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

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

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.

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