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 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