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Re: What happens if an algorithm used by Bitcoin becomes obsolete?
by
Wronsk
on 12/05/2023, 20:56:13 UTC
Sure, it's something unlikely but nothing is impossible, RSA was considered secure before Schorr's algorithm, anything can happen, maybe a method to find collisions will emerge who knows? Also I used SHA-256 as an example but it's not the only algorithm used by Bitcoin that could potentially one day become obsolete, I'm thinking in particular of the elliptic curve used, or RIPEMD