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Maybe what you could do though, is if there is no winner from your state lottery, have three others you could check (In a specified written order) to pick the winner from so this contest doesn't run for 3 years  Yeah, I might have to start borrowing numbers from other state or country lotteries. Anyone got a suggestion? I could just rotate it around until someone finally wins (if no one wins this time) Surprisingly, no one wants to play the 0.01BTC lotto so far, prize must be too low for that one  |
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No need to when the state lotto can do it, the results are on the website, removes me from the equation for tampering. Even though I get what you are saying, even if I did it, someone could check the math, etc. I just wanted to make it simple and using the state lotto is easy, plus they keep a long history on their website of past numbers that won.
I do appreciate the suggestion though.
*number picks and jackpot total updated as well*
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OK, I've made a new EXE, this one seems to get me an extra 100-200k (or about 25-50k per core). Difference? I modified the ByteSwap function to operate on 64-bit integers; it does this by using the bswap intrinsic on a 64 bit register followed by rotate right through 32 bits to put the result in the correct order. it also initializes the SHA256 vectors using unsigned 64 bit values (however, the actual hashing still uses 32-bit so I doubt this is making much of a difference) and yes, I did convert the 32 bit numbers to 64 bit correctly (i.e. 0x12345678UL 0xabcdef0UL -> 0xabcdef012345678ULL) if that appears wrong to you, think about how little endian machines store 32 bit integers in memory. anyway, grab it hereI'll give this one a run, the last build would crash randomly after a few hours  |
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Number picks and jackpot total updated.
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OK, I've made a new build of Bitcoin, this one is compiled using the Intel compiler which is considerably more advanced than the standard MS compiler. Please note this build is 64-bit only since I see no reason to compile a build for 32-bit when most 32-bit processors lack the newer SSE instructions anyway. Performance? my MSVC build averages about 2400K for me, this averages 2900K so you're looking at an improvement of about 125k per core or thereabouts although this does come at the cost of a larger EXE, improved performance is worth it in my opinion  My next goal is to see if this PolarSSL SHA256 algo really is faster. for now however, download Bitcoin x64 ICC optimised build hereAwesome, gives a 41% speed boost over the stock binary. My experience so far. Stock = Stock Last x64 Build = 28% speed increase over stock This x64 Build = 41% speed increase over stock Nice stuff! |
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This server just generated another 50 BTC, so now the prize winnings will work different. Basically, 5 BTC to all winners (even if two people pick the same number) Awesome!
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Numbers picked list (Owners hidden for privacy) - 003
- 007
- 011
- 012
- 020
- 023
- 025
- 030
- 042
- 060
- 068
- 091
- 109
- 141
- 150
- 159
- 161
- 181
- 188
- 193
- 214
- 271
- 288
- 300
- 306
- 314
- 317
- 333
- 453
- 468
- 511
- 543
- 555
- 560
- 591
- 599
- 637
- 678
- 744
- 750
- 777
- 905
- 987
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So you're starting a new lotto, with new tickets? Or just continuing on until a number gets drawn, with people keeping their numbers?
New lotto, new tickets just like the state lotto. I thought about just leaving it and continue on, but I looked over the last months winning numbers and even with the list of choices, no one would have won all month, which surprised me given how random the choices look. This being my first lotto, I would hate for it to go on for months with no winner because no one will want to play if no one is winning. That's why I set the next drawing in a few days, and if we still don't have any winners, I might just start using the daily drawing because someone has gotta win at some point or else no one will want to play (or they will just start playing the penny lotto instead since they can buy a ton more numbers for cheaper) |
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Lottos are fun, especially if it doesn't cost much to play. This one is a penny lotto. So those new to BitCoin and visit the https://freebitcoins.appspot.com/ website can give it a few tries. I'm going to duplicate my states pick three lotto. It's easy and straight forward, plus I'll use the results from the actual state lotto for fairness. I'm not going to take a percentage of any winnings, so winner takes all (including all mine if you win). Rules:- Cost to Enter: 0.01 BTC
- What do you pick? Any number between 000 and 999; 000 counts as a number, so does 009, 099, etc
- You can enter as many times as you like for 0.01 BTC each, so you can pick multiple numbers
- The maximum (but not minimum) jackpot will always be 5 BTC, the reason for this; it prevents someone from just buying all the numbers for a guaranteed win. So you make it not feasible to try and game the system.
- Any extra BTC left over after a winner is put into the next jackpot. So if 6 BTC sits in the "bank" (server in this case) and someone wins pick 3, they get 5 BTC and the remaining 1 BTC starts the next pick 3 winner jackpot
- If no one wins, the jackpot will be used to start another new pick 3 and another date (probably just a few days into the future) will be used to pick the next winning number.
- There can be multiple winners, so then the winnings will not be split up. Basically 2 people can win, each collecting 5 BTC
- Your 0.01 BTC and pick number are sent directly to a static IP address:
64.186.154.76 -- This is a server generating BTC every day 24/7/365. Anything it generates on it's own (50 BTC) will also be added to the jackpot for the winner. - Please include either your BTC address or IP Address (if you have a static) along with the number you picked, otherwise I won't know where to send the winner the BTC
- Winning numbers (evening drawing) will be taken from my states official website here so you can check for yourself: http://www.tnlottery.com/
If you can pick up the local broadcast stations here, you can see the drawing live on TV as well.
- No last minute submissions. Our timezone here is (-6:00 CST). No more submissions will be accepted *after* noon (12:00PM -6:00 CST) on the day of the drawing. If you send a coin to the server after that time, I'll return it. If you send a coin with no return address or way to know *who* sent it, it just goes into the winning pot for the next drawing.
Questions are welcome, I'll be glad to answer them here. Winner will be whoever got the lucky pick 3 match with the evening state drawing. Good luck to you all !! Due to the fact that someone could submit a lot of numbers at once at this price, I won't be listing all the *picked* numbers. Feel free to list them voluntarily if you like. But when the day of the drawing takes place, I will make certain to double check the logs to make sure all winners get their prize.If the server generates a 50 BTC amount, then that opens up the ability to have multiple winners get the full 5 BTC prize without having to split it up. If that happens, I'll be sure to update the topic as well. |
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Lottos are fun, especially if it doesn't cost much to play. I'm going to duplicate my states pick three lotto. It's easy and straight forward, plus I'll use the results from the actual state lotto for fairness. I'm not going to take a percentage of any winnings, so winner takes all (including all mine if you win). Rules:- Cost to Enter: 1 BTC
- What do you pick? Any number between 000 and 999; 000 counts as a number, so does 009, 099, etc
- You can enter as many times as you like for 1 BTC each, so you can pick multiple numbers
- The maximum (but not minimum) jackpot will always be 500 BTC, the reason for this; it prevents someone from just buying all the numbers for a guaranteed win. So you make it not feasible to try and game the system.
- Any extra BTC left over after a winner is put into the next jackpot. So if 600 BTC sits in the "bank" (server in this case) and someone wins pick 3, they get 500 BTC and the remaining 100 BTC starts the next pick 3 winner jackpot
- If no one wins, the jackpot will be used to start another new pick 3 and another date (probably just a few days into the future) will be used to pick the next winning number.
- There can be multiple winners, so then the winnings are split up (this also further helps to prevent someone from buying every possible number for a guaranteed win)
- Your 1 BTC and pick number are sent directly to a static IP address: 64.186.155.104 -- This is a server generating BTC every day 24/7/365. Anything it generates on it's own (50 BTC) will also be added to the jackpot for the winner.
- Please include either your BTC address or IP Address (if you have a static) along with the number you picked, otherwise I won't know where to send the winner the BTC
- Winning numbers (evening drawing) will be taken from my states official website here so you can check for yourself: http://www.tnlottery.com/
If you can pick up the local broadcast stations here, you can see the drawing live on TV as well.
- No last minute submissions. Our timezone here is (-6:00 CST). No more submissions will be accepted *after* noon (12:00PM -6:00 CST) on the day of the drawing. If you send a coin to the server after that time, I'll return it. If you send a coin with no return address or way to know *who* sent it, it just goes into the winning pot for the next drawing.
Questions are welcome, I'll be glad to answer them here. Winner will be whoever got the lucky pick 3 match with the evening state drawing. Good luck to you all !! I'll make another after post up a list of all the numbers that were *picked* by those that entered for further verification (just the numbers, not who for privacy reasons) |
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I'll start another topic that will start a new one and this jackpot will be used to start the next lotto. At the same time, I start a separate lotto that is pick 3, but using a smaller jackpot, so those that get 0.05 BC from the free BC site can participate.
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Yes it will, dang, I thought I saw 680 in that list, so I went back over the BitCoin logs to double check every number, but no one picked 680 Someone was close with 683, that's why I thought someone had won. |
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Ok, I just watched them draw the winning number, congratulations to the winner with number 680!!!
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knightmb: Blocks continue to get generated even after all the coins have been "minted". Also, each block varies in size based on how many transactions occur in that span of time, so yours would only be a rough estimate.
Yes, very rough estimate for the all the 21 million coins, so I remember seeing somewhere about how long it would take to generate them all. It put it at least a century into the future, so 350+MB might be small potato 100 years from now for both desktop and mobile devices. |
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Seriously - can someone either shoot this down or acknowledge that there is some validity to it? The block chain is a barrier to many things, new adopters, mobile applications - basically the things that will help BC grow...
New Adopters can be solved with preloaded blocks in the install like I have for download here http://knightmb.dyndns.org/files/bitcoin/Mobile clients would just be "terminals" to servers that are already running the full software that keeps up with the full block chain. No different than a credit card processing gateway. Many solutions to these have already been discussed and others are working on them as I type. |
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just curious,
the blkindex.dat on my pc is currently 28256 kb.
according to bc, the number of blocks=69456.
i'm assuming the blkindex.dat file will continue to grow?
how big is this likely to get.
Take a size reading at a certain block size, wait a few blocks, check the size again, and then some linear math to take a guess at how big it would get. I did that in another thread somewhere on this board, basically came up with a number like 348MB once every coin was generated. |
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Here's a weird question.. has anyone actually generated a block with this faster version?
I have a few machines that used to regularly generate, and since switching to this version -- zip. I know these things are subject to random variation, and it could be a dry spell, and the difficulty is going up, but... could it be a bug?
Yes, about 10 so far. The other "regular" clients acknowledge test Coin transfer between the two, so far it appears good. I also have a packet sniffer running on my test machine and it's basically doing what the other clients do, nothing out of the ordinary so far. |
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It's now past noon time, so I'm going to shut out the server from taking anymore entries so no one submits one by accident, I'm excited about today's drawing, look forward to a big winner(s) today!
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I sent 21 million bitcoins, and I'm still waiting...
ROFL |
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