{
"subject": "Re: Major Meltdown",
"content": {
"format": "html",
"body": "<div class=\"post\">Here's an answer to a similar question about how to recover from a major meltdown.<br/><a href=\"https://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=191.msg1585#msg1585\">https://www.bitcoin.org/smf/index.php?topic=191.msg1585#msg1585</a><br/><br/><div class=\"quoteheader\"><a href=\"https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=191.msg1585#msg1585\">Quote from: satoshi on June 14, 2010, 08:39:50 PM</a></div><div class=\"quote\">If SHA-256 became completely broken, I think we could come to some agreement about what the honest block chain was before the trouble started, lock that in and continue from there with a new hash function.<br/><br/>If the hash breakdown came gradually, we could transition to a new hash in an orderly way. The software would be programmed to start using a new hash after a certain block number. Everyone would have to upgrade by that time. The software could save the new hash of all the old blocks to make sure a different block with the same old hash can't be used. <br/></div></div>"
},
"source": {
"name": "Bitcoin Forum",
"url": "https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=202.msg1838#msg1838"
},
"date": "2010-06-27T19:06:09Z"
}