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by SwellJoe 4578 days ago
This would be a very ineffective means of attacking SHA256. The terahashes being thrown at Bitcoin mining are effectively wasting 99.9999% (more at this point, actually, due to difficulty scaling) of their hashing power, if that were the goal. If someone wanted to design a cryptocurrency that helped crack SHA256 (or any other algorithm), it wouldn't look like Bitcoin.