Let's have a lottery

[zerorabbit23]

Hi all,

I want to start a small bitcoin lottery in this thread.  I will take .001 BTC deposits to my bitcoin address in my signature, and will pay out to a random entrant in 48 hours (6PM CST on July 12).  I will pay out 50% of the pot so if there are more than 2 players, the winner will get a profit.  If there are 2 players or less, then I will return the player's investments, as the players would not be able to make a profit if they won.

Please post your bitcoin address in a reply to this thread when you enter. That will make it easier to keep track of the total number of players.

Rules:
1)Each entry costs .001 BTC (1 mBTC). Please deposit said 1 mBTC to 17Ko1YEivBycva8U1FhZSBDVeJPDPytmnx to enter the lottery.
2)Only 1 mBTC may be entered per user, to guarantee a pofit on winning. Any extra mBTC will be returned.  (If player A submitted 2 mBTC, player B submitted 1 mBTC, and player C submitted 1 mBTC, and player A won, then per the 50% of the pot rule, player A would not make a profit)
3)Entry starts with this post and ends in 48 hours, at 6PM CST on Sunday July 12.
4)Once the lottery entry period ends, I will tally the total number of players, number them with earliest starting at 1 and numbering them on up to the latest entry.  
5)I will then pick randomly from those number using https://www.random.org/integers/, and the player associated with the winning number will win 50% of the total pot. I will post a screenshot of the random number generated screen on the forum along with the winning payout transaction with the post announcing the winner.
6)If there are 2 or fewer players at the end of the 48 hours, I will return the entered bitcoins to their respective players.

Have fun and hopefully we get a lot of players, so the pot will grow large!

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Edit
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This is no longer going to occur, as the poster below has made me aware that threads like this are not profitable nor is it encouraged

[waterpile]

Hi all,

I want to start a small bitcoin lottery in this thread.  I will take .001 BTC deposits to my bitcoin address in my signature, and will pay out to a random entrant in 48 hours (6PM CST on July 12).  I will pay out 50% of the pot so if there are more than 2 players, the winner will get a profit.  If there are 2 players or less, then I will return the player's investments, as the players would not be able to make a profit if they won.

Please post your bitcoin address in a reply to this thread when you enter. That will make it easier to keep track of the total number of players.

Rules:
1)Each entry costs .001 BTC (1 mBTC).
2)Only 1 mBTC may be entered per user, to guarantee a pofit on winning. Any extra mBTC will be returned.  (If player A submitted 2 mBTC, player B submitted 1 mBTC, and player C submitted 1 mBTC, and player A won, then per the 50% of the pot rule, player A would not make a profit)
3)Entry starts with this post and ends in 48 hours, at 6PM CST on Sunday July 12.
4)Once the lottery entry period ends, I will tally the total number of players, number them with earliest starting at 1 and numbering them on up to the latest entry.  
5)I will then pick randomly from those number using https://www.random.org/integers/, and the player associated with the winning number will win 50% of the total pot. I will post a screenshot of the random number generated screen on the forum along with the winning payout transaction with the post announcing the winner.
6)If there are 2 or fewer players at the end of the 48 hours, I will return the entered bitcoins to their respective players.

Have fun and hopefully we get a lot of players, so the pot will grow large!

You're not the first to do this and the one's before you ended up a failure and no one was interested, heck even if they do escrow there were only 1-2 participants.. plus newbie starting up a lottery without a site is a big NO NO in here.

[zerorabbit23]

Thanks for the warning.  I will not do this again.

[lottery248]

Hi all,

I want to start a small bitcoin lottery in this thread.  I will take .001 BTC deposits to my bitcoin address in my signature, and will pay out to a random entrant in 48 hours (6PM CST on July 12).  I will pay out 50% of the pot so if there are more than 2 players, the winner will get a profit.  If there are 2 players or less, then I will return the player's investments, as the players would not be able to make a profit if they won.

Please post your bitcoin address in a reply to this thread when you enter. That will make it easier to keep track of the total number of players.

Rules:
1)Each entry costs .001 BTC (1 mBTC).
2)Only 1 mBTC may be entered per user, to guarantee a pofit on winning. Any extra mBTC will be returned.  (If player A submitted 2 mBTC, player B submitted 1 mBTC, and player C submitted 1 mBTC, and player A won, then per the 50% of the pot rule, player A would not make a profit)
3)Entry starts with this post and ends in 48 hours, at 6PM CST on Sunday July 12.
4)Once the lottery entry period ends, I will tally the total number of players, number them with earliest starting at 1 and numbering them on up to the latest entry.  
5)I will then pick randomly from those number using https://www.random.org/integers/, and the player associated with the winning number will win 50% of the total pot. I will post a screenshot of the random number generated screen on the forum along with the winning payout transaction with the post announcing the winner.
6)If there are 2 or fewer players at the end of the 48 hours, I will return the entered bitcoins to their respective players.

Have fun and hopefully we get a lot of players, so the pot will grow large!

You're not the first to do this and the one's before you ended up a failure and no one was interested, heck even if they do escrow there were only 1-2 participants.. plus newbie starting up a lottery without a site is a big NO NO in here.

of course is "big NO NO", but you need to understand that people needs a way to start. in a nutshell you wanna get rid of newbie attempt. we are new once man. respect others so people respect you.

[jacktheking]

Ahh. I see you have a neat a nice idea. Well, there's a loophole. You can edit the website on most modern web browser such as Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. And thus, it's not provably fair. I came up with an idea which is provably fair. You can check it out at http://bitrevenues.com/. Also, I take only ~10% the profit. No one is allowed to buy ticket. They are only allowed to claim ticket every one hour. The money in the pot come from revenues from Ads. So, no one can call me scammer or whatever since they did not invest any Bitcoin into it - only time. I know your lottery is closed. However, you're more than welcome to join my site and stand a chance to win 0.015 BTC. There's currently a promotion whereas you can claim a ticket every 30 minutes. The promotion will end next week.

[ianbelada2]

thinking of easy money? wrong move mate. even Hero and Legendary started a game like this but no one played

[jacee]

This kind of game is not really a very effective way to attract participants. I've seen a lot come and go and nothing happened to them.