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by Xcelerate 4812 days ago
Ah, okay. I thought you were implying there was a polynomial attack on ECSDA, SHA-256, or RIPE-MD.
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It is important to remember that Bitcoin is not a hash function or a signature system. Unfortunately, there seems to be no rigorous definition of "security" for Bitcoin, so it is somewhat difficult to understand what it means to "attack" Bitcoin. I suspect that any rigorous definition of Bitcoin's security would require a definition of money that lacks both authority and intrinsic value.