Without further ado, these are the 10 winners of the Nano giveaway:

u/_ButterCat

u/zemadd

u/redchanterelles

u/FuckTheMankind

u/GarethGore

u/serpico_75

u/Kernal_Cletus

u/SPOGSTER

u/LitePenguins

u/AccomplishedWasabi54

Congratulations to all! The prize pot started out at 110 Nano, but thanks to a lot of generous donations, it increased to 172.158623 Nano, equalling roughly $1000 at current Nano prices. This means ~17.22 Nano to every winner, or roughly $100 each. The prizes have been sent out to the winners.

The generous donations lead me to the next thing I want to mention: I'm so genuinely impressed with the community on this giveaway. We had set this up with just three people sending me some Nano for funding (thanks a lot!), and with Shryder (u/redsilverbullet) setting up a bot to send out the tips. The giveaway then shot so far out of control that comments were flooding in at literally 1 per second at some points, causing Shryder's bot to run into Reddit API limits after which a dozen people offered to help him out.

Then the bot started running out of funds, and at least twenty different people (that I know of) sent Nano to keep it going. I couldn't respond to all the questions in the thread myself, and saw a dozen people jumping in to help answer. When people went to r/nanocurrency with questions, there were yet more people there answering and helping.

All in all, it felt like one of the better showings of cryptocurrency and I'm pretty happy that we got r/cc to #1 on r/popular with such a positive post.

Facts and figures

At the time of closing, the thread had ~38,433 comments. That's 1601 comments per hour on average, or 26 per minute. The tipping bot sent out 20,909 tips of 0.01337 Nano each, for a total of 279.55333 Nano (~$1,600). Add to that the 172 Nano sent out for the winners, and a total of ~$2,500 was sent out. All community funded.

As this was done with Nano, not a single cent was paid in fees for these 20,000+ transactions, and every transaction sent was fully confirmed within a single second. The energy network usage for this was ~2.4 KwH, roughly equal to a single cycle on an electric dishwasher.

Proof of random selection

Transactions for all tipping were sent from nano_1senatusn5a1kutkt91pr1czefki47ed56g495syg1uf6dghqokrmczgy4cy. A total of 20,909 transactions had been made when I decided to close the contest (a little after 24 hours).

I then did a transaction from the prize pool address (https://nault.cc/account/nano_1cmgewwzg1eiwroib8btqtcgaw7yox8dsc8kikb8t95anb4qpi6byfibaapk) to itself, to create randomly generated hash: 434C0A154CC45F2E75554A7CC05B6598A3421D12DF67BF372E604DD470A7FFF4

Using https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/Java/Html/sha256Rand.htm to use the hash to generate 10 random numbers between 1 and 20,909: Seed 434C0A154CC45F2E75554A7CC05B6598A3421D12DF67BF372E604DD470A7FFF4, current sample number 0, draw 10 objects.

Result: 953,1442,5966,6590,9292,14940,15575,16973,17704,18910

You can validate this for yourself.

Looking up those block heights:

953: https://nault.cc/transaction/1E6AD44A5A1752C301EB91F87176AD094D8E7C1211C974DC1EC054194E348299

1442: https://nault.cc/transaction/F479CC71D98F0B9A5F4A31798B8555187899783E0B6CDC31E83C39D131D7C7B1

5966: https://nault.cc/transaction/87DFE09B3A03BC62D7B1C72039B75ECA2403E5483D133FBD36EA91CC7D3FA4D8

6590: https://nault.cc/transaction/2555004F840C3F9F7A1D048458044077BE430AA3F512DACC14555C5D9F8A82BB

9292: https://nault.cc/transaction/06F0190DF76E7F324F33661C4B950F0A4CE89E9896BEA2E7E06D135789098155

14940: https://nault.cc/transaction/E802E01969ACA8EF26BF714D8C8E77F719444A0DEABDF9002EA36167E8789724

15575: https://nault.cc/transaction/D17B77C0AD6819EB6C29FAD47D3B5FB1043ECAB2E59BB7719AA545F190D0AE1C

16973: https://nault.cc/transaction/6BCA39761B1317D0904B180560D28F42F37B1EB842D662BC28C7E2F11ABE8F08

17704: https://nault.cc/transaction/790EC1F4F35BD496030EDC25DF357D1DC1864D21A236E5DD8C9637788103038D

18910: https://nault.cc/transaction/71DD70639E58B2E8C4FF4746D42DBDB029391691EDA188993F2A70C87F34BC94

Corresponding addresses:

nano_34qyxdwoqayey4cpuee6yjn7k57e48cuuaj5txhfmns3egjqott1a6edt795

nano_1zxbxfobctmjybh5ogjx38fjsxc5cmpnh7j7qdwsxfsapenxzajtyzr3tnrb

nano_1i7o4haizc8an1z67wcdpph6sjmcsudgqyd81bqps6rerywmzmbgysmhszs3

nano_1si978mo8thhc1h4j5izzs7i5tdednapiac5sw44phzutxuf4w5zmn8wdqn8

nano_1jiige5m3t8qzeiiia8wiig5tnd3y6a6849d3cbuozgin36qyyjk9cwa8fgj

nano_1tby4etqi34tw835xdspfqamcoc8fgptcf93rd6qxen744uxujgcpbtgtqyf

nano_1przt41uci93kcywdw1ihimrxxyn5w1g1no657uzu3n5rqqmtgf3jhtadm6u

nano_1jcm3mm4oryd66oakhbco7noz7e8wkmkzco84sae9nsedrofknt6jmpd3yik

nano_3mt5kcwk7x5y6g4a3a9tt9bsqph8d9i5m64d6pqfkeruxud7dzeoziz3r7tr

nano_3fyfdzz9zae9nm7kqxez6otu1azigy961w6ceag7e7tk35dboh446tjq9ty5

For those that missed it

The bigger giveaway is over, but you can still try Nano for free by grabbing a wallet (Natrium ([iOS](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/natrium/id1451425707?ls=1&mt=8) **| Android) or www.nault.cc **(desktop) are recommended) and visiting one of the faucets handing out free Nano below.

https://nanocafe.cc/faucet

https://freenanofaucet.com/

https://nanodrop.io/

https://www.trynano.io/

Thanks to everyone who joined!