Oh? Mike Hearn stated that he had discussed this with Satoshi and had been told that 'there was no particular reason' for using secp256k1 https://bitcointalk.org/?topic=2699.0

Are you suggesting he intentionally withheld the truth from Mike, in that he knew it has supposedly hidden qualities? https://twitter.com/CryptoDevil/status/1235532445853810690?s=20