I'm considering starting a new crypto lottery. I know this has been tried many many times before but hear me out!
To me, crypto lotteries have not had any success for three main reasons
1. People don't trust the winning numbers (ie the founders could easily just fix the ''winning'' numbers to tickets they bought.) I think this is the main reason
2. People don't trust that winning tickets will actually be paid out, nor do they trust the prizes will be for the correct amount of money
3. They arent continually marketed (either because the the people that set them up hoped they would grow organically) or because they didnt have the money to actually spend on marketing
To combat these problems I propose a lottery that does the following
1. The draw will use the numbers from a real life government run lottery e.g. Mega Millions
http://www.megamillions.com/ or Powerball
http://www.powerball.com/pb_home.asp. These are the two biggest lotteries in the USA which operate in most states so at least players will not the draw will not be rigged by the founders of the crypto. So although people buy tickets to the lottery using the new crypto coin, the winning numbers will be from a real life lottery.
2. Winning tickets will all be paid out on a publich blockchain - ie could be viewed on etherscan. Purchased tickets will also be viewable, so people can see if prize fund is correct (ie make sure the founders arent't scamming players)
3. A set percentage of the lottery revenue will be used for marketing e.g. 3-5%. This should help increase the chance of long term success of the lottery.
Some government run lotteries only pay out 50% of revenue in prizes (I at least know this is the case in the UK) . I'm proposing paying out around 93%, with the rest being used for marketing and being profit for the founders (e.g. 1-2%)
Before you say it - yes I know there are crypto gambling sites where the house edge is less. E.g. Satoshi Dice I believe was/is 1%. However this lottery wouldnt be competing with these casinos - the target market would be people that play nation government lotteries were the payout is like 50%.
The bitcoin / ethereum lotteries which claim to pay out 99% etc are all shady operations which nobody trusts.
I'm interested in peoples feedback.
Thanks