Is the NSA going to be able to serve you a corrupt block with the same hash as the correct one?
He lost me there. That is bickering beyond reason.
Look, I didnāt respond to your previous comment because you said you didnāt want to argue. But then after having declared a fake truce, you come back and add more counter attacks. 
Regarding my ābickering beyond reasonā, @zankfrappa is in the know and he instantly knew what I referred to.
That is exactly what I meant when I said it is not entirely impossible. And I said we donāt have to consider it because if it were a non-negligible risk, any coin/token would be at risk. Instead of learning something from comments like Zappaās, you call my reasonable comment of purely informational nature (it wasnāt challenging any of your assumptions) bickering.
Yes, but do you understand how hashing works?
If I take a file and hash it, I will get one answer.
It is theoretically possible, but highly unlikely that a different file could be hashed and yield the same resulting hash.
The idea that you could come up with a hash collision (Which is infinitesimally rare) from a file that could be mistaken for a bitcoin block. Is preposterous. With our without elliptical curve insecurityā¦ The idea is silly. It doesnāt matter if it is cracked or not NSA cannot make 1+2=4. Math is math.
The fact that you want to go there says āI want to argue for the sake of argument even if I look more ridiculous than W#4@enāā¦
How is your ātheoretically possibleā different from my ānot entirely impossibleā?
And why are you still talking about this when I twice said this risk can be ignored for the sake of this discussion?
Itās good to have silly topics and silly posts and silly people.
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I dunno. Why? Its wasting both our our time.
My point was that deduplication and addressing content by their hashes saves a lot of disk space and enables a lot of powerful things.
Bicker with that as you choose, but it is what it is. I think SAFE and IPFS are doing a good thing by allowing universal access to deduped dataā¦
Good one! I will try and remember that . .
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