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No; it relies on practically nobody being able to control what the SHA-256 is applied to.



That's actually very easy to control. Just pay a high transaction fee. The nonce comes from a PRNG that doesn't have to pass many randomness checks. Your proposal really is no more random than a counter based SHA256 PRNG except with an awfully high sample latency.




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