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November 22, 2014, 01:43:18 AM
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Could we convince the Pope of using the hash of a block as a random generator for his raffle draw?

That would be awesome!  Grin Grin Grin
 
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November 22, 2014, 01:57:38 AM
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"as leader of the world’s 1.2 billion baptised Roman Catholics".

The article reeks propaganda.
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November 22, 2014, 01:59:56 AM
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Quote from: remotemass on November 22, 2014, 01:43:18 AM
Could we convince the Pope of using the hash of a block as a random generator for his raffle draw?

That would be awesome!  Grin Grin Grin
 
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/nov/18/pope-francis-raffle-gifts-money-poor

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November 22, 2014, 09:07:52 AM
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I had a raffle script that uses blockhashes as seed once. Turned out that /dev/urandom is a better source for randomness.
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November 22, 2014, 09:59:53 AM
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Quote from: shorena on November 22, 2014, 09:07:52 AM
I had a raffle script that uses blockhashes as seed once. Turned out that /dev/urandom is a better source for randomness.

But not provably fair, that is the point of provably fair raffles using block hash for the random number
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November 22, 2014, 10:42:41 AM
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Quote from: remotemass on November 22, 2014, 01:43:18 AM
Could we convince the Pope of using the hash of a block as a random generator for his raffle draw?



Can we send him an email?  Grin
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November 22, 2014, 12:46:49 PM
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Quote from: El Emperador on November 22, 2014, 10:42:41 AM
Can we send him an email?  Grin

We can tweet him: @pontifex
{ Imagine a sequence of bits generated from the first decimal place of the square roots of whole integers that are irrational numbers. If the decimal falls between 0 and 5, it's considered bit 0, and if it falls between 5 and 10, it's considered bit 1. This sequence from a simple integer count of contiguous irrationals and their logical decimal expansion of the first decimal place is called the 'main irrational stream.' Our goal is to design a physical and optical computing system system that can detect when this stream starts matching a specific pattern of a given size of bits. bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=166760.0 } Satoshi did use a friend class in C++ and put a comment on the code saying: "This is why people hate C++".
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