Oh?
Discussion
Right!
Go on then!!
I had just never heard that about Satoshi and Monero, would love to learn more
Bitcointalk is still a thing. Read the early conversations.
Nicolas van Saberhagen is the only other anonymous dev in all of crypto that brought us the cryptonote protocol/whitepaper.
Based on it was Bytecoin. And based on that is Monero.
It was a small space back then. Things are highly interconnected.