Wow, over 75 BTC. BitLotto is making a comeback! Good luck to those who enter.
Otoh: I will look into that. I don't know about making it automatic as I have to have a wallet exposed to the Internet. I like to make sure that I keep security pretty high as I can never afford a single loss of funds. One loss would ruin me. I want to be the most secure, cheat proof lottery around. Unless I do the work manually myself. I may do it. We will see. But the more I think of it though, if someone wanted to invest a lot it wouldn't be hard to paste the address a few times and enter 0.25 each time....
Topic: [BITLOTTO] Mar 1 draw over $2000 or 50BTC! Tickets now 0.1 BTC for Apr 5 - page 28. (Read 55103 times)
March 04, 2012, 11:10:28 PM
March 04, 2012, 10:59:36 PM
That long downtime a few weeks ago almost killed BitLotto.
n.olmos
n.olmos
Ya it sucked!!! My hardest problem is finding a DNS and host that work properly through TOR. But EVEN *IF* the website and everything was taken down BitLotto will continue. As long as there are players who want to play I'll continue it. Just posting the address on this forum will keep it alive even if the website is shut down. The addresses will be gpg signed to ensure that I'm still the same person running it. In other words it will only end when I and my back up person die at the same time or people quit playing!!
March 04, 2012, 05:12:19 AM
Website has been fixed to not include the over payment (refund of 9.75 sent -the tx that sent the 10 BTC could still win as 0.25 was left in for that tx) and so far the jackpot for March 7 is just shy of 60 BTC!!!!
Many thanks, got it - I'll resend the bets now, sorry for the extra work
The way I was thinking for doing larger bets is if someone sent you say 10 BTC to a special large bets address that gets generated on request for each customer, your bot would then resend all of this in 0.25 BTC chunks to the normal monthly lotto address to create the 40 hashes necessary for the lotto, if one of these won then the prize would go to first the customer's exclusive large bets address & then on to them from that to the address they sent the 10 BTC from, they could also send more than 1 large bet to their exclusive LBA & this address could even be constant & just adjusted internally for each new month's lotto. It looks cheat proof to me & not too hard to set up - though I'm no programmer
I'll post this in your thread for feedback
Cheers, Otoh
Edit: perhaps the tx from customer to their LBA would need to be made public at the time so that all could see the prize went back to the winner's own address via it, or just a list of each generated LBA & which customer address it received funds from
March 04, 2012, 01:32:44 AM
That long downtime a few weeks ago almost killed BitLotto.
n.olmos
n.olmos
March 04, 2012, 12:46:33 AM
Website has been fixed to not include the over payment (refund of 9.75 sent -the tx that sent the 10 BTC could still win as 0.25 was left in for that tx) and so far the jackpot for March 7 is just shy of 60 BTC!!!!
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.558083
[Update: Scratch that. The switch to 0.25 BTC occurred prior to October 2011, so the Oct '11 jackpot had more tickets sold -- 560 (which remains the record high yet).]
This month at over 60 BTC where each ticket is 0.25 means there are over 240 tickets sold. More than twice last month's total (of about 120 tickets).
March 03, 2012, 10:56:54 PM
Website has been fixed to not include the over payment (refund of 9.75 sent -the tx that sent the 10 BTC could still win as 0.25 was left in for that tx) and so far the jackpot for March 7 is just shy of 60 BTC!!!!
March 03, 2012, 09:07:31 PM
Ah, that should be explained a bit more
I use blockchain.info, and I have indexed my priv keys, so im good
Thanks!
Ya, I'm not sure how to better explain it but I'll give it a shot.
I honestly think the most simple way is to say no online wallets but list exceptions.
I only know of:
http://strongcoin.com/
http://blockchain.info/wallet
Are there any other popular ones that would work with my lottery?
March 03, 2012, 08:55:17 PM
I do list blockchain.info as an exception so it should work.
And I'll refund the 9.75 right away. I really try not to open the wallet too often. (Mostly my own paranoid security measures) But as I know they want to enter the rest I'll try to do it soon. I'll also update the website to be more accurate with the jackpot size.
GOOD LUCK!!!!
And I'll refund the 9.75 right away. I really try not to open the wallet too often. (Mostly my own paranoid security measures) But as I know they want to enter the rest I'll try to do it soon. I'll also update the website to be more accurate with the jackpot size.
GOOD LUCK!!!!
March 03, 2012, 09:22:19 AM
Why not from an online wallet?
Because if you win and it sends the winnings back to the same address it may not be available to you. It depends how the addresses are allocated/managed by the wallet. They may send from an address that is not the one you would receive on. eg. MtGox sends on pretty much some random address different form the one in my account.Ah, that should be explained a bit more
I use blockchain.info, and I have indexed my priv keys, so im good
Thanks!
March 03, 2012, 05:42:36 AM
Blockchain.info is good. It sends from an address in your wallet and I think it even has a dropdown box to choose which one. Recommended.
yes it does & all very easy to use too, even when not totally sober
PS I've edited my original post above to explain how come I messed up...
March 03, 2012, 05:41:42 AM
I have used both StrongCoin.com and BlockChain.info wallets to buy lottery tickets and they both work. I do not know about any of the other wallets.
March 03, 2012, 05:39:35 AM
I like this online wallet as it lets you keep the same address for sending & receiving it seems, unless I messed up with that too 
https://blockchain.info/wallet
Blockchain.info is good. It sends from an address in your wallet and I think it even has a dropdown box to choose which one. Recommended. https://blockchain.info/wallet
March 03, 2012, 05:36:24 AM
Why not from an online wallet?
I like this online wallet as it lets you keep the same address for sending & receiving it seems, unless I messed up with that too
https://blockchain.info/wallet
March 03, 2012, 05:33:31 AM
OOPS!
1G5apmPvo2iTtmkNWAHTCET7Y842Ufijs8 did not understand how BitLotto works and just sent 10 BTC for one entry!
Dear 1G5apmPvo2iTtmkNWAHTCET7Y842Ufijs8,
One transaction = one hash = one entry!
You will need to send 0.25 BTC 40 times in 40 different transactions in order to create 40 different hashes for your 40 different "lotto tickets".
Hopefully you will get a 9.75 BTC refund so you can send 39 more separate transactions.
1G5apmPvo2iTtmkNWAHTCET7Y842Ufijs8 did not understand how BitLotto works and just sent 10 BTC for one entry!
Dear 1G5apmPvo2iTtmkNWAHTCET7Y842Ufijs8,
One transaction = one hash = one entry!
You will need to send 0.25 BTC 40 times in 40 different transactions in order to create 40 different hashes for your 40 different "lotto tickets".
Hopefully you will get a 9.75 BTC refund so you can send 39 more separate transactions.
Oppps
gambling whilst drunk, never a good idea - lucky that I didn't send it in to a bitcoin black hole - I shall resubmit the 10 BTC in little 0.25 chunks later so that the total remains the same, I'll do this either when my 10BTC has been returned or on the 6th March if still not sent back by then - sorry for the confusion folks 
edit: I played after finding through a search http://www.bitlotto.com/addresses.html & missed out on seeing the home page http://www.bitlotto.com/ which is why I messed up - it's quite clear on the home page, but no so obvious on the addresses one, maybe that should have a prominent link to the home page on it to make it idiot proof - I was wondering why the current total of wagers wasn't showing on the page that I used, now it's all clear
March 03, 2012, 05:25:55 AM
Why not from an online wallet?
Because if you win and it sends the winnings back to the same address it may not be available to you. It depends how the addresses are allocated/managed by the wallet. They may send from an address that is not the one you would receive on. eg. MtGox sends on pretty much some random address different form the one in my account. March 03, 2012, 05:03:26 AM
Why not from an online wallet?
March 03, 2012, 04:55:38 AM
Website issues again?
It's up for me right now. 260 tickets sold.So it is. That was odd though, I got a response, but just a blank page. If it happens again I'll try to better record what I'm seeing.
March 03, 2012, 04:17:11 AM
Website issues again?
It's up for me right now. 260 tickets sold. March 03, 2012, 04:12:33 AM
Website issues again?
February 28, 2012, 12:21:27 AM
I think that's good but sooner rather than later is better since the extra 10 btc misrepresents the jackpot in the meantime.
Ideally a bot would do th refund almost immediately so players can see there mistake and re-submit more tickets before they change their mind and decide not to play.
Doing it after the draw is the worst case and I'd even argue maybe invalid since players may decide to play based on the jackpot size.
Ideally a bot would do th refund almost immediately so players can see there mistake and re-submit more tickets before they change their mind and decide not to play.
Doing it after the draw is the worst case and I'd even argue maybe invalid since players may decide to play based on the jackpot size.
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