gambling always have risk, if everyone can win easily in gambling, i think all casino site would go bust
Absolutely, those who said has been scammed by a site because they could not win but unable to give valid proofs of being scammed are just players who do not understand how gambling works.
They only think that they will make some money after some loses but in fact they keep on losing again and again till they have no more funds to bet. This kind of players should blame themselves why they keep on losing.
well yeah and we should ignore people who are complaining about losing after gambling in a 5% HE site since it's expected
but what about the lottery ?? the lottery should definitely be less shady in the future cause it's the only negative thing about the site
can't they develop a system like the one in crypto-games for example ?
How is the crypto-games lottery provably fair? Their website says this is how it works:
What is this game?
This game is called lottery. You can buy lottery tickets and hope that one of your ticket numbers will be picked. The draw takes place twice per week, on Wednesday and Saturday.
How to play
Click on tab "Buy ticket" and enter number of tickets you want to buy. Each ticket costs 0.0001 BTC (10k satoshi). You can buy tickets only with Bitcoins.
Lots will be drawn each week on wednesday and saturday using random numbers generated through RandomPicker. Three winning tickets will be selected and winners will get the following prizes:
1st place: 80% of the prize pool
2nd place: 14% of the prize pool
3rd place: 4.5% of the prize pool
Payout:
98.5% of the money raised with ticket sales will be paid out to the three winners.
Rest 1.5% will go to the house for maintenance and development.
AFAIK, there is no way to implement a provably fair lottery where there is a variable number of tickets sold. If anybody can come up with a system for doing so, I would be happy to implement it like I have mentioned before quite a few times. And I would offer a generous bonus for the person doing so as well.
is there anyway that the person can know what are the tickets numbers that he holds ?? if so then you can record the weekly draw using a RNG site and upload the video on youtube
sportsbet did that in one of their draws after all the players complained
I could assign ticket numbers to all users and do a public draw. However, it still does not stop me from creating fake accounts and giving them tickets to push the odds of winning in my favour. It is possible to hash ticket numbers with a client seed, order them in ascending order and then pick winners. However, it wouldn't make the game provably fair, it would only give an appearance of being fair while it actually isn't and wouldn't doing that be more dishonest?
If enough people think that would be a more preferable approach, it is something I could do but personally I feel it is dishonest to claim something is provably fair when it really isn't. Right now, people who play the lottery know that numbers are picked server-side and that it may not be fair and they buy tickets knowing that. Giving the appearance of being fair while not really being so would give people a false sense of trust.
Also, I haven't seen many public RNG's who offer a service to handle drawing of 100 million+ tickets (which is what we usually have) so I'll need to make something myself. Also 100 million hashes would create a file of 6.4 GB (and last week we had 130 million tickets) so I am not sure how many people would actually download such a file to check the results.