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#lotteries — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lotteries, aggregated by home.social.

  1. TechSpot: This website plays the lottery every second to show why you’ll (almost certainly) never win big. “The Lottery Every Second website simulates draws for the US Powerball and the EuroJackpot, which is played in 18 European countries.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/11/techspot-this-website-plays-the-lottery-every-second-to-show-why-youll-almost-certainly-never-win-big/
  2. The Register: Postcode Lottery’s lucky dip turns into data slip as players draw each other’s info. “People’s Postcode Lottery (PPL) subscribers briefly saw other players’ personal information when logging into the site on Monday. The exposed data included names, addresses, email addresses, and dates of birth. According to forum posts, each time users refreshed their homepage, a different user’s […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/02/the-register-postcode-lotterys-lucky-dip-turns-into-data-slip-as-players-draw-each-others-info/

  3. Noone talks about how most #lotteries can, will, or are made redundant by #ProofOfWork.

    Rather than throw money into some #lottery pool, or dollars into some tacky #pokieMachine (intl readers: #slotMachine), we'll instead join #miningPools. The dollar in the machine will power the #miners for several minutes while you play a *real* #videogame, displaying the #leadingZeros you're getting (#bitcoinMining works on these zeros).

    Less #gambling and #bureaucrats, more #goodStuff.

    #bitcoinFixesThis