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This morning, a FB friend shared an article about some startup raising a $17mm round for an app that's supposed to make buying lotto tickets more appealing to o

by rosser 9y ago

This morning, a FB friend shared an article about some startup raising a $17mm round for an app that's supposed to make buying lotto tickets more appealing to or easy for millennials, or something. I'm not sure which is Onion-ier, frankly.

tyingq 9y ago
It's not legal in many US states to buy lotto tickets with a credit card...has to be a debit or gift card. Hmm.
- balls187 9y ago
  Not to dissimilar to credit card companies not supporting Online Gambling.
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  - rosser 9y ago
    I have a pretty strong hunch that has more to do with fraud prevention than it does consumer protection. EDIT: Not to imply either is solely one or the other. Just, on a spectrum with those motives as the poles, "can't buy lotto tickets" is probably closer to the "consumer protection" end, and "no online gambling" to the other, purely as a function of the volumes of money that can be moved that way.