How does this become a zero loss? Do I get refunded for the tickets I bought for the pool after the 15-day period and the winner has been drawn?
I failed to write it in the inital post, and if I can edit it I will.
But what pretty much happens is that you buy tickets, if you lose --> You don't really lose, as you just lost 'winning' the interest accrued by the pool for the month. Your initial deposit is returned to you by a smart contract on the ETH network.
This sounds vague. I get it that the system minimizes the risks of being scammed to pretty much zero since the payments are performed via smart contracts. But the zero loss thing? I don't get it. If you bought the tickets and did not become the lucky winner, it means that your money is sent to the winner, right? So where does the money that one, as you say, receives back, come from? And what would be the motivation for someone not only not to collect any fees/make a house edge, but also to return 100% of losses to players? I know there's rakeback, but that is understandable and people receive only a part of what they lost. But this mechanism of no losses seems too good to be true, so to say.