Good info..
You guys could point me a better option though.. The idea behind this game is to select a winner (or more) from a list of particpants. The game would announce something like: "we are at block 568903 - result at 569000 (using nonces as seeds from block 568996 to 569000)"
Using multiple blocks would avoid nonces comming from only a miner, right?
This way we would have deterministic results from the algorithm.. The problem is the seed origin.. so I thought that nonces could be usefull..
Any thoughts?
hypothetically I could forge game results.. by using nonces, I couldn't
Seed origin from nonces on multiple blocks is good idea and i doubt multiple pool / miners with big hashrate would work together just to manipulate a game result.
Since the winner is based on participant list, not number/value chosen by participant, there's no need to worry about increasing winrate by choose specific number/value.