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by operator-name 1417 days ago
Can you elaborate on why you chose SHA256 as the hash function?

Attackers aren't exactly limited to web apis, and SHA265 is known to be trivially parallelizable on a GPU. RandomX is one such example[0], which reminds me of a similar initiative called RPC-Pay.

[0]: https://github.com/tevador/RandomX [1]: https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/RPC-Pay.html