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pioneer jaw · 1w
Can anyone summarize bip110 controversy without persuasive definition fallacies and in fewer than 5 sentences
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It's was framed as Big Bitcoin vs. Grassroots plebs so that was most of the conflict. It goes back to the belief that core betrayed the main purpose of bitcoin relaxing the rules. Conflicts in the ecosystem working for Big Bitcoin instead of what's best for the protocol. Bip 110 was seen as regaining some of that control from the corporate faction.
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Marc · 1w
Has anyone read any books on dice entropy? I want to learn more about generating sufficient entropy for digital signatures using 100+ dice tolls. II once read Stupak On Craps in my gambling days. acc...
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As I can tell regular game dice like bicycle from the store or otherwise with a slight bias may give you an entropy around 200 bits still. There is a way to correct for this bias but it comes at the cost of 300 rolls. Casino dice from craps table are perfectly balanced with the drilled spots filled and sharp razor edges. It's pretty cool to have a real set of casino dice on hand, don't buy something claiming to be "casino grade" buy real casino dice. Lots of cheap acrylic cubes being sold as aaa grade are unbalanced scams.

Some people may complain dice is for gambling as that relates you are gambling with security in some way. That is not true, gambling is math it is a precision of perfectly calculated odds enforced by chaotic randomness of the universe producing entropy on each roll. Trng operates similarly in that they detect random electrical noise run it through bias filters to create entropy, chaotic randomness nonetheless.
imad palestine · 1w
That photo is absolutely stunning.