We would then be on a Monero standard.
But wait. Rumour has it that Satoshi had his fingers in the creation of Monero as well.
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Oh?
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.