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by conanbatt 2177 days ago
You can do provably fair gambling by using cryptography to show the generation was not tampered with. It was common in bitcoin gambling sites that had no other way to prove they were (somewhat) legit.
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This 100%, and from the articles I've read on it, it doesn't look too difficult to implement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provably_fair

https://github.com/search?q=provably+fair

While this may be cryptographically sound(I haven't looked into it), it's not a viable solution since it won't be trusted or understood by the majority of their target demographic.
Surely it depends how they would frame it? I'd imagine they wouldn't lead with "Cryptographically secure with BitCoin .."
An auditable system doesn't need everyone to do the audit: you want it for anyone to be able to audit, and for some to do it.

It's also very easy to provide the auditing tool. (I did it, long ago. Basically a form.)