code-quality

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January 15, 2016 bitcoin-core

libsecp256k1 replaces OpenSSL for consensus in Bitcoin Core v0.12

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Pieter Wuille, Gregory Maxwell, Satoshi Nakamoto

On January 15, 2016, Bitcoin Core v0.12 replaced OpenSSL with libsecp256k1 — Wuille and Maxwell's custom elliptic-curve library — for consensus-critical ECDSA verification.

November 20, 2011 bitcoin-core

Bitcoin v0.5 removes the Crypto++ dependency, replacing it with OpenSSL SHA-256

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Nils Schneider, Gavin Andresen, Wei Dai, Pieter Wuille, Satoshi Nakamoto

On November 20, 2011, Bitcoin v0.5 shipped with the Crypto++ SHA-256 subset removed and replaced by OpenSSL. Wei Dai's library, a direct codebase dependency since v0.1, was gone.

January 9, 2009 SourceForge

Why did Satoshi distribute Bitcoin as a .rar? The Warez-scene parallel

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

Editorial reading of unusual distribution and tooling in Bitcoin v0.1: .rar packaging, no version control, no test suite, Hungarian notation. Compares Warez-scene conventions, Kaminsky 2011.