Sweet. Good luck on making this happen.

I'm pretty sure any attempts to sell alcohol or drugs over the internet through bitcoins would be shut down pretty quickly.

I feel like in the near(ish) future this would be possible. It's a pretty awesome experiment these guys are doing. I would probably just buy a bunch of restaurant gift cards haha.

Go ahead. This thread is interesting.

I like how bitcoin is getting more publicity. Thanks for sharing this.

Sounds like a lot of people here don't live in the states.

that looks really fitting. i like it.

The winner is kuriboh! Congratulations!

For everyone else, you're still potentially eligible for the next drawing on August 28th- see the last line of this post.

Here is how kuriboh was chosen:

Public key (which you saw before) was: shwYphH8AvqYpWIl5hOFdRc2sXQMm3QAvlSB6gK8TUCkyIgSzNF
Private key (you didn't see) was: OY59ZUKz3kt1tZfoyrdKfCNchw6gE53IaMTPhvUq4TcxsvKdArS
Private key hash (you saw before) was: e8d9447adba05fcf35a9021b5cab4fcc9270d0b674d125e5a394113d6affedfc75983ed28d3aef8 af523e736c9ca409545820fdeb62b41d0445e5f68dd888064

The actual seed value for the PRNG (calculated from the above public and private keys, see bitspin.co/about to see how): 403587615

The list of entrants in order of entry:

entrants = ["iANDROID",
 "HollowIP",
 "PurpleTentacle",
 "Jgguy",
 "UserRandom",
 "kuriboh",
 "jets567",
 "flagel8",
 "sevenVII",
 "Alicia90",
 "theDF"]

Code to seed a Mersenne Twister

winning_entrant = Random.new(403587615).rand(0..(entrants.count - 1))

(winning_entrant is "5")

entrants[5] = kuriboh (#6 on the list, but the array is 0-based as described in the intro)


Please read about how we generate seeds on Bitspin.co (all our games are provably fair and work in the same way as this raffle was conducted). Let me know if you'd like clarification on any of this.

I'm going to wait 24 hours before awarding the amount to kuriboh in case anyone contests the result. If you were disqualified, I know it seems harsh, but it would not be fair to the others who actually followed the rules if we were to let you in the drawing.

However... for those of you who were disqualified, you can be eligible for the NEXT drawing (Aug 28th- 1 BTC) if you make 10 new posts in gambling between NOW and one day before the drawing date. Everyone else is still eligible for the 1BTC drawing (even kuriboh), all you have to do is keep the banner in your signature.

I just went through everyone's posts. To be eligible, you should have made at least 20 posts since the start of the promotion (July 20), at least 10 of which should have been in the Gambling sub-forum. Many people were disqualified for not posting enough. Below is the list of finalists.

   iANDROID (yes)
   HollowIP (yes)
   PurpleTentacle (yes)
   Jgguy (yes)
   digit (no- only 7 posts in /gambling)
   JonnySmithers (no- just 3 in /gambling)
   UserRandom (yes)
   kuriboh (yes)
   spurs32 (no- only 19 posts since 7/20, and not enough in /gambling)
   jets567 (yes)
   cornish_will (no- none in /gambling)
   Southpaw0 (no- just 6 in /gambling)
   shark313 (no- just 8 in /gambling)
   r00t$ (no- just 5 in /gambling)
   flagel8 (yes)
   sevenVII (yes)
   Alicia90 (yes)
   theDF (yes)


Finalists:

   iANDROID
   HollowIP
   PurpleTentacle
   Jgguy
   UserRandom
   kuriboh
   jets567
   flagel8
   sevenVII
   Alicia90
   theDF



I'm now going to pick the 2BTC winner from that list using the pre-generated keys. Stay tuned.

Checking everyone's posts now... will announce today's 2BTC winner shortly!

Everyone above has been credited! Good luck!

Don't forget that to be eligible for the MAKE IT RAIN giveaways, you have to play your 0.002 credit Just between you and me, your odds are REALLY good of getting make-it-rained-on if you play

Cheers! Thanks for playing!

Then sign on up and I'll credit your account 0.002 BTC!

You're welcome, good luck!

Nice win