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wmf on Nov 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility

For searching a 32-bit nonce space I'd rather use a PRNG than a true RNG to avoid wasting work due to birthday paradox collisions.

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