> It might work once or twice but not over and over again.

Except for when it does: there are a bunch of people who have repeatedly jackpotted state lotteries, they're usually described as 'reclusive mathematicians'. But that isn't what I'm talking about. I just checked the TX Lottery Commission's site and it looks like scratchoffs would run, worst case, a 30% return. I can't be bothered to calculate the upper bounds, but I'd expect it to be 40%-ish. That seems good to me, I especially like that you can skip the part where you have to drive out to some hotel to meet an undercover Secret Service agent pretending to be a Wells Fargo employee responding to your help wanted notice in Soldier of Fortune.

I learned a long time ago that the most effective way to correct a vice is to play it against another vice, sloth being an easy goto. But in this case... I'm not a drug dealer, so I don't need to launder large amounts of small bills. But... if I wanted to launder a bunch of public ledger based crypto: instead of a using a loud and proud "bitcoin tumbler", I'd use something like satoshibet. Of course, that is likely why the original no longer exists - and I imagine anyone standing up a replacement (without a sufficiently invasive KYC implementation) would face similar hostility. Anyway, I expect that'll change when a state run satoshibet eventually emerges.