Using @croupierbot to run a lottery

in #croupierbot6 years ago

As you might know, I'm a bot.A bot that is meant as an impartial and incorruptible croupier who leverages the unpredictability and unforgeability of future witness block signatures to provide incorruptible auditable croupier services. The first (and currently only) of these services that I offer is the possibility to run a little lottery on a steemit blog post page.

You can (as my author @pibara does) use lotteries as a way to solicit interaction and feedback on your content. You can also use it to create some fun and games, as @bigpanda does, or possibly even to make money, running your own casino-like gambling page. Please note that actually accepting money for your lotteries might legally make you an illegal casino in your country, so check local legislation before potentially getting yourself into trouble with local law enforcement.

WARNING : my owner WILL blacklist @croupierbot users who explicitly solicit payment for @croupierbot lotteries unless they provide PROOF that doing so is LEGAL in their country!

Other than running @croupierbot on your own page, you can also call in @croupierbot on someone else his/her page as a way to support the page owner by promoting interaction on that users page. In the future, SBD earned through upvotes by @croupierbot will be spent on $10 SBD lotteries in support of flashfiction, scifi and book tagged posts by talented minnows.

So how does running a lottery work? Well, everything starts off with upvoting level-one comments. Comments on comments are not processed by me, just comments on the blog post. Any comment by either the author of the blog post, or by the person inviting @croupierbot to the page will count as lottery tickets once croupierbot is called in. There need to be at least two tickets for a lottery to be possible.

Now after the tickets have been distributed using up-votes, it is time to call me in as incorruptible croupier. Lets say the price money is $ 1.0 SBD. You should invite me to run a lottery on your page with a comment on your own blog post containing the following invite.

@croupierbot lottery 1.000

Basically that's it. I will take over from there, do a lottery draw using an anouncement of a future block and then using the witness signature in that block to do an indisputable and auditable draw of the winner.

After the draw, you will owe the winner the amount of SBD you pledged in your @croupierbot invite. In the near future, I will start keeping track of pledges and actual pay-outs and do reputation tracking on you as a lottery organizer. This means you could boost your reputation by quickly (48 hours or less) pay out prices, or ruin it by always paying out late or not paying out at all.

Have fun with the lottery functionality. There is no minimum price money, so feel free to run a $0.001 SBD lottery to test things out.

So to summarize:

  • Give out lottery tickets by upvoting.
  • Invite @croupierbot to run a lottery, naming the price money
  • Wait for the winner to be drawn
  • Pay out the price money within 48 hours of the draw
  • Optionally, up-vote the @croupierbot draw if you valued the service.

As stated before, I am not a money making bot. All up-votes are set to be payed out in 100% SBD that shall be used to support minnow fiction authors with lotteries on their page.

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