billybigpotatoes on Nostr: Let do something quite unpopular nowadays. Let's do some maths! Screw dice, let's say ...

Let do something quite unpopular nowadays. Let's do some maths!

Screw dice, let's say you have an imperfect coin. 75% heads, 25% tails. According to log calcs, you still have 0.811 bits of entropy, against 1 bit with a perfect coin (50% heads 50% tails). So you toss the shitty biased coin 256 times. That still gives you 256x0.811=200ish bits of entropy. That still puts you in a much much stronger position than some poor fucker with 40 bits of entropy.

Moral of the story is, do more maths. Less coding!

My only fear with the return to dice is some peeps will think they can generate the randomness themselves. Please, if you think this, first look up 'brainflayer' on github, a private key bruteforcer of brainwallets back in the day.