Quote from: bitlotto on July 19, 2011, 08:31:35 PM

Quote from: Bananington on July 19, 2011, 12:29:22 PM

It's just a simple lottery. I'm not going to get numbers from the real lottery because, to be frank, that's too much work.

I'll list winners as well as the amount they won and their address. I'm not sure on how the bitcoin network works yet, but can't you check to see if the BTC actually went to that address?

Example:
Say 9 people buy a ticket. You send some money to mybitcoin and back to a new wallet. You then buy 1 ticket. You then tell everyone you are using a random number but in fact you just send the winnings to your address. You post the winner and congratulate them and start another round. No one knows that you just paid yourself. There is no way to know if you did that or not. Bitcoin is kind of anonymous depending on how you use it and that's why HOW you pick the winner is important. Unless you design it such that you can't manipulate who wins, there is always that possibility.

You're right. Sigh. Maybe I'll just sell some of my stuff then. lol.

Quote from: MasonIII on July 19, 2011, 09:15:27 PM

Quote from: TheBitMan on July 19, 2011, 09:00:58 PM

Quote from: bitlotto on July 19, 2011, 08:41:29 PM

Quote from: TheBitMan on July 19, 2011, 08:35:12 PM

Just use hypercam to record and have everyone post there address here

Truthfully, that wouldn't really prove anything. They could just make the video over and over until they get the results they want.

true that

He could use two windows, one open to time.gov and the other to his randomizing. And then set a time on a designated time zone such as PDT on time.gov and then right when that time hits to do the randoming process. Therefore he wouldn't have the chance to run it multiple times.

I appreciate both of your guys's attempts to help make this cheat free.

I just wanted to set up a simple lotto. You guys and your trust issues rub me the wrong way. Sad