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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @kurszusz 11 Apr \ on: What should be done about Satoshi's coins when ECC is broken? bitcoin
This can't happen except with the creation of a quantum computer... and that's a long way off. The solution (I think) will be to switch from sha256 to sha512 (or maybe sha1024)
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5 sats \ 0 replies \ @quark 11 Apr
You are probably underestimating the advances in quantum computers. They are already doing prime factorization algorithms and evolving fast. We may need to change the cryptography sooner than expected.
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