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Provably fair algorithm

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Fails notability test -- insufficient independent reliable sources that are about this topic itself. Seems largely to be a promotion for Dragonchain; note that the Bloomberg "article" cited is actually a Dragonchain press release. Another cited source, "provably.com" seems to be a website devoted to promoting the idea of provably fair gambling. And so on. -- The Anome (talk) 10:36, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Internet-related deletion discussions. Spiderone^{(Talk to Spider)} 10:47, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Delete - this originated as a neologism in cryptocurrency gambling; no usage I could find outside crypto gambling - David Gerard (talk) 11:07, 24 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]
Keep - As the author, I didn't think much about the notability, as I had encountered its concepts a few years before its use in cryptocurrency. I would remind people that "crypto" has its roots in ... "crypto," as in this link to a 2005 crypto book that covers "provably fair" in connection to the "zero-knowledge proof" that forms a foundation for certain cryptocurrency blockchains, and has some relevancy for nearly all of them. In my ignorance 6 years ago, some of this wasn't known. The article's poor state now is due to a lack of competent editors, not due to any notoriety of the topic. Look at the ZKP article, read the History section, which starts out as, "Zero-knowledge proofs were first conceived in 1985 (...)" Provably fair is just a subset of the ZKP. See This citation. It appears the article needs to get an infusion of that sort of fundamental and less of the hodl community. And finally, scholarly research such as this seems to be interested in virtually the same provably fair algorithms in the oversight of governments and their programming, like running a "provably accountable" visa lottery. I like to saw logs! (talk) 06:35, 26 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]