This is definitely not just more people playing... I figure it is one or more than one player buying a bunch of tickets and then dividing the winnings. We are seeing people with
3 000 000 and 9 000 000 tickets and that means they are dumping at least 1.53 BTC on this lottery. That person who won the 10th prize of 0.00590555 BTC ....spend 1.53 BTC
in tickets. That is just crazy... or something is wrong here. Why spend $600+ to win $2.7? .....There has to be some group of people who is sharing the prize.
But how do you know he/they bought the tickets? It's probably easier to earn them by gambling. Example: set auto-bet with a base bet at 85000 sats (10 tickets per roll) at payout ~x1.1125 and increase base on loss at ~x10, if you have large balance, with bit of luck you can earn thousands if not millions of tickets while actually making a profit.
But personally I think those could relate to the top referrers (you also earn ticket for each roll of your referee).
Interesting observation Mr Holmes, I did not see the recent addition of the " 1 ticket for every 0.00008500 BTC that you wager in the MULTIPLY BTC game! " ...thank you for
pointing that out to me. I just cannot see how people would risk using the multiply option, because I have never been very successful with that part of the faucet. If the
person got those tickets from the referral side, we would have noticed it before in some of the other draws. It has never been this high... only averaging at about 1 BTC per
week for the last couple of months.
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