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Re: Using Bitcoin Block Hashes For Random Numbers
by
grue
on
23/06/2013, 22:34:42 UTC
You might want to take the hash of the block and concatenate it with some arbitrary string, then hash it once more to get more randomness. A block hash alone has a bias towards lower numbers.