[ludbb]

If this is sound, the theory that bitcoin is just the first cryptocurrency of its generation is now confirmed: bitcoin is dead.

If that website about bitcoin obituaries is around this update should be added there.

Clarifications as requested:

1) The article is about ECC

2) The article doesn't mention secp256k1, but it mentions EC curves in general and special those in the 256 bit field -- which secp256k1 is one of them

3) If NSA is able to crack 256 bits curves, what makes secp256k1 special to all this? Nothing.

[viraptor]

What? There's absolutely no connection between bitcoin and anything in that article, especially not with ECC.

[wmf]

Bitcoin uses P-256 that the NSA just deprecated.

[stevendhansen]

Nope, by a stroke of luck Bitcoin uses secp256k1 instead, which is not included in Suite B.

[viraptor]

It uses Secp256k1 which does not come from NIST.

[jamesdsadler]

Please elaborate.