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Re: Quantum computers to crack SHA256 - when will that become reality?
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jonald_fyookball
on 16/04/2017, 03:09:57 UTC

The only thing that quantum computers can do is to speed up the calculation of SHA256 hashes. Even if its faster than normal computers by a factor of thousands, the ASICs would still be way faster than quantum computers. The difficulty will rise and the network would continue as per normal.
 

i dont think qunatum computers can speed up hashing, but anyway this is not what is meant by 'cracking' sha256.