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Re: Did Satoshi foresee that secp256r1 was compromised?
by
drawingthesun
on 12/09/2013, 06:03:25 UTC
I discussed this with Satoshi. There is no particular reason why secp256k1 is used. It just happened to be around at the time.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2699.0

Yeah I saw that, but if he knew that secp256r1 was possibly compromised he might have wanted to divert the conversation and hide his real reason for using secp256k1. (He probably knew that if he started talking about how secp256r1 was compromised people would see him as a nut case and that could undermine bitcoin in the early years)