@btcfork 21 October 2020 edited more from that month

Winner draw of 2 BCH bet.honkhonk.io flipstarter lottery

The Flipstarter has been completed with some time to spare, what a relief! I was thinking I would be left to have to cancel such a lottery for the second time. Thankfully not. So here we go! I'm doing the drawing thread in this post, where anyone can comment to correct me or ask questions. Reminder: These were the lottery rules https://read.cash/@btcfork/the-mitra-flipstarter-finish-line-lottery-10-bch-6a55c65d#lottery-rules Bad news for you is if you didn't already pledge in the Flipstarter, you don't stand a chance of winning the 2 BCH. There's always a next time! **UPDATE: Our winner has been located and has claimed the prize (see comments below this article).** **Congratulations to Anonymous honeyeater!** Archive thread of the completed Flipstarter, with all the names: https://archive.is/nyCC7 34 contributors. Cool. But I gotta exclude my own entries (**btcfork (test)** and **Pledge & Win 2BCH**). That leaves 32 lottery participants. The Flipstarter completion was confirmed by this transaction on the BCH blockchain: `a5fb52a3524ca74405558f8d8c2d777ba9ecebaa9cbf128e39c5d2edb205ff9e` Electron Cash and blockchair fortunately agree, this was confirmed in block 657992 . The hash of that block is https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/block/657992 `000000000000000000650673c8fbc2c17c0b5eb012a6b3db7562bf57647f61a2` We will need that hash later, it's got the bits we crave. Set `export LC_ALL=C` on my Linux terminal... and check: $ locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_US:en LC_CTYPE="C" LC_NUMERIC="C" LC_TIME="C" LC_COLLATE="C" LC_MONETARY="C" LC_MESSAGES="C" LC_PAPER="C" LC_NAME="C" LC_ADDRESS="C" LC_TELEPHONE="C" LC_MEASUREMENT="C" LC_IDENTIFICATION="C" LC_ALL=C Yup, collation is set to "C" as per the rules. Beep bop! Here is our remaining list of names, filtered through the `sort(1)` program in Linux. Anonymous Anonymous grouse Anonymous honeyeater Cheebah_Cheetah EcoTrader George Donnelly Herman Schoenfeld HonkHonk JT Freeman Jerome Powell JesusPiece.cash Marc De Mesel MexicoBCH Mr. Crowley Pablo Picasho Perverse incentive Philippe Please_FUND Pseudo Satoshi Roger Ver SLP 4 LYFE SedonaTV Steve Turbo Kitten arruah bud_fox#48174 gordon_gekko#48174 imaginary_username legal_username molecular spice_trader#44148 theymos Let's get them nice numbers, starting from 0. 0 Anonymous 1 Anonymous grouse 2 Anonymous honeyeater 3 Cheebah_Cheetah 4 EcoTrader 5 George Donnelly 6 Herman Schoenfeld 7 HonkHonk 8 JT Freeman 9 Jerome Powell 10 JesusPiece.cash 11 Marc De Mesel 12 MexicoBCH 13 Mr. Crowley 14 Pablo Picasho 15 Perverse incentive 16 Philippe 17 Please_FUND 18 Pseudo Satoshi 19 Roger Ver 20 SLP 4 LYFE 21 SedonaTV 22 Steve 23 Turbo Kitten 24 arruah 25 bud_fox#48174 26 gordon_gekko#48174 27 imaginary_username 28 legal_username 29 molecular 30 spice_trader#44148 31 theymos Beautiful. The numbers from 0..31 fit neatly into 5 bits, so what we need is the last 5 bits of the block hash to determine our first potential winner. I say potential, because I need to see if they are reachable, otherwise we need to pick another winner according to the rules. https://read.cash/@btcfork/the-mitra-flipstarter-finish-line-lottery-10-bch-6a55c65d#lottery-rules The last byte of the hash is hex a2 which is decimal 162, and binary `1010 0010`. The last 5 bits of that are 00010 , which is decimal ... this is hard ... ok, worked it out. It's 2 in decimal. So our first winning candidate is the very lucky ... 2 Anonymous honeyeater who donated 1.02 BCH (very nice) and has given the SLP address `simpleledger:qz03pfchp0kr9wr3gk63uvzqkvehe3ymgc5ymgnpwz` The hunt for the anonymous honeyeater How do we go about locating the `Anonymous honeyeater` to give him 2 BCH? Presumably he/she/whatever sex a honeyeater has, doesn't want their identity known. Hopefully, no problem! Hopefully, `Anonymous honeyeater` paid attention to the lottery announcement and is listening somewhere on social media. If you are the `Anonymous honeyeater` in question, get in touch below for further KYH (know your honeyeater). All other anonymous honeyeaters, sit this one out, you don't get to win this time! ~~To be continued when we hear from our friend the Anonymous honeyeater, or when further measures to locate him are tried before giving up and selecting a different winner.~~ ~~Until tomorrow!~~ **UPDATE: he has been found (in the comments below). All done, thanks all for playing!** Honeyeater photo: By JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10797034 [sponsors]