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I will give $50 SBD to a randomly selected user who upvotes this Steemit post.
Oh, that's just vote buying, right? Well I'll give the full SBD value of this post payout and $100 extra to a randomly selected user who retweets the following tweet:
https://twitter.com/EoinCarroll50/status/807288862519283713
I stake my public reputation that I will make these payouts, however it works out. Payout for the tweet will be via your choice of Bitcoin, PayPal or Steem Dollars (if you register with Steemit). How I choose the random users can be discussed in the comments if needed.
Edit: Gonna give an additional $50 to a random user who resteems. Also, competition ends with the first payout for this post.
Another update: the payout will include that from related posts such as this:
Edit2: Contest is over, I will take a snapshot of retweets now, and random selection and announcement of winners will happen tomorrow.
Curious what result your experiment will bring. I wonder in principle what value attention will have going forward into the attention economy. The telecom industry already predicts that in a number of years communication will be free of charge because the costs will be covered by companies who live of the attention economy. I myself wonder when attention will reach a value that you can travel free of charge by plane to key destinations.
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Hmm, as steempower holders, steemit is our key to a piece of the attention economy revenue. Your initial question is a good one, and a philosophical one at that.
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I usually don't do these but your angle caught my eye. Good on you
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Upvoted and resteemed. Interested to see how this one turns out, regardless of whether I win anything or now.
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Interesting experiment, but this is more of a contest entry than actually buying each one of our attention or retweets! The possibility of winning a lot is what catches our interest, not the immediate reward of being paid.
Edit: Still interesting and seems genuine, also I am not against vote buying. Upvoted and retweeted!
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True. If it was easy to split the money out between everyone (especially on Twitter that will be hard) I would do the 'buy attention' thing more literally.
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Yeah it definitely is not easy, you need a script for steemit and for twitter it would be brutally hard to manually do it! I know you would ^_^
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Hi @ballinconscious, congratulations, you won the main prize!
https://steemit.com/contest/@demotruk/congratulations-to-ballinconscious-codydeeds-alexpmorris-retweet-contest-winners
$110, how would you like it sent? Steem Dollars is ideal for me, but I can also send it via Bitcoin or PayPal.
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Holy crap this is freaking awesome! i have been more lucky with winning contests on steemit than I have been with all other contests during my whole life combined I think! So glad I tweeted, at first I was thinking,"well there is no guarantee since it is a contest and it looks like my odds will be low because of all the other entries". :p
Wow thank you so much. I really appreciate you and the random algorithm that you chose that chose me ^_^ Obviously I am following you now :p
P.S. Mmmm definitely not paypal :p either bitcoin since it might go up or SBD since there is 9% interest. Let me check the bitcoin chart now first before i decided :p
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Have you decided Steem Dollars or Bitcoin?
If you want Bitcoin just send me an address (it will have to be done publicly that I can prove that I sent it.
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Well, you got my attention. Retweeted, resteemed, upvoted, etc.
Curious to see how this pans out.
Twitter username: @kentfrostphoto
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Let's do it! Retweeted!
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Retweeted :)
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Great experiment. Upvoted and tweet retweeted.
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Retweeted.
sorry that took me a while to do. I had to find out how to retweet something.
I've never done that before ;-)
As for how to randomly select the winner, my favourite strategy is to pick someone with a name that sounds like... Trevor.
Then from that list pick someone who lives in a small south pacific country like..... New Zealand.
And then from that list pick the one who is closest in age to a specific number, like oh, I don't know.... 50.
So there you are give that strategy a whirl and see how it works out. It has always worked well for me :-)
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I don't have a twitter, but I got a minds account,...
https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/654025489249218573
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I "reminded" yours @freebornangel.
@demotruk I've also upvoted this post, and retweeted your tweet under the account AmbyR00.
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Thanks!!
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Ok, I'll count it for the reward. However I'll have to avoid counting every possible share to prevent it getting too complex.
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I've resteemed it, too.
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Done upvote , resteem , retweet and write u a comment in twitter ;) . May the best winner win :p
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Retweeted!!
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Retweeted under user name @HoosierDeb2.
Interesting experiment!
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Retweeted. I hope to see this go viral!
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You've got my vote.
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i don't use twitter and resteems stick around forever.
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followed
resteemed
followed on twitter
retweeted - https://twitter.com/rxhector/status/807373404210741248
SHOW ME THE MONEY !!!!
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I resteemed it )
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voted and resteemed...
:D i'm not a tweeting kinda guy
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Here we go lets see what happens
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Upvoted and resteemed, but I lack the Twitter account. haha
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Re-tweeted...
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Resteem
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Resteemed
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I'll take a shot, upvoted 100% and resteemed
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I don't have a twitter account, but upvoted and resteemed. All I have is hope.
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i want to win
thank you ;)
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Resteemed
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Upvoted & resteemed
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I also posted on Minds
https://www.minds.com/cebymaster
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Upvoted and resteemed! Fingers crossed,! 👍
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I think I am the very recent retweet my username on twitter is @comsilbronze (surpassing Google)
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All done and more than you requested
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resteemed
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I'm curious about your experiment : )
upvoted and resteemed.
Good luck
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Done! And Done!
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Retweeted, upvoted & resteemed.
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Followed
Resteemed
Retweed
Upvoted
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Resteemed and twitterized.
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Upvoted resteemed and tweeted verify here : https://twitter.com/Raymonjohnstone/status/807339653829459972
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Resteemed and tweeted
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To win the payout, you must retweet my linked tweet:
https://twitter.com/EoinCarroll50/status/807288862519283713
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Done.
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I've upvoted but I'll exclude myself from the experiment. I'm also sorry to @beanz but I'll have to exclude her too as an immediate relative, just in case.
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Omitted by my own brother :'(
haha
I resteemed, tweeted and upvoted all the same because at least this votebuying is good for steemit and promotes the platform!
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oops think I posted to wrong person..sorry
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Because this will be ending so late in the day for me, I will try to take a snapshot of the retweets etc. at the end of the competition, but I will have to wait until tomorrow to do the winner selection and payouts.
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Here's how I'll select the winners in a verifiable way:
I've created lists as replies to this post, with a number for each entrant. They are verifiable on the blockchain.
For each contest (retweet, upvote, reblog) I will choose a coming Bitcoin block which has not occurred at the time of this post.
Retweet: 422935
Upvote: 422936
Reblog: 422937
For each contest I will take the hash of the block, and get the mod of the result vs. the number of entrants. Mod(hash, total_entrants) + 1 = the winner.
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