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The detail you're missing is that these hashes bitcoin computes are designed to be something easy to verify but hard to compute. Relatively few productive probl
by ultramancool 11y ago
The detail you're missing is that these hashes bitcoin computes are designed to be something easy to verify but hard to compute. Relatively few productive problems have this property, and there are some which are doing this already, trying to crack proof RSA keys and such... but that's about it.
- foota 11y agoNew distributed currency system sponsored by the NSA: breaking RSA keys for profit.
- ultramancool 11y agoI was thinking more... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge But yes, that could totally be done! Only problem is everyone would have the result, which I don't think they'd like too much.