Question, sorry if it's a dumb one. How exactly does the weekly lottery prize get calculated? I used to think it was a small percentage of all the wagers going on, so the more the site sees being wagered, the more the prizes grow for the lottery.
So when the site was down a lot last week, it made sense the lottery was smaller. But it still looks like even with the 3x4x5x promo going on now, the lottery 1st prize won't be more than 0.2 BTC.
It's a combination of the amount wagered and also the number of free rolls. The wagering was still high in the period we had the outages because it was only a couple of hours at a time and there were a couple of high rollers who just waiting for it to come back online.
Thank you for the explanation TheQuin. I guess it's only normal to expect the prize pot to go down over time as Bitcoin gets more expensive and more players sign up every day if it's the case of wager + free rolls taken.
Did you guys hit a record wager week yesterday? I believe I hit my own personal record haha. Came close to 2% of all tickets at some point, and started out the new week above 5% haha.