Quote from: Saint-loup on Today at 09:34:48 AM

Quote from: soslex on October 13, 2023, 10:33:00 PM

He or she wagered 553.58634500 bitcoin during contest round 58 (April) and 12.09879000 bitcoin during contest round 59 (May). This accounts for a total of 565.685135 wagered, which corresponds to 113,117 golden tickets.

Where the other 153,145 golden tickets came from is a bit of a mystery, as they did not place in the top 10 during any of the other monthly contests. They either bought them, which makes no sense (why would you pay millions of dollars to win $200K?) or won them on the wheel of fortune, which seems highly unlikely (you would need millions of WOF spins to win that many tickets).

Thank you for those insights soslex I was wondering if you were still gambling at Freebitcoin. Do you have a personal hypothesis to explain the mystery of those "missing" 153 145 golden tickets ? Is it possible for him to have been outside the top10 in the other monthly contest rounds, like at the 11th or 12th position and to have been able to wager the required amount to get all of those tickets.

Hello friend. I'm still around. I had just under 14k golden tickets in the previous round, which gave me about a 1 in 113 chance of winning. Nearly all of these were earned by making large bets on the rugby world cup, like this one, in the France vs. Namibia match:

https://imgur.com/a/MGRULEe

Some people might think it's crazy, but from the premium membership cash back, reward points, daily jackpots, and monthly contests, I was able to make ~1.8 bitcoin by betting on a few rugby matches. These matches were never going to be close, either; in some cases I was betting on a team that was the -100000 favorite on other betting sites (meaning, if you bet $100,000 on France, and France wins, you make $100).

Anyway, the long answer your question is, I still can't figure out how the winner got those additional 150k golden tickets.

You only get golden tickets by (a) wagering, (b) buying them, or (c) winning them on the wheel of fortune. So they either wagered a lot, bought a lot, or won a lot on the wheel, or some combination of the three.

In the other 4 monthly contests, they would only be able to wager ~10 bitcoin without showing up on the leaderboard. So, it is possible they wagered 40 extra bitcoin during the other 4 months of this lambo drawing. But that would only be 16,000 golden tickets.

Given that you have ~0.1% chance of winning a golden ticket on a single WOF spin, you would need millions of spins to win that many golden tickets. It is not possible to get that many WOF spins in 6 months.

Buying 100k golden tickets would cost 250 bitcoin. Nobody is crazy enough to do that.

So the short answer to your question is: I'm stumped.