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on June 1, 2011
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Resources are being utterly and completely wasted ...
Bitcoin actually uses ECDSA for its digital signatures, which relies on the difficulty of calculating discrete logarithms rather than factoring. However I believe that there are efficient quantum algorithms for that, too.
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