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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Merits 2 from 2 users
Re: do we need SHA-512?
by
mynonce
on 08/01/2022, 19:57:38 UTC
⭐ Merited by BlackHatCoiner (1) ,Cookdata (1)
I wanna ask if is there a need to add the SHA512 Hash generator. Ofc. the storage of the mined block gonna be bigger (difficulty gonna be changed)
but it's gonna be more safety

RIPEMD-160 is the next safety bottleneck. Changing from SHA256 to SHA512 wouldn't change the security.