Quote from: nottm28 on March 18, 2014, 10:47:15 PM

Quote from: Lord F(r)og on March 18, 2014, 10:42:29 PM

Quote from: nottm28 on March 18, 2014, 10:27:25 PM

Quote from: Lord F(r)og on March 18, 2014, 10:09:33 PM

So what's up? Do we have devcon 1 or is this just an alarm drill?

It is possible I think but would take some kind of genius inspiration to break the encryption algorithm. I remember there was some Chinese girl who did (then didn't yeah right) break the sha256 algorithm... still waiting for his asics to crunch the numbers...

This means if his Asperger turns out misunderstood genius, sha256 is basically broken? Is there a way we can "easily" follow/confirm his claim?

Well if he posts a message that I can verify as signed my me - then yeah shit hits the fan. Probability is low though but you can't rule out a mule (isaac asimov

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[edit] and then we would need to know how he did it... yeah

[edit2] even if he did manage to post a message that I could verify as signed by me - it's more likely to be a a 'feature' in bitcoin qt 0.8.6 rather than a crack for sha256...

What would SHA256 has anything to do with this? This is curve related (secp256k1)