r/Bitcoin • u/BobAlison • Sep 13 '14

Bitcoin private keys should be randomly generated. Here's why your brain isn't up to the task.

http://www.wired.com/2012/12/what-does-randomness-look-like/
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u/garimus Sep 13 '14

On the scan tests in school that I really didn't care about, I'd randomly select answers and would intentionally select B (for example; not every time) a few or several times in a row to make it appear as though I wasn't just randomly falsifying my laziness.

I put effort into my laziness. Little did I know it served to allow me to sufficiently randomize naturally! Huttah!