Quote from: IT_AEX on December 19, 2017, 02:41:26 AM

If you truly believe in cryptocurrencies you must be a genius. You will get paid for those tulips and they will be never shipped. My respect.

I dont believe in cryptocurrencies. I believe in Bitcoin.

I say this, having lost a substantial amount on a decent altcoin. It was not a scammy one, I did not purchased it for speculation; I liked its technological innovation. What I received was a very expensive lesson about Bitcoin: Bitcoin is not only a technology; its a sociological phenomenon.

Quote from: IT_AEX on December 19, 2017, 02:41:26 AM

Genesis 3:19

By the power of your private keys, you will hold your coins until you die; and though dust you may become, numbers are forever.

Yes, call me a believer in Bitcoin, a preacher of Bitcoin, a Segwit witness for Bitcoin!

Quote from: Andre_Goldman on December 19, 2017, 02:54:26 AM

yep, I follow a bit the cypherpunk list on Curve255 ... when I asked was because I was kind more interested on the hardware that generate that curve ( I also do Apologies for the 'offtopic' ( of course related to bitcoin it is not 'off topic' at all )

The were on question on why distrust RSA....

btw nice to review Ron Rivest, co-inventor of RSA
"RSA-129" posed a challenge experts said would take 40 quadrillion years to solve - but took 17....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQw124CtvO0

;)
Featuring Ron Rivest, co-inventor of RSA

Thanks for the link. Ill need to watch that later.

Assumptions about the difficulty of factoring large integers always made me nervous. I dont mean rationally nervous: More a gut-hunch, spine-tingling kind of reaction. The significant factoring advances by mathematicians over the years and decades speak more to my brain, as does the persistent overestimation by RSA advocates of RSAs strength at particular key sizes.

I dont know of any special-purpose hardware to generate Curve25519 PGP keys.