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Neat. You're trusting a website that doesn't list who runs it (whois says it's a guy named Mathijs Vogelzang out of Paris) or what their intentions are to prov
by floatrock 12y ago
Neat. You're trusting a website that doesn't list who runs it (whois says it's a guy named Mathijs Vogelzang out of Paris) or what their intentions are to provide a fair lottery to anonymous addresses. Given enough lotteries you could backtrace the results and make sure the distributions are probabilistically random, but what's stopping the owner from entering a sufficiently large pool and 'randomly' selecting an address he controls as the winner?
Oh, and for providing this service you automatically lose 2% off the top.
There are far better ways to waste your virtual disney dollars.
- knd775 12y agoI'm pretty sure the poster (thijser) is Mathijs Vogelzang based on his username. His HN profile is a few years old and he says where he works on his profile. I'm not saying whether people should trust this or not, but I think you may be being a bit unfair.
- codingdave 12y agoI don't this he is being the slightest bit unfair. At least in the US, lotteries make a lot of money for the people running them, but that is normally shared with local communities or governments. If you participate in lotteries, you pretty much are guaranteed to be throwing your money away, but at least losing people do get some benefits from the system, as the proceeds get spent in their area. In this case, one guy just collects the money. No matter what his intentions or honesty, he collects. If people want to throw him their "cash", fine... but they should absolutely realize what they are doing.
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