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by iggg 3002 days ago
Why is everyone assuming he is running a lottery? Where did he say he put funds in the wallets? All he said was he generated wallets, encrypted them, and put them on a usb.
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> PK (my other co-founder) had recently sold his friend a preloaded ledger of cryptocurrencies and walked over to us and told us we should “sell people wallets preloaded with random cryptos”.

> We thought that there was no way people would pay us for this kind of service, but we spiked out a site over the weekend and launched that following Monday.

A lottery requires a prize, chance, and consideration to win. I don't see all three elements here, though it is a little difficult to actually understand what the business is - so maybe.