I have updated my raffle ticket picker here: http://we.lovebitco.in/raffle.html.
You should add a thing to sha256 a text field. I liked having the list of emails be hashes.
Topic: Got my BFL Single today and I'm raffling it away for 0.5BTC! - page 2. (Read 29283 times)
I have updated my raffle ticket picker here: http://we.lovebitco.in/raffle.html.
You should add a thing to sha256 a text field. I liked having the list of emails be hashes.
You should add a thing to sha256 a text field. I liked having the list of emails be hashes.
I didn't like that, it becomes easier for a raffle operator to disguise his own fake entries (instead of showing forum user names, etc., which allows us to intuit that every ticket purchase in the list is legitimate).Not sure that clear text email entries help that much. One can easily create a series of different email addresses that really have the same owner.
You should add a thing to sha256 a text field. I liked having the list of emails be hashes.
I didn't like that, it becomes easier for a raffle operator to disguise his own fake entries (instead of showing forum user names, etc., which allows us to intuit that every ticket purchase in the list is legitimate). 
I have updated my raffle ticket picker here: http://we.lovebitco.in/raffle.html.
You should add a thing to sha256 a text field. I liked having the list of emails be hashes. The only issue is the "remainder" greater than the max multiple.
10 hex digits = 16^10 = 1099511627776
1099511627776 / 40270 = 27303492.12 (that last 0.12 is unfair)
So max valid random number is 40270 * 27303492 = 1099511622840
Matt a "fix" is simple and fair.
If the value of last 10 digits of the block hash is > 1099511622840 then it is a "no-go" and you use the next block.
Don't worry the odds of that happening are very small. Only 1099511622841 to 1099511627776 are "bad". 4936 unfair numbers out of 1099511627776 or 0.0000004%
10 hex digits = 16^10 = 1099511627776
1099511627776 / 40270 = 27303492.12 (that last 0.12 is unfair)
So max valid random number is 40270 * 27303492 = 1099511622840
Matt a "fix" is simple and fair.
If the value of last 10 digits of the block hash is > 1099511622840 then it is a "no-go" and you use the next block.
Don't worry the odds of that happening are very small. Only 1099511622841 to 1099511627776 are "bad". 4936 unfair numbers out of 1099511627776 or 0.0000004%
I have updated my raffle ticket picker here: http://we.lovebitco.in/raffle.html. It will now alert you if the hash is greater than the last modulo interval with a full number of tickets (however you would describe that). Just so everyone knows they have an absolutely equal chance of winning.
Feel free to pore over the javascript source and try to break it or find any type of unfair calculation. As an example, in this raffle (with tickets 0-40269), the highest hash without error is FFFFFFECB7, which gives #40269 as winner; FFFFFFECB8 or higher gives an error.
Large hashes near the maximum are also only a problem if 0x10000000000h is not evenly divisible by the number of tickets. For example, with 65536 tickets (0x010000h), a hash of FFFFFFFFFF is still valid.
BTW, even with a raffle happening every block, this would likely never happen in your lifetime...
send congrats to [email protected]
Congratulations on winning this exciting, if not bizarre, raffle! Go forth and mine some coinage
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Ha nice, I hope your humor will be incorporated into your magazine 
They're trying their best to stop me.
Ha nice, I hope your humor will be incorporated into your magazine
Well this was fun.
I'm emailing the winner right now with instructions on how to earn his BFL single by completing some simple offers online and answering some surveys.
Hehe. You're so mean! I'm emailing the winner right now with instructions on how to earn his BFL single by completing some simple offers online and answering some surveys.
I'm going to hang myself if c267a549d21a37b371b8d4fa5b944d55bd5624dfcc735f4045031fd53a640bff didn't win
Congrats, man!
Happy mining!
I agree that it's 11131.
I confirm also. Solid drawing and nice he used the blockchain.
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Did your piss stain just get bigger?
I would wager on it being BitScalper. He doesn't like it when I provide proof of him being a sociopath.
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Nice. I'd be in I think.
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Missed it by that much.
Seriously, that's a great raffle - thanks to Matthew for the prize and DeepC for the algorithm.
I'd be up for another....
Seriously, that's a great raffle - thanks to Matthew for the prize and DeepC for the algorithm.
I'd be up for another....
Already setting it up.
Missed it by that much.
Seriously, that's a great raffle - thanks to Matthew for the prize and DeepC for the algorithm.
I'd be up for another....
Seriously, that's a great raffle - thanks to Matthew for the prize and DeepC for the algorithm.
I'd be up for another....
Well this was fun.
I'm emailing the winner right now with instructions on how to earn his BFL single by completing some simple offers online and answering some surveys.
...
I'm emailing the winner right now with instructions on how to earn his BFL single by completing some simple offers online and answering some surveys.
...
Hehehe... that was evil
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Well this was fun.
I'm emailing the winner right now with instructions on how to earn his BFL single by completing some simple offers online and answering some surveys.
Just kidding. Getting shipping address.
I'm emailing the winner right now with instructions on how to earn his BFL single by completing some simple offers online and answering some surveys.
Just kidding. Getting shipping address.
Haha, sad day. Congrats bro.
nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo 
edit: after wiping my tears, I think I can manage to say, congrats you lucky bastich.
edit: after wiping my tears, I think I can manage to say, congrats you lucky bastich.
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