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Leito 1y ago

I just watched a video about sha256 and it's internal workings. It's really incredible.

I'm really tempted to try and implement this from scratch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orIgy2MjqrA

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x 1y ago

I did it once.

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x 1y ago

But sha is so popular that it's some processors have sha instructions, so idk how much if you can make it faster than that.

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Leito 1y ago

Yeah, it's not for prod. Just to see if I can 🤣

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David Caseria 1y ago

You can even mine Bitcoin with pencil and paper: http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and-paper.html?m=1

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Leito 1y ago

This a levels of autism I don't have 🤣 Incredible stuff thought

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x 1y ago

Yes. If the internet ever goes down we could have a sort of consensus and chain progression through pigeons-mailing and pencil-and-paper mining lmao.