Best solution to get a random number in a smart contract?
How to get a random number in Solidity.
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bro thought this was chatgpt
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Anonymous
||There are oracles that can provide random numbers. Chainlink I believe can and theyre the largest oracle.
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Anonymous
||very naive of you to trust them
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Anonymous
||Or you could get timestamp of recent block and use it as seed in some prg if you don't need much entropy
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Anonymous
||> Or you could get timestamp of recent block and use it as seed in some prg if you don't need much entropy
With other words, if you're alright with someone being able to predict the random number
With other words, if you're alright with someone being able to predict the random number
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Anonymous
||Yup perfectly alright for games. And how you gotta predict next block timestamp? You might get just enough entropy for uniform 0-1
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Anonymous
||use the least significant bits of the number of transactions of some coin
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