Topic: [BITLOTTO] Mar 1 draw over $2000 or 50BTC! Tickets now 0.1 BTC for Apr 5 - page 27. (Read 55103 times)

Otoh: When you re-sent for more tickets you still managed to have them all sent at once as one tx. They are separated into 0.25 amounts but they came in all at once with the same tx hash. I'll refund the extra since having multiple tickets with the same hash is pointless. It happened a couple times on this draw....

How did you do that? I just want to make sure it doesn't happen to others to!

eg. https://blockexplorer.com/tx/5955a97fcbdf933a786dc8ef74281cfd7586699c0ebc0872078e7b859f019467

Since everyone is eager for a result here it is:

Picks: ee4cea6ea1
Winning hash: e1401f846cff82658f354fbed814ee414deb2fed461eed8c0e4dd3d8fa49d841
Winner: 1Nb2W2F56kuZeKAAhyEAbTomfn3RPt4t2D
Ticket bought approx: 2012-03-06 07:19:02

Of course these are unofficial. I just rushed these off and I'll double check them them before I post to my website.

I don't have it automated but I've used this method to verify the winner before:

Determine the lucky block (first block after the deadline): 169953
 - https://blockexplorer.com/b/169953

Hash from that block:
 00000000000005300076544c21d2f352480c1efb4c1cec75125223f66a7015be

Add to that the Mega Millions PowerBall number:
12 35 45 46 47 Mega Ball 12
 - http://www.powerball.com  


[Update: Ooops, MegaMillions picks != PowerBall picks]  all the results I had posted following that are thus invalid.  The correct URL for Mega Millions is:
 - http://www.powerball.com/megamillions/mm_numbers.asp
]

Add those together:
 00000000000005300076544c21d2f352480c1efb4c1cec75125223f66a7015be123545464712

Get the sha256()
 6055a779449804c1a4151c2c61addc5143ba498105c197a2ba8c3a170c03316d
- http://www.xorbin.com/tools/sha256-hash-calculator

The Winning Picks are the first ten from that hash:
  6055a77944

Create the work file.  The address for the March draw was: 1CdGqgJegokVaW5tPgC2vy3dZciggARdmh
 $ GET http://blockexplorer.com/address/1CdGqgJegokVaW5tPgC2vy3dZciggARdmh|grep "/tx/"|cut -d " " -f 3|cut -b 11-74 > workfile
 (This grabs the HTML source for all the tickets for the monthly draw address, then cuts away everything but the transaction hashes.)

Remove from workfile any transaction hashes that were disqualified (e.g., entered late, amount was not large enough, etc.)

Determine the longest of the picks where there is at least one match:
 $ grep 6|wc -l  
 $ grep 60|wc -l
 $ grep 605|wc -l
 $ grep 6055|wc -l

There were no transactoin hashes that had 6055, so the winning pick is one of the ones with 605.
 $ grep 605 workfile|awk 'BEGIN {FS = "6"};{print $0 " " NF-1}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS = "0"};{print $0 " " NF-1}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS = "5"};{print $0 " " NF-1}'|sort -rk2

This results in:

a247d96ebcd90bda3f27f8824a98026c086d0da89dd60ba3d26a3954299605d7 6 6 2
17554f9d7de77f067fa6f709155adc4ad60560ca2180b2364d456123192b18f2 6 5 7
72d83f262660589f79c4b09279ffe717735b8f631a83c9413ac1a36a490307e6 6 4 2
5b6a443d317f623c16e7e3f4369bd093d560579dfda4c728d4179ffbfb228651 6 2 4
352c6fc98f21a036a74d12100a838605a5bb0fc7534b1fd6bd9a790f1b8dd976 5 6 5
ca61a3e84def3f879275b07bd41605a340317727948daa095e8555447af66a63 5 4 7
be7ac025e74874cde49640f0d035a2d9465ee1b89700605de8334765cd8f1fe4 4 7 5
98bc4fa7153f2627430210c99605d24c110aad0152834f60c5638713d7324904 4 7 4
ef8605feef9240b75039eb5f975db52a49d8a305138c5f422c22af63e1469e25 3 4 8
b7ec93b1440e21e605b479f36d8f72df89423a24c768709c31880ea49d79d94d 3 4 1

There are multiple hashes that have six "6"s in them, so there are ties.
That tie is broken by looking at how many "0"s there are.  There is one that has more "0"s than any other, so the tie is broken and we have the March winner:
 a247d96ebcd90bda3f27f8824a98026c086d0da89dd60ba3d26a3954299605d7

That is the winning transaction. Looking at that transaction:
  2012-02-21 00:19:18
 - http://blockexplorer.com/tx/a247d96ebcd90bda3f27f8824a98026c086d0da89dd60ba3d26a3954299605d7

There is one one input to that, so that is where the jackpot will be sent:
 1FiJ55znEC14bd4xnoX32jnKus6BUGQstn
 - http://blockexplorer.com/address/1FiJ55znEC14bd4xnoX32jnKus6BUGQstn

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Now ... these are unofficial, possibly flawed results.  Don't chuck your wallet if it looks like you lost and don't go nuts ordering new GPUs if it looks like you won!

I'm kind of surprised there isn't an automated presentation of the winner with a manual confirmation following. Aren't the winning numbers public from the MegaWhatever? So either bitlotto or someone else could write a script that figures out the winner (unless I'm missing something, I didn't study it carefully).

I could see wanting to double check manually before sending payment - seeing as how you could not (successfully) ask for funds to be returned.

[edit: I just reviewed the winning details. It seems it would not be difficult to write a script to determine the winner... should I?]

LOL. I'll work on it tonight and announce tomorrow. It's actually pretty easy but I like to do it when I have lot's of time so I can go nice and slow and make no mistakes. It would ruin me to make a mistake. I'd be accused of making a mistake just to pay myself.

I hope you understand but I'll aim for tomorrow! Good luck!

Someone, get busy and calculate the winner!  The suspense is killing me.

EDIT:  DARN I DID NOT WIN!

Unless you have calculated the winner already it's not over yet! You'll know once I sent the payment and your account balance changes or not!

Nope! LOL. I do it mostly for fun anyways. Perhaps it will make me money in the future. Who knows. If it does really take off I 'll just make it a 99.9% payout.

But as it's been mentioned I think 99% is a REALLY good deal. It's probably the highest payout anywhere! I leave it up the winner to decide how they want to spread or share the wealth. Not some government official telling where it has to go. I really hope some will donate and help others!

Indeed, though in the creation of coins & in the maintaining of the Bitcoin network & Internets then the gov gets to keep it's tax on the electricity used for this, in my case it's like an 18% sales tax + about 1% other tax that I don't know who that goes to, the power co or the gov, plus the tax they get from the power co's profits & their employees earnings & all the same on hardware, Internet connection services, etc - playing the Bitlotto doesn't really give them any extra revenue on top of what they already takes though

& after you win & then spend your winnings you're taxed by about 20% sales tax on almost anything you buy with them, or for booze & smokes maybe 90% rate, petrol (gas) for a lot, etc etc

that said - BitLotto tax free FTW

bitlotto should change its slogan, from
 "anonymous, transparent, and cheat-proof with a 99% payout!"
to just
 "0.0%   to the Government"

FTFY

yep 50% surprised me when I looked it up & I've paid a lot in to that stupid tax fund over the years, from now on it's all going to go to Bitlotto except when the € jackpot is over €100M (when I'll play both), also if a few millions of lottery players cut out the middle men by using BitLotto the prize return for winners could probably go up as it's quite scalable without much extra work I'd imagine, say if $10M was staked then a return of 99.9% would leave a healthy $10,000 per week for the operator, even with 99.99% returned it would still give him $1,000 per week in beer money on a weekly draw

50%! WOW!

Perhaps we have been doing it wrong all along. Instead of trying to get big businesses to adopt bitcoin we should try to get the the lottery players of the world to use bitcoin.

Breakdown of BitLotto revenue

0.5%   in profit to BitLotto*
0.5%   in operating costs*
0.0%   in commision to the retailers
0.0%   to the Government
0.0%   for Good Causes
99%    to winners
vs.
above chart

* split 1% since I don't know if BitLotto is profitable.

In Europe we get only 50% returned in prizes, so a 50% stupid tax - now we just need BitLotto to have the same size of jackpots as it does, except that would be all the possible coins ever in existence until they're worth considerably more each

The 99% payout is the only reason I'm willing to play this lottery. The old saying goes "Lotteries are a tax on the stupid", but in this case only 1% stupid. If the chances of winning drop too much I'll drop out too. I like it around 100:1 roughly but it's already passed that.

Looks like someone bought a ticket after the deadline.  So once that is returned, looks like there were about 450 tickets sold.

Incidentally, reading the article about the PowerBall Lottery I saw this:
"Powerball retailers in Rhode Island get eight cents on the dollar for every ticket sold [from Rhode Island]."
 - http://news.yahoo.com/336-4m-powerball-winner-newport-ri-woman-81-160939430.html

Eight percent of the ticket sales (in R.I. at least) goes straight to the convenience store or wherever you bought the ticket.  OUCH!

I don't know the exact payout but have seen something to the effect of payouts being in the 70% range.  Compare this to BitLotto at 99% payout.

Then the jackpot, based on ticket sales, was $336.4 million but the winner wants a lump sum (at 81 years old, wise choice!) so that drops it to $210 million.  The state of Rhode Island got an additional $14.7 million on the income taxes on the prize that are subtracted before the winner sees the money.

Now I know some of the profits from state-run lotteries go to good uses but at 70% or whatever payouts exist for wagering in those lotteries they've never interested me.

March lottery is over. Jackpot grew to over 100 BTC. Winner will be announced soon. Next draw is April 4. Good luck!

Over 100 !

Ah what the hell.  Might as well enter the lottery.  Better chances than the local gas station at least.

Thank you bitlotto for running the lottery.

I have been buying a few tickets each month and will continue to do so until it stops running.

I did missing two draws as I was checking the website from time to time and did not know the drawings were still ongoing.

Best,

n.olmos