@btcfork 8 November 2020 edited more from that month

Winner draw of 1 BCH The Sphere flipstarter lottery

Congratulations Joey B. Wong and the flipstarter team behind The Sphere. This is the drawing thread for the 1 BCH lottery announced here (see that link for the rules and how the drawing is done). https://read.cash/@btcfork/the-sphere-flipstarter-finish-line-lottery-1-bch-12961f08#lottery-rules There were 58 pledges, and each of them gets an equal chance of winning. It's all provably fair because the rules are published in advance and the winner is picked in a deterministic manner based on the hashes of blocks on the Bitcoin Cash chain. The funds for this lottery winner are still on the address announced in the proof-of-funds post. https://read.cash/@btcfork/post-383a082a The Entrants I've made archived posts of the completed flipstarter, so you can see I'm not leaving anyone out who pledged. https://archive.is/6mwv7 https://web.archive.org/web/20201031234529/https://flipstarter.enter-the-sphere.com/ Since there were some "Anonymous" entrants with the same amount, I've had to give their tickets some more identifying information (so I wrote "the first" if it was the first with that name when read from top down in the final list on the site). Here is the numbered list (we number it from 0 ... 57 due to the way we pick the winner). 0 Anonymous (0.06 BCH the first) 1 Anonymous (0.06 BCH the second) "simpleledger:qqsnhyuyenk2jytqmxmed78nlc34kzsa4vnx9ugn7d" 2 Anonymous 0.04 BCH "simpleledger:qpr4maq6dgeuasr0r7rwawggm0lwk3yzmq4xvsusww" 3 Anonymous 0.11 BCH "simpleledger:qz2v3685upv53xgdfq8l77vlku7qpzqegu0hntj92q" 4 Anonymous chicken 5 Bitcoin Out Loud 6 Colibri from mars 7 DrNums 8 George Donnelly 9 IMightBeAPenguin 10 JT Freeman 11 Jonathan Toomim 12 Lotterrryyyyyy! 13 Marc De Mesel 14 Nanako 15 PJ 16 Pablo Picasho 17 Philippe 18 Reeeeeee 19 RowanSkye "simpleledger:qzdsf8lvulhzctatze39j6rt6z7amyja7v2pzcqlly" 20 RowanSkye#6592/RowanSkie "bitcoincash:qp8zau7932seh3ahpm8jl34dshk4re9a4vr57m3ycw" 21 Rudabega 22 SedonaTV 23 Shadow Of Harbringer 24 Steve 25 Steve 26 Stockleezy 27 Telesfor 28 Telesfor 29 chainxor 30 emergent_reasons 31 imaginary_username 32 jda 33 jonathan#100 34 jscramer 35 kamchii 36 kos 37 lottery_winner 38 lubokkanev 39 lugaxker 40 lugaxker 41 lugaxker 42 lugaxker 43 lugaxker 44 majamalu 45 molecular 46 n00b 47 p0oker 48 spice_trader#44148 49 spice_trader#44148 50 spice_trader#44148 51 spice_trader#44148 52 spice_trader#44148 53 spice_trader#44148 54 spice_trader#44148 55 the lizard people 56 toorik 57 ulfl The Hash of the Block that confirmed the Flipstarter ... is found by looking up the transaction that was produced to pay out the flipstarter, which was transaction `b241375ee4461586e3f41fd6c1727c65eed4ff5a17a6edd8a31eae7bc1e41a31` in block 660673 https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/block/660673 which has the hash: `0000000000000000022727ba0877493e07a5c93b056000a02f556782ac9a7546` We have more than 32 entrants this time, but not quite 64. So the last 6 bits of the hash will be enough. They are: **000110** which in decimal is 6, which gives us our lucky winner:

Colibri from mars! Please get in touch, `Colibri from mars`. Thanks for donating to the flipstarter (I think you did so before this lottery was announced). However, to make sure I don't pay out to the wrong person, I'm going to need to vet that you're really the deserving winner, which means I will need some proof that you are Colibri from mars. It's quite likely the only way I'll be able to do that, is through proof that you control the input address to the pledge you made to the flipstarter. One easy way for you to show that to me, is to sign any message with that address `qqsu6674yrd9fm8y36yek0gvgghpafwzd5dueyd2mg` which funded the 1.57 BCH that you contributed. (ref. https://blockchair.com/bitcoin-cash/address/qqsu6674yrd9fm8y36yek0gvgghpafwzd5dueyd2mg) Hint: you can use Electron Cash's 'Tools -> Sign/Verify Message..' menu option to sign some text like "*This is Colibri from mars, collecting the 1 BCH prize*" or something. Your winnings await! Note: If I can't get a hold of Colibri within 5 days after announcing the winner on various social media, I'll have to proceed according to section 3.4 of the Rules to choose another winner. [sponsors] Colibri from mars image composed from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PIA23140-Mars-InsightLander-Panorama-12092018.jpg Photo by Chris Charles on Unsplash https://unsplash.com/@licole?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText https://unsplash.com/s/photos/colibri?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText