Mr. Arthur Falls gave a talk on DFINITY: The Road to Randomness on 8 August. He has a background in journalism, content marketing and media production, and has produced several popular blockchain-centric podcasts, most notably Beyond Bitcoin, The Ether Review, and The Third Web.
Blockchain networks rely on one thing above all others for security – the generation of unpredictable, non-manipulable, verifiable randomness.This is used to select a block maker, build a wall of security, and in future platforms, assign special roles to network participants.
In his talk he gave a quick introduction to randomness generation, covering Proof of Work (Bitcoin), Commit & Reveal (Ethereum – Proof of Stake, Tezos), and DFINITY’s verifiable random function, Threshold Relay.