[44186] in Cypherpunks
Re: ecash lottery (Was: ecash casino)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sameer)
Wed Nov 29 22:03:31 1995
From: sameer <sameer@c2.org>
To: iang@cs.berkeley.edu
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 18:50:52 -0800 (PST)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <49j0sq$a69@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> from "Ian Goldberg" at Nov 29, 95 08:20:26 pm
>
> So; is there a problem with the implementation outlined above? If it were
> implemented, would people play it?
>
I think it would be easier if the lottery owner was just in a
safe jurisdiction. Then he wouldn't have to worry about the legality
of it, and not worry about his anonymity. Gambling-safe jurisdictions
*do* exist.
There lies a problem if *playing* a game is illegal in the US,
which I beleive it may be. If the winners can be revealed by
bank/lottery collusion, then in order to protect the winners the
lottery can't collude with the bank. This may not be a problem,
because the lottery isn't subject to US law, so there would be no way
to force the lottery to collude with the bank to reveaol the
identities of the winners.
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