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4-26-2016

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2017

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Powerball fever recently struck the nation. An estimated $1.5 billion jackpot had everyone talking. Hoping. Dreaming. With a single Powerball ticket cost at $2, one can imagine saving each and every dollar in order to purchase a ticket at a chance to win the big prize. What was new this time around? Individuals were able to purchase Powerball tickets with bitcoin. JackPocket, a mobile lottery ticket application, “integrated bitcoin payments into its offering…allow[ing] users to buy Powerball tickets.” JackPocket CEO Peter Sullivan believed that this move would “attract more affluent and tech-savvy consumers to buy more lottery tickets.”

This post was originally published on the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal website on April 26, 2016. The original post can be accessed via the Archived Link button above.

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