We are not in Vegas but we use the same business model of giving away free stuff to bring customers in. We don't run a massive progressive slot jackpot funded by a 17% edge, we run a faucet, lotto and rewards program funded by a 5% house edge.
 

The lottery is run as a loss leader. Most of the tickets are either given away through free rolls or lotto RP bonus or bought with free rolls winnings. As I explained to Kakmakr earlier.

Vegas casinos run an edge anywhere between 5% and 17% on their most popular games.

broken_record just wants to make a lot of noise and call us out for running a successful casino using the same business model. I've already answered all his bullshit countless times. He just goes back to the start and tries and fails to make the same arguments again.

How to get them is not what I was referencing.  It's how the capitol for those free rolls is created.  Free rolls only exist because the dice game causes people to lose on purpose (it's purposefully rigged AGAINST players with a massive 5% house edge).  Therefore those "tickets" are also coming from that massive 5% house edge.  Since the players are the ones footing the bill for the house edge and not Freebitco,  it's the PLAYERS that are losing,  not freebitco.  Wetsuit no longer has his own capitol in the site.  He got that all back years ago.  He started it with 5BTC and has since made that back and then some.  Like.  A LOT of then some.  They might say "Oh but the cost of the servers" yada yada is just utter BS.  I'm a systems administrator and I know that a server only costs $20/month max for a site like this.  The bandwidth wouldnt be all that bad either because it's all text.  No videos, images,  etc.  The cost to pay TheQuinN might be something to consider but unless he's making a few mill/month,  his cost isnt really that much compared to what he site does in profit anyway.  Casinos are extremely profitable.  Thats why they are banned nearly everywhere (including online,  freebitco isnt exactly legal in the US because it does no KYC among other requirements heh) because if they could,  they'd have a casino in every town causing a large percent of the population to become completely poor due to gambling habits.  So if you realize that they are already operating with less than legal/honest status,  you need to question everything else as well.  https://www.gamblingsites.com/online-gambling-jurisdictions/us/  Quite a few states just outright ban online gambling all together regardless (Since that time, state law related to gambling has continued to evolve. Some US states have gone so far as to outlaw online gambling outright. The states of New Jersey and Nevada, for example, have declared that all non-state regulated online gambling is illegal. The other anti-online gaming states outlaw Internet betting in all forms.)

All it would take is for one disgruntled player to contact their state with a complaint and shit would change in a hurry for wetsuit.  This is why I have absolutely NO respect for any illegal online casino (such as freebitco) or anyone who works for one.  I'll abuse them until the cows come home (with my bot of course lol) because I know there is nothing they can do legally about it without getting themselves in hot water as well.  So dont believe anything Wetsuit or TheQuinN have to say.  They are just as much of a crook as any one else doing illegal things.  They dont get to call the kettle a cooking item when they are themselves a stove and will burn you at every opportunity possible.

Yea but I dont consider those as a "loss" because someone had to deposit and lose in multiply game for me to get those,  so it's not anything freebitco had to fund themselves.  The users of the site fund it,  not freebitco.  Thus freebitco cant claim it as "a loss" to them because it's not.  So thats why I was asking where one could buy tickets for less than 1 sat (the point is you cant heh).  TheQuinN has a bad habit of trying to paint things in snake oil speak (classic marketer,  he likes to call others snake oily instead of looking in the mirror so I call him snake oil in return lol).  He purposely leaves out important details that users should know

if you didnt block some operations, do it fast
block

- INSERT
- UPDATE
- DELETE

for avoid trolls and vandals

I was interested in SELECT all query.

And...
This things are getting really interesting for me. May be I want to start learning how to scrape data 

Good job mate.

PS: It took long time to pull-up the entire table (Letting you know only - hoping you can do something)

Can that be proven?  I find this an interesting statement.  I pay zero attention to the lottery because it's pointless but saying it runs at a loss is interesting,  I'd like to see how thats calculated.  I took a quick look at last week's Lottery and I see it had 10.50793433BTC worth of tickets (1,050,793,433) sold but it appears that only about 5.13095333 was actually paid out.  That's suspiciously close to the 47.5% rate of the multiply rolls.  So how is the lottery any different.  If 1 ticket == 1 Sat,  then 1,050,793,433 / 100,000,000 == 10.507....  So how do you figure it's run at a loss?  From where I sit,  that looks like a MASSIVE profit to me.  Where can you buy lottery tickets for less than 1sat?  Free rolls dont really count because that capitol was paid for by someone depositing and losing on the dice.  So how can you say you run it at a loss if the capitol you give out was not yours to begin with?

From when it happened:


It was disabled while they were still investigating the hack and then just never turned back on. Removing avatars is done from the same page as adding one:


If you are not a Full Member or above you can't get to that page. I think it is just how SMF works rather than deliberate. ie the permission setting to add or remove an avatar is the same thing so you can't grant permission to one without the other.

So it seems that there aren't any new Bitcoiners that are running full nodes. This is unfortunate if it is a general problem, as we need a supply of fresh nodes to preserve the decentralisation of Bitcoin. Running a pruned node is not so much of a hardship, but downloading the blockchain is a bit of a barrier. I'll see if I can think of a way to avoid having to do this.

It may be useless in your opinion but it may help others with far less experience.

I can see that you know exactly what you are doing and you have calculated the risk so the point of my posting was not targeted at you, but, as I said, to others less experienced in lending. It seems that you felt offended somehow by my post and overreacted, but, by all means I didn't told you what to do or not to do. I just explained the mentality and behavior in a specific scam case (don't missunderstand and think that I'm refering to this case exactly, I'm reffering to this exact situation where a scam may occur).

You have the right of your own opinion, but if by my posting I help at least one person to avoid beying scamed, then I don't see it as useless nor as with "not much point".

Also, I have no reason to reply to this VIA PM, because I don't want to start a debate about this. You are entitled to your oponion and I am entitled to mine. In no way I want to convince you to agree with me, but there is no need to use words like "useless" and "not much point".

That was before the 2013 forum hack. That also means it is impossible for them to remove that avatar. In this case, that means they are most likely stuck with someone else's photo.

You are 100% correct, you do not have the right to complain about NOT winning the lottery, with a combined total of 9754

 tickets bought for the lottery. Have you worked out what your odds are with 9754 tickets on a Lottery that sells over

1,000,000,000 per week? Like you said, just enjoy the site and write the experience off as entertainment and you never

know, one day might just be your lucky day. 

You are right with most of your points but the truth is that not everyone plans to scam from the begining. This ideea usually occurs after someone obtained the funds and has no incentive to pay back.

Also, in most cases, the money that he received didn't do any good in the long run, because the person saw that it's possible to get money and never pay back and start pursuing this road. In the end will not end well.

You are calling that bad luck, while what happens is that it is the most likely scenario. The vast majority of people play the lottery for their whole lives and they never hit the jackpot.

While its nice to help people, I would usually not suggest doing it when someone new asking for a loan with no collateral because then more people will expect the same or maybe think its free money (especially since OP claimed to only need it for a hour or so but it been about a day since he received it).

perfect example being Shorena/Mexxer-2.

Hmm, I never seem to have any luck with the lottery here even when I have a lot of tickets. I have been in here since 2015 and in that time I haven't won a single prize so my luck is very bad lol I don't mind as I know winning any lottery is very hard with the massive odds against us but it would of been nice to at least win something in the 3 years I've been in here.

i have paypal at the moment if you want to make a exchange though, 2.85$ paypal F&F (me going first) for 2$ btc.