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Why does BIP-340 use secp256k1?
If the entire Taproot/Schnorr soft-fork was going to implement an entirely new signing scheme anyway that was completely independent from the previous ECDSA scheme, why did it use secp256k1?
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How does the BIP340 lift_x algorithm work?
Couple questions of code that I'm reviewing trying to learn schnorr sigs.
Why do we want an odd private key? I see even tests on the private key and then subtract it from the SECP256K1 Order to get an ...
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