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Dear sir, the entire NSA staff are currently plugging away on that pesky P=NP problem, including datacenter janitors.
by inter_netuser 5y ago
Dear sir, the entire NSA staff are currently plugging away on that pesky P=NP problem, including datacenter janitors.
- teh_infallible 5y agoI have suspected for awhile now that the bitcoin blockchain is actually an attempt to break SHA-256. Bitcoin is built around incentives, and it has created an incentive for people all over the world to basically brute force this algorithm and maintain a recursive set of low entropy outputs. Which would make the btc blockchain an incredibly expensive and valuable data set, for someone armed with the right mathematical theory.
- randomhodler84 5y agoPart of Security is knowing your adversaries power. I think you might be on the right track. You can’t put a price on the security of an algorithm. However, Satoshi gave us a very good metric for calculating it.
- chockablock 5y agoHow could you break it without destroying its value?
- jaywalk 5y agoWhy would the NSA care about destroying Bitcoin's value?