How the giveaway works
One entry per video, per person
Each unique commenter on a giveaway-eligible video earns one entry for that video. Multiple comments on the same video do not increase your chances. Commenting on multiple videos in the same week earns one entry per video.
Weekly cadence
Each week's giveaway covers a Monday-to-Sunday range of comments. The draw happens on the following Friday.
Fair, public picks
We publish the picking rule before the draw, then use a public source of randomness no one — including us — can predict or influence. Anyone can re-run the math and confirm the same winner. Each winner page shows the full receipts.
Disqualifications
Bot-like behavior, hate speech, or attempts to spam multiple accounts will be excluded at the data-cleaning step.
Technical details (for the curious)
The winner is picked by a deterministic random function (seedrandom(blockHash)) seeded by the hash of a future Bitcoin block. Before the draw, we publish a commitment.json stating the exact rule (e.g., "the first block mined after Friday 17:00 UTC"). When that block is mined, its hash becomes the seed.
Anyone can re-derive the winner from the published weighted_pool.json and seed.json:
pnpm verify <run-id>
Because the commitment is published before the block exists, no one — including us — can predict or manipulate the seed.
Excluded usernames are recorded in each run's config.json for transparency.