RE: What is the value of a vote?

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I was called to perform a provably fair random drawing for @reversed-bidbot!

There are a 1491 tickets participating in this round.







































The merkle root of the block in which this post will appear determines the winner. @inversionistam holds tickets number 0 - 7 @frdem3dot0 holds tickets number 8 - 37 @freebornsociety holds tickets number 38 - 54 @skramatters holds tickets number 55 - 85 @zoidsoft holds tickets number 86 - 201 @whatsup holds tickets number 202 - 355 @luegenbaron holds tickets number 356 - 376 @reversed-bidbot holds tickets number 377 - 381 @steem-raffle holds tickets number 382 - 404 @curatorbot holds tickets number 405 - 405 @deirdyweirdy holds tickets number 406 - 431 @romiferns holds tickets number 432 - 433 @clm holds tickets number 434 - 454 @preparedwombat holds tickets number 455 - 563 @freebornangel holds tickets number 564 - 632 @informationwar holds tickets number 633 - 834 @hamismsf holds tickets number 835 - 862 @tftproject holds tickets number 863 - 865 @truthforce holds tickets number 866 - 959 @empress-eremmy holds tickets number 960 - 970 @memeboi holds tickets number 971 - 975 @goldgoatsnguns holds tickets number 976 - 977 @natepower holds tickets number 978 - 982 @thevillan holds tickets number 983 - 983 @amnlive holds tickets number 984 - 1000 @iw-curator holds tickets number 1001 - 1018 @risemultiversity holds tickets number 1019 - 1023 @chieppa1 holds tickets number 1024 - 1032 @flordiaman holds tickets number 1033 - 1037 @ausbitbank holds tickets number 1038 - 1404 @reversehitler88 holds tickets number 1405 - 1406 @wakeupnd holds tickets number 1407 - 1459 @insanityisfree holds tickets number 1460 - 1460 @aconsciousness holds tickets number 1461 - 1463 @commonlaw holds tickets number 1464 - 1469 @wonderlamp holds tickets number 1470 - 1471 @clownworld holds tickets number 1472 - 1475 @jimbobbill holds tickets number 1476 - 1486 @gregorypatrick holds tickets number 1487 - 1490

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The block in which the above post is included has a merkle root of 57d58945d10bbda9001abae7e92b0fb9e1dd8643.
To find the winner we:

1. Convert the merkle root into base 10:
   57d58945d10bbda9001abae7e92b0fb9e1dd8643 = 501444213929486643185473362134246073891649586755.
2. Compute the residual after dividing by the number of tickets: 501444213929486643185473362134246073891649586755 mod 1491 = 217.
3. This is the winning ticket, held by @whatsup.

Congratulations!