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I’m not sure I understand the significance. Can anyone explain?

• deleted 3y ago
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• ursuscamp 3y ago
  SHA256 is a one-way hashing function. Which means that feeding that sentence into SHA-256 and it starting with the characters in that sentence is very unlikely chance. They probably wrote a script that tacked on a bunch of random letters and numbers to a sentence, then hashed it via brute force until it returned a hash that started with the exact same thing that the sentence said. This is similar to how Bitcoin's proof of work algorithm.
• sublinear 3y ago
  Another potential issue that comes to mind is the usage of "short hashes" as an identifier instead of the full hash.
• kzrdude 3y ago
  It's self-referential and that makes it non-obvious how it's accomplished. Changing the sentence changes the hash, which also changes the sentence. So in any case it's an interesting construction.