if I can freak one crypto enthusiast out and make them question how much faith they have in PoW I'll consider my art a success

I have the belief that if someone broke the dsha256 preimage resistance they would be incentivized to keep it a secret. the would be able to multiply their hash rate without spending the same amount of energy as everyone else mining bitcoin

you might be able to detect this if something ridiculous happened on the network, like if a huge amount of hash power went offline due to a highly localized event, like a coal fired power plant getting flooded one weekend..

idk maybe I'm wrong! maybe someone would smash and grab while the goings good. who knows

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@SuricrasiaOnline watching proof of work go down in flames would be something.

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