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⚡️☢ NEW - This developer generates his Bitcoin keys using… the radioactive decay of a smoke detector.

His system takes advantage of a fundamental property of quantum physics: the exact moment when a radioactive nucleus decays is inherently unpredictable.

By detecting the events produced by a radioactive source and then converting their time intervals into digital data, it is possible to obtain a source of physical entropy that can be used to generate random numbers.

This idea is particularly interesting for Bitcoin, as the security of a private key depends directly on the quality of the randomness used during its creation. A key generated with a predictable generator can theoretically be reconstructed by an attacker, even if Bitcoin’s cryptography itself remains intact.