NSA Backdoors and Bitcoin (2013)

Re:NSA Backdoors and Bitcoin (2013) by pg_is_a_butt on Monday November 25, 2019 @08:10PM (#21634784)

> It seems the entire decision of using secp256k1 was made to avoid secp256r1. This is another piece of evidence that Satoshi Nakamoto must have beee active in the 1990-2000 cypherpunk community, so that he was well-aware of those discussions. This should shed some light on his possible identity.

I was well aware of all that, at the time and now, without being active in the cypherpunk community. Granted, I was in college for a CS and math degree, but the cypherpunk community was pretty loud if you were listening at all.

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Re:NSA Backdoors and Bitcoin (2013) by bcaa7f3a8bbc on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:36AM (#21636071)

Yes, it's another way to interpret his choice. "Satoshi being a member of the Cypherpunk" is only one possibility. It's entirely possible that he wasn't active at all, and his familiarity of Cypherpunks was from his learning, not from the participation.

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Re:NSA Backdoors and Bitcoin (2013) by sunstone on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @04:20AM (#21636696)

karma -50 and account created in 2013 :D pg_is_a_butt is my alter ego. I'm not worthy. (though my account was hell banned for a long time and I soldiered on regardless :)

Ok I think it's our civic duty to follow pg_is_a_butt around and upvote his comments :D pg_is_a_butt 10k karma or bust!

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