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Re:DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware... by quirino on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @08:57AM (#27434522)
It surely depends on which aspect of SHA they would have broken, but the whole point of Bitcoin is the hash being completely unpredictable and requiring brute force. That's the Work in Proof of Work.
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Re:DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware... by wyager on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:04AM (#27434602)
Bitcoin has contingencies in place to swap out any of its crypto algorithms.
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