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Re:I Am Not Satoshi Nakamoto by windsok on Friday September 24, 2021 @11:41PM (#28650301)
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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Re:I Am Not Satoshi Nakamoto by ashtonkem on Saturday September 25, 2021 @05:24AM (#28651739)
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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