You've just raised many red flags and this looks like scam attempt:
And now, to address your concerns about our drawing process. We are going to let a third party do the draw. We are planning to get the people from random.org themselves (if possible, or someone well known) to do the draw, but we will not do the draw ourselves. Would you rather have the people who made the raffle come up with a process to draw (more chances of manipulating the draw) instead of a completely unrelated third party (that is also well established)? Do you think random.org is not fair in choosing its random numbers? If you have concerns about how random.org chooses random numbers, check out their FAQ page as they have tons of information. Thanks.
You can easily fake results using random.org. Don't play dumb.
Use this
https://www.randompicker.com or don't run lottery.
Regarding your escrow comment, let me address that first. We started this raffle just this month, and decisions like this takes time; so this is currently still in discussion among our team. In my opinion (not my team decision), I am not for escrow idea because of the following reasons.
Reasons? Lets talk about "reasons" and facts.
Keep in mind that Satoshi Dice and other big risk formats don't have escrow too.
You are not Satoshi Dice. You are brand new site without escrow and fair system.
None of the big bitcoin casinos have that
You are not big casino.
Moreover, you need to be wary even if someone uses escrow because there are scams there too
What this suppose to mean? Do you know what escrow is? You won't get money back from escrow. Escrow will send money to winners(edit* and your % back to you.)
Also, what if our escrow provider goes under and our funds are tied up? Then all our efforts would be ruined as well because of someone else.
There are several highly trusted escrows in forum. If you don't trust 1 use more escrows. This is only excuse not to use escrow.
Also, since this is round 1, we are using most of our profits to promote our raffle.
How many tickets have you sold already? I believe this is something which you call profit, right?
Another problem with the crypto world, since we are accepting only crypto payments, what if we have our escrow funds in BTC, but BTC crashes and we have to pay $1,200,000 USD in prizes?
You are accepting only crypto payments which means if you collect 100BTC, prize pool will be 100BTC no matter what happens with its fiat value.
I doubt escrow would give us the flexibility to transfer a portion to stable fiat money and to use our revenue towards promotions.
You want to run 1,000,000$ worth lottery and you don't have money for promotion/advertising?
These are all excuses, not reasons.
And finally:
Hey, thanks! Just got a few tickets, wish me luck!
Brand new account created to shill for your lottery is one big red flag.
