You're some kind of naive person)) Do you honestly think that Satoshi came up with some kind of magical thing called bitcoin? I'll tell you a secret - elliptic curves were engaged in 2000 BC in Iran)))
ECDSA and Secp256k1 - this is not invented by Satoshi!))
This is the encryption standard - the US National Security Agency - it has been used for many many years - to encrypt messages! This is mainly used by the military and special services!
What is the story of 2000 BC in iran, do you have any sources and names to provide please?
Of course militaries use elliptic curves for encryption, but I doubt if they use a publicly available curve for that purpose. And maybe Satoshi didn't invent the ECDSA, secp256k1 curve, but he was smart enough to use it in order to secure bitcoin.
Secp256k1 is purely a safe vault, with other characteristics and utilities. Satoshi just chose to lock the door of the bitcoin vault using a locking mechanism we call secp256k1.
Ps, I agree with you, I'm just a simpleton, doing simple stuff, saying simpler things.😉
Maybe Satoshi created this "puzzle," and once all the private keys are found... maybe a hash of the string composed of all the keys within individual ranges, or maybe something related to them... could lead to the private key that "controls" the addresses that received the first mined bitcoins. Science fiction ? XD