[n0rdy]

There is a discussion about that on the security stackexchange (https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/133239/what-is-...). The TLDR:

> SHA-2 family of hashes was designed to be fast. BCrypt was designed to be slow.

Slow == harder to brute-force == more secure.

[progmetaldev]

Yes, and you can increase the work factor to make it slower to generate, specifically to fight against brute-force.