Regarding the choice of the secp256k1 curve: ECDSA signature verification is fairly slow and sipa, one of the Bitcoin developers, has been developing a faster i

Regarding the choice of the secp256k1 curve: ECDSA signature verification is fairly slow and sipa, one of the Bitcoin developers, has been developing a faster implementation[1]. If anyone has any crypto expertise and can review the code, or otherwuse can provide further optimisations or patches, I'm sure it'd be appreciated. https://github.com/sipa/secp256k1 https://github.com/sipa/secp256k1