Is NIST P-256 the same curve that Bitcoin uses? https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Secp256k1 https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Secp256k1 Edit: NO, but it's a relative and ha

Is NIST P-256 the same curve that Bitcoin uses? https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Secp256k1 https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Secp256k1 Edit: NO, but it's a relative and has a similar background. Bitcoin is an interesting player here because it's in effect the largest bug bounty in history. If someone could crack it, they could slowly manipulate its price and bleed money out of the Bitcoin ecosystem to the tune of (conservatively) tens of millions of dollars before someone noticed that something more than a Bitcoin price crash was occurring. I'd assume that anyone sophisticated enough to actually break Bitcoin would also be sophisticated enough to use that break to do this by e.g. cracking wallets and slowly draining them or creating price-manipulating transactions. So I'd expect any leakage of an ECC break that was actually practical to use in the real world (as opposed to an 'academic' break) to show up in the form of an enigmatic draining of the Bitcoin piggy bank.