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Re:Did Bitcoin just prove it can't scale? by grubles on Saturday December 09, 2017 @01:47PM (#15887286)
libsecp256k1, which was developed for Bitcoin, uncovered bugs in OpenSSL. It also increased signature validation speed by 5x.

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.12.0#signature-validation-...

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