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Fuck bitcoin, if custom chips are that much cheaper the GPU power in cracking hashes then most key streching algorithms are worthless.


Apparently people downvote me. I don't hate bitcoin, but if the relative power is true then this is so much bigger than bitcoin.


Lol. You made a good comment, I dunno why you got downvoted.

One thing to note: key stretching is a good idea nonetheless. hashing ASICs will be millions of times slower _regardless_. They may be hundreds of times faster than a computer, and hundreds of times cheaper... but the effect doesn't get you what a good Bcrypt-difficulty 12 gets you (ie: key-stretching with ~4million hashes)




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