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Show HN: Bit – Python Bitcoin library now 10x faster than OpenSSL
- ofek 9y agoAuthor here! Bit now uses libsecp256k1 for all elliptic curve operations, which is the heavily optimized C library used by Bitcoin Core. Here are some benchmarks: https://ofek.github.io/bit/guide/intro.html#why-bit https://ofek.github.io/bit/guide/intro.html#why-bit This also gives Bit deterministic signatures via RFC 6979.