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Computers can only become faster within the limits of what humans are able to build and what physics allows.

You're not gonna break SHA256 with faster computers.




I swear there was a pertinent article link that goes through how it's physically impossible to construct a computing device fast enough to break SHA-256, even at the most fundamental scale.




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