Quote from: franky1 on January 07, 2017, 02:51:49 PM

lauda as not only a moderator, but as a sig campaign organiser yourself. you could and should just report him to his sign campaign manager and lose him his earning status. that would shut him up

I've already done that, thank you for the heads up though.

Let's get back to the interesting stuff, shall we?

Quote from: franky1 on January 07, 2017, 09:43:10 AM

if 2 people have an cat (same address) in a box (wallet address pool of 20-100 addresses yet to be used) but cannot yet see if its an active address ready to jump out and walk around (collide and be spent by other person) or not.. ... have they yet collided.. Cheesy

This is actually a very good thought experiment, with the analogy to Schrodinger's cat and quantum uncertainty. I would still be inclined to say that the collision occurred even though it was not observed by anyone. Do collisions that have no impact or have not been noticed by someone matter? I would say no. Even though the chances of one are extremely improbable, it may happen without someone noticing one.

Quote from: franky1 on January 07, 2017, 09:43:10 AM

there has already been a few bad RND collissions. so yes collissions have happened and will happen

Standard random generators are quite useless for cryptography indeed. For better randomness, one could attempt to map data from some naturally occuring events (aside from the traditional method of using cryptographically safe PRNG e.g. ChaCha20)