{"id":618954,"date":"2026-06-24T06:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=825730"},"modified":"2026-06-24T06:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T06:30:34","slug":"she-won-71-5-million-then-a-rule-change-froze-her-lottery-payout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/06\/24\/she-won-71-5-million-then-a-rule-change-froze-her-lottery-payout\/","title":{"rendered":"She Won $71.5 Million, Then a Rule Change Froze Her Lottery Payout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/she-won-71-5-million-then-a-rule-change-froze-her-lottery-payout-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Texas lottery ticket.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>An 83-year-old Texas retiree using the pseudonym Jane Doe hit a $71.5 million Lotto Texas jackpot on Feb. 17, 2025, after buying her ticket through the Jackpocket app. Seven days later, the Texas Lottery Commission banned third-party courier services, and her payout has been frozen amid an investigation by the Texas Rangers. Doe sued the [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 83-year-old Texas retiree using the pseudonym Jane Doe hit a $71.5 million Lotto Texas jackpot on Feb. 17, 2025, after buying her ticket through the Jackpocket app. Seven days later, the Texas Lottery Commission banned third-party courier services, and her payout has been frozen amid an investigation by the Texas Rangers. Doe sued the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":618955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-618954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}