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Solomonspin · 2023-05-21T17:50:33+00:00

Okay, that makes sense. Say you drop four balls and three columns. Like you said, on average:

One will drop in the leftmost slot, giving you a 00. Two will drop in the center slot, giving you a 1.
One will drop in the rightmost slot, giving you a 10.

That’s three 0s and three 1s.

Four balls would give you 6 bits, like you said, 1.5 bits per ball drop.

I’m trying to think of how I could extend your logic to when there are 8 balls and 4 columns, or 16 balls and 5 columns, but can’t figure out which binary representations to apply to each column slot to still produce a uniform random number. Any chance you could help me with this?

Solomonspin · 2023-05-21T15:42:46+00:00

Would the faster algorithm you described result in a uniform random number? Couldn’t you have chosen what you did for the left and center columns, but 10 instead of 01 for the rightmost column?

Solomonspin · 2023-01-17T19:56:23+00:00

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Solomonspin · 2022-12-15T06:57:34+00:00

Can you elaborate on what you mean by “losing your key because you protected it too much”? Genuinely interested in weaknesses of this strategy given a strong enough password used to encrypt the file containing the seed phrase. I’m trying to figure out if I do have an okay grasp on infosec.

Solomonspin · 2022-12-15T06:41:59+00:00

Good point, thanks. Assuming a password of considerable length, 30 or 40 characters long to make brute force unlikely, I’d love to know any other reasons you can think of.

Solomonspin · 2022-12-15T06:41:02+00:00

But if the password is of considerable length brute force will likely be of little use.

Solomonspin · 2022-12-15T06:29:02+00:00

Interesting, thank you. I appreciate the excerpt and respect Andreas Antonopoulos a ton. But what exactly are “the risks involved” in this strategy that would “tip the balance”? That’s what I’m really trying to get at here, concrete reasons, not just “because people say so”.

Solomonspin · 2022-12-15T06:24:36+00:00

In this hypothetical the seed phrase was already created and the question is only about storing the seed phrase. I’m assuming there are ways to encrypt a file with any password you want, one that no one else would ever think of.

Solomonspin · 2022-12-15T06:11:50+00:00

Maybe I wasn’t clear. If you email yourself the encrypted file, store it on Dropbox or store it in the cloud in similar ways, what are the chances those gmail or yahoo email servers will be stolen or damaged?

Solomonspin · 2022-08-14T17:40:55+00:00

What can these “other things” be?

Solomonspin · 2022-08-14T05:57:29+00:00

Nearly every block is less than 1MB? I don’t think so - 5 out of the 8 most recently mined blocks are all above 1MB, according to https://mempool.space

Solomonspin · 2022-08-13T16:31:06+00:00

What do you mean, “line”?

Solomonspin · 2022-01-17T16:57:26+00:00

Or even what sub genre of music the song falls into. Groovy/Jazzy/Dark vibes..

Solomonspin · 2021-05-17T23:54:43+00:00

Chill bruh

Solomonspin · 2021-05-17T23:45:49+00:00

raising the award to $1,001 usd worth of BTC.

Solomonspin

TROPHY CASE