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Big Barry Bitcoin · 5d
I really want to watch this, and I will, but come on. Straight out of the bat, coins have 20% bias?!? What nonsense is this? Here's a video that proves how much nonsense it is. I just had to pause to...
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Well obviously it depends on the coins, and it seems you took the worst case scenario for the base case.

Some countries have very light/unbalanced coins in smaller denominations and I believe 20% is a number I read in a published article on the worst case scenarios. My own research with not-so-great coins were not as bad but the bias was still significantly higher than with cards/tiles.
Big Barry Bitcoin · 5d
Watch the video. Even in your own video you added a caveat "as long as the tiles are sufficiently shuffled" and I don't think they were really sufficiently shuffled in your video. Apply the same caveat to coins and you get 51%/49% 1% bias. Also, the bias diminishes over turns, so it is basically...