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Bitcoins – Secured by NSA designed Encryption or Backdoored ?

(Sep 13, 2013)

The integrity of Bitcoin depends on a hash function called SHA-256, which was designed by the NSA and published by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST).

Is it hard to believe that could the intelligence community have a secret exploit for Bitcoin?