Was pointing this out to your potential buyers so that there wasn't any confusion (this seemed to be a problem with one of your previous customers). I wasn't talking about legalities.   This thread has been pretty hilarious on a slow Sunday evening though.   

So when this masterpiece comes up on auction, the winning bidder should probably be informed that the middle finger WC uses comes from stock just as his other "originals" do.

http://depositphotos.com/40151223/stock-illustration-illustration-of-middle-finger.html

Thank you for your high quality sauce! Hubby & I have been enjoying the gift-set since X-mas. I think our favourite flavour-wise so far is the Hornet Bomb.  Killer swarm was also very delicious. It really makes for a nice spicy stir-fry.  It is not the hottest sauce we've tried, but definitely the hottest by far that is extract-free.     

Funny story - This morning I was having some leftover chicken & eggs for breakfast.  Decided to put some of the Hornet Bomb sauce on and I used it pretty liberally. Well...  reading is fundamental. I took the wrong bottle and put the Killer Swarm sauce on by accident. Oops!  That woke me up more than the coffee did. lol 

Looking forward to future orders.

Ahhh I just missed this special!  I recently purchased the gift set, but probably would have ordered more with this sale. Oh well. The price + shipping was still pretty cheap so I can't complain. The package just got here(that was quick!), but this is an X-mas gift for the husband, so won't be able to review/enjoy it until then.

The hickory smoked habanero powder interests me (I imagine it makes for some nice dry rubs).  If we like the sauce, we'll probably put in an order for that in the future as well.

I'm pretty sure the answer should be 2.

Each digit has an assigned value, then these values are added together.

0 = 1
1 = 0
2 = 0
3 = 0
4 isn't used
5 = 0
6 = 1
7 = 0
8 = 2
9 = 1

So 2581 would be 0 + 0 + 2 + 0 = 2.

I would like to know the answer to these questions as well.  I might submit a revised version of my last design, but would like to know if this is acceptable before putting work into it. Thanks.

Thanks for the links.  Never played the KH series and did not realize the composer was female.  Square-Enix really does have some amazing music and am happy to hear that they hired a female composer.  Listening to the soundtrack now and it sounds beautiful!

You must be young if you haven't figured this one out yet.   Naive guys fall for this all the time. You don't go around begging for gifts... you don't have to! All you have to do is lead a guy on with some pretty pics and make it sound like you're interested in him.  It helps if you act extra girly too.  These type of guys think that they need to shower girls with gifts in order to keep their interest.  It's so very painful to watch, because no matter how much sense you try to talk in to the guy, he's so enamoured that he won't listen to reason.  Lots of men that want to scam know this and so they will pretend to be a pretty girl to scam. 

I used to play an MMO called FFXI and this sort of stuff was rampant.  You wouldn't believe the stuff people would do.  I knew several males that would play female characters in order to scam.  When it got too weird for one guy, he faked his own death to avoid the player he was scamming.  Of course he was back a week later, claiming to be the girl's parents "to keep her memory alive" lol sounds legit, right?  Then there were the real women who would flirt for help/free stuff.  Not really sure if you can call that scamming though as I do believe the guys would get something out of it(at least I hope they were smart enough to get pics lol).

So yeah, the norm would be (much like this forum) you were considered male until proven otherwise.  I understand where the sentiment comes from, but I don't believe that's any excuse to be rude and treat you like a scammer. Especially in the newbie section where you're not conducting any business, but just asking a legitimate question.  Like others have said, I think there are quite a few women on here, but they prefer to keep their sex private because of unwanted attention or as you can see, being labeled as a scammer.

To answer your question though, I'm female myself (just not a pretty one XD) and am happy to see more on here.

Judging by your name, I assume you enjoy Final Fantasy.  You could "invest" in my FFXI account if you wanted.

To be honest though, 1 BTC is probably a little steep for it.

This is not what I think at all and makes me sound closed minded (an assumption of the way I think). I did like your biscuit example though, 'cause it reminded me of how I began to like olives (oh man were they awful at first)!

As for techie parents, I had none of those. Every year I go home there is something computer related to fix. XD
My brothers played a lot of video games though, and I assume that's how I got interested in them. Was difficult to get my female friends to play them, but they did try.  I think Mario Kart probably garnered the most interest.  I like supporting Nintendo for this reason, as their target audience seems to be more inclusive in general.

Congrats Mr. Bau! I'm really happy to see this.

Good job Coinographic with resolving issues with the competition.  I think you did what was most fair in the end and most of us can agree with that. Do you still plan on doing more competitions here in the future?  I hope the drama didn't discourage you too much.

One thing though, I looked at the spreadsheet and noticed BTC-Graphicsdesigns vote for me was not included.  I assume it got taken down for her getting disqualified, but thought the spreadsheet should reflect that.  Thanks & congrats to all the winners!

Hmmm... you just made a huge assumption about me though, but I won't take that personally. ;P I'm actually a pretty open minded individual and realize people change their minds, however I don't think it's logical for a person to dislike something for 20+ years then do a complete 180 with little evidence of such.  Why would I assume she likes them now?  What games does she like or advocate for?  Heck, she couldn't be bothered to play the games she reviewed for herself. Don't you find the way she presents herself suspicious in the least? Just look at the amount of scamming that goes on in this forum and you can see what people will do for even small amounts of money.  Scammers are involved in all sorts of charities, (have had numerous ones for breast cancer harassing me on the phone) in fact they flock to stuff like this.  It's important to properly vet any charity before you donate to them, especially ones that are obviously preying on your emotions.

As for the chocolate biscuit, if you don't like them you should probably stay away.  They're not very good for you anyways. 

Not sure where you got the idea that you were the only female who entered. I also don't know what that has to do with people picking a design though... ? You picked a symbol of male power for your design, so if anything people would have assumed you were male.

Good to see some sportsmanship in this thread!

I had no idea who this woman was, but after a little reading and looking at her website I can tell you she isn't doing any favours for female gamers at all.  In fact, I really think she is going to have the opposite effect.  Do I think there is gender bias in video games?  Of course I do, but that really comes down to the lack of female developers out there.  Does the money going towards these videos do anything to fix that?  I really doubt it, it's designed to upset female viewers (making them feel victimized) and offers nothing constructive to them.  If you want to attract women into video games, why not show them clips of games that would appeal to them, instead of horrific acts of violence towards women?  She could instead put that money towards helping women get involved.  That's more constructive I think.

I notice the games she picks are very specific genres that are supposed to be violent and cater to a certain audience.  They are not representitive of video games as a whole. Her one example of a non-violent game (well relatively... I guess stomping on heads is sort of violent ;P), Mario was very weak... and offensive towards Princess Peach.  Yes, she plays the damsel-in-distress, but that doesn't make her "useless" and if she had played the Mario series, she would know that you can play as her in quite a few of the titles.  You are encouraged to play as her on certain levels as she has her special floating ability.

What does Anita expect her end goal to be? Censorship of these games? As an artist I feel this would be the most deplorable option.  This is not going to help women gamers at all, it will only garner resentment.  There are seriously a lot more options out there that she fails to bring up. 

I can think of a lot of examples of popular games where there are strong female leads/characters, the Metroid series, Final Fantasy series(also has a lot of effeminite male characters), Tales of Xillia/Symphonia, Tomb Raider, Chrono Cross & Trigger, ...Balloon kid... XD.  Right now I've been playing Civ V with my husband and they have lots of female leaders you can choose from which is pretty cool.

So I guess my main point is, I would not donate any Bitcoin to this cause and you probably shouldn't either.  Anita fully admits that she doesn't like video games, so it's kinda difficult to take her seriously on this topic.  Spend that money on a video game that deserves it, not some crummy made videos.

I will be voting for # 9 by campycoin. Worldtreasurefinders made a very good case for this design and I tend to agree with him.  I enjoy the designs simplicity & lack of fluff.  Often, the most exquisite things in life are are ruined by adding complexity.  This design makes the link to luxury by association of gold bars and also would be unique to your company (uniqueness seemed to be an important criteria to the contest).  I don't think any of your competitors have done something like this.  With the simplicity, you shouldn't have any issues getting it minted either. Also... on a nerdy note it makes me think of bars of latinum from Star Trek. The real "precious" part is the latinum(bitcoin in our case;P) located inside of the bar. That's just me being goofy though!

Like many others, I really enjoyed Mr. Bau's design and it was tough not to pick it.  I liked his concept of the bitcoin symbol being created out of multiple gears working together to maintain the network (all pieces working together for a common goal).  At least that's how I interpretated it.  I thought it flowed together quite well. Ultimately, I was  worried about the design losing too much detail in the minting process and so opted for campy's less is more theme.  I also saw more of a connection to luxury with campy's design.

If I may, I'd like to make a few suggestions to Coinographic if they intend to do more design competitions as I see a lot of drama here.  I would completely take voting out of the equation.  I think it's great getting the community involved with your design, but you don't really need voting to do that.  Secondly, when you're deciding on the top five designs, really take your time to pick them.  At least sleep on it, having fresh eyes is always helpful.  I don't think a scale from 1 - 10 is a good enough evaluation either.  Write down specifically what you do or don't like about the concepts.  If you don't already, have a designer help you with this process.  Once you have your top 5, post the reasons for choosing the winners. If people understand why you made your choices, they'll be less likely to think you just picked at random.  You can then ask the community for feedback on the top 5 designs, but your company ultimately chooses the final design. This way you'll avoid all this, "I vote for #so&so", without any relevant feedback as to why they feel that way. I imagine you'd prefer quality, not quantity.

Lastly, I'd like to thank Coinographic for putting on this competition despite the hiccups.  I had a lot of fun participating. Thanks!

Very cool designs so far!  I would like to enter my submission as well.  With all the merchant adoption happening this year, I thought it would be appropriate to do a design that commemorates merchants, naming the coin, "Year of the Merchant". 

The front of the coin features a young merchant peddling her wares. The series of dots and dashes around the inner edge are actually morse code, spelling out "Vires in Numeris".

The back hologram continues the merchant theme by featuring a merchant's stall with the public key. That's pretty much it in a nutshell.

http://i.imgur.com/ePYxgjy.jpg?1

No worries. I quite enjoy it too and agree it gets fun with the strategy of trading/playing politics. If you're only playing with two people it becomes boring really fast though.  This happened to my husband and I when we were stuck in a small town for a weekend with no internet access & rainy weather.  All we had available for games was Possumopoly (The Red Green Show version of the game).  Was fun at first, but got old really fast. lol

Thanks for the links to the models, they certainly would work very well. Are different colours available in 3-d printing?  Or would I have to paint them afterwards?


I admit that Monopoly isn't the most intense board game, but I find it to be very inclusive (it's a happy medium between something like Axis & Allies and Candyland).  It's a simple game to decide on in a large group of friends with varying interests.  Anyhoo, it was my hope that the twists would make it more fun to play, or as others have said you can turn it into a drinking game.  Anytime someone passes go, you take a shot.  That would get kinda dangerous really quickly though!


Yes, it's my work, although character designs belong to Nintendo obviously.


I think maybe I didn't word that quite right.  I wasn't claiming to have thought of the concept of Monopoly... the game was invented well before I was born! XD  I was specifically referring to Mariopoly.  I had not seen this version in stores before.  Some friends of mine had talked about making up their own versions of Monopoly and this is what I came up with a while ago.



There are a lot of reasons I won't be marketing this in the future so you won't be able to buy it.  If you really would like to play it, I have all the pdfs in the zipped file that I linked to in OP. They're print ready. You're more than welcome to download them and print yourself a copy for your enjoyment.

That actually sounds like a lot of fun to do.    I love betting on games (do this a lot in Boggle of all games... lol). I'd really like to do something like this, but I've had a hard enough time convincing my husband that bitcoin isn't a scam.  I've offered to send him some bits to play with, but he's really not interested. Maybe he'll warm up to the idea in the future. As for friends, I think I'd just end up seeing a glazed look in their eyes.


Thanks! I really would like to make an original board game when I get the time. As it is now, I have a bad habit of starting projects that only get half finished, so I'm trying to finish those up first.  I'll try to take a look into the alt-coins as you suggest, though I'm not really concerned about being an early adopter. Ideally I would just like to do some side-work for some coin.


Yes he's one of my favs too. =)  Him & Koopa Troopa.


I don't have any experience with 3-d modeling software, so I should probably work on learning that. Out of curiousity, are there 3-d scanners available as well?  Or are those pretty pricy?  Either way, I can't afford it, but would be a nice toy for down the road.