Cryptography, Elliptic Curves, Rsa, Blockchain, Bitcoin.
Elliptic Curves in Application The elliptic curve used by Bitcoin, Ethereum and many others is the secp256k1 curve, with a equation of y² = x³+7 and looks like this: Fig. 4 Elliptic curve secp256k1 over real numbers. Note that the real implementation of the curve is over a defined prime field of