Hm. It never occurred to me that provable randomness might be useful… As stated, I don’t think your scheme works because of Sybil attacks:
I come up with some easy NP problem or one already solved offline
I pass it around my 10,000 fake IRC nodes who all sign it,
and present the solved solution to the network
$$$
Hm. It never occurred to me that provable randomness might be useful… As stated, I don’t think your scheme works because of Sybil attacks:
I come up with some easy NP problem or one already solved offline
I pass it around my 10,000 fake IRC nodes who all sign it,
and present the solved solution to the network
$$$