The Bluffers Guide to secp256k1 … When Satoshi Said Goodbye To PKI
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5 min readDec 10, 2022
If it wasn’t for Satoshi Nakamoto, you probably would never have heard of the secp256k1 Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) method. But, Satoshi used it to take a private key and then produce a public identifier.
At the core of the adoption of Bitcoin is the usage of the ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm), and where it was possible to…