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> delivering stable protocols and secure software upon genesis block release

> Elliptic curve (secp256k1, ECDSA)

Isn't secp256k1 and ECDSA prone to implementation errors? Why not use EdDSA instead? :)



Those are Bitcoin's primitives, right? Presumably, they're just doing what everyone else does.


Sure, I just thought (based on the genesis block comment) that they were going to make their own. And, well, https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/161.pdf

Using the same primitives as everyone else is probably a conservative choice.


Relevant code if someone wants to audit: https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum/blob/4df2e1ef5c20ebd...




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