Topic: question concerning a type of raffle - page 3. (Read 454 times)

It would be considered gambling in my opinion, there's a wager involved, the outcome is unpredictable and totally random; entirely dependent on luck.
I have joined a couple of such games on the forum, but the were mostly some kind of giveaway (involving bitcoins or some form of collectible) and there was no need for the participants to pool funds. There has also been gambling pools involving the EPL and the UCL.

You can run such a lottery game on the forum, but there's no guarantee people would be interested as there's no skill involved to spice it up, despite the honest motive.

When we do talk about lottery then it is indeed considered gambling and talking about chance that this could work in forum? Frankly speaking lottery games doesnt really get that much attention.
On the example you had given above then it is not something new on where people do fill out slots and when its full then it is being drawn according on what kind of ways and using
up those hashes had already been existed back in the past.There are lots of lottery sites that had launched and majority of them had die along the way due to lack of interest.

At my job - once every quarter - they pass around the option for employees to participate in a 50/50 raffle - where everyone puts in $10 and receives a number  00 to 99 - at the end of the week, the boss uses one of those wire basket ball selectors and selects a winner - the winner takes 50% of the pot and the company puts the other half in petty cash, which is spent on company luncheons etc

Would something like that work here with crypto? Say for example, create 100 slots: 00 - 99  and everyone puts in $10 or even $5 worth of Bitcoin or Litecoin or Ethereum even (I would suggest staying with some of the more popular cryptos) once all 100 slots have been bought - select a future bitcoin block and use the last 2 numbers of that block to determine the winner.

for example:

0000000000000000000c93cdcb0f51dabfc547e4960b84cc675d5407f290268a  - 68 is the winner
0000000000000000000a0ab5bf76c9dabbb14d32632efb92e80ff237121d9703 - 03 is the winner
00000000000000000003e4f14676347e82158f367a6657115ab4b3e935bc74a9 - 49 is the winner

The winner would collect half the collected value (could accept is 50% of each donated currency or opt to have it all converted to one specific and take payout) - the other half could be donated to a charity organization - obviously proof of the donation would be necessary. And may need to set up some sort of selection process for choosing which charities. But I see this as an easy way to give participants a chance at winning a decent prize while also contributing aide and funds via crypto to various charity organizations.

Would this be considered gambling? Is there even a chance that this could or would work here on the forums?