Probably should be 0.05 each instead so that those that habitually bet 0.25 without checking will get a full 5 tickets instead of "2.5 tickets".  You are going to keep the extra 0.05 (?) or you will have to manually refund it to people who do that.

How long til winner is decided?

It would appear that the BitLotto Pirate Pool is not going to be operational this month as it seems to have an invalid Bitcoin address that can't be sent to:

https://blockchain.info/address/17YhcYptSF2L48C361dTAMC98UpUGcZ4jPR

Other than that, everything else seems to be fine for the other addresses, suerte

Pot nearly 20 btc (of the new improved > $20 values each coins) atm...

Many thanks, it appears that the PP bet I made on Hannah's behalf this month was the winning hash (if taken in order of the PP bets placed), so lots more good karma to everyone who entered & thanks from my niece too who I gifted some bets for & thanks also from me, much appreciated! Best of luck for the next months to all!

Okay Otoh,

I see all of what you said in the last post but I am not quite understanding how he gets to the "winning" address...
There is a block created after then end of the draw, then he uses mega millions numbers, then for the pool he uses just the FIRST transaction?
How does that make all the other cash count?

Patrick

(*hint, hint - winner's payments - cough, cough*)

okies np, I hardly deal with the client at all & just use blockchain.info wallet mostly so I don't need to load the blockchain or deal with annoying quirks like where the wallet creates new random addresses to send change to or where I can't easily just find the private keys to addresses that are in it.

re lucky, well I had overall bet 18 btc last month out of the 41.58 btc total so I was in with about a 43% chance of winning (slightly more as 2/3 of that was in the pools - but for lower potential shared wins mostly), but yes it did seem rather lucky even so given past wins - maybe it's the auspicious astro dates that I choose Also as I treated bets for Hannah as a separate series it demonstrated well the 99% being returned to the players as I'd bet 45 btc in total for her & finally won 41.58 btc or 92.4% back (so far) though better in dollar terms.

Many thanks SG!

As yet the 7th of Dec's BitLotto hasn't paid out, I believe it would work better if the funds were guaranteed to be sent within 1 week of the draw or at the very least within a week of the winner being announced, preferably much sooner, otherwise it becomes rather random & may deter entrants to the next & future Bitlottos:

https://blockchain.info/address/1HannaheRa46n6g532kRo9GmnmD5aLUt5j

Why is there no QR code for easy payments? I'd prefer to just use my phone instead of having to open up my blockchain.info wallet.