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Re:Show HN: Satoshi9000 analog BTC key generator (mechanical) by ajay-d on Thursday October 24, 2024 @08:42AM (#41934923)
Are these like public randomness beacons? NIST[0] and Cloudflare[1] have them. I guess use cases are lotteries that are publicly verifiable, election auditing...

[0] https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/interoperable-randomness-beac...

[1] https://drand.love/

[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/league-of-entropy/

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Re:Show HN: Satoshi9000 analog BTC key generator (mechanical) by RIMR on Thursday October 24, 2024 @09:47AM (#41935464)
No.
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Re:Show HN: Satoshi9000 analog BTC key generator (mechanical) by AJTSheppard on Friday October 25, 2024 @11:24AM (#41946167)
Election auditing.

That's a quite interesting idea. I will put more thought into that.

Thanks!

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