RandomBeaconBot is a bot that publishes a tweet with 32 bits of entropy every 5 minutes. Thanks for https://twitter.com/UtahraptorECC for the idea, and some helpful code on https://github.com/P1K/UTAHRAPTOR_ECC/ !
This bot helps the unicorn beacon - trx.epfl.ch/beacon/ - to generate random numbers. The beacon computes a random number every 10 minutes using the seeds gathered in a 10minute pre-processing window. During that time all the tweets with the hashtag #unicorn_beacon are gathered and used as a seed in order to compute a random number. Furthermore the randomness of that number is uncontestable and can be proved after the number is published. For more info visit trx.epfl.ch/beacon/ .
This bot publishes a randomly generated sentence in 5 minute intervals starting from 2m30s of each hour. You can find a python2 and python3 script in the repository, called bot2.py and bot3.py respectively.
Dependencies:
- tweepy - a library for connecting to twitter and posting tweets
- Beautiful soup 4 - a library for extracting the current beacon number from the unicorn beacon website
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