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CD44: using secure random number generators to generate bitcoin keys with waxwing and @raw_avocado

Citadel Dispatch

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Is There a Mathematical Method to Mixing Dice?

Before bitcoin, we had something called brain wallets. You would put a word phrase in that you decided on and they would generate private keys for that word. And people all the time thought they were being so clever with what they were putting in there. They were just brute forcing it from those poems and quotes. Soleg: Are you going to see, i mean, b t c, pince has a question about pulling words out of a hat?

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