Amazing News — We’ve had our first REAL winner!
Spoiler alert: This time it wasn’t one of our development team
Because of the way Ethereum and blockchains work however, the winner is completely anonymous. So in lieu of a name to congratulate, we’ll have to use the less catchy moniker of:
‘0xEEE8d32358daD11e0d4F3333C9bef781e86185F0’
Also due to that anonymity, we do not know if the new randomise feature was used to pick the winning numbers, as it was in the case when one of our developers won a couple of weeks ago. In fact, that anonymity means we actually know very little. For example, we can’t even say for sure if this new winner even used the front-end website of Etheraffle at all.
The nature of ÐApps is such that — barring any specifically encoded restrictions — the mechanics that take place on blockchain can be interacted with by any party, at any time, however they please. Those who are comfortable interacting with smart-contracts via say Geth, Parity and/or the command line can enter Etheraffle just like anyone else, whilst bypassing the website altogether. The front-end you see is simply a GUI to make those interactions easier. And that wide-open access is sort of the entire point.
But so tangents aside, despite the winner’s anonymity, here are what bits of info we can gleam regarding the win. We know that it was in Raffle #41, whose winning numbers were:
We also know that the winning ticket was bought in this transaction:
And that whomever the user was (if they were using the website of course!) were thrilled enough to see this button in their results tab:
Because not much longer after the draw, this internal transaction occurs in the smart-contract:
And thusly their prize made its way into their account. Let’s hope they use some of it to keep playing!
Etheraffle is the first & only charitable blockchain lottery. Powered by ethereum, it is designed to give huge prizes to players, sustainable ETH dividends to LOT token holders, and life-changing funding to charities. Visit our ICO to learn more and take part in this decentralized, altruistic vision of the future.
