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There are very few processors in the US that will process this type of risk. I'm the founder of a lottery app company called Jackpocket and the compliance / due diligence is ridiculous. Now that DFS is seen as illegal and toxic its going to be near impossible to get someone to underwrite this risk. Time for Bitcoin to shine!

We actually do watermark the barcode :) Winnings under $600 are automatically applied to your account check out more here: https://vimeo.com/141492642

This is only the start of the corruption thats going on in the lottery. I'm the CEO of Jackpocket which is a mobile lottery app that we've been building pretty quietly. We're trying to bring the lottery into 2015, but a big part of our mission is bringing more transparency to the lottery and holding states more accountable to where to funds flow. I'm sure a bunch of you have seen the John Oliver video. The lottery has had a lot of dirty stories behind it. Really needs to be cleaned up because at the end of the day a lot of states need the revenue for social services.

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I think you actually understand contractual law. We've made an agreement that the ticket belongs to you, and back that agreement up with documentation showcasing that its been purchased and its been purchased on your behalf. You are the rightful owner. I would be impossible for us to cash it in. Any court of law would uphold that the ticket is yours. We have no ability to not keep our promise.

Actually a lot more secure then buying anywhere else. You actually get a digital receipt timestamped with your ID attached to it. Not to mention a picture of your ticket. You end up loosing the winning ticket and its anyone's to claim.

We've been super quiet about this and are not really ready to ship yet (bunch of bugs) but decided to let you guys give it a try since the Mega Millions is so big.

If you're on iOS you can use the code "money" to try it

The UI on your blog is wrong. The toggle switch to "GUI Work" is a touch gesture, not one relative to web.

Yea thats what I am getting at, but I also feel that when your an entrepreneur you have an attitude that may not be in line with a more corporate setting.

After coming off a failure I think the part that really resonated with me talking about the fear of disappointment. I've been so afraid of disappointing others that believed in me and thought they wouldn't look at me with the same amount of respect. What I've found is that they saw it as much more of accomplishment then I almost did.

The other part is "You’re unemployable. You’re an entrepreneur." I am now in the process of meeting lots and lots of companies, big, small, new, old, re-invented and I'm finding that maybe its a case of once you've been a CEO you will always be a CEO. We will see what comes.

Sorry about some grammar mistakes :/

No I use the term "current location" as Facebook labels it. You are correct in saying that other platforms call this differently but they are all asking the same general question. "Where do you normally live now". I think you are incorrect in the sense that this shouldn't be a supported part of the API. If your platform is based on Geo (Like Foursquare) then you can of course utilize additional checkins to help solidify the concept of a users "current location" but I still think its really important to index properly. These design decisions that you talk about were implemented before they were supporting geo tags in the API. I think its an easy design change to support this methodology. The platform, the users, and the developers would all gain.

Na, not trying to take anything away from anyone. Just want to know how this works in all honesty. Thought it was exponentially effected by time. Does anyone know the actual algorithm?

Plus I am totally cool with them yanking the tickets. If they would have said not to do it I would have removed them myself.

awesome will do that!

Not sure if its better to go with having the brand name there or not. I think its cooler with just cloudy, but runs the risk of no one knowing who its from....

that was a mistake on my part, I copied the link from our Facebook group where I posted it to our team, changing now!

You are right in terms of SEO. On a funny note if you search Tripl on Google, our SEO is so bad it comes up as domain description we originally bought. Google must of done some re-indexing. We are trying to fix that this week by using a site index.

yeah that was just a mistake because it was posted in our internal group page, my bad

very very very true!

Hacker news brought in about 8000 visits.... TechCrunch around 1100

Changed the title, better?

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2011/12/05/the-techcrunch-embar...

exactly what we are trying to do at http://tripl.com

We just rolled out a new feature over at http://tripl.com

exactly :)

I will tell what is hard, multiple country legislation, different cultures, and different languages. Its too segregated.

What a sick ass round that was....

You are right. Corporate taxes are no worse off. However, US investors don't want to touch stuff there because they don't completely understand local law...

it actually not so much the taxation that costs much for a company, its the "social fees". We will still keep a development team over there, but social fees can add 31% to an employees gross salary. Then the employee still has to have around 30% of tax removed as well.

good observation!

big thanks!