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by mianos 1623 days ago
2 Small payments can provide a larger range of random numbers for an account verification at lower cost to you.

Let's say you want a random number between 0 and 91, you can take up 9c times 2, for a maximum of 18c, giving a much lesser chance you can guess the number on the confirmation. Otherwise, for the same range you would take up to 91c out.