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by windsok 1734 days ago
It is curious that satoshi chose to use an uncommon, non-NIST curve for bitcoin. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Secp256k1
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ashtonkem 1734 days ago
Satoshi in general appears to have been quite skeptical of the government, so it's not that surprising that they would not have trusted NIST curves.
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