Something else that just came into my mind is newbies - a lot of people just makes plenty of new accounts for giveaways. Most are made just while the giveaway is going. Maybe you need to think about this too.
A Jr. Member+ which can prove his account (signed message) could do, but maybe it's overkill...


Back to "how to chose the winner".

Random generator is the easiest way, however not the best, because on a site like random.org you can just press generate until you get the number you want - which was assigned to another account of yours or to a friend. So it's abusable by the op.

I've seen at some point right here - quite long time ago and I don't have a great memory for details - some lottery where the winner was picked based on the hash of the first block found after some date/time.
For a hash like 00000000000000000cfaec129ec542a790b38efaf279a86e4c0f2f51542ecb37 the lucky numbers were something like 12, 29, 54, 42, ... (based on the 2 digit numbers and the letters were separators?). Maybe somebody remembers that or has a good way to find it.

Of course, this can become over complicate too and since you don't seem to ask for anything "in return", simple random.org may be just fine and people will just have to trust you.

All that Tsirpas did was blah-blah-blah. We'll see in 2 days what they will propose now to EU written down on paper. But I don't have much of expectations.
Then EU will again ask for a better paper and we are again at square 0.
There will be a few more iterations until they make a deal.

And meanwhile EUR and the stocks are falling.

...and I became Hero Member. Ta-dam!
Should I change my sig now or after the payment?

Technical difficulties my a**. It's clearly the fear.
China is falling, Europe is falling,.. not a great day for trading..... unless you trade Bitcoin, of course  

I think that this should go into https://getmonero.org/getting-started/merchants

First you should stake your BTC address somewhere (edit: a good option is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=996318.0). Make sure it's an address you have full control on (not xapo or such).
And at some point, in case your account is stolen, you want to sell it or.. whatever else you need to prove yourself, you'll have to provide signed message from that address.

Conclusion: just stack your address and you can learn later about signing.

People always love freebies. The giveaway business will surely be good   I really hope that the business that produces money for the freebies will also do good.
Good luck!


The social media is easy to achieve, but if the list of friends use to talk .. something different than English, it may not be much of help...


Uhh... I would advise you to think twice on this. I've seen threads giving out things to "the first one" (usually hashing power on cloud mining) and the result was that a few smarter ones made bots to do the job and normal users never got anything. Of course, it's your business/giveaway, your rules...

Is this a real question? Who wouldn't?
I do want a free xbox one, that's for sure. My kids would love it (and frankly, me too).


But... wouldn't this better placed into games and rounds?

and

UK is playing well between EU and US. They did very good politics with this and they have a strong position "inside" EU without being actual members.
And "if it's not broken, why fix it?"

The only use for it nowadays would be to transfer money out of country.
However, interesting moment to do this, I'd be curious about some usage statistics...

There are the Greeks that have businesses (usually tourism related) which may be to blame only for not paying taxes, but I will not blame them.
And there are the Greeks that found out that "working" inside the budgetary machine means more money and less work. These are the ones which voted for the extremists that promised to protect their way of living.

The result is indeed, some sort of communist dictatorship which is lying them telling it's democracy.

The most vocal greeks are very unhappy to get a little less money and continue to do nothing and you propose to those to.... work?! Really??

Just imagine what will happen if they return to Drahma and its value will drop to 25% within hours....


For current situation I don't really know what will happen with the companies the import food. How will they pay, because the money is not allowed to leave Greece.

From what I've checked it looks like the your only identification is in browser cookie.
That means that normally you will not lose anything. I even did a test with the faucet money. I've lost my alias on browser restart, but not my money.

If you clean your cookies or change browser / computer then, yeah, not good. On other sites if you could password protect the account (and alias), here I didn't see anything for that.

Also, if other tries to use your "secret" url, it's not letting him in. So it's not as unsafe as you would first think.

Count me in again plz

Wow, impressive! I didn't expect that "well used" 2 BTC can do this much.
However, the network "moved on", which is good. Some (known!) time frame for the services to be fixed / improved until the next stress test would be good.

Bit-X has BTC debit card, Xapo has BTC debit card.. they are easy to reach nowadays.

The memebers of Bit-X sig campaign can also get the Bit-X card without the issuing fee.
However, I'd advise you to look for the costs, on any card you want to check out.

The amount is too big to be true. And you know the saying about "too good to be true".
With 2000BTC even the most trusted escrow could run with the money.
You must gather that amount (plus your margin) to actually give that out and it would take enough time for you to play around with the 5-20 BTC you'd actually gather from the ones that'd try this out.