Crypto lottery lunched - make tickets by minting Monero in browser

in #monero7 years ago

Stumbled on this (first?) crypto-lottery and sharing it with you:

The basic idea would be that they mine Monero in your browser and for each minute you stay on the page you get a number of lottery tickets - I guess depending on the power of your rig. They give 1 prize of $100 every hour - that means a lot of users mining to be a profitable endeavor.
It seems the site uses the same coinhive notorious JavaScript miner use by PirateBay and Showtime.

Some questions come to mind:

  1. Is it a legit thing, a scam or publicity stunt for the other service they seem to run - a watch ads to get money android app?
  2. Can someone confirm that is the first crypto-currency backed lottery?
  3. Do you know of similar mine-for-some-other-reward schemes?

You can check it out at:
https://zirkoin.com/the-1-million-dollars-lottery/

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