It's been well over a year since BitMillions went offline. We loved BitMillions. There are hundreds of bitcoin gambling sites, but interestingly enough there's a lack of classic bitcoin lotteries, so we decided to create one.

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce you ByteLotto.com - a classic bitcoin lottery.

• It is a classic lottery game, 5 picks out of 59.
• To ensure fairness, numbers are not drawn but based on Powerball numbers.
• Two draws a week.
• No fake jackpot promises. No prize rollover. Prizes are rolled down to the nearest matching combination and whole prize pool is paid out every draw!
• No login / registration. Pick your lucky numbers and provide your bitcoin address.
• 1 combination costs 0.001 BTC ($0.3)
• Reward pool of the last draw was 0.363 BTC ($96)
• House edge is ~10%
• Affiliation plan for those that don't feel lucky

Suggestions, questions and criticism - welcome!

Thanks for the highlight, it does make sense!

So the right answer to the original question would be: if in year 2015, after Bitcoin Core 0.27 comes out, network sticks with 0.26 for a longer period, core developers will need to scrap the changes done in 0.27 or "risk" someone taking over with a more reasonable fork.

Should the penetration of the latest version become a problem, it can be dramatically improved with (semi) automatic updates of desktop clients and availability of (semi) official binaries for various *nix flavors.

Current desktop user's are either not aware they can/should update, or they are not certain the upgrade will not mess with their wallet and they don't bother to spend time to verify that. The majority of desktop users are to lazy to upgrade, unless there is serious functionality upgrade, they are aware of.

The majority of server administrators like to yum / apt-get update daily/weekly/monthly, but when it comes to compiling the code, it takes effort to read through release/upgrade notes, backup wallet, etc, so they don't do it as frequently.

Credit card companies charge anywhere from 0 to 5%, but most of the merchants are in the 1%-3% range.

Bank fees vary a lot, but in the end are based on transfer fees set by different transfer systems. For an end-user that can be from $0.30 to a couple of dollars.

While exponentialy rising value was good to attract users, miners and investors, stable value is needed to achieve customer and merchant adoption, so being around $500 is not neccesary bad. As it is now, nobody really knows where we'll be in a year, up at $10k or down at $1.