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Garbage spam page. This shouldn't be on HN. There is a common trend for people to take highly technical subjects do a tiny amount of research and then spam up
by nullc 5y ago
Garbage spam page. This shouldn't be on HN. There is a common trend for people to take highly technical subjects do a tiny amount of research and then spam up some page (often full of plagiarism) in order to add bulk to their sites. This is especially common in the "defi / ico" fraud ecosystem.
In this case the article is so poorly researched that even though it says fairly little it manages to make outright false claims about basic facts, e.g. "secp256k1 is a Koblitz curve which is defined in a characteristic 2 finite field, while secp256r1 is a prime field curve"-- which is false, secp256k1 uses a prime field.
- MichaelZuo 5y agoThanks for the heads up. Do you have a list of known shady sites, or are there too many popping up to keep up with? Or perhaps to rephrase, are there are any trustworthy sites covering similar topics?
- modeless 5y agoBecause this isn't getting enough attention, let me point out that nullc is Gregory Maxwell, Bitcoin core developer. The parent comment is the most informed comment here and you should upvote it.
- nullc 5y agoWell, I'm not actually answering the question. :) (and former Bitcoin developer would be more accurate!) Really people can mostly just speculate on the subject, or offer why they might have chosen it: Satoshi never said much about his choice-- he certainly never said in public that he was concerned with NSA tampered parameters. I think it was a good choice at the time, esp. now after the expiration of the GLV patent. And the fact that there is no opportunity for NSA tampering scaremongering is a nice feature, but that's my opinion and I have no reason to believe it was Satoshi's.