Quote from: HairyMaclairy on December 19, 2013, 10:11:55 AM

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Quote from: GriTBitS on December 19, 2013, 08:54:37 AM

whatever the new bad news is, will be such a mind fuck.

Apart from if sha-256 is broken or 51% attack successfully forked off another blockchain, anything else is not worth paying attention to.

i'm sorry, i'm not keen on the mining end what does breaking sha-256 impart on the value of btc? wouldn't it make it more difficult, therefore more rare/valuable? preach...

Bitcoin is built on SHA 256. If someone manages to crack SHA 256, Bitcoin is over.

*edit*. It is currently believed impossible to break SHA 256 with current technology and math skills. 20 years from now - who knows.

so who's developing SHA-512?