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Can the Bitcoin network be used for cracking?
I'm assuming that the Bitcoin economy is rapidly building a computing cluster capable of unprecedented amount of hash searching.
Would it be possible for an attacker to leverage this to crack other ...
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Why are blocks hashed?
Am I correct that addresses are hashed to compress a huge text-represented coprime into something of manageable size?
Am I also correct that transactions are hashed for the same reason and also ...
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