Oleg Andreev



Software designer with focus on user experience and security.

You may start with my selection of articles on Bitcoin.

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Product architect at Chain.

Author of Gitbox version control app.

Author of CoreBitcoin, a Bitcoin toolkit for Objective-C.

Author of BTCRuby, a Bitcoin toolkit for Ruby.

Former lead dev of FunGolf GPS, the best golfer's personal assistant.


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I am very interested in innovative ways to secure property and personal interactions: all the way from cryptography to user interfaces. I am not interested in trading, mining or building exchanges.

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March 26

Math.random() and srand in AS3

There’s no “srand” function in AS3. That is you cannot seed random number generator.

And when you get the very same results each time swf is loaded you find this:

However, if you need true randomness in an event-driven application, you can do this:

setInterval(Math.random, 10)

Flash Player will run Math.random() in background producing different random values at different points of time.