Reason[34]: NSA designed Bitcoin’s Hashing Algorithm The cryptographic hash algorithm ( SHA-256 hash function ) used by Satoshi to protect and secure bitcoins is designed by NSA in 2001 and published by the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST). 2.24 2.23 2.22 2.21 2.20 2.19 2.18 2.17 2.16 2.15 2.14 2.13 2.12 2.11 2.10 2.9 2.8 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.2 2.1 2.0 1.0 SHA-256 is a member of SHA-2 family which consists of six hash functions with hash values that are 224, 256, 384 or 512 bits . The architecture of all hash algorithms used today to create a secured environment for cryptocurrencies is surprisingly National Security Agency …. According to cryptography researcher Matthew D. Green of Johns Hopkins University: “If you assume that the NSA did something to SHA-256, which no outside researcher has detected , what you get is the ability, with credible and detectable action, they would be able to forge transactions . The really scary thing is somebody finds a