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FireLotto Airdrop Review

Fire Lotto aims to build a fair international lotto game, with distributed ownership by internet users through owning a stake in FLOT tokens. Fire Lotto will be selling the FLOT token in two stages, pre-ICO and ICO, starting from January 15 and ending the sale event on April 15.(1)



A lottery game built on the Ethereum blockchain will be a major innovation in the global lottery industry. The lottery industry holds a 29% share of the global gambling revenue [1], and is facing challenges due to the growth of the digital economy. Worldwide demand for more transparent, fair services has grown concurrent with the advance of technologies that enable the change. The distributed, decentralized nature of blockchain technology offers tremendous opportunities for financial technology innovation, and, similarly, for gaming industry modernization. A gaming system built based on the use of the Ethereum blockchain would operate with a high degree of autonomy, and its data and records would be cryptographically stored in a public, decentralized blockchain. Available online and borderless, such a system can resolve several challenges of traditional lotteries. The proposed lottery will employ the random number generation (RNG) method, which is secure and fair and prevents manipulation and fraud. This project implements a completely secure RNG method based on the current version of the Bitcoin decentralized protocol. (2)




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