit that I didn't participate ^{[my plan was to reveal my votes in the last few days of the event to minimize its influence on others, but for some reason, I forgot]}, but I'd still like to thank icopress, GazetaBitcoin, Cyrus ^[Cryptios], Sorsis ^[Betnomi] and everyone who voted/participated for forming this year's colorful event :)
^{- Congratulations to the other 23 winners :)}

bc1q2chccnvmcq3uzj9kkjez38lmnx8fad03mq4vmt
^{- Thank you :)}

I dropped water on it. :P

(Not in a boat trip)

But I already wanted to buy a new one even before that. The buttons were all messed up already after a few years of daily use.

I mean it's obvious if you look at the names I suggested and there is no need for writing big explanations, my idea was just to freshen up next year competition.

Don't throw it away in garbage, maybe you could use it later for spear parts.
Believe it or not, almost all hardware wallets that exist today are not water resistant, so better be careful with new device you purchase, or keep in some case or bag.
Only device I know that claims it will be water resistant is upcoming 1inch hardware wallet, but I hope others will soon follow that practice.

Wait, there was no troll of the year? Add it for the new year, prize should be a perma ban.😂

Oh man nicely hosted competition here!
Congratulation to all the winners and a big heart to those who did not win but its never the last competition.

Wow, I think we should have more awareness about the Bitcointalk Community Awards though I have seen it flashing on the top tab then also I only got engaged few times with it.

However, considering the volume of the members we have on this forum, it should be even grand than this.

Still, loving the energy here and those different characters and awards are just cool. Add more categories, may be we can have more participants soon.

By the way I am seeing all the names in the winning list which are always there whenever I am opening the forum everyday! Definitely worth it.

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Definitely worth coding it! :)

The professionalism and respect for each other is the most beautiful gift to us, especially to me, shown by the winners of this event.
Although I have already congratulated all the winners, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate you all a second time. We look forward to new breakthroughs for the betterment of the forum.

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I can only imagine how grand this event would have been if it had been held in a large, well-decorated building complete with dazzling lights. When dominators from all over the world gather, sitting close to each other at the round tables provided while waiting for the announcement of each nomination facilitated by the moderator of this event while chatting lightly and occasionally laughing out loud.

It's bound to be a great annual party.
The excitement of our event is likely to outshine other events such as the Ballon d'Or or other major events.

Thanks. That’s lower than I’d have thought in relation to the roughly, let’s say, 1.723 Active members since November (rough upper limit of potential voters) -> just over 8% potential in practice voter participation.

It probably needs a bit of common brainstorming, but the desired effect would be to have local boards gain some visibility in the event (though laterally they already have some through some of the nominees).

Something along the like of best local board asset (within each local board) or best local board newbie/comeback. The idea would be to highlight those that contribute in a very meaningful manner to potentiate their local board through content, aid, knowledge or alike.

Since there are currently 22 local boards, I figure there won’t be 22 new subcategories (one per local board) under the Local Board Asset category. Bearing that in mind, and that some of the local boards are pretty much flat, perhaps the participating local boards have to have some requirements (i.e. number of active members, posts, minimum number of valid votes, and so forth).

Now it’s true that Merit Sources could have some kind advantage there as  fillippone  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5437673.msg61699134#msg61699134) hinted, though it should not be a factor people should mindfully consider as a core aspect that defines an asset to their local board. If that’s a conceptual issue, just add "new" as a prefix to the category to delimit the scope of nominees to new accounts for the given year.

I take this opportunity to share some more interesting and funny facts I noticed during voting period. I hope you'll all enjoy!  :D

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• Most united local board: Italian, by far. In my opinion, the greatest brotherhood can be found inside Italian board. This is because their members voted mostly for other Italian members, encouraging each other. I observed such behavior inside German board, for example, but Italians seems to be the ones best at supporting their people. Respect to that!

• Most weird / creepy vote:

• An interesting debate: Sarah Azhari trying to convince yahoo62278 that he may be a girl :)

yahoo62278 seemed to take this possibility seriously, thus he made some plans in case he'd actually find out that he is a girl:

• Most philosophic explanation for Antihero category:

• The sad user:

• An interesting suggestion:

• The new discovered girl:

5Ksana_HandMade (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2555471). As far as I know, this user has never been nominated before.

• Sexism against men:

• Insights about The Sceptical Chymist's cloths + trolling theymos:

• A very aesthetic vote:

https://i.ibb.co/T4pkMgV/Lqqbwaa.png

• Funniest vote:

• The man closest to win at Miss BitcoinTalk category:

BitcoinGirl.Club ended up on fourth place, at one vote distance from third place  ::)

https://i.ibb.co/85bz1jB/Jq9WH41.png

• Another interesting debate:

BlackHatCoiner trying to convince o_e_l_e_o that he is a man

• The endless debate about our Supreme Leader's gender:

(Note: these are just a few examples, but the discussion lasts for years now  ;D)



Guys, those of you which are so curious should know that our dear fillippone made a comprehensive list (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5121375.msg53966080#msg53966080) with possible genders of Foxpup :)

I take a lot of pride in this. We acted like a real community, not for the benefit of one, but in the main interest of the board as a whole.
There were not an act of coordination, but each member acted similarly by their own mind.

What a place bitcointalk became? You are not safe at all. I would need to have a surgery to prove that these members were not wrong about my sex 🤣
Who had this 13 inch dick?

I'm also all about encouraging instead of discouraging but I don't see how my suggestion would be discouraging members to report rule-breaking content and low-value post. The winner would still win quite a nice amount of valuable BTC for his reporting, something that didn't exist in previous years (before Bitcointalk had such yearly rewards) and even back then, we had quite some good reporters.
I could even argue, that implementing my suggestion would encourage more members to report spam because it's more likely for more members to get a part of the BTC-rewards cake.

because maybe my frequency life always got women as manager company, and feel that yahoo is women. Same as today, I really feel Royse777 is a woman also.

Congratulations to all winners! It was certainly deserved and this forum without you was not the same!

Congratulations to the entire organization of this giveaway, it was not an easy task to gather and compile all the information.

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@GazetaBitcoin
You did an amazing job, even compiling interesting facts from the poll. Thanks.

Another point was that you listed all those who received at least 3 votes, regardless of category.
It ended up meeting what I had commented on in the other post. Thanks.  ;)

I'm surprised Yahoo didn't win any of the Bitcointalk Community awards.

I was expecting for Yahoo to receive at least second place for the 'Absolute Hero of Good' award, as we all know Theymos deserved to be number one.

Anyway, congratulations to all the winners.

i already know what/who i'm going to vote for in the 'fail of the year' category this year... >:( :-\

There's still the next year friend.
Congratulations to all, maybe I'm late, but looking at the beginning of this post I like the animation created. Maybe it deserves to be an NFT.  ;D

Don't say if you stumbled on the name yahoo on tinder app or somewhere in thailand.

This was a great, event it seems that of 2022 had more effect has compared to previous years. A big thanks to @icopress and @GazetaBitcoin for releasing the result of the nominees and a heartwarming congratulations to the 2022 winners. This is one of the numerous ways the forum standard can be encouraged and trigger more users to be at the best for the next nomination.

It was a pleasure  :D


Hehe, welcome! I am glad you remembered our discussion. And yes, I did it at your suggestion! Thank you for your opinion and also for offering yourself to help! I appreciated that!

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On the other hand, take into account that yahoo62278 was nominated at four categories, which only very few members managed to achieve. Indeed, one of these was "Miss BitcoinTalk" but it is what it is... :) He received 6 nominations at "Craft master" (ninth place), 3 nominations at "BitcoinTalk ninja" (ninth place) and 14 nominations at "Golden feather" (sixth place). And, of course, 3 votes at "Miss BitcoinTalk" (ninth place) -- here he got just one vote less than LoyceV :)

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Loooooooooool!

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Oh boy!

Did you have that feeling only yesterday? Or are you feeling everyday that Royse is a woman? :)

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No, we're not. I said at many times in the past:



What? 13 inches?

https://i.ibb.co/X4HHd6g/nfpf0eY.jpg

These awards started 2-3 years too late for me to have a real chance at winning. I was the top manager on 2017-2019 and now while I still consider myself a top manager, the companies have started hiring other managers.

It's nice to be nominated 😊

In-between the gangs war, I actually forgot to add my address to claim my prize: bc1q82h0kjfyqcv4nmy6ajdnr2wkgm6a5m4k9wfs3n.
Thank you Gazeta!

yes it is true, we are very united because we are not very many and we have known each other for a long time
among other things we try to cooperate with very nice projects like btctalk on telegram by @mendace and the wiki to put stable content on a site

I think it is due to this

Friends, once again I congratulate all the nominees and winners! Below is a list of those who have already received their prizes!

I also want to add that regarding the physical prizes, I will make an announcement when I am ready.  ;)

• https://blockstream.info/tx/bd56e89ecef46a3cfcba5a8179f638d1a447e8448c4e7c6ab1a0ab2390e01094

In addition, acting at his own discretion, the bitcoin prize that was due to Theymos was redirected to yahoo62278 ^{[1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5430104.0)]}.

Well done. Payment received and positive trust feedback posted.
Thank you again and waiting for the announcement on the physical prize!

I hope I'm not late to the party... Congratulations everyone and and special thanks to icopress and GazetaBitcoin and whoever worked on this project.


Yeah Voting and the voting discussion was fun but I love the facts more (because my votes did not win :()... except for Discovery of the Year: PowerGlove


Ahh a relief... Foxpup you better be Miss Bitcointalk now don't disappoint 47 your voters :D

Antihero: Royse777
Are we suppose to congratulate? I mean you got more votes than the Craft Master and Miss Bitcointalk categories.

Fail of the Year: FTX collapse

Ok good for TheBitcoinTalkShow (5) we have chance in 2024 let's do this... I mean bring back the show and lets make it Event of the Year



Wait a minute....

https://i.imgur.com/eDbqoCC.png

But people voted for Absolute Hero of Good.

There's a difference Hero of Good and Absolute Hero of Good ... give the title the man deserves!

https://i.imgur.com/FCdcawj.png

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P.S. It's already Feb 2024... can we start voting for 2024 Bitcointalk Community Awards🏆 :p

Thank you icopress for informing me.

btc address: bc1qk7009f492e6rmx9a054hugfq4zgmk2qppk8d0v

I would want Little Mouse (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2344286) to have the Ledger and rest of it.

Unfortunately, the Custom Cold Wallet and other physical prizes cannot be transferred or exchanged for BTC ^{[physical prizes will be raffled among forum users]}.

It was supposed to be a gift for him because I can not accept it which requires my physical address. If it can not be sent to him then feel free to donate it to anyone.

Cheers,

I'm seeing this just now, the man doesn't believe he was chosen as a winner, this reaction reminds me of Oscars where the winner is really touched when he/ she finds out they voted for him/ her. And the declining part also reminded me of the late great Marlon Brando refusing to accept the award.

Of course it was a great relief! I would need to undergo for a sex change surgery to make it true. Do you see how the place saved my life? 🤣
Flumpnuggets is happy though. She is not going to be a homosexual now 😉

Friends, your prizes are already on their way to you!

• https://blockstream.info/tx/d6b8ff298506eddffbdab15854ffae13c111fef413e62f7e16810c9e8d5a61a7

Thus, only suchmoon's Bitcoins remained unclaimed.  :o

Thanks for the great contest and campaign management (as always 0:))! fillippone's post reminds me I haven't given you positive trust yet.. will be fixed now.

True a very funny contest, we should add some funny category, like clown of the year or meme master of the year
even without any prizes, just to see who makes the funniest memes
what do you think? I think it's a nice idea

I think that means that suchmoon is rejecting his title of Miss Bitcointalk bronze medal winner, and he is officially confirming that he is 100% male.
For next year you must add category for Mister Bitcointalk like someone suggested before. :)
Oh, and what happened with custom hardware wallet rewards that some members didn't want to accept?

Thank you to the sponsors of the Awards and thank you icopress  ;)

Mr Bitcointalk.
Italian stallion is ready to compete.


Even if "Golden Feather" avatar is difficulty relatable to "Italian Stallion".
I guess I have to pick one!

Now I will need to start body building? Do I need to develop the whole body or only everything below both elbows, especially the fingers to do better fingering 😉?

On a second note, why the males were ignored all these years and only had miss bitcointalk? This is a violation of human rights. Is it sueable 🤗?

We've been over this already:


So, are you prepared to do what is necessary to become truly exceptional (while probably becoming a victim of actual human rights violations at the same time) or are you content to remain merely ordinary?

It could be a bonus, but I would not go that far.


You are right about the "below the elbows part", but it's not the fingers. Please read carefully fillippone's post, it contains the parts which should be worked out intensely:

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Lol! I'm curious who you would nominate =)))

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Apparently, our contest determined so much peevishness that some users are plagiarizing even the posts made inside this topic (facepalm).



Apparently, second user forgot to select last four words of CryptoPanda when he performed the copy-paste. Although it seems a simple operation, it's not, as you can see. Copy-paste is very complex and may ruin you sometimes (like in this case).

 ;D ;D ;D obviously  :P

Them mum and dad had sex few months ago. After few months, in the check up, congratulations! You are having a baby. After more few months, earlier today the baby born. Happy birthday! Few hours later the baby is in life support. Mods are about to terminate him it.

Sex change? Flumpnuggets and me are still checking pros and cons 😉

Oh damn. How did I never notice after all these years and all our Foxhole parties!?

I just noticed that the news in the forum that can be seen near your avatar is changed and that's why I am posting here about it. Anyway, congratulations to all who have won which I can say well deserved. I also wonder if there would be new awards on next year or whatever year it is. I think there are other forum members that are fit for same award or should I say similar award (Sub-category I think). I think it's because of Absolute Hero of Good and Hero of Good.

It’s cold and dark down in the foxhole parties. You take no prisoners. Choosing is a luxury not allowed. Predate, or be the pray.

Or just be a switch. ;)

Would like to thank o_e_l_e_o, GazetaBitcoin and LoyceV for nominating me for the Discovery of The Year.  Coincidence, or is Fox's gang closely supervising me?

I first thought this category truly was for discoveries made in the Bitcoin grounds and was even wondering what the heck I even discovered.  Would not have minded knowing I made an actual accidental discovery though!

Thank you to the organizers too.  And my congratulations to each and every winner and nominated users.  I really wish I took my time to look more into this event.  It is never too late however.  This year I will make sure there will be people nominated by me too.

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Regards,
PrivacyG

OMG :o my jaw is on the floor, now I found another reason to be a big contributor on this forum, someday, imagine my name among the winners somewhere in the future.  

https://i.imgur.com/1TATN7B.png

Congrats to all the winners.

That girl, I nominated her.

Another girl I discovered,
still under my consideration at next year's forum awards event. But pls don't ask her to prove what a real girl she is by asking for photos of her recent activities with the baby.  ;D

Who cares if she is a girl or not? No one ask for users identity on this forum so, cool down, the first girl now has a bad feedback on his profile for canceling an auction on a winner, it's not even once but twice, and that is not good.

there are very few girls here
maybe we should color the forum pink for April 1st in order to make it more userfriendy for women and attract them here
then yes it would be fun to elect miss bitcointalk aahah i joke of course

Ahah I noticed that one too.
Donde so sus me, I didn’t even bothered to answer. But I feel someone bite the bait!
We will see then, but as far as I know, there are no female on the forum.

https://i.ibb.co/2WxBpRL/images-1.jpg

You mean this is it?

Amico mio, be very careful, as you are walking on a thin ice here :) Have you seen what happened to poor icopress (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5121375.msg61758769#msg61758769)?  :D

Excepting our Supreme Leader, as she is above and beyond your league (mine too, lol) there are some chances to be some girls around though. Let's see...

For once, I remember that Yatsan made a post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3910520.msg53203693#msg53203693) from which we can elaborate there are more than 90% chances for being a girl. Sadly, there are still 10% chances that those fingernails belong to a man  :D

Then I also remember LoyceV, which switched his mind (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5382917.msg59164775#msg59164775) from


to


Then let's see... We also have


Besides, there also some which you'd never think they are girls :)


Let's not forget that LoyceV was nominated in 2020 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5301470.0) as well at this select category :) (Satoshi too!)

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Digging some more, there are also Helena Yu, SmartGold01, Disruptivas, Fattcatt, Bagiira, Majestic_milf (now that's an interesting name for sure!), mk4, Sandra_hakeem, womanderful, Lesbian Cow, BitcoinBunny, suchmoon, sheenshane, SatoPrincess, 5Ksana_HandMade, Sarah Azhari, TMAN (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=98986) (yes, TMAN, lol!).

Or, why not, BitcoinGirl.Club (as per people's belief (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5437673.msg61708636#msg61708636)  :D) or even yahoo2278 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5437673.msg61714392#msg61714392).

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Having all these said, I think that you'll reconsider your position.

On a second opinion, ignore all I wrote excepting my first sentence. That should be enough for making you change your mind :)

Well, to me no of those you provided above are solid evidence of them being female. Or at least Ono of those I could fall for.

Apart from that, I ignored mk4 was thought to be a female.. you never stop learning.

Have you noticed that users who are really women, don't enter this debate!?

They must be laughing at us! Mainly when we say that a user is not a woman, but in reality he is.

Again, even more simple: female users don't enter the debate, because they do not exist!
And above all, if I ever want to find a female user, I wouldn't like to be found on this forum!

No, we don't enter the debate because debates about our gender always devolve into an barrage of nasty insults, threats of violence, requests for nude pictures, accusations that said nude pictures are fake, etc. Nobody wants to deal with that. :(

I am sorry you have been trough all that. 
There is no point in insulting, threatening violence of even asking for nudes, if you follow my approach.
I guarantee I received many female nude pictures from male users, especially over telegram, especially by scammers....

This is highly reprehensible and regrettable! If anyone on this forum did this to you, or another woman, they should be exposed and banned!  >:(

It's one thing to have a joking, light-hearted debate, it's another thing to be verbally offensive in a subtle way. This is harassment!

I don't think there is anything much to asked her for identity because I know too well that every single user here belong to one local board or the other, so the easiest way to get them sorted out is to locate their local board and converse with their leader or someone who is reputable in there board. Btw SmartGold01 is a Nigerian likewise me as well, meaning brainboss and Igebotz would know more better since they are already DT1. It would lessing the stress to try prove she is really woman as claims.

unfortunately fillippone I have experience of friends who have received really horrendous sentences in chat :D
they obviously made me laugh, but I think if I received them all day I would get angry

so I understand women a little bit

I completely understand why female users are not willing to engage in these scenarios, avoiding to reveal their gender in the first place. This is, by chance, an information not so relevant in a cryptocurrencies-related forum.

Congrats to all the BCA22 winners! And of course thank you to icopress for organizing everything and GazetaBitcoin, Sorsis and everyone else involved for their contribution!
Took the liberty to start a thread detailing the fine art prints that Cryptios offered to sponsor the event. Link here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5440192

Yes, unfortunately there is this bad reputation of us males. If you look at the comments on the profiles of famous women on instagram, they are horrendous.
Ok an "escile" is funny and not too offensive, but other comments are really scary!