Can you buy National Lottery tickets with Bitcoin in your country?

[Siren]

Sad to say but we cannot. Mate because there are still no available sites that accept bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency to pay for.lottery tickets how i wish we have because my father is betting lottery daily and this will be beneficial for him.if does so hoping one day it will be available. And also those scratch ticket that pays winning daily if you are lucky

[Kakmakr]

I am just curious to know if you can buy lottery tickets for your own national lottery in your country. I am not referring to all these scam gambling sites with supposed "Provably Fair" lottery systems.

I bought some lottery tickets online and I was only presented with the old traditional payment options and I figured it is time for us to approach these Lottery operators, to ask for a Bitcoin payment option.  

If enough people ask for this, they just might consider giving us that option to pay with bitcoins.    What payment options do you have for online lottery in your country?

Here in Canada we got the OLG

1. They should be showing proof of fairness with blockchain tech "Cryptography". I mean it is pretty easy for them to rig it this would stop them.
2. They should be accepting bitcoin, It makes it easier if you won to prove who won, what if someone steals your ticket? or you lose it?

Well, many people are under the impression that national lotteries are rigged <eg. weighted balls etc.> but in my country the lottery draw is monitored by reputable independent auditors, so this can be controlled and monitored if they want to be fair.

How in your opinion would the "Blockchain" tech be able to make Lottery draws more fair? <The process is not linked to the mechanics of the draw.  >

It might help to automate the record keeping of the results, so that it cannot be changed in the future.  

[goaldigger]

I am just curious to know if you can buy lottery tickets for your own national lottery in your country. I am not referring to all these scam gambling sites with supposed "Provably Fair" lottery systems.

I bought some lottery tickets online and I was only presented with the old traditional payment options and I figured it is time for us to approach these Lottery operators, to ask for a Bitcoin payment option.  

If enough people ask for this, they just might consider giving us that option to pay with bitcoins.    What payment options do you have for online lottery in your country?

So far, buying lottery tickets using cryptocurrency is not yet an option in the country but the app are using is continually upgrading from time to time so its possible that we have that kind of purchases in the future. Cryptocurrency technology is consecutively evolving so there are more things to come.

[Rahman11]

Not yet! we can do just mobile recharge by bitcoin in our country! bitcoin almost ban in our area! but I hope bitcoin will take a place as a payment method for everything in our living country! I think just need more popularity of bitcoin for accepting everywhere!

[Vaculin]

Not yet! we can do just mobile recharge by bitcoin in our country! bitcoin almost ban in our area! but I hope bitcoin will take a place as a payment method for everything in our living country! I think just need more popularity of bitcoin for accepting everywhere!

In our country, there is no banning of bitcoin and it is not yet adopted in our place. People still prefer to use fiat currency for lottery tickets because it's the only currency we have. But i guess some central banks are already starting to study about bitcoin and hopefully, things will be in favor for bitcoin in the next years to come.

[olamidey]

Not so fast. Givem the fact that lottery is regulated by governments, Most government have not accepted Bitcoin nor its possibilities and income cases, it's citizens are advise to avoid any business transactions with bitcoin. So it will be difficult for most countries to approve bitcoin as a form of payment for lottery activities. A lot of people still don't understand bitcoin as they see it as invisible money that can vanish at anytime.

[pey]

Those lotteries might be more scammy than the provably fair ones. There are individuals directly selling such lottery tickets, I may buy from them with Bitcoin but they will probably need to exchange it for fiat.

[legenduim]

Sad to say but we cannot. Mate because there are still no available sites that accept bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency to pay for.lottery tickets how i wish we have because my father is betting lottery daily and this will be beneficial for him.if does so hoping one day it will be available. And also those scratch ticket that pays winning daily if you are lucky

I cannot do it as well but I do not care. The chance that I can win in this lottery is so small that there is no need to spend even one Satoshi on these things. I'd better invest BTC in real estate when it becomes possible.

[dmamigo]

The government currently restricting Bitcoin has made it impossible to even think that I would buy Lottery tickets with any crypto unless doing it not legally. The transactions with BTC is a long way to go. Recently the government has just started to think positive about crypto and implementing it would take loads of time.
At first, it would be better that we start casual transaction, which will help the process faster. I would prefer buying daily needs rather than lottery, so usual market transaction with Bitcoin is really important.

[veleten]

I am just curious to know if you can buy lottery tickets for your own national lottery in your country. I am not referring to all these scam gambling sites with supposed "Provably Fair" lottery systems.

I bought some lottery tickets online and I was only presented with the old traditional payment options and I figured it is time for us to approach these Lottery operators, to ask for a Bitcoin payment option.  

If enough people ask for this, they just might consider giving us that option to pay with bitcoins.    What payment options do you have for online lottery in your country?

don't think that this will happen any time soon in my country
National lottery tickets are sold by only a few agents-operators and there are not many conventional methods you can pay for the tickets either
I do not think that even in the countries that legalized bitcoins like Japan people can pay for the tickets in bitcoins , actually this is worth looking into
not a huge fan of lotteries in general so this question doesn't bother me too much
but it could be one of the steps to further increase adoption , so won't hurt asking your countrie's operators to start accepting crypto

[Duzter]

In my state it is not possible to buy lottery tickets, it is completely banned. People travel to the next state to buy lottery tickets and their government has been supporting it and the funds were used directly for the welfare of the common people, yet they haven't got advanced big to sell lottery tickets for bitcoin. This might happen in the future as they've have provided access in buying lottery online as well.

[crzy]

The answer is no Most people are still trying to understand the basics of Bitcoin and on the other hand the government in my country seems a bit concerned about cryptocurrency. So i can’t buy National Lottery tickets with Bitcoin here.

Also in my country though you don’t need to worry because joining the lottery here in my place is very affordable. You can’t buy it online in my place and you really need to go to the lottery outlet so you can place your numbers. I think it would be better if we can bet online now on the local lottery.

[mannybitcoins]

I have not the slightest idea what is bigger scam, lottery or certain type of crypto. But I can’t pay for it with crypto and I don’t think it will ever be done. Lottery business (in some countries) is self-sufficient and wouldn’t tolerate interference. However if financial system is about to be changed indeed who knows with what results we can end up.

[franciscoDC]

As of now there are no news here that we could buy a lottery ticket just by using bitcoin but i feel that it will be recognizing for subsitution of traditional method of payment in the near future and i think its because too of being broad of bitcoin and recognizing for substitutional payment and banking.

[BeManga]

I am just curious to know if you can buy lottery tickets for your own national lottery in your country. I am not referring to all these scam gambling sites with supposed "Provably Fair" lottery systems.

I bought some lottery tickets online and I was only presented with the old traditional payment options and I figured it is time for us to approach these Lottery operators, to ask for a Bitcoin payment option.  

If enough people ask for this, they just might consider giving us that option to pay with bitcoins.    What payment options do you have for online lottery in your country?

if im right we cant buy lottery ticket online in the philippines
we can only buy lottery ticket in some stall
the proof that you buy the ticket is the ticket itself so i dont know if its possible to be operated online

[olamidey]

For things like this, there are so many reasons why the lottery organizers themselves may not accept bitcoin. Transaction fees and confirmation time including others are also what may delay implementation of this. In some countries, regulations for Cryptocurrency doesn't still exist and so, this concept will look confusing.

[anodyne]

Well honestly, it is not yet implemented and approved or allow this kind of payment method in terms of national lottery tickets. In my country where I belong, cash is still the only to get national lottery tickets. Maybe in the near future, they will get some thoughts and implements too the use of crypto currencies in buying or paying national lottery tickets.

[bhabygrim]

I am just curious to know if you can buy lottery tickets for your own national lottery in your country. I am not referring to all these scam gambling sites with supposed "Provably Fair" lottery systems.

I bought some lottery tickets online and I was only presented with the old traditional payment options and I figured it is time for us to approach these Lottery operators, to ask for a Bitcoin payment option.  

If enough people ask for this, they just might consider giving us that option to pay with bitcoins.    What payment options do you have for online lottery in your country?

I don't really think that my country is already accepting online payment for lottery.
People still likes to go to their stall to buy or bet on their lucky numbers.
But I think it would be such a great idea if they would just let the people buy the ticket online.

[denzkilim]

Sad to say but we cannot. Mate because there are still no available sites that accept bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency to pay for.lottery tickets how i wish we have because my father is betting lottery daily and this will be beneficial for him.if does so hoping one day it will be available. And also those scratch ticket that pays winning daily if you are lucky

I think it won't happen because most lotteries are government controlled and most of the government do not like a volatile means of payment for its services or product maybe if there is a third party that will facilitate it, it will do. In my country, we can pay government bills, electric bills, water bills, and different variety of stuff with Crypto Currencies because of a third party company that operates in my country and it is approved by our government and central bank. One of the only things that we can't do is to buy a lottery ticket from it because it isn't available in the app.

[Kwansimaa]

In my country no, cryptocurrencies are banned in here but we still use it secretely. However i think this is likely to change in the near future when major countries liike USA, China, Russia approve the use of cryptocurrency. This would influence our government to also legalize it here.