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from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Generating_bitcoins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Generating_bitcoins "All generating nodes of the network are
by exit 16y ago
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Generating_bitcoins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Generating_bitcoins
"All generating nodes of the network are competing to be the first to find a solution to a cryptographic problem about their candidate-block, a problem that requires repetitious trial and error."
i wonder whether this "cryptographic problem" is vulnerable to quantum computing, in the same way asymmetric schemes like rsa are.
- rfugger 16y agoThe cryptographic problem is finding a nonce that, when concatenated with current transactions, gives a SHA256 hash below a certain value. Not sure about quantum vulnerabilities.