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Hey people,

I was wondering, would you be interested in a bitcointalk.org lottery?

I didn't saw any and I'd like to organize one.
It could be a rather easy daily thread. Every day you can come and buy any amount of tickets you want at 0.01 btc then we could draw a number. Or maybe do it on a larger scale to have bigger prizes!

I'm totally willing to organize this  and I could send enough funds to a trusted escrow so you can be sure I'm not going to run away with the coins xD
Like if I escrow 1 btc it means I could sell until 1 btc worth of tickets without you to be worried of me running away!

The only problem I got is that I could still play with an alt and then make enough dran on random.org to make me win, so does anyone have an idea on how I could draw a random number and prove every one it was a true random unique draw and not my 56th try to draw my number? ^^

If anyone is interested don't hesitate to answer in the thread or pm me :)

www.twitch.tv or TeamViewer or skype is the answer.

It would be fun , and how about limit the participant to 10 max only with 0.01 ticket .
So the winner will won 0.1 , what do you think?

The last lotteries here failed and were short lived, but good luck to you and use escrow

The idea of a lottery is that you can buy as many tickets as you want. The thing is that if you don't hit with 90% of tickets in your possession you just lost 90% to win 10%..

Basically it is than just like rolling dice with a specific bet at specific odds.

Personally I wouldn't play a bitcointalk lottery, I'd just buy a ticket for a national lottery if I want to try my luck like that.

Thx! Twich will be perfect!

Really? Well I hope if I make the project strong enough it'll work!


You wouldn't play a little lottery here? Any reason why? Even a little ticket for the fun?

There has already been lot of failed lottery attempts in the section.Glad you're willing to escrow the amount.If random number generation is not an answer then you could use other services which encrypts the number.The only disadvantage here is,we would never know if you're participating in the lottery as your alt knowing the number.I think instead of selecting the winner on number basis something more random should be taken into consideration .

Well that's the point.

If I escrow the amount I can't simply run away with the money.
If I twich the draw at random.org, I can't just make the draw for myself or one of my alts!

If I'm honest - No I wouldn't be interested in a bitcointalk.org lottery. I'm sure others will be though & if you have honest intentions with this then I wish you good luck with your venture.

It is too much of a hassle in my opinion for too little reward.

You have the chance to get scammed or have the drawing manipulated for one.

correct. I think not many people who would be interested in this game. many existing lottery games

The people that feed the lottery monster are the ones that can least afford it. You can ask people to fill in a survey, hold a focus group or get letters of support from key local groups. There are some people though who might love your idea but who these methods just won’t reach. It certainly is a challenge to get other members of your community on board.

i don't know if anyone else agree with me but i had bad experience if related about lottery because i was never win even just only once might be i do not have much lucky during that

I think a few people in the past actually tried something similar with little or no success. Its pretty much pointless so you can simply go to any dice site and bet 1 BTC on 1% odd of winning, and also it much quicker and much more secure.

This. Also, there is already a bitcoin lottery site, pvpot.com. I don't think that this idea will receive much success unless you think of something very innovative/funny.

The idea is very interesting and quite good. I really like this, but I am still very hesitant towards how to determine the winners in the lottery, because if you rely solely on a website such as the number of the random.org weapon, it indicates that the game is very less attractive and less professional. So if you want to make the game interesting and professionally make a very good method of weapon and can be seen Live, while you do the randomization.

And verifiable, I personally wouldn't be interested in it but OP you can give it a shot if you like but your concerns are right, you need a way to make it completely UN-cheat able.

Those who are lucky in raffle draws or lottery could join if you can convince them that they can trust you. For me, I have never won a single ticket in my whole life so I am not going to try this one now. I am much luckier doing dice or plinko.

As I say nearly every time something like this gets brought up it won't work.
Why play a lottery when you can get the exact same provably fair odds on a dice site but instantly.
Sure, fun community thing I guess but when these things do get off the ground they are short lived. Hell I even did one myself once .015~ I think. It's just not worth anyone's time anymore.

But how will you know if you are really lucky on raffle or not? Because if you never try it you will never know the result then. And by trying a couple of times doesnt determine that you not lucky because it is luck games. And all people will have this kind of problem, money problem. Most of them which have more money will have a higher chance to win it but the rest just depends on their luck

You know you are lucky when you when a couple of raffles. Like this friend of mine who won grand prize in two consecutive christmas raffles.

I would like to participate here in lottery

I am very interested in this, but I know that I will not win this lottery, because I was always not lucky if i follow something like this  ;D

This isn't a bad idea, but there is already too many forum-based lottery game that failed miserably.

How about if a trusted third-party draw the number for you? But, IMO, you should use provably fair system to draw the number.

exactly this^^

i don't know about miserably but i have seen many topics in this section about lottery on the forum and none of them stayer around and many of them could not get any attention at all, use search to find them.

i think lottery is better be done on a website rather than forum and escrow and live drawing of the winning number and streaming the video is a must have.

i like the idea of lottery in bitcoin, but i like partecipate only if the prizee is very big, like national lottery with thousand and thousand of ticket sell.
The problem is every time the same, not only provably fair but confidence to the owner.
i think buy ticker only if the owner is any administrator of bitcointalk or Stunna

I would be very interested I think its a pretty good idea because the community gets closer because of this in my opinion, and its will also attract people because you can win money with it.
Of course its how more people will like this idea and will go for it how more money there is to win at the end.

I myself is very interested,i even want to make one website for bitcoin lottery, but after some research i found the response for the lottery is quite low so i cancel making the website, but if you want to make one, i am interested in playing the lottery

You should check out https://www.reddit.com/r/millionairemakers/.  They hold a drawing each month (its's not technically a lottery because you don't have to pay to enter) and they use an algorithm that is dependent on the blockchain (I'm not sure exactly how it works).  If you enter into the drawing, you are supposed to pay a dollar to whoever wins.  I think they get around tax/legal problems by not calling it a lottery and not making people pay before they enter.  Because of this a lot of people don't give their dollar even though they enter.  I've been participating each month for a while now.

But that doesnt guarantee that your friend win the next raffle because this raffle thing is pure luck or may be you can still boost your winning chance by buying it again with your money but still that is not a guarantee and I dont think your friend could keep on winning it unless it is not provably fair

Website or escrow I guess it is just the same both of it will have a chance to scam it anyway because it is a big money you got there so they still can hypnotized by the huge money there. Unless you really using some reputable escrow with great trust I think this will minimize your money being stole

I think its a good thing to have some lottery over here but it has to attract as much people as possible on the whole forums. You do not have to bet with high numbers or gamble just pick a number and you will maybe win a lot of bitcoins.

Also there has to be many people in the lottery so you will never have to pay a lot to get in the lottery.

Oooooooooooooook!

Well thanks for all your answer. Except maybe one or two the answers were all:
"The idea is not too bad but last didn't work'
or: "I'm not interested in that but maybe someone will be"

So I guess that was an easy poll made and the result is obvious:
Nobody wants a lottery xD

So wel have a good day all and I gonna close the topic!

Ok well for whatever reason I don't really understand it seems I can't close the topic ^^'

Maybe it's because of the option I selected while creating the thread... Don't know.

Anyway the thread is at list unoficially closed ;D

I am interested too in bitcointalk lottery. What is it? Where would I find it in section? How  to do it? Please give me details about it. Thank you and Godbless.

I suggest you should first try to contact the admins of this sites maybe they can help you instead. In terms of drawing there were really a lot of live chats that you can use but if you don't want to reveal your face then i think you should find another idea.

i think it will be fun if there is a lottery on here, but i would love to give suggestion, the price don't have too expensive because not all people on here have much bitcoin and they can't join too if the price is to expensive. maybe in just 0.001 and the limit participant is 100 people, and then if its reach 100 people, the lottery will start begin to choose the winners number. after that, the lottery will start a new round and so on.

This thread is already old to consider, look at the date, and no such follow up query are being followed up by the OP.

As it says..

 I will instead of using your energies on this idea of lottery better come out with something more interesting which people like. I am regular player of lottery but physical one to win some jackpot not few cents. You can take more time to make research and missing features of current gambling sites can be plus point for you. People will jump to participate or play if you have something unique instead of lottery idea. Though thread is outdated but it still can guide new persons to understand what bitcointalk community want and what don't want like lottery concept. It is good to put feed back for someone who have similar idea.

Yes.  ofcourse when I think its a lucky day I always join pr biy lottery ticket hoping i might win so instead of buying real tickets wherein I nwver win then maube I can try bitcoin lottery.  Really interesting

Its obvious this thread is dead and even OP would have forgotten he created something like this...

somehow you are very interested in the lottery, which is not necessarily where you can get it. I don't think that it's a good thing for our lives, for the lottery is a game of luck and we'll never get a good opportunity if people are following more than 4 people

This will be a nice idea where you are going to host this kind of event or no? i did't saw any of this happened in my entire life here in bitcointalk forum and if you are going to host a event like this pobably many people are going to join and you are going to use escrow record it whenever you are going to make a draw :D

At least you can tell the time when you will do the randomizing and also recorda video starting at that time. I saw many people doing such things for lotteries.
As for the idea of such a lottery - I think it will be interesting for many people and can even encourage some new to use Bitcoin and become members of Bitcointalk forum, so good luck  ;)

I think it will be interested if its fair lottery
and how it works ? because lottery is need a transparancy

Why not? Probably it would be worth trying and also could be fun. But how it would be organized and who will monitor that everything is according to the rules? How could we know that it wasn't set up? This idea needs to be more detailed.

Im in and i woul be interested in bitcointalk lottery if some gonna host and if you are going to be hosting a lottery that a great idea and you are going to use escrow estimated the number of the people who gonna join is probably 40/100 people thats fun now host lottery so we can test our luck on this.

i think your idea of lottery in btc is good . but in my opinion this will be wrost if there will be scam because no one can clear that how did you choose the person to reward/win him . so i think it would be better give a better platform for clear these things . then everyone will attract toward this program of btc lottery .

If it would work just like how a real lottery works then I can see it being successful and become a not scam job as some here might think.
It can be done and I have seen similar things like raffles being pull of here so why not a lottery. They are sort of similar in certain ways. :)

I think its a little bit hard because we are talking money here folks. Just as what you said you could  possibly create alts which you could know the  number results. I do like the idea on  a lottery but  the hindrance is  on how to show to winning numbers. I would suggest to make a live video on facebook during draw date and showing the number i guess.

Yeah, maybe bitcointalk lottery itself which hosted here

Maybe we can just deposit like 0.001 btc, and maybe for 1000 people joined, it auto roll and decides :D

As op said those  amount  would be collected would  be  on a trusted   escrow , the  main thing  or problem he was saying about  on how  he would manage to  show legit  numbers  on doing raffle. As other member said he could do actually  facebook live im sure  it would  be possible.

The thing is it would require extra time to proof to the people the lotery is being legit, but thats the only way to build trust and let the people really invest at such thing.

Its basically too much work, takes too long, its very hard to trust someone with escrow with that much money. You might as well go to a dice site and bet on 0.01% win rate and if you win, its exactly like winning the lottery.

It's totally different in dice game to win bet on chance 0.01% is pretty small even you do this method for 1 weeks not sure you can win these bet.

Its a good idea provided there is a big jackpot for a small entry cost so like a 1btc jackpot isn't enough IMO.  Then i worry how do you protect against corruption if the idea does get big.  Is there anyway to decentralize this?

Set one up and I will join it.

I would be interested in signing up for a lottery. Since they are commonly not too much to enter then I say I would be able to spare a couple of bits at this moment. ;)
Just announce when it will be held and I will enter in. ;D

It is nice to see some positive response for lottery based on Bitcoin. I think OP has left the thread much time ago but all this feedback will surely be helpful to someone new who is interesting to run something similar. What I have seen people usually don't show any interest and neither me I will not join an lottery which has small amount to win.

i would like a bitcointalk lottery but only with small bits , about 0.001BTC per ticket will be a good price , also should be allowed just 1 ticket for every member , maybe 2 or 3 but no more

I think having a small-pot/small entry fee lottery might be an interesting thing to add and something that I might participate in, but there would definitely have to be a lot of trust with the host of the lottery and they would have to prove themselves (or have proven themselves at some point in the past) if we ever wanted to see something like this work. It might be possible, but there are a lot of variables and thing associated with everything.

I think the gambling community of this forum will be more interested about a bitcointalk lottery, because they are already fans of gambling and lotteries, it would be great idea for them

Yes it will be great to open some lottery here. The problem is how are they going to pick up the winner and how will it go? Because people need some provably fair system not something that only hold for a while. Let say if they manage to open some lottery, will it last long enough to let people get some money or they will just keep eating our balance without some provably system

that would be a problem, the peoples needs  a proof of how winner is chosen, because the organizer of the lottery could create a fake account and say that he won

Depending on the type of lottery, I would be game for it!!  Please post more information about the lottery on here so we can keep updated.  Also if you are the one designing this, please make it fun and exciting.  I am so tired of same old thing, over and over.

i dont think he is one of the designer, he just asked an opinion . btw also i would be game for a lottery, a new lottery not like simple lottery's .

I have not seen to many lotteries going on here for bitcoin yet.  Does anyone know of any lotteries that are currently going on which are based on an outside source, such as the power ball (in the united States) or anything like that?

Yeah i also like the lottery idea, but i doubt about the prize and the provably fair system, if someone can convince me about those things and the lottery price is not expensive maybe i will try it, but i dont see many lottery games here, maybe not many people interested in it

I think this is a goog idea, lottery in bitcointalk can make all users to participate and active in this forum. So, this forum will be the best bitcoin forum as specify and general forum. The problem is every time the same, not only provably fair but confidence to the owner (about like and dislike).

I think addicted gamblers will love a lottery of this forum. Other lotteries here did not have success and failed in very short time. Personally I am not interested as I am becoming more of a reasonable gambler and following news and tipsters on soccer bets. But let's see maybe this lottery of yours can be something unique although I don't believe it will be different from the others before.

Most of lottery price is not expensive but you really need to buy a lot so that you can win that amount though. Because they need to take some percentage for them too, the more you buy the higher payout will be and they will earn a lot too. Let say 1 btc price and 1% they take it will be 0.01btc. That is like free money for them though

Yeah your right, and in my opinion i think only few people here are interested on some lotteries its because people used to gamble on those casino where they used to get fun and excitement right there, aswell as people might gonna find this confusinh since the chances to win in lotto is very low, So OP if you find it unique and well be good to run well let the game rolling, but don't expect to much that people will like this idea.

I would not be very interested and that is only because i dont like to gamble with my bitcoins you know. But what i do know is that there would be allot of peope interested because allot of people are gambling with bitcoins.

I think that there are allot of people would be interested and that is because there are so many people gambling with bitcoins and not just a couple of them are gambling with allot but everyone who gambles ends up with allot of losses in money lottery would help them do it even more.

Lottery is totally different from ordinary gambling because it has very low odds as compare with other forms of gambling, lottery has no charm for so many people because of very smart chance of winning, people want instant result and bigger odds of winning even lottery has so big prizes but normal casinos has a lot of attraction to play there.

For me it would depend on how much a ticket will cost and how much how could make off it because if I do not like the prizes I will not take place in it.
it would be a fun new experiment tho so they should try it out.

I would not be interested into the bitcoin lottery because i dont like to gamble with my bitcoins you can do allot of better things with your bitcoins instead of gambling with it you know.

Sir, yes Sir!

And what?

Then you didn't even needed to reply here since I believe this question was for gamblers who are actually gambling various games like dice and plinko so the question was will they be interested in playing a lottery based on bitcointalk.org forum. I would say yes.

Something like that is sounding nice but it would be a big task too make this in my eyes plus you also need a lot of people that are willing to play this.
I think if you are making some good adverts it can be done and it will nice a bitcoin lottery!

you are right, that the lottery is now less demand by everyone. because lotttery is just a thing that less input or an advantage to those who use it. so you better use or make other games like poker or dice