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

• wmf 9y ago
  They can't because the algorithms are different. Mining uses double SHA256 while payments use RIPEMD160 and ECDSA.
  • icahnvalyou 9y ago
    Isn't brute forcing ripemd instead of sha as simple as running changing like, 2 lines? (I know nothing about this.)
    • wmf 9y ago
      ASICs can't be changed.
      • howscrewedami 9y ago
        Aren't there ASICs with APIs?