ANN - 2025 Bitcointalk Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest

[JiiBs]

BITCOINTALK HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST 2025

MY ENTRY

THE CONCEPT
The concept centers on the tradition of Halloween, where Bitcoin is mooned, plant renewable energy sources powering mining machines while, core undead users rise from the grave to drop contents on the forum, run nodes and perform mining tasks.

Phase 1:
Preparation of my pumpkin and concept development



Phase 2:
Carving and Sampling



Phase 3:
Aspects display




Phase 4:
Finale

Thanks for the many lessons from this contest, wishing everyone the very best.

[iBaba]

Bitcointalk Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest - 2025

Final

THE IDEA: My story is that of a Bitcoin that survives cracks and became a treasure inside. So I carved a classic bitcoin logo on the outside then deliberately cracked the pumpkin gently so as to reveal the inner carved ledger of stacked blocks carved one after the other.

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[ThemePen]

BITCOINTALK HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST 2025

Final Submission





WIP

[Ricardo11]

HAPPY BITCOINTALK HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST 2025

[Promocodeudo]

Happy Bitcointalk Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest For 2025

For the love of Bitcoin i decided to join this contest, it's my first trial though.

 
Engraving process




Finished Process

[Taricoins]

BITCOINTALK HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST 2025

Here is my entry

Happy super Halloween 🎃 🎃 👻 👻

[Zackz5000]

HAPPY BITCOINTALK HALLOWEEN PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST 2025.

My first time participating in a pumpkin contest.
My entry

[Agbam]

My Entry
I almost missed this

Never carved before…. Happy Bitcoin Talk Halloween Pumpkin Carving








Last Minute Addition
P/S: I had to eat cooked pumpkin for the first time.

[GiftedMAN]

First time participating in the pumpkin contest, glad to participate this year.

[chigo]

By the way, this is my first participation in this pumpkin contest, happy to be able to join in.

[happybitcoinph]

First time participating in this kind of contest. Not expecting anything, but I just really want to try.

Mini Bitcoin Minion Pumpkin

[ChiBitCTy]

UPDATE

Guys, I want to first off apologize for my lack of being active nearly the entire time of the contest.  I have just gotten back from being overseas for several weeks, and have been dealing with some personal matters that I will not go in to detail on, but the combination of a number of things have led to me being MIA.  What I should have done is appointed someone to help out while I was away/dealing with things. I have not checked this thread or logged in and checked DMs for weeks.  This is not cool and I sincerely apologize.  I will leave a much more complicated full explanation at this.

@Theymos - thanks for posting this in the news per usual, always appreciated!

That said.  I will be starting to go through every post, DM, etc starting now (it's late where I am at so I wont get to a lot of stuff, but will answer all DMs at a min.  

I'm going to make an educated guess there's been some people helping assist with some questions and things of that nature in my absence, having been here long enough, and made so many great connections /friends /forum buddies and members who just help with things in every board because they are just good peoples.  So a thank you ahead of time if this has been the case at all.

VOTING - I am hoping Theymos might be able to lend a hand as he has in the past to help code a more fair voting system (weeding out brand new accounts shill voting and stuff like that, if memory serves me.  If he can not for whatever reason, I will reach out to some Mr Robot friends on here whom might be able to assist in a somewhat similar fashion.  


EXTENSION  - I am going to extend the contest to Nov 3rd 12am Eastern Standard Time (New York time).  I think this is the right thing to do for a number of reasons and will allow for me to get caught up/make replies etc.  I can't see anyone having any issue with this, but if you do, I'm sure you'll let me know lol.

This forum and contest are very special to me and I apologize for absence once again.

Stay tuned for updates (these will be posted in both my reserved post as well as in a new reply to the thread.  Also, I am going to add to the prizes a few physical bitcoin items and try to think of a way to make up for my lack of being around, not sure how, but I'll come up with something.  


That all said - HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE.  I can't wait to dig in to all the cool pumpkin designs I know I'll be seeing here shortly !!!  

[rdluffy]

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EXTENSION  [/color]- I am going to extend the contest to Nov 3rd 12am Eastern Standard Time (New York time).  I think this is the right thing to do for a number of reasons and will allow for me to get caught up/make replies etc.  I can't see anyone having any issue with this, but if you do, I'm sure you'll let me know lol.
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Thanks ChiBitCTy
That would be great
I also had to deal with several things, I ran out of time and I will only be able to make my pumpkin today or tomorrow. I thought I wouldn't be able to enter the contest in time 
It's amazing how every year October ends up being a month of hard work and little time

Congratulations on your efforts to keep the tradition alive 

[leonair]

This is my Pumpkin  
This is my first time participating in a contest. I hope it will create a good memory for me.

 
 

[Ale88]

Carving pumpkings it's not exactly my forte but I love taking part to the forum's contests!

[Unknown Op]

🎃 Happy Bitcointalk BTC Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest 2025🎃

Thank you so much @ChiBitCTy for organizing Pumpkin Carving Contest again this year. This is my second time participating on this Bitcointalk Pumpkin Contest and I joined contest for first time last year. This time, I created Bitcoin pumpkin together with my family members and we really enjoyed to make it. Happy Halloween to all Bitcointalk members and best of luck  

[Ndabagi01]

Bitcointalk Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest

Happy Halloween!!
Thanks for the opportunity to participate in this contest. This is my first time in this wonderful contest and I’ve tried to carved out the best to showcase the beauty of bitcoin on a pumpkin.





Final Work Output:

[Rustam Meraj]

First of all thank you ChiBitCTy for managing this contest.

After that here is my entry.

[AGogi2003]

Happy Bitcointalk Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest 2025

First time participating in the pumpkin contest, am glad to participate this year.

[MaxMueller]

Guy Fawkes would have loved Bitcoin. This year my contribution is dedicated to him.








Happy Halloween everyone.