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Re: Bitcoin puzzle transaction ~32 BTC prize to who solves it
by
MikeJ_NpC
on 03/05/2021, 03:21:21 UTC

He almost certainly used some env with good entropy, he obviously knew what he was doing. Zero chance that these random numbers have a weakness on PRNG side.


Can entropy formula use for calculate position zone of puzzle

No it can not. The random number generator gathers environmental noise from device drivers and other sources into an entropy pool. That's the beauty of the entropy pool, values are not calculated, instead they are measured, emulating what hardware random number generators do, best and expensive hardware generators measure radiation sources which are totally random. Since you do not hardware random generator in normal PC/server, usually temperature variations are used instead.




Question:  That being said, it would be more  feasible then to use older hardware 2012 2011 etc if you wallet was created during that time period? for the intention of duplicating entropy for recovery purposes?  Ex if you used a laptop with a old chipset when the wallet was spawned...