Also, there have been suggestions that the NSA has a backdoor for the secp256r1 curve.
As for bitcoin being fucked if it ever were to ever need a new hashing algo, I'm not sure. I would imagine that several forks would come out of it as a result, and one or more would likely have a fair amount of success. Only time will tell.
CryptoDrew
npub1s8…4uw34
2024-01-19 20:05:49
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