How about distributed, verifiable, random numbers for gambling? Possible via nostr or p2p network?
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🔸Inter Milano ⚫🔵 11.00
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Discussion
How would that work?
That was kind of the question. Presumably, naively, one could pull random numbers from random sources in a network, or maybe even this/these operations could produce randomness, whereby the production of randomness (numbers and/or sources) could be verified, and used to satisfy some conditions.
Crude example for a roll of dice:
Put in some redeeming script (if that in itself is a thing) if this random hash that I got from a random source, all of which I imagine is verifiable, ends in ... then the next roll of the dice is ..., and if that dice roll is ..., then pay ..., else pay ...
Shoot, I wonder if hashes of contracts themselves could be the randomness used in some script.
Way above my pay grade
Mine too, but I have a vague idea of some things. I really wonder about a couple things though.
If the hash of a discreet log contract could be used as the random oracle for said contract, and there were a marketplace for participation in various contracts, then perhaps a decentralized casino could exist?! 🤷
I feel like lightning would explode if this were the case.
The most i can guarantee you is we're doing some challenge for it to compete against other nostrichs