You may be asking, how is this possible? If you go back to my first post which exposes who is the likely creator of Bitcoin, that same person is or was of the elite minds in the University of California:Berkley. But we don't know what ended up happening to him, his whereabouts, or what he ended up doing with his life.
He may have joined the government payroll. Because SHA-256, the hashing function of Bitcoin, was designed by the NSA.
SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm 2) is a set of cryptographic hash functions designed by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) and first published in 2001.[3][4] They are built using the Merkle–Damgård construction, from a one-way compression function itself built using the Davies–Meyer structure from a specialized block cipher.
SHA-2 includes significant changes from its predecessor, SHA-1. The SHA-2 family consists of six hash functions with digests (hash values) that are 224, 256, 384 or 512 bits: SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512, SHA-512/224, SHA-512/256. SHA-256 and SHA-512 are novel hash functions computed with 32-bit and 64-bit words, respectively
I read an article yesterday claiming that Bitcoin is on the verge of getting cracked. This is the reason why. It's already crackable because it's NSA designed.
SHA-256 is a member of the SHA-2 cryptographic hash functions designed by the NSA. SHA stands for Secure Hash Algorithm. Cryptographic hash functions are mathematical operations run on digital data; by comparing the computed "hash" (the output from execution of the algorithm) to a known and expected hash value, a person can determine the data's integrity. A one-way hash can be generated from any piece of data, but the data cannot be generated from the hash.
SHA-256 is used in several different parts of the Bitcoin network:
Mining uses SHA-256 as the Proof of work algorithm.
SHA-256 is used in the creation of bitcoin addresses to improve security and privacy.
Improve security and privacy for who?
Is this why Bitcoin is being embraced so much now because it's on the verge of being cracked? Time will tell. Be safe out there.