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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.