[44211] in Cypherpunks
Re: ecash lottery (Was: ecash casino)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Frantz)
Thu Nov 30 01:33:48 1995
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 1995 22:22:28 -0800
To: tcmay@got.net (Timothy C. May), iang@cs.berkeley.edu, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: frantz@netcom.com (Bill Frantz)
At 20:38 11/29/95 -0800, Timothy C. May wrote:
>Have to be _very_ careful here. A variety of scams can be developed which
>show lots of "small" winners, but which fail to show any large winners. The
>lottery operators can make a lot of extra bucks by simply not paying off
>the large winnings, in various ways.
With complete anonimity, the scam I would think of first is giving other
nyms of myself all the big payoffs.
Bill
