As of 2014-02-24 01:00 UTC, 59 MAX have been deposited into the
lottery payment address.
Sr. Member
subSTRATA has
questioned whether or not this is a trustworthy lottery. (Well, actually he called it a "
SCAM", presumably based on the fact that the sponsor is unnecessarily asking us to trust him to conduct the random drawing. He pointed out that the hash of a future MAXcoin block is a good way to conduct a random drawing.)
Lottery sponsor and Jr. Member
zaloultra ignored the suggestion for using the hash of a future block, and replied with "calling it a scam is a bit over the top."
subSTRATA judged, based on the fact that zaloultra ignored the suggestion, that zaloultra is not interested in making the lottery more transparent. He concludes that this makes it a "
confirmed scam."
zaloultra again ignores the substance of the complaint and accuses subSTRATA of "posting lies and untruthful bullshit...."
Subsequent posting degenerate further.
I am sorry but I must agree with subSTRATA, unless zaloultra agrees to the following method of choosing winners, possibly with
justified modifications. This does not change the terms of the lottery, since previously, the method was up to zaloultra, and the drawing date in case the lottery sold out early was ambiguous (the conjunction was "or," not "unless").
In particular, if zaloultra will enlarge upon the specifications as follows, I will agree that this lottery is not a scam. If he insists on using his own method of choosing the winning ticket numbers, this will confirm subSTRATA's judgment, and this lottery will definitely be a "confirmed scam," and I will endeavor to have his trust set negative so his postings are flagged in red with "trade with caution."
• The winning lottery ticket numbers will be calculated using the total number
N of tickets sold, and the hash code
H of the first confirmed MAXcoin blockchain block with timestamp >
1394899200 (2014-03-15 16:00:00 UTC). Such a block was scheduled (assuming one block every 30 seconds) to occur in the vicinity of blockchain height
106520, but of course, blocks are not found at exact 30 second intervals.
106520 is
(1394913600-1391717999)/30.
1391717999 is the timestamp of MAXcoin block 1.
• The lottery will close for payments after timestamp
1394841600 (2014-03-15 00:00:00 UTC), with refunds for late payments before timestamp
1394870400 (2014-03-15 00:00:00 UTC). (That is to say, payments received in MAXcoin blockchain blocks with
1394841600 < timestamp <
1394870400 will be refunded. Subsequent payments are forfeit).
• The first prize ticket number is calculated by taking the remainder after dividing the hash code
H by the number of tickets
N.
• The second prize ticket number comes from the remainder after dividing the quotient from the first prize division,
H ÷ N, by the number of tickets
N.
• The third prize ticket number comes from the remainder after dividing the quotient from the second prize division,
(H ÷ N) ÷ N, by the number of tickets
N.
• In the unlikely event that two or all three prizes are won by the same ticket, the lucky winner is the lucky winner!
• All payments received after the balance at the
lottery payment address exceeds 10,000 MAX will be refunded, so long as the payment arrives in a MAXcoin blockchain block with timestamp <
1394870400.
• Ticket numbers will be assigned starting with zero, in the order that deposit transactions were received, as shown on the MAXcoin blockchain, transcribed for example, at
cryptoexplore.com. Thus:
TKT# Sending address
0000 mJ7sEL2hswp5EaXbv4a6FLcmoPA7TSUtDK
0001 mJ7sEL2hswp5EaXbv4a6FLcmoPA7TSUtDK
0002 mJ7sEL2hswp5EaXbv4a6FLcmoPA7TSUtDK
0003 mJ7sEL2hswp5EaXbv4a6FLcmoPA7TSUtDK
0004 mJ7sEL2hswp5EaXbv4a6FLcmoPA7TSUtDK
0005 mJ7sEL2hswp5EaXbv4a6FLcmoPA7TSUtDK
0006 mMRTZtXwSQSfFrnpgfyoqc1bXE7xpGsku6
0007 mQEHKNh91js5t5Y9EfXqGXCscdzSjx6Q4g
0008 mQEHKNh91js5t5Y9EfXqGXCscdzSjx6Q4g
0009 mQEHKNh91js5t5Y9EfXqGXCscdzSjx6Q4g
0010 mV3aX3QEgRmh1vZywKu9h1RhMW63cxVADQ
and mRoEyeproB6hX2DY8Bfng8rfnaXk2ppVLm
0011 mV3aX3QEgRmh1vZywKu9h1RhMW63cxVADQ
and mRoEyeproB6hX2DY8Bfng8rfnaXk2ppVLm
... etc. ...
• In cases where multiple sending addresses were used, such as tickets 0010 and 0011, the owner must specify a payout address.
• Payment to winning tickets will be sent back to the sending address, or to a payment address specified on the
lottery thread.
Payment to an address different from the sending address is offered because some online wallets cannot credit payments to their sending address to the correct account holder. In the case of forged postings, messages signed with the sending private key take precedence. (Arbitrary messages can be signed using the standard MAXcoin client). If the private key is not available because only the online wallet knows it, ask for help from senior members of the community, or ask customer service at your wallet company to prepare a signed message. Payout to a disputed payment address will be delayed until the dispute is resolved.
Note that blockchain timestamps are represented in Unix/Linux internal date format, i.e., seconds since 1970-01-01 UTC.
maxchain.info displays them in this format. max.cryptoexplore.com seems to display them as date and local time in
timezone UTC-0600.
$ date --date="2014-03-15 UTC" +%s
1394841600
$ date --date="2014-03-15 08:00:00 UTC" +%s
1394870400
$ date --date="2014-03-15 16:00:00 UTC" +%s
1394899200
Just to be complete, we specify with great precision what the % operator means for operands greater or equal to zero.
These calculations are done using infinite precision positive integer arithmetic.
% denotes the remainder after integer division, 1 % 2 = 1.
x % y is always less than y.
÷ denotes integer division, 1 ÷ 2 = 0.
y * (x ÷ y) + (x % y) is always equal to x.
(x % y) is therefore always equal to x - y * (x ÷ y).
1st prize goes to ticket number (H % N).
2nd prize goes to ticket number ((H ÷ N) % N).
3rd prize goes to ticket number (((H ÷ N) ÷ N) % N).
