ANN - 2025 Bitcointalk Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest

[Jegileman]

Happy Halloween 2025

The inscription on my pumpkin signifies the love and strong need of upholding bitcoin. Bitcoin has shown a strong and bold future from its inception from now, which makes it worth upholding no matter what.

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Happy Halloween once again to everyone.

[Nheer]

                           Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest 2025
                                        Happy Halloween 🎃
Had a free day and decided to test my carving skills if I still got them .
Happy Halloween to everyone.

[Porfirii]

Happy Halloween Guys!! 🎃🎃🎃

Just in time. Sorry for the delay but my cat almost ruined everything

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[Iamgoat]

Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest 2025 (Happy Halloween) 🎃

It's my pleasure to join this wonderful contest, I've not been able to do this till today. Thank you OP for this wonderful opportunity.





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[tread93]

🎃 One BTC to Rule Them All — Bitcoin Halloween 2025 Entry 🎃

“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,  
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.”  
— J.R.R. Tolkien

In honor of the one true coin (and ring!), I carved my Bitcoin pumpkin on this Halloween night —  
which also marks 17 years since Satoshi Nakamoto shared the Bitcoin whitepaper.  

The timing felt perfect: a night of mystery, the birth of an idea,  
and the spirit of HODL glowing bright in orange light. 🧡


🪐 Design Elements  
• Rocket nose — a nod to HODL to the MOON.  
• Crescent-moon eyes — symbolizing Bitcoin’s endless cycles and comebacks with waning and waxing crescents
• Laser-focused coin eye gaze — the eternal BitCOIN stare that sees through every bear market.  
• Inscription: “One BTC to Rule Them All” — because there is no second best.  

One BTC to Rule Them All — forged in orange fire, HODL’d in darkness. 🎃🚀

[ChiBitCTy]

-Update on Voting-

Have spoken with Theymos, he's kindly offered to help with the voting system as we've done in the past.  Copying and pasting most of our convo below describing how voting will work..


I will make the poll per usual as anyone does here on btalk, then when it's over Theymos will post adjusted results with the ineligible votes removed.

For example, this is what was done in the past:

Quote from: ChiBitCTy on November 03, 2022, 03:18:51 AM
IMPORTANT NOTES:
Once the 7 days is up, the voting will end, but the final results will possibly not be the actual tallies/winners until Theymos comes in and implements a few things to make the voting more fair.  Those things are, as stated by Theymos..“ 1) only Member+ votes will count, where copper membership does not on its own count as Member; and 2) users who haven't made a post in the year between the time of this post and 1 year ago will not be counted".

Remember/FYI- contest has been extended through the weekend    

 
Still have a lot to look at but from what I've seen so far has been great.
Stay tuned for updates                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

[OgNasty]

Congratulations to everyone who participated in this Halloween tradition. Surely the fun you had doing so was quite a reward. I hope you got some candy and a few complements along the way. I enjoyed my evening and wish I had a Bitcoin themed pumpkin sitting next to my front door. Perhaps next year.

[JiiBs]

I enjoyed my evening and wish I had a Bitcoin themed pumpkin sitting next to my front door. Perhaps next year.

You could have had mine, right here…, I guess it would have deteriorated before it gets shipped to you maybe, lol…

Surprisingly, the pumpkin I got for this seasons contest is still very okay and have shown very little sign of decay unlike the one I got last year. It’s still very rigid and can be worked on even. That’s rightly a quality I should look out for when getting my pumpkin for this contest.

Although, my choice of pumpkin for this season was design inspired but, the size and thickness this have got meant longevity and I’ll hold on to that note.

[rdluffy]

Thank you for extra time ChiBitCTy

Here's mine 

   
   

[Abdulzuruku01]

Happy Halloween 🎃 2025


Here's my pumpkin carving work.

[ChiBitCTy]

Everyone - great job ! The contest of course now has officially ended. I will be working on gathering everything together, making sure everyone who posted qualifies and then in a few days Theymos and I will put out a poll for voting.

Thanks to those who participated, helped etc! This event is near and dear to me and I love how much everyone else appreciates it! Hopefully next year life won’t be so crazy for me and I’ll have more time to focus on it (I can’t imagine this not being the case).

Stayed tuned for updates shortly !


Edit - one last thing! Try and not waste your pumpkins if possible! Eat your seeds, make soup ( I had pumpkin soup while over seas and it was fantastic!!). I would love to see photos of anyone doing as such!

Cheers

[HelliumZ]

Edit - one last thing! Try and not waste your pumpkins if possible! Eat your seeds, make soup ( I had pumpkin soup while over seas and it was fantastic!!). I would love to see photos of anyone doing as such!
Cheers

You made a good point about pumpkin seeds, which are high in fiber, magnesium, and zinc, which are also high in omega-3s. Many people call pumpkin seeds a superfood based on the nutritional value they contain.
Pumpkin seeds have extraordinary nutritional value and if you know the nutritional value of pumpkin seeds well, then never underestimate them. However, after participating in the competition a long time ago, I didn't throw away the pumpkin seeds, but rather dried them in the sun and made them edible.

[ChiBitCTy]

Edit : apogio generously offered to donate to the prize pots. Thanks for your generous donation!!


100,000 sats to the 1st place,
75,000 sats to the 2nd place,
50,000 sats to the 3rd place

I will work on updating my reserved thread later today. When I say I had 500 emails in my inbox when I got back to work from being over seas, I am not kidding lol.  Anyways thank you everyone for your patience and understanding!!

[taufik123]

Sorry I'm a bit late, but it seems that there is still time and the thread is not locked.
I just finished my pumpkin.

Very busy with IRL and just finished this pumpkin carving,
But hopefully it will still be acceptable even though it's not as good as the others.

Happy Halloween 🎃 2025

Pumpkin Carving using manual engraving tools

 

[coolcoinz]

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The contest was supposed to last until the 31st , but the pumpkin is pretty. Has that horror movie from the 80s vibe to it.

Good job!

[Churchillvv]

Didn’t get to participate this year, been so busy lately to make out time for this but from what i have seen from most participants, some of you should consider art or carving a new career 

It’s really amazing jobs here and there, but some too really need to improve!!!

Anyways congratulations guys, will try next time!! Happy Halloween Bitcointalk!

[Rgram]

Final compilation of entries and list of participants for the pumpkin carving contest 2025

We have a total of № 116 entries.
If I missed your entry or didn’t sample your best interest on the gallery and perhaps came by any error (as this was obviously a ton of work), you could hit me up for updates.

Thanks to the organizers @ChiBitCty @Icopress @apogio for donations.

Forum Edition Halloween Pumpkin Carving Entries 2025

Pumpkin #1	Pumpkin #2	Pumpkin #3	Pumpkin #4
Pumpkin #5	Pumpkin #6	Pumpkin #7	Pumpkin #8
Pumpkin #9	Pumpkin #10	Pumpkin #11	Pumpkin #12
Pumpkin #13	Pumpkin #14	Pumpkin #15	Pumpkin #16
Pumpkin #17	Pumpkin #18	Pumpkin #19	Pumpkin #20
Pumpkin #21	Pumpkin #22	Pumpkin #23	Pumpkin #24
Pumpkin #25	Pumpkin #26	Pumpkin #27	Pumpkin #28
Pumpkin #29	Pumpkin #30	Pumpkin #31	Pumpkin #32
Pumpkin #33	Pumpkin #34	Pumpkin #35	Pumpkin #36
Pumpkin #37	Pumpkin #38	Pumpkin #39	Pumpkin #40
Pumpkin #41	Pumpkin #42	Pumpkin #43	Pumpkin #44
Pumpkin #45	Pumpkin #46	Pumpkin #47	Pumpkin #48
Pumpkin #49	Pumpkin #50	Pumpkin #51	Pumpkin #52

Pumpkin #53	Pumpkin #54	Pumpkin #55	Pumpkin #56
Pumpkin #57	Pumpkin #58	Pumpkin #59	Pumpkin #60
Pumpkin #61	Pumpkin #62	Pumpkin #63	Pumpkin #64
Pumpkin #65	Pumpkin #66	Pumpkin #67	Pumpkin #68
Pumpkin #69	Pumpkin #70	Pumpkin #71	Pumpkin #72
Pumpkin #73	Pumpkin #74	Pumpkin #75	Pumpkin #76
Pumpkin #77	Pumpkin #78	Pumpkin #79	Pumpkin #80
Pumpkin #81	Pumpkin #82	Pumpkin #83	Pumpkin #84
Pumpkin #85	Pumpkin #86	Pumpkin #87	Pumpkin #88
Pumpkin #89	Pumpkin #90	Pumpkin #91	Pumpkin #92
Pumpkin #93	Pumpkin #94	Pumpkin #95	Pumpkin #96
Pumpkin #97	Pumpkin #98	Pumpkin #99	Pumpkin #100
Pumpkin #101	Pumpkin #102	Pumpkin #103	Pumpkin #104
Pumpkin #105	Pumpkin #106	Pumpkin #107	Pumpkin #108
Pumpkin #109	Pumpkin #110	Pumpkin #111	Pumpkin #112
Pumpkin #113	Pumpkin #114	Pumpkin #115	Pumpkin #116

Added up to this point and the contest is declared closed by it’s organizer @ChiBitCty

[Rgram]

List of participants

Key from @aliveNFT with few alterations
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Awesome entries everyone, may the best entry wins.

Updated to this point and

Everyone - great job ! The contest of course now has officially ended.

Stayed tuned for updates shortly !

Edit - one last thing! Try and not waste your pumpkins if possible! Eat your seeds, make soup ( I had pumpkin soup while over seas and it was fantastic!!). I would love to see photos of anyone doing as such!

Cheers

[ChiBitCTy]

What a treat that is @rgram!!!  Definitely worth more merit than you’ve received.

Update : short update - I was involved in a car accident yesterday (I’m fine) so it threw off all my plans for the day.  SO later today I will establish the poll (we run for 7 day, then in which Theymos is going to come in a weed out a certain few type of members , which helps out with people trying to cheat in some way.

I will be posting the poll later today, so stay tuned!

[LOCKACO]

Am I missing something ? Can you participate in the competition twice? Are you confusing this with the push-ups contest?

BITCOIN PUMPKIN CARVING CHALLENGE 2025

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY BITCOINTALK PUMPKIN CARVING CHALLENGE

I noted that as well while computing the images and usernames. At first, I felt it was an alt account at work but, later noted it was the same user with duplicate entries. Had to randomly pick either of the users entry and the second one was my pick.

I was going to update on the users duplicate entries but, since I wasn’t entirely done with updating the name of participants up to that point, I had to hold.

Hope Lockaco takes note of these entries though, I don’t think that to be compliant with the rules to the contest.

please I've taken note of my mistakes, I'm new to the platform, I really appreciate your understanding