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Can you elaborate on why you chose SHA256 as the hash function?

Attackers aren't exactly limited to web apis, and SHA265 is known to be trivially parallelizable on a GPU. RandomX is one such example[0], which reminds me of a similar initiative called RPC-Pay.

[0]: https://github.com/tevador/RandomX [1]: https://www.monerooutreach.org/stories/RPC-Pay.html



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