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There's quite a few lottery systems running on lightning and Ethereum, using smart contracts with clearly defined, verifiable randomness. I also like the idea o
by once_inc 5y ago
There's quite a few lottery systems running on lightning and Ethereum, using smart contracts with clearly defined, verifiable randomness. I also like the idea of geohashing, by XKCD, where they take the date's most recent Dow Jones opening and hash it with the date.
- dfxm12 5y agoIs there a specific XKCD about this? Picking the winning number based on the stock market sounds an awful lot like the old mafia numbers game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_game
- Workaccount2 5y agoI would be totally unsurprised if it was profitable to manipulate the Dow to a specific open price in order to win lotteries. I think it would be better to go with +10 min from open