Empirical distribution of the randomness beacon (=RANDAO) provided by the Beacon chain. The first Proof-of-Stake (PoS) block number is 15537394
. Beginning with 15537394
, every Beacon node sets the value of the mixHash
, i.e. the field with the number 13 (0-indexed) in a block header, to the latest RANDAO mix of the post beacon state of the previous block. The probability of the RANDAO value to fall into the range between 0
and 2**64
is drastically low*. For more details, I refer to EIP-4399.
* The probability of RANDAO > 2**64
is