it's even sillier, if everyone bought 1,000,000 times as many tickets guess how that would change the probabilities. not at all!
brucee On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:15 PM, andrey mirtchovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, cracking the lottery jackpot happens quite often (if people > > would buy as many lotter tickets as we've got disitinct data > > blocks as we have in larger data storages or network traffic > > over several years, it would happen very regularily). > > i think what you fail to take into consideration is the fact, that > even if the chance of a collision may be relatively high by your > standards, the chance that the colliding blocks have data of any > significance is very, very low. i.e., the algorithm for figuring out > whether a hash collision will be important to you personally belongs > to EXPSPACE, which, we all know, is filled with pr0n anyways. > > cheerio! >
