Winners of the New Years Bitcoin Wizard Art Contest

Finally, the contest has come to an end. This has been really fun for me to do–well worth the prize money!

Gapmunky was originally awarded first place, and was sent 1 BTC. It was soon pointed out to me that this is actually a photoshop enhancement of Dron111‘s work, which was used without his permission. I contacted /u/gapmunky and requested the prize money back. /u/gapmunky returned 0.943 BTC. I then reawarded the runner-up, /u/zeedox, the bulk of this (0.9 BTC) and sent 0.046 BTC to the original third place winner, /u/jharsem.

First place (with a 0.943 BTC btc prize) goes to zeedox (1LM5akzSJCaCpYZMrp5CpYvPFnoi9fqGaW):

But holy crap I wish I had more money to give out, because there were so many awesome entries in this contest. Here are the others that absolutely deserve recognition:

From jharsem (18vmxg6PwULvChLx7ibjQaEayn2WqWyWAh), awarded 0.046 BTC:

From HeRetiKMD (1E9hCs31zqE7e7eFCs9ot9VJ2wDkGEB4Wm):

From shazow (13k8vEMsqidHFCiByVVwr52jnQBRPHjUSX):

From Benelisha (1CEoXoymyvBQEjVfs5voEvtDJcK4geBY9H):

From bosnate78:

From yodark:

From draws4Bits:

From lalizilla:

From damoose:

From NastaKira (1ERfobzDjL8bigNwVTbEvLjUUAaEWwmyks):

From NastaKira (Yes, multiple entries are allowed):

From kazzka:

From angel0devil (1PPS6Fvxg44PGwKuXpMjurKaduPt5UbyZc):

From Otaku23 (1FN97zEnFX1D2WtxKKmAbztma59SrNXqAw):

From StiveGonzales (1CEoXoymyvBQEjVfs5voEvtDJcK4geBY9H):

From cutangle‘s brother (1A7N4VSLEnYj1RoHb3pAno9djo7mdsxtMT):

From darkmagou:

From cutangle (13KLqTKAcUVVLCJNvejmvPQnibJpKjjKLk):

From somealbguy:

From angel0devil (1PPS6Fvxg44PGwKuXpMjurKaduPt5UbyZc):

From Ahiru77:

From chain83 (1HzUKh9osSWaiAtNn2WZKtgmDWkutWFCDT):

From mllebienvenu:

From zucasil:

And finally, from doesitmakesound (As I said in the original post, “All I can say is that if the contest was 90 minutes long, you would have won hands down.”):

Alright, and that’s that! Thanks for reading. I hope you had fun!

Here‘s the original reddit post, which includes all submissions into the contest as well as some works-in-progress not seen here.

Thanks for reading, and a HUGE thank you to everyone who entered their artwork or gave feedback!

New Years Bitcoin Wizard Placement Post (as of 4:52, 31 Dec, UTC)

(By the way, if you see your artwork here without a listed address, it’s because I couldn’t easily find it. Send me a reddit message with your Bitcoin address and I’ll include it as soon as I get it!)

Here is the current lineup of entries into my homemade little contest! They are ordered by how much I love them–if the contest ended now, 1 BTC would go to HeRetiKMD for 1st place, and 0.1 BTC would go to jharsem for 2nd. By the time the contest concludes, each picture will (hopefully!) have a Bitcoin address associated with it, and I’m hoping that many of the runners-up get their own rewards from anyone who likes the artwork.

The contest ends on New Years Eve, so things are far from settled! I am extremely excited to see how it turns out.

Without further ado, the current lineup!

Current 1st place, from HeRetiKMD:

Current 2nd place, from jharsem:

From shazow (13k8vEMsqidHFCiByVVwr52jnQBRPHjUSX):

From Benelisha:

From damoose:

From NastaKira (1ERfobzDjL8bigNwVTbEvLjUUAaEWwmyks):

From NastaKira (Yes, multiple entries are allowed):

From bosnate78:

From angel0devil:

From kazzka:

From Otaku23 :

From StiveGonzales:

From cutangle‘s brother:

From darkmagou:

From cutangle:

From somealbguy:

From Ahiru77:

From chain83 (1HzUKh9osSWaiAtNn2WZKtgmDWkutWFCDT):

From mllebienvenu:

From zucasil:

And finally, from doesitmakesound (As I said in the original post, “All I can say is that if the contest was 90 minutes long, you would have won hands down.”):

Phew! I had to seriously make some hard decisions here, guys. I am desperately hoping that at the end of the day all of these artists get some kind of tips from readers.

Here‘s the original post, with more entries than just my favorites.

Thanks for reading!