keccers
@keccers.eth
A lady is using this raffle ticket website to sell her house. She can make more money from tickets than it’s fair value Seems like a use case tailor made for crypto but it isn’t using crypto https://raffall.com/en https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/realestate/ireland-house-raffle.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Jayme Hoffman
@jayme
wild "To date, he said, 18 houses have been sold on the platform, “meaning they hit their sales targets and legally transferred the properties to the winners. Roughly 50 others tried but didn’t reach their targets.” He said gross ticket sales have varied between £400,000 and £960,000 ($530,000 and $1.28 million)." no paywall https://archive.ph/L1IHc
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keccers
@keccers.eth
It makes so much sense to me when I think about it. Imagine getting a $20 house. And then the owner makes more than the house is worth? Win win
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kia
@kia
it’s quite common in restored cars more people (in sum of money) are willing to gamble on a restored 60s bronco or whatever than people willing to buy one
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