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Satoshi Nakamoto Had Outside Cryptography Help, Says Early Bitcoin Dev

Tracy CHEN

Summary: According to an early Bitcoin (BTC) developer, Satoshi Nakamoto sought help from outside cryptographers prior to launching Bitcoin.Laszlo Hanyecz, who worked closely with Satsohi in 2010, said that he was befuddled by Satoshi’s choice of the elliptic curve secp256k1. The use of this curve, at the time, was unusual. National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

According to an early Bitcoin (BTC) developer, Satoshi Nakamoto sought help from outside cryptographers prior to launching Bitcoin.
Laszlo Hanyecz, who worked closely with Satsohi in 2010, said that he was befuddled by Satoshi’s choice of the elliptic curve secp256k1. The use of this curve, at the time, was unusual. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) curves were much more common.

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