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Yes! (I've edited my comment and added "and salt") and with a tiny bit of obscurity like a hashing algorithm that can't easily be calculated by a GPU or ASIC, then the hackers probably wont bother. Because scrypt is used by Litecoin, Dogecoin, et.al there are now ASIC's capable of billions of scrypt hashes per second.


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