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ok wow this article is shockingly close to what i came up with for the elliptic curve portion of the soon to be released base58 part 2 basics class ❀️ (also confirms my understanding of the subgroups + secp256k1 πŸ™Œ)
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niftynei() πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ’ΈπŸ§‘ 2y ago

loved this detail wrt compressed keys

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α΄›Κœα΄‡ α΄…α΄‡α΄€α΄›Κœ ᴏꜰ α΄ΚŸα΄‡α΄‹α΄œ 2y ago

the BIP-340 trick to shave off the 257th bit is pretty cool too

invert the secret key if the public key is odd