[jabbany]

Not at all...

I mean if you break either the hash or the signature, then there are bigger fish to fry than just Bitcoin. You'd essentially be on your way to breaking much of the crypto used to secure significantly more valuable information -- the kind of information you measure with human lives rather than dollars.

Actually, if you (or more likely a nation state actor) did break either the hash or signature, you'd be crazy to reveal that fact on something as trivial as Bitcoin. That'd be like breaking ENIGMA and just using it to publish the German weather reports lol.

[pcthrowaway]

Interesting discussion from a few years ago in "What would you do if you discovered a sufficiently fast way to do prime factorization?" - https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/314ulw/what_would_...

[matheusmoreira]

Old reddit link for convenience: https://old.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/314ulw/what_would_...