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Puzzles shouldn't use sha256 #6

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yorickvP opened this issue Feb 23, 2014 · 0 comments
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Puzzles shouldn't use sha256 #6

yorickvP opened this issue Feb 23, 2014 · 0 comments

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Thanks to cryptocurrency mining, calculating sha256 hashes can be done very rapidly by attackers nowadays. The puzzle hashing should probably be switched to scrypt with a high memory requirement (so unlike litecoin, which can still be mined on gpus because of the low memory its hashes require).

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