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by nneonneo 2357 days ago
The Bitcoin network can perform some 10^20 SHA-256 hashes per second. That’s one 11-character upper/lowercase alphanumeric password PER SECOND.

A practical password cracking rig can probably do upwards of 10^11 hashes per second. The same rig can only do 10^5 bcrypt hashes per second.