Quote from: Snatdard usre on August 31, 2016, 09:47:38 AM

Quote from: wetsuit on August 31, 2016, 09:39:18 AM

Quote from: Snatdard usre on August 31, 2016, 09:30:39 AM

Many people are in doubt about the fairness of the lottery.

Quote from: wetsuit on August 13, 2016, 01:02:28 PM

... if someone can figure out a way to implement a provably fair lottery with a variable number of tickets given out each round, I would be happy to implement it. So far I haven't been able to figure out how to do it myself.

Maybe you should use some third-party intermediary for generating random user IDs for the lottery? For example, there is "Audited Lotteries and Sweepstakes" option in random.org. https://www.random.org/guides/draws/

That would not help make the lottery more fair as I can always insert user id's of accounts created by me to the list. Also, that option does not allow for a user having multiple tickets. Thirdly, I have to trust that random.org will generate the numbers fairly and not manipulate the results.

Also, as far as I can see, the results will not be public and people will need access to the random.org account to verify the winning numbers.

Yes, I see. Then, you could offer some kind of incentive(additional tickets, bonuses, etc.) for the lottery winners if they post about their winnings here?

Yes, I have something like that planned for people who win big rolls and lottery tickets. It's just an additional expense because even after winning big, I need to pay people so that they tell others about it. I'll implement something like that soon.