RE: A trustless random generator, relying on the blockchain to remove the "Organizer advantage" in some events

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A trustless random generator, relying on the blockchain to remove the "Organizer advantage" in some events

in steemstem •  7 years ago 

If you can obtain significant mining mining power in a network, you can perform an attack on this kind of RNG by mining blocks and only publishing the one that will result in desired range of numbers.

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Yes, I talk about it in the paragraph "Malicious actor rejecting a block to alter the results (Very unlikely, high risk)".

Ah, ok. I misunderstood the terminology there.