Free Lottery

[TheBitMan]

I am finally making use of http://www.btclottery.info/

You enter your address and email and I email you if you win. (You don't need to answer the email to collect the btc)
I will use random.org
The site will be powered by ads to get your ad on the site it costs .30 BTC a month pm me

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[pandemic]

I entered. Note, should be you're in rather than your in.

[TheBitMan]

I entered. Note, should be you're in rather than your in.

thanks, will fix

[Yuusha]

Great idea. How much do you win? Is it based on how much advertising revenue you make, or is it a fixed value?

[TheBitMan]

Great idea. How much do you win? Is it based on how much advertising revenue you make, or is it a fixed value?

Revenue, I take 5% rest goes to the pot

[runlinux]

aight, entered.

do we have to enter EVERY week? just wondering.

[TheBitMan]

aight, entered.

do we have to enter EVERY week? just wondering.

yes

[giantdragon]

How do you prevent multiple requests by one person?

It is quite difficult task. If you cannot do this most probably your service will go bankrupt after few days.
I spent about a month to write a heuristic statistical analyzer that detects fraudulent behavior and it already rejected thousands suspicious requests on my site, but even so it doesn't give 100% probability. Checking e-mail and IP is not enough definitely.

Technical savvy user can easily cheat you by registering many emails and requesting ticket via proxy or TOR node, diluting winning chance of legitimate users.

[TheBitMan]

How do you prevent multiple requests by one person?

It is quite difficult task. If you cannot do this most probably your service will go bankrupt after few days.
I spent about a month to write a heuristic statistical analyzer that detects fraudulent behavior and it already rejected thousands suspicious requests on my site, but even so it doesn't give 100% probability. Checking e-mail and IP is not enough definitely.

Technical savvy user can easily cheat you by registering many emails and requesting ticket via proxy or TOR node, diluting winning chance of legitimate users.

I don't think people will make up a fake email just to have a chance at winning..

[NothinG]

How do you prevent multiple requests by one person?

It is quite difficult task. If you cannot do this most probably your service will go bankrupt after few days.
I spent about a month to write a heuristic statistical analyzer that detects fraudulent behavior and it already rejected thousands suspicious requests on my site, but even so it doesn't give 100% probability. Checking e-mail and IP is not enough definitely.

Technical savvy user can easily cheat you by registering many emails and requesting ticket via proxy or TOR node, diluting winning chance of legitimate users.

It's ran by ads, so the more hits the better.

[TheBitMan]

How do you prevent multiple requests by one person?

It is quite difficult task. If you cannot do this most probably your service will go bankrupt after few days.
I spent about a month to write a heuristic statistical analyzer that detects fraudulent behavior and it already rejected thousands suspicious requests on my site, but even so it doesn't give 100% probability. Checking e-mail and IP is not enough definitely.

Technical savvy user can easily cheat you by registering many emails and requesting ticket via proxy or TOR node, diluting winning chance of legitimate users.

It's ran by ads, so the more hits the better.

They actually pay monthly..lol

[NothinG]

How do you prevent multiple requests by one person?

It is quite difficult task. If you cannot do this most probably your service will go bankrupt after few days.
I spent about a month to write a heuristic statistical analyzer that detects fraudulent behavior and it already rejected thousands suspicious requests on my site, but even so it doesn't give 100% probability. Checking e-mail and IP is not enough definitely.

Technical savvy user can easily cheat you by registering many emails and requesting ticket via proxy or TOR node, diluting winning chance of legitimate users.

It's ran by ads, so the more hits the better.

They actually pay monthly..lol

Just re-read your first post.
I'll drop you a PM
Need to get my site out there a bit.

[Yuusha]

How do you prevent multiple requests by one person?

It is quite difficult task. If you cannot do this most probably your service will go bankrupt after few days.
I spent about a month to write a heuristic statistical analyzer that detects fraudulent behavior and it already rejected thousands suspicious requests on my site, but even so it doesn't give 100% probability. Checking e-mail and IP is not enough definitely.

Technical savvy user can easily cheat you by registering many emails and requesting ticket via proxy or TOR node, diluting winning chance of legitimate users.

Bankrupt? How? Do you even understand how this lottery works?

[giantdragon]

I don't think people will make up a fake email just to have a chance at winning..

People will not, but robots can do this easy.

It's ran by ads, so the more hits the better.

These hits are worthless, advertisers want that real people see their ads not bots or cheaters.

Bankrupt? How? Do you even understand how this lottery works?

I good understand. If you don't provide enough bot and cheater protection, no advertiser will want to place ad on your site.

P.S. I am running ad sponsored faucet and can tell you that there were few hundreds attempts to cheat me and get a ridiculous amount of 0.0005 BTC or even less.

[NothinG]

I don't think people will make up a fake email just to have a chance at winning..

It's ran by ads, so the more hits the better.

These hits are worthless, advertisers want that real people see their ads not bots or cheaters.

Yeah, after I re-read the first post...it's people like me that pay for the ads. xD
I figured it was someone like Google.

[geek-trader]

I signed up.

[Yuusha]

Really, all that would be necessary to protect against cheating is:

1. A captcha
2. Not allowing emails from disposable email address sites
3. Possibly IP checks, also check if IP is a known proxy IP

There would still be some cheating, but that's simply something that you'd have to live with. It wouldn't affect advertisers, as even though there are bots, there would still be the same amount of real people.

I really don't see what the problem is.

[giantdragon]

1. A captcha
2. Not allowing emails from disposable email address sites
3. Possibly IP checks, also check if IP is a known proxy IP

My faucet have implemented similar methods, but despite this few hundred cheating attempts was prevented using additional statistical algorithm. If I would checked ONLY with methods you described above my faucet would be dry now.

[Yuusha]

1. A captcha
2. Not allowing emails from disposable email address sites
3. Possibly IP checks, also check if IP is a known proxy IP

My faucet has all this, but despite this few hundred cheating attempts was prevented using additional statistical algorithm. If I would checked ONLY with methods you described above my faucet would be dry now.

Yes, but your faucet is a whole different deal. Every time someone cheats, you lose money. That is not the case with this site, so preventing it is not as important. The only way this could harm the site is if there was A LOT of cheating, leading to it becoming almost impossible for someone who is not using bots to win, meaning almost no real people would visit the site, making it an undesirable site to advertise on.

[TheBitMan]

To continue the fight on fake entries, starting next round it will be required to confirm your winnings by email. Some of the emails looked phony. Remember I do this all by hand I see every email myself, but I will never share them with anyone.