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SHA256 is a one-way hashing function. Which means that feeding that sentence into SHA-256 and it starting with the characters in that sentence is very unlikely chance.

They probably wrote a script that tacked on a bunch of random letters and numbers to a sentence, then hashed it via brute force until it returned a hash that started with the exact same thing that the sentence said.

This is similar to how Bitcoin's proof of work algorithm.



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