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If this is sound, the theory that bitcoin is just the first cryptocurrency of its generation is now confirmed: bitcoin is dead. If that website about bitcoin o
by ludbb 11y ago
If this is sound, the theory that bitcoin is just the first cryptocurrency of its generation is now confirmed: bitcoin is dead.
If that website about bitcoin obituaries is around this update should be added there.
Clarifications as requested:
1) The article is about ECC
2) The article doesn't mention secp256k1, but it mentions EC curves in general and special those in the 256 bit field -- which secp256k1 is one of them
3) If NSA is able to crack 256 bits curves, what makes secp256k1 special to all this? Nothing.
- viraptor 11y agoWhat? There's absolutely no connection between bitcoin and anything in that article, especially not with ECC.
- wmf 11y agoBitcoin uses P-256 that the NSA just deprecated.
- stevendhansen 11y agoNope, by a stroke of luck Bitcoin uses secp256k1 instead, which is not included in Suite B.
- viraptor 11y agoIt uses Secp256k1 which does not come from NIST.
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- jamesdsadler 11y agoPlease elaborate.