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Steve Weis: ‘CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS’

Steve Weis @sweisXImportance: major (4 of 5)

Why it matters

Most-viewed post on Anthropic’s NIST ECDSA seed result (~3.0M views), from a team member who had chased the seeds for years.

Summary

Posted Oct 16 18:41 UTC by Steve Weis (@sweis); 2,991,041 views, 6,868 likes, 794 reposts when read via api.fxtwitter.com on 2026-10-17.

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CLAUDE FOUND THE SEEDS https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins

Source: x.com/sweis/status/2111165738836717980Archived 2026-10-17 via fxtwitter (unofficial).Counts: 3,029,893 views, 6,926 likes, 802 reposts, 214 replies (at fetch time)

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