Post about Bitcoin in 2002.
"A kind of decentralized and secured system.
Gone would be the times that governments and banks can track and interfere with our money transfers.
... system would have a fixed total amount of money."
Did you know Bitcoin was the 1st project to use the secp256k1 eliptic curve?
At the time NIST & ANSI recommended secp256R1.
Some speculate this was what in fact made Satoshi make the odd choice + some only theoretical optimisations at the time.