Why is that a bad idea? I mean, if you're downloading 1GB, your file is split into 1MB chunks, and each hash is 256 bits, that's only 32KB. I doubt anyone would

Why is that a bad idea? I mean, if you're downloading 1GB, your file is split into 1MB chunks, and each hash is 256 bits, that's only 32KB. I doubt anyone would complain about that.