Every participant is assigned one permanent slot in a universe of 10,000,000 slots. Your slot is your identity in every daily draw for five years, and your claim on the Year 5 settlement. Slots are assigned in the order of registration — there is no priority queue, no insider allocation, no reserved block.
Because fewer than 1,000,000 slots are filled, you would be eligible for the 275 BTC founding draw as well as all 1,825 daily draws — your only structural advantage is being entered in two draws instead of one. Both are paid at Year 5 settlement if treasury profit is sufficient to purchase the full 2,100 BTC obligation at market price; if profit is insufficient, no BTC is purchased and all profit flows into the pro-rata cash distribution.
This wallet will receive any Bitcoin payout if your slot is drawn, and your pro-rata share of the Year 5 Pool distribution. The wallet is permanent — it cannot be changed after registration.
Internet Identity covers you if you lose access to a device — its multi-device recovery lets you add backup passkeys and authenticators, so losing one device does not mean losing your wallet. Take the extra minute during setup to add at least one backup device.
Other wallets do not. If you register with Plug, NFID, Stoic, or any seed-phrase wallet and you lose access to it, you lose access to your slot and any distribution the protocol would pay you. No recovery mechanism exists at the protocol level — the wallet is your identity for the full five-year cycle.
One-time AML/KYC under Gibraltar's DLT framework. Performed by an independent provider. Your identity information is not visible to the Bitcoin Storm protocol or its operators.
The protocol fee is fixed at $100 and paid once. Your $100 is routed automatically and immutably at the moment of payment — 95% to the Participant Pool, 5% to the Operating Fee Reserve. Both acquire ICP immediately and are held for the full five-year cycle.
Your slot has been assigned and written to the canister. It is permanent. It cannot be reassigned, transferred, or changed. Every draw for the next five years uses this slot number as your identity.
You are now a Bitcoin Storm participant. The details below are permanent and immutable. Your slot is live, your wallet is bound, and the protocol will run every draw through to Bonanza Day at Year 5.