After talking to Kluge I have since decided to lower ticket prices to just 0.05 each which is just over a $30 investment to win something worth over a grand.

Ok, so couple of suggestions I'd like to see in the next release.

1) When viewing categories via admin, if you used an over size image. It resizes fine and looks good on the home page, but you get the big in your face version in admin. What I would like to see in the admin area if the large image resized just like it is on the home page.

2) When viewing the categories tab, everything looks like this: Software Keys (2)

I'd like the see the (?) added to the category "block" on the left side as well.

Times like this I wish I made it self moderated, if you don't see the value of a $60 ticket to win an item worth two grand let alone keep your lude comments to yourself then go see a shrink.

As for the hashing figure, I'm being real about it and not trying to blow smoke up your ass. Just about every machine on the market that's around the 200Gh/s mark is advertised as such with a +/- 10%.

I just chose not to title it that way !

Edit: I even lowered the ticket price to 0.085 BTC so it works out to a lil north of $50 per ticket, either way you still can't really argue with that price and the possibility to win a $2k machine with just one ticket at a cost of just over $50 which depending on ones setup is mined in about 3-5 days if not waaaay sooner like someone who might have like 1Th/s or something.

I've since reworked my math and managed to make my goal still work all be it in a smaller way, that said I am locking this post for the time being.

New per ticket price is 0.1 which at current Coinbase pricing is about $61.60 per ticket, even less if prices continue to drop all be it at a snails pace.

Ok, so the value adds up and yes I sort of went over that in the original post, but even at 0.2 at current BTC value. Thats an entrance fee of about $120 to win a machine with great value.

I have also since created this post trying to get some serious ideas.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=507556.msg5598890#msg5598890

Edit: Fee lowered to 0.1 per ticket !

I said realistic lol but that would be waaaaaay to much work for both me and kluge.

C'mon guys, I'm trying to be serious here to help yes myself, but also someone here win a 180Gh/s Avalon machine.

I edited my original post but what I was asking is what one would value / feel comfortable paying as a per ticket price in BTC.

Also, I'm not trying to value the machine at that, it's more or less explain in the post what I'm after just not in a lot of detail.

As that posts stands in its current format, one has the chance to win the machine for just a 0.2 BTC per ticket price.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=507402.msg5595781#msg5595781

Ok, so at this point in time since the post just went up today it's too early to say what will happen with the raffle but it got me to thinking. That said though, if I do end up having to lower the ticket price to gain interest, at what price would you guys feel comfortable paying per ticket to win the machine ?

Please be realistic about your replies / figures, Ty.

Edit: What I'm asking is what you would value a per ticket price in BTC.

Well, as I said in the original post, I know it adds up to a lot and some may bark at that but it's about what I need for a project.

The matter of fact is that it still comes down to this...

With just one ticket purchase at 0.2, anyone has a chance to win a machine that hashes solidly at a constant if not better 180Gh/s that's currently valued around / slightly north of two grand and with BTC prices slightly dropping. Depending on where prices are at the time of someones bid it's will cost them 0.2 BTC obviously but in real world value, what, $80 - $120 ?

So again, it still works out to a fair deal... I suppose after some time if nothing pans out I may drop the ticket price some but if I do then it would hold steady at not ending before all 50 tickets have been purchased.

As for the hash thing, the modulo thing is geek speak to me but I'll definitely check it out and more than likely use it as a fair means of choosing the winner. FWIW though, say we get to 35 tickets and I decide to call the raffle winner at that time, what would one do to draw a number between 1 and 35 since what you pointed out before would draw a number between 1 & 50 ?

Stupid ?

It wont close before 30 - 35 tickets are sold. At least I'm using Escrow and not coming in as a newb trying to run a raffle. FWIW, you wouldn't say it was stupid if say theymos was running it... but then again you might so who knows.

Also, how is it stupid that I'm running a raffle with tickets at 0.2 ? It's a more than fair ticket price, even kluge agreed with that... not like I'm asking 0.5 BTC a ticket which would be nucking futs.

Also, not gonna happen that way but I'm open to the blockchain idea if someone could explain how it would work against the sold tickets list.

Next time Kluge is on he will reply here with a list of 50 truncated addresses that are to be used for ticket sale thus proving this is a legitimate raffle being backed by his wonderful Escrow service.

Edit: For those of you not too familiar with Kluge but are with TomatoCage and his Escrow service, kluge comes highly recommended by TC as an alternate Escrow service provider !

Ok, so first let me start by saying that Kluge and his Escrow service have agreed to back this and here's how it works.

This is going to be a raffle to win my 180Gh/s Avalon machine. It's going to consist of 50 tickets at just 0.03 BTC each, so if you wanted to say enter twice then you would buy 2 "tickets" at the total cost of 0.06 BTC. So with just one entrance fee from you at just 0.03 BTC you have the chance for an amount that's a lil north or south depending on current pricing of a $20 investment to win a $1k+ machine.

Anyway more to the mechanics, basically how this will work is this...

Assuming you want one ticket at 0.03, you would send your funds to an Escrow address provided by Kluge to which I have a master control list of (addresses already provided to me by Kluge). Upon your completed payment you would be entered in to the list below which I will do a mockup of. Once all tickets have been sold I will use a random number generator to choose the winner, I'll get to how that works in a minute after the mockup.

1. MoreBloodWine TX ID: 12345678asmdf823 (The id of the payment)
2. MoreBloodWine TX ID: 12345678asmdf823 (The id of the payment)
3. TomatoCage TX ID: 9orourtytjyvbrtn
4. Dr. Haribo TX ID: lunib6tnohryu
5. Dr. Haribo TX ID: lunib6tnohryu
6. Dr. Haribo TX ID: lunib6tnohryu
7. Dr. Haribo TX ID: lunib6tnohryu
8. Dr. Haribo TX ID: lunib6tnohryu
9. Dr. Haribo TX ID: lunib6tnohryu

Ok, so above you see the mockup of how the list will work. So upon all 50 tickets being sold I will use a random number generator that will choose a number between 1 & 50. So if say 6 comes up, then the good Doc would be our winner since 6 was one of his numbers.

Now some of you may also be asking, well, what happens if this doesn't pan out or you (me) decide to back out because the machine broke or something. Well the answer to that is very simple, you would all be refunded and Kluge would still be compensated by me for his time in handling all this which includes refunds if applicable.

So ya, that's pretty much it and if any of you have any questions I invite you to please ask them here and I will respond inside of 12-24hrs.

Lastly, if you want to keep the TX id's private that's fine but I will still need it to keep locally here on my desktop. If you want to keep your username / identity private, that's a different matter. That can still be done it would just mean keeping a separate list in my inbox that I would share with Kluge so we both always have the same accurate info. You would just show up in the main list here as "Protected". Upon the winner being chosen though, I will need your full name, address and telephone to coordinate shipping but that will all be handled via PM.

Oh and before I forget, upon a winner being chosen, you will have 72hrs to get back to me after I contact you about winning. Should you not reply after the 72hr mark. Your entrance fee will be considered forfeited and I will go back to the random number generator to choose a new winner. So only bid / buy a ticket if you accept those terms.

Ty & good luck to all entrants !

Ps; You will only be added to the list of registrants after your payment has been verfied by both me and Kluge. Now I don't know what his schedules like but I work from home so can always be here at least once an hr to check in provided I'm not out of the house with family.

List of Participants

1. To be added...
2. To be added...
3. To be added...
4. To be added...
5. To be added...
6. To be added...
7. To be added...
8. To be added...
9. To be added...
10. To be added...
11. To be added...
12. To be added...
13. To be added...
14. To be added...
15. To be added...
16. To be added...
17. To be added...
18. To be added...
19. To be added...
20. To be added...
21. To be added...
22. To be added...
23. To be added...
24. To be added...
25. To be added...
26. To be added...
27. To be added...
28. To be added...
29. To be added...
30. To be added...
31. To be added...
32. To be added...
33. To be added...
34. To be added...
35. To be added...
36. To be added...
37. To be added...
38. To be added...
39. To be added...
40. To be added...
41. To be added...
42. To be added...
43. To be added...
44. To be added...
45. To be added...
46. To be added...
47. To be added...
48. To be added...
49. To be added...
50. To be added...

Lol, I just wish I could have one, I even sent Theymos a message saying I'd pay him a bit of BTC to go in and add one for me but apparently he's to busy to even give me the time of day whether he says hey buddy sure, or piss off and leave me alone.

Ya well unfortunately some people seem to always be having bad days and just get stuck in dickhead mode.

58.27 / 650 = 0.08964615 to eight decimal places

That's what I was after, I've had a very long day and am tired as all hell so please don't take the title to heart and think I'm an idiot which is what I kinda elt you were hintin at with your wording.

Surely you've been so damn tired that you forget simple shit.

In any event, Ty.

Stupid question but, whats the math to figure out how many coins I would need to sell to make say $58.27 if one whole BTC is worth $650 or even something like $587.23 ?

Want to add this equation into an excel sheet for auto calculating.

Ty.

That I don't know, you may have to give me some commands to run in PuTTy and check but this key woulda been encrypted a lon time ago. Ok, not so long but I think late Jan / early Feb.

I also host several websites so it the logs not database specific then chances are it wont have anything in it i I even have the extended logging enabled or w/e it is your talking about, but ya, you might have to walk me through it via PM later.

I probably did without realizing it, as for the bold bit, not to be a dick lol... so free lifetime license on BitShop for me then ;-p

Or at the very least a nice uprade from my 1yr ?


True, I'd rather hold the item since it's limited stock and work on a refund though, either way he's gonna have to sit pissy for a while ;-/

But if you can somehow manage to get that pr key unlocked, feel free to take half as a ty and incentive to try everything under the sun.


Still worth asking but maybe like you said remove the RSA edit thing and if posible, add a quick and easy way to test keys.


Probably lol, if ya like the idea then Git r' Done as Larry would say.

At this point I'd toss you a big fuckin thankyou if you helped me out even though the buyer may want a refund so lets see what happens.

Kinda worried how this will play out if the coins are lost because refunding something I don't have is out of the question and even if it wasn't would be a big loss for me, even though the same could be said for the buyer.

Is there any other way to manage encrypt and decrypt without keys that could wrap the empire state building and become potential problems ?

Maybe something like passpharses or w/e ?

Also, I know (really freakin hope) I didn't copy it wrong because I always "cut" when doing things like that (select all, cut / ctrl x) and the box was empty after cutting.

Edit: FWIW, when a pr key is successfully decrypted, if there any way to have a QR code shown for the pr key for things like the blockchain app to scan ?

That's just the thing, pub and priv were saved just fine. When I go to use the decrypt key I get that cipher thing. I got a item sold email from the shop with the address and I can verify the amount on it via blockchain. It's just what I suspect is the private key for that address wont decrypt.

I've since replaced the keys and did a test sale, worked out fine. So future sales should be ok. but my first ale ever seems to be locked and it's not for a small amount either lol

Edit: It's a long shot but at this point a hale mary is all I have, can I PM you all the info ?