Ask HN: What if one day the Bitcoin rigs start to be used to crack the wallets?

2 pointstarikozket3 comments

They can't because the algorithms are different. Mining uses double SHA256 while payments use RIPEMD160 and ECDSA.

Isn't brute forcing ripemd instead of sha as simple as running changing like, 2 lines? (I know nothing about this.)

ASICs can't be changed.