Leighton Cusack Explains How PoolTogether, a No-Loss Lottery Works - Ep. 6

In this episode, Bobby Ong, co-founder of CoinGecko is joined by Leighton Cusack, CEO of PoolTogether. Bobby interviewed Leighton on the story behind PoolTogether, some of the stats on PoolTogether and challenges to grow PoolTogether, as well as the plan for 2020.

[00:00:02] Intro
[00:01:29] Background on PoolTogether
[00:03:34] Stats on PoolTogether
[00:07:23] The meaning of Open Ticket
[00:10:42] How PoolTogether selects the winner?
[00:13:07] The experience of receiving a MakerDAO grant
[00:14:09] Does PoolTogether have a kill switch?
[00:16:13] Challenges in building and growing PoolTogether
[00:18:31] PoolTogether’s business model
[00:22:52] PoolTogether’s plan for 2020
[00:23:53] Where to follow PoolTogether?

Quotes from the Episode:

“And so actually something that we're announcing this week is ticket tokenization which basically the tickets are now going to be tokens that can be transferred” [06:48]

“So the more money you deposit, the higher your chance to win it. The luckiest winner was that person who only deposited 10 DAI and they won $1700.” [04:15]

“We also have a bug bounty program with the top award of $25,000 to award anyone who finds bugs in the code.” [15:10]

Links

PoolTogether - https://www.pooltogether.com/
CoinGecko - https://www.coingecko.com/

Social Media

PoolTogether
https://twitter.com/PoolTogether_
https://discord.gg/hxPhPDW
https://medium.com/pooltogether

CoinGecko:
https://twitter.com/coingecko
https://t.me/coingecko