Quote from: BurtW on April 24, 2015, 12:06:23 AM

In the following thread:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=289795.0

you will see that we cuss and discuss where the ECC parameters come from, if they were possibly designed to be weak by the NSA, etc. I even contacted people on the committee that designed the ECC used by Bitcoin and asked them directly where the parameters came from.

I suggest a read of that entire thread. It is probably the most fascinating thread I have ever participated in.

One thing I have noticed again and again with regard to the integrity of bit coin crypto is a pattern of escalating deception.
Step one / Bit coin is secure because it would take trillions of trillions of years to break it. Once a person realizes that is nonsense they were shuffled to ...
step two / Hi, I am an authority in Cryptography and your concerns are nothing but conspiracy theory. The NSA has messed with software but they would not pollute actual crypto standards. So the media says otherwise > step three?

What is your opinion, derived from the thread you link to? Do you believe the thread points to bit coin being secure?