Topic: Bitcointalk Halving Party - Discord server - page 2. (Read 25043 times)

For the sake of clarity, when proposing that idea I also told that it could be easily gamed still, yet posing a significant burden on the contest organiser. Each choice has a trade-off.

I totally agree with @fillippone, the competition for sure would benefit from some changes and improvements, it became very popular so it's harder to manage and we should try avoiding any kind of cheat.

Besides all above suggestions @fillippone just came up with another very interesting idea in the Italian section, which would be the anonymous submission in order to avoid people voting a certain pizza just because the user who made is "popular". I second that and I was also suggesting that the participants should take one picture with their username and one without so the winner(s) can later submit the same picture but this time with their username tag to confirm they actually made that pizza.

Following this year's contest, which was extremely successful, with a record number of submissions, a record number of votes, probably a record number of voters, and a subsequent record level of drama, I hope next year's contest will be even more successful.

As the contest hit some hard limits on the discord platform (Cyrus had to open three different voting channels) and soft limits (a Bitcointalk contest where users outside the forum are allowed to vote without even ever landing on the forum itself is a weird way to promote the forum), I think it’s time to take this contest fully back into the forum.

Promoting a discord server is a very smart idea (on the Italian board, we did something similar with the Telegram Forum as well), but I think this should be done differently.

Regarding the Pizza contest, I think we haven’t reinvented the wheel, as we only need to take an example from the successful contests held on the forum, namely the pie baking contest.

In the Italian board, we tried to discuss a possible set of rules for the next contest.
I am going to post it here as a contribution to future discussions, hoping that you might find it interesting.

• Pizza must be made by yourself
• Pizza should be Bitcoin-related (you could even include a homage to bitcointalk ).
• The definition of a pizza, per Merriam-Webster, states:
  

• In order to be qualified, you should post
  
  • a picture containing your homemade pie+ a piece of paper with your username and date;
  • a picture of the pizza in the making
  • Only one pizza per user

• Competition will be held in two phases:
  
  • 1st Phase - From 12th May 2024 (00:00 GMT) to Bitcoin Pizza Day, 22nd of May 2024 (23:59:59 GMT): This is where all the users are free to submit their entries
  • 2nd Phase - Voting process from 23rdth of May 20924 to 3rd of June 2024 (23:59:59 GMT).
  • Winners shall be announced on the 5th of June 2024.

• During this phase, users are only able to vote in 1 entry from the 1st Phase but are free to edit their vote until the 2nd phase ends.
• No merit sending is allowed from nominees to users who nominated them
• No minimum entries for the contest to run - No matter the submissions that we have, the prize pool will be distributed accordingly;

• Who can participate & vote?:
  

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Of course, also dates are tentative and subject to approval from organisers.

I Confirmed that I recieved 0.003BTC

I recieved little late but it turned out better in my favor because BTC price bounce to 30k and 75$ turned out to be 90$ now. Thanks Cyrus and whole managing team.

Congratulations Pixie85 

I actually don't know if I should celebrate because icopress has yet to confirm that the giveaway is over.


Don't wait for another pizza day to get your treat. You can have a pizza day every week. 

No, i sent address via pm on 16 June. Maybe something other happened.

Because you don't send the address by PM.

Congratulations Pixie85 and many thanks for this pizza contest at all.
Looking forward to next years contest (I'll be back with you) and hopefully with some slightly modified rules for the voting.

But anyway, it was fun and I've eaten my fill of delicious pizza


@icopress,
have a look at this discussion: Ledger Recovery - Send your (encrypted) recovery phrase to 3rd parties entities

I also confirm that I have received the award.  I agree with Fillippone that it's time to leave this contest and all the diatribes behind and think about organizing the one for next year in the best possible way.

Ps. Fillippone I'm getting ready to cook the perfect pizza, I'm planning a trip to Naples the cradle of the real and unique pizza that we all know.

That was close
I don't expect to get that lucky in the next one.

Edit:
Then I scrolled to read the next post and it's a surprise for sure. Blocks must love 5s


I already have a nano S and I haven't updated it when they added that recover option or whatever they're calling it. I guess the backlash is big enough to make them turn this into an optional update, or they'll go bankrupt because no big investor will choose them over devices that cost the same and offer more protection like trezor.
On their page they say that it's optional and you have to enable the recover option to have the key sent to a third party. That's the first time I'm reading about it because I have not touched my wallet for the last 3 months. I hope the spiders didn't make a nest or something.

A hardware wallet still makes a nice gift to popularize bitcoin among friends and family even if you're to scared to use it yourself. I wouldn't hold a million dollars on it, but someone who wants to start investing and spend less than a thousand bucks to own some bits and learn to use the system can still choose ledger. Furthermore, I've read they did some changes and are going to make the update open source.

Congratulations bro!

i have not recieved payment yet. here is my btc address

bc1qns60en58fwkxpmxqkun3rz8sz8aglmcrqealcd

I confirm I received the prize.

Time to archive this edition and think about the next edition.

This is a picture of myself (center) Mendace (left) and Ale88 (right) settling our disputes while looking for the perfect pizza recipe...



"Yes Ale88, trust me, put some pineapple on pizza, this is really good!"
"Awww thank Fillippone, for your suggestion. Did you try putting eggs on the dough as I suggested you?"
“Trust me guys, you cannot call me Mendace anymore if you don’t try this yeast-free/gluten-free/vegan/carbon neutral/2SLGBTQIA+ pizza I prepared today”

To be honest, I'm confused. I would be grateful if you could point me to a source where I can learn more (any details).

I confirmed received 0.003 BTC thanks for prize

My condolences to Pixie85.... the prize for the top 10 raffle (A Ledger Nano X, right?) seems like such a thing that no one, who is anyone who deserves to have nice things, should want to have.. especially since your coins do not seem secure in such a thing that the company had even admitted that it was not secure (that they could move your coins if they were to update the firmware.. but that you have to trust that the firmware has not already been updated with such a backdoor... since it is closed source)... ..

I suppose that there could be wishes that the company is just communicating badly - or if you are a shitcoiner, then maybe you are already predisposed to gambling with where you hold your value.. since shitcoins can be rugpulled from you anytime anyhow.. so yeah, maybe hold shitcoins there.. but even with holding shitcoins there, I would still hate to log into my wallet and not find the "digital assets" there that I thought that I had.. ...

I would not want to be putting they private keys to any BTC into a device that I erroneously believed was "cold storage" and it really is not "cold storage."  Maybe treat it as a hot wallet, rather than a cold storage wallet might be a solution....and therefore ONLY put very small amounts of value on that device..  perhaps that could be a kind of solution that you would not lose any sleep over the security of the coins that you hold on that device?

still Pixie85, his destiny

Congratulations Pixie85; if i am not wrong, the hash end with number 5 which will choose winner.



https://mempool.space/block/00000000000000000003b22bfcd8cb592e85bd4da391a867c1b3aa21181fcfe5

Actually, you are both right, but when I said "start over", I meant that I would choose a different block number).


I apologize for this confusion. 

Isn't it petulino who won? Block 795100's hash ended in a letter (and icopress said to "start over" if that happened). Doesn't that mean that block 795101 (which ended in a 3) should be used instead?