Topic: (finished) Mint Race Weekend #2, BCC cards from Bitcurex! - page 3. (Read 7243 times)

Cool!

Yeah, I really have a very very minimal idea as to how bitcoin actualy works, Im still pretty new around here...

Yeah, you just mine as usual. Just like a low hash can let you create a block, now it can also get you a prize.

So.... what?
Im lost as to how this works... Do we just mine as usual and as we submit shares at random the lowest "number" is the winner? Therefor the only thing we can do to better our chances of winning is submit more shares, aka mine more?

Thank you DrHaribo for this opportunity. We are gladly give out prizes.
We cannot forgot about those by whom the Bitcoin can exist - the miners.

Let the best man(or woman or machine) wins.

Mint race #2 is over. Congratulations to the winners!

Bitcurex is kindly offering their BCC cards as prizes for a second Mint Race on BitMinter. It will be similar to the first mint race. The finest quality minting work (lowest hash value) will win.

Start: friday 31.08.2012 at 20:00 UTC
Finish: sunday 02.09.2012 at 20:00 UTC

Prizes:
1st place: Bitcurex BCC card + 5 BTC
2nd place: Bitcurex BCC card + 3 BTC
3rd place: Bitcurex BCC card + 2 BTC
4th through 10th place: Bitcurex BCC card

Total value is about 38.7 BTC (price, as of this writing, is 2.87 BTC per BCC card)

If you win a Bitcurex card you can choose the currency (USD, EUR or GBP). If you don't win you can of course still buy a card from https://shop.bitcurex.com. You can sell bitcoins on Bitcurex and withdraw your money (USD, EUR or GBP) through the BCC card. Thanks to Bitcurex for sponsoring the Mint Race. You can read more about them at https://bitcurex.com and https://shop.bitcurex.com.

Win conditions:

• Just like your hash must beat the difficulty to produce a block, it must beat the other miners to win. The best (lowest) hashes during the race will win.
• As long as your work is accepted by the server it is valid for the race, even if it ends up "stale" or "orphaned" in the block list.
• Each person can only compete with one (their best) hash.

Verifiability:
Hopefully your mining software will show if you have created a block (BitMinter client does). Your block will show with your user name in the block list at http://bitminter.com/blocks. You can click the height number for the block (leftmost column) to see details. There is a link there to blockchain.info where you can see the hash value of the block both on the page and in the URL. The lowest hash value wins. Hash values are shown in hexadecimal. 0-9 is lower than A-F. A is lower than B. Pretty simple.

FINAL RESULTS:

Place	Name	Hash (lower is better)
1	Isokivi	000000000000007FE04B5867A04D88FAC07F314B2157FFDE65FE841CBE276E11
2	PasProfeta	00000000000000E2292F2798A1D277E42C08D67138B5F142937CA2DC96916011
3	salcox	000000000000012FE112E6FD081B6E4CF2713C2EB28BB9CD9E890CB42795B83A
4	darkice	00000000000001BD5F0F7AEBCA6640E4B7EDCEA81497438C46CCA38D2C619C8A
5	gigavps	000000000000024C8DE303E240DDDA8612DE3E0FB6D282783DDAFF309D50E866
6	Fefox	0000000000000277C7D84C74A82E624662305DCACA1F62332167303842123639
7	WhitePhantom	000000000000028FE9E42B3D05A1ADDBAAEB592DA8C2F03107333A0B3789DB31
8	slipbye	000000000000035132ED7900B22D1CF41308CCBD066FEF3BDD3CFBDB9B1AF797
9	gazza	000000000000042047C86D261109FC3CADBC1D0095AAC2BC1744FDF9D768BDE6
10	kujayhawk	000000000000051955C2915741ADEB4D86B506068FA10D6A5191D6C61D708FEC
---	---	--- no prizes below this point ---
11	miscio84	00000000000005785B7210D23435261F9981B367673D81964085D84357D9C8F4
12	filip	00000000000005ABA288C959766E107D49B28E2E9932855145E885C98DEAC62D
13	lenny	00000000000005AC7A6CFEE6487540B92BFCC4947CF922AF74B7CA5D20716B7F
14	zopyx	00000000000005B71D5366F00ABC42FBF555D1BE267A61ECF99951403BA53D10
15	Phraust	000000000000061CE6206AFEDC04D0A502B5E78F46A0A0AD50A01CB124F52C8C
16	benny32	000000000000064259533442DB63F5ACA7DFE370C89CF3091AD1C9CE0D5E25D8