Thanks for the answer! Ya definitely not the right spot for the question. Seems like upgrading sha should be something ppl would be open to considering sha1 had an NSA backdoor if I'm not mistaken.
The bitcoin community is extremely resistant to change, and for good reason. But I have faith that if a fatal bug was discovered and the entire project was threatened, the nodes and miners would come to consensus quickly and fix the issue. At a certain point, the principle of immutability has to be dropped in favor of keeping the system alive. But that's just my two cents.
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