Questions tagged [randomness]
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Is this approach to an ethereum lottery sound and/or novel?
I'm looking at making gambling apps is ethereum. Currently made a contract that can flip a coin. After looking at this question:
How can I securely generate a random number in my smart contract?
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How can the “Random Beacon” proposal guard against bribes?
The Random Beacon proposal suggests a scheme where K-of-N signatures are used to sign a random number. It suggests that the only way for a random number to be corrupted if all K signers are corrupt; ...
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Will Serenity provide a practical built-in solution for contracts to get random numbers?
As discussed in How can I securely generate a random number in my smart contract?, it's currently quite hard to get a random number reasonably fast to use in a contract. In situations where you can ...
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What is meant by on-chain randomness? What is the difference between on-chain and off-chain operations in the context of randomness?
I want to understand on-chain and off-chain operations in the context of randomness. Kindly provide me an example so that its clear to me.
I got one post here:
What are offchain and onchain ...
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Advantage of Chainlink's VRF over commitment scheme chain
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Chainlink announced a randomness oracle via VRF: https://blog.chain.link/verifiable-random-functions-vrf-random-number-generation-rng-feature/.
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What is the advantage of an VRF over a ...
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Increasing the difficulty/cost of manipulating an on-chain PRNG?
well, from what I understand since everything on-chain is deterministic so theoretically there's no way of having a real cryptograhically secure random number generator that cannot be manipulated by ...
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How bad are future blockhashes as source of entropy exactly?
This is not a duplicate (see below)
Before you answer “bad, the miner can influence them”, please let me specify the question.
It’s clear that things like timestamp should not flow into a random ...
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How to fix gas estimation failed error while getting random number from Provable Random DS?
I'm using Provable for getting a random number and I am using following code snippet from their github: https://github.com/provable-things/ethereum-examples/blob/master/solidity/random-datasource/...
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exploiting keccak for random number generation?
Whenever a ticket will be purchased, a random number will be generated
function _mightWin()
internal
{
address _player = msg.sender; // players address
uint256 ...
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How can I securely generate a random number in my smart contract at POA?
I heard that a block of random function results can be dropped by a malicious miner.
Can POA prevent this?
How can I securely generate a random number in my smart contract?
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PoA (like rinkeby) safer to generate random number (RNG) this function than POW/POS?
How can I securely generate a random number in my smart contract?
I heard that a block of random function results can be dropped by a malicious miner. Can POA prevent this?
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How do mrand.Float64() output the same result with same order in reorganisation?
Recently, I did go deep into the code of reorganisation in blockchain, but I'm confused by the mrand.Float64() in WriteBlockWithState. Here is the code: original code position
// If the total ...
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Can one safely use a bitcoin block hash as a source of randomness in an ethereum contract?
This question here Why aren't block hashes a reliable source of randomness? explains why it is not a good idea to use an ethereum block hash as a source of randomness (SoR) for a contract C; the ...
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accessing unpredictable numbers
I see that this has been a widely discussed topic in the past but I still don't understand why the future block hashes shouldn't be used for lottery-type games. As long as the incentive for a miner to ...
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Can the blockchain run a billion dollar lottery?
As many games and other applications, a lottery needs a reliable random number generator. Especially when the prize is high. There are some sophisticated algorithms to achieve this goal, such as ...
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Bad randomness exploitation
There is a contract with a betting function that calculates a random number and send you back a reward if winning. The betting function looks like:
function bet() public payable
{
if ((...
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How can I use bitcoin block stamp as seed for random number generation?
I am trying to create an ethereum based smart contract that shall generate random number. After searching around, I get to know that ethereum block stamp is vulnerable to miners hacks and false ...
