A Bluffer’s Guide to secp256k1
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4 min readDec 12, 2020
If it wasn’t for Satoshi Nakamoto, you probably would never have heard of the secp256k1 Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) method. And so, Satoshi used it to take a private key and then produce a public key.
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 verify a transaction from the public Bitcoin identifier. A key…
