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).
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.
The Entrants
I've made archived posts of the completed flipstarter, so you can see I'm not leaving anyone out who pledged.
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
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.
Colibri from mars image composed from:
Damn, didn't win yet. But hope when I play the game I win a lot this time, haha!