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Cheers all,

the past weeks i have been busy setting up a free bitcoin lottery.

>>> http://bitcoin.lift-institute.com/lottery/ (http://bitcoin.lift-institute.com/lottery/)

Head over there and grab some tickets.

I'd like to know your opinions on:

- Is the Lottery easy to understand?
- Does it look like a scam to you? Or is it trustworthy?
- What kind of statistics would you want to see? Or is it too many already?
- How high should a good prize be?
- Did you experience any bugs?
- What would you change, anything, if you could?

Really any feedback that comes to your mind is greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Ok, Payment for the 1st raffle has been executed. 2nd Raffle has opened. New Winners on Wednesday!

TX Fees are a pain for the prize pool. If anyone here knows of a good way to send small transactions to many for reasonable fees, please let me know! I don't mind if they confirm a bit slower! It's free money i am giving out and i don't want to give the miners a bigger share than the winners ;)

Ok, we shifted the prize pool over to blockchain.info's wallet service.

The next prizes should come at a much lower fee. This also means, they will take a bit longer to be confirmed on the network. But it ensures the subsequent raffles to keep a higher pool volume because less will be wasted on the TX Fees.

Looks promising, I personally don't like the visual effect on the website.

I think it needs a lot of work :).

Hi Welsh,

thanks for your feedback. Could you specify what you don't like about the "visual effect" ?!

we try to keep it simple and clean... but the design is not final at all, so more input will sure help us develop a better look and feel!

I like 'simple and clean' Site looks ok on first look, will have a better look later. Can I register for multiple tickets then? Thanks

Hi alibaba, yes, you can hold many tickets when the raffle ends, to multiply your chances of winning. You can claim a new free ticket every 30minutes!

We added another counter to the raffle stats showing how many addresses are playing... what do you think is this rather discouraging or encouraging?

Just signed up for the raffle :) That's a pretty nice site/layout in my opinion. I like simple...

Anyways, thanks for making this! As you can tell, I'm new to this forum (and the Bitcoin currency as a whole), so this (hopefully) will get me some starting funds :P

As for the stats of each drawing, I think its's pretty cool.  Not sure if it's encouraging or discouraging, but it's certainly interesting :)

One constructive piece of feedback I might make is that the submission button is a bit confusing (at least to me). Usually grey text on a button means that it's disabled. But hey, I'm just being picky :P

May I ask what your motives are? Are you just being a nice, generous person?

Hi UltimateNoob, and welcome to the forum!

Thanks a lot for your feedback!

I am doing the site out of excitement for the bitcoin topic and to encourage and excite bitcoin beginners just like you to get to know the workings of bitcoins better.

I would of course hope, that ad revenue would reimburse for the lottery payouts, but that will be hard to achieve without making the site look like all the other faucets.

But I am making a steady 0.1 BTC mostly with mining and in small parts by reaping other faucet sites every day and I don't mind spending a small bit of that income to encourage others for using bitcoins and getting involved with the topic.

P.S.: Good point about the button, I will improve that soon.

I have improved the button's css styling a bit to make it more visible. It's not a big change but it should be more easily recognized as an ACTIVE button now. Thanks again for pointing it out, UltimateNoob!

The 2nd raffle will draw it's winners in less than 24hrs!!

Hurry up and grab some tickets for a chance to win up to 42500 Satoshis.

Having had a further lookng around I really like the site, nice and clean  though I have adblock so may be missing a fair bit of clutter. Fingers crossed for the raffle. Thanks

Thanks! And yeah, you are getting the prettier version with adblock ;) but even without, i think compared to most other faucets it still looks very clean and not too much like an adwall!

If i win a prize I'll disable it forever

Your not gonna win anything because most of these never payout

Agreeable?

OP, tell me truth are you going to payout?

YES we pay out!

one raffle has already been payed, the txID of the last prize payout is available on the site and links to blockchain.info if you want to check that.

I myself do not know who won, but the winners wallet addresses are public and can be checked as well.

the tickets are free so i invite you to participate... maybe we have a lucky one around here who can deliver the proof tomorrow evening ;)

only 12 more hours to go!

Hurry and grab your tickets:
http://bitcoin.lift-institute.com/lottery/ (http://bitcoin.lift-institute.com/lottery/)

We had a few glitches over night where the Pool Balance and Wallet Address verification did not respond. Everything seems to be back to normal though.

GOOD LUCK!

This looks too good to be true, can anyone confirm it works?

Heh! I certainly hope someone will tonight!

great site.

less than 4 hours to go! we are very excited!

hurry and grab some more tickets. we already issued 1100 of those to over 140 addresses...

we really hope someone from here will win and comment in this post if they do so... so many doubters out there who need to be convinced ;)

so, it's official... we have three new winners! the prize is on the way!

a new raffle is open until friday night, go grab your tickets in raffle #3

P.S.: If anyone on here won, please leave a post to confirm... Thanks!

I didn't win. Bum.

I hope you are trying again! and wish you the best of luck! any feedback on the latest improvements?

three more ours, grab your tickets, and don't forget to leave your feedback ;)

also, if there's a winner around, it would be awesome if you could reply here to confirm!

The 3rd round's winners will be drawn shortly.

We made a small last minute change to the prize draw rules:

A single player can no longer win more than one prize during a raffle.

Before the change it would have been possible (however unlikely) for a single player with many tickets to win all 3 prizes in one round.

We thought this would be kind of unfair, so we changed this quickly today.

The 3rd Round is ending in about 30 minutes!

grab a ticket and WIN!

if you don't win, don't worry and prepare for a prize pump in round 4

We have new winners! And the prizes are already on their way, too!

Here's some top secret insights on the last round:
- the grand winner owned 23 tickets when the raffle ended
- the 2nd winner, that was us (our donations address), playing with 30 tickets
- the 3rd winner had claimed only 2 tickets

Because we won 2nd prize ourselves this round, we decided to throw some extra BTC back to the Prize Pool.

Round 4 is on folks! More winners on Sunday!

The Prize Payout transaction has a faulty Public Note attached. it incremented wrongly to #4 where it should be #3...

--> http://blockchain.info/tx/23edb29dd0dc65bf33ffb486808a29cf45e4ca5f0d687bff52339697c8e3ea0d (http://blockchain.info/tx/23edb29dd0dc65bf33ffb486808a29cf45e4ca5f0d687bff52339697c8e3ea0d)

not that it really matters, but i still thought you should know.

We have had a bot attack over night!

As a result someone managed to enter the raffle with over 1000 BTC addresses and random IPs.

To keep the raffle fair we have taken some quick measures to lock the bots out, but we also had to bulk-delete all tickets submitted between 04:40 and 10:34 (UTC) today.

Sorry for the inconvenience. If we have deleted some of your honestly claimed tickets, please leave a comment and we will do what’s possible to restore them!

Hello, please restore my free tickets for BTC address: 114ArwqY1anZqvdB1448V8wLq3pQFHzwmQ.

As they are honest claim.

I did not know how to cheat >> although I wish I could

Hi Qwiner,

we have restored some ( !! ;) ) tickets for you!

Sorry for the inconvenience!

just a few hours left until we draw our next winners!!

Hurry and grab some more tickets before the time runs out!

http://bitcoin.lift-institute.com/lottery/ (http://bitcoin.lift-institute.com/lottery/)

wow great site, i just join with 2% odds hahaha

heh, well, the odds calculator gets a bit strange sometimes ;)

if i do my math you should have something closer to 0,3 %. How many tickets do you own?

The 4th Raffle has ended and we have 3 new lucky winners! The prizes are on the way and we are moving on with a new raffle ending in just 48hrs!

We increased the pool balance again!!

The current raffle will pay a total of 0.00117578 BTC in prizes.

Grand Prize : 0.00058789 BTC
2nd Prize : 0.00035273 BTC
3rd Prize : 0.00023516 BTC

The lucky ones will be picked on tuesday!

The site is simple and clear, no obtrusive ads is a plus, aw i lost with a 30 percent chance yesterday. :P trying with just one ticket this time round! Cheers to F :D

congratulations to our last winners... the prizes are on the way...

on to the next round... another 48 hours to collect free tickets...

How to be a millionaire, part 3521.
I guess if prizes will be higher then lottery can be more popular

Heh, yeah... becoming a millionaire will take a while with us ;) But hey, it's free money to win, and if you DO win, it's a lot more than most faucets will give you...

We hate CAPTCHAs just as much as you do.

However, there were still some suspected intrusions lately and we see no other choice than putting a CAPTCHA in place to keep it fair for all “human” players.

What we have set up right now will probably not be the long-term solution, but it serves it’s purpose as quick fix to lock the bots and scripters out for good!

Makes sense :)

allrightey... we have new winners again... congratulations!

on to the next raffle, this time it will be on for 3 days...

and to say sorry for all the capcha... this round will be the biggest prizes ever!

I cant access the site is it down?

nope... should be up, we can access it normally!

>> http://bitcoin.lift-institute.com/lottery/ (http://bitcoin.lift-institute.com/lottery/)

please try again, if you are still having trouble please PM us your IP address and location as well as the error message the browser is showing you... maybe we can help?!

Nevermind all is well my internet was just acting up >.< sad face

allrighty... good luck in the lottery

TWELVE more hours until we draw our next winners!

Hurry and grab some tickets before it's too late.

It needs a lot of work.

Hi cescan,

thanks for your feedback, but really, we are puzzled as to what you were trying to say!

- is it "a lot of work" to play in the lottery..
or
- is it "a lot of work" that we need to do to improve, if so, where do you want us to start...

it would be great if you let us know more!

I like it. S&C :)

good site, i hope the price size will increase in the future

They will!

we are preparing some additional features, a 4th to 10th (maybe 20th?!) prize, instant wins, joker tickets (worth 10 regular tickets in the raffle) as well as some grafic gimmicks for gamification... not all is sure to be implemented in the end, yet...

once we have successfully developed all features we will continue BETA operation for a few raffles, once we go out of BETA we plan to substantially increase the prizes.

stay tuned ;)

one raffle ends... CONGRATULATIONS!

a new raffle begins... GOOD LUCK!

we have also smoothed out the pool balance again...

somebody evened out the prize pool again... nice surprise... wait, that was us, as usual ;)

hehe... enjoy the prizes drawn tomorrow.

P.S.: secret hint: if more than 200 addresses register for the raffle, a 4th and 5th prize will be drawn ;)