Oddbean new post about login | logout Been getting a lot of message about "get a lottery ticket". I don't recall if I have ever filled out a lottery ticket. I did once win a brand new vespa in a raffle of 3500 people in downtown Portland in some Italian festival. My grandfather was religious about buying lottery tickets maybe weekly, maybe monthly I don't know. I know it's silly but when I was taking care of my grandmother after my grandpa passed away I found his last lottery ticket sitting around from a couple days before he was admitted to the hospital where he died suddently in April 2021. I travelled back to the US with his lottery ticket. it just popped upnin my eyesight as a reminder of quite a few oftl these lottery messages that have been coming in the last few weeks. I don't really know how the whole lottery thing works and while I could just stack some sats I also don't wanna ignore the messages. If I wanna try my "luck", what lottery options are out there? Is there Bitcoin lottery things out there too? Is this actually considered gambling? #hittingthejackpot
Get a #BitAxe.
Is this what @Low Information Voter is talking about?
It's a desktop lottery machine, that also makes bitcoin more secure and decentralized. I use the term "lottery machine" figuratively to fit the context of your note.
"The lottery is a tax on people who are bad at math." Here on average it pays 85c for every $1 put in. Better idea - you could buy a bitcoin mining rig and "solo mine". Probably will just lose electricity, but you'd be helping to secure the whole blockchain, and if your miner finds the block first you win big! (You can do this with the computer you have already if you use Xmrig. You'll need to convert XMR back into Bitcoin if you win, but that's no problem)
I am down to go down this rabbit hole. What exactly would I be looking to purchase? Also, I didn't really understand the last few things you said but I am guessing I will get it once I am in the process of learning to do it.
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So my current lap top would be the only thing I need to do what you and @Ava do?
Yes :) You'll need a program called "xmrig", and an XMR (Monero) wallet for the payout to go to before you convert it to bitcoin. Is your laptop running Windows?
Not windows nope.
Sweet
Oh does that work? Apple?
There's a MacOS version here - https://xmrig.com/docs/miner/build/macos You probably want the "binary releases" page.