If anything, the use of curve secp256k1 seems to hint that it was not the NSA. They would have more likely to have used suite b standard ecdsa over curve secp25r1/nistp256 at the time.
While the idea that Bitcoin came from the State is intriguing, it’s really more likely to have come from the cypherpunk community.
If anything, the use of curve secp256k1 seems to hint that it was not the NSA. They would have more likely to have used suite b standard ecdsa over curve secp25r1/nistp256 at the time.
While the idea that Bitcoin came from the State is intriguing, it’s really more likely to have come from the cypherpunk community.