Author: Johnson Lau 2016-11-17 15:40:05
Published on: 2016-11-17T15:40:05+00:00
The email discussion on bitcoin-dev starts with a statement that hash collisions are possible. The author of the email argues that such an occurrence would result in a consensus failure or hardfork which would break the Bitcoin protocol. There is no room for such a failure, and thus the Bitcoin Core should assume SHA256 collision is impossible. If someone disagrees, they should introduce an alternative hash algorithm to prevent any consensus failure.
Updated on: 2023-05-20T00:08:46.255686+00:00