"Later that year, Matthews was contacted by Wright, who’d heard Matthews would be in Sydney around New Year’s and suggested they meet up. On January 2, 2015, they met in a Sydney hotel lobby, where Matthews said Wright talked non-stop about Bitcoin’s progress in the six years since its launch. But the meeting ended without Wright making any pitch about collaboration and Matthews was left wondering at the seeming pointlessness of the meeting".

How Bitcoin was saved.
Steven Stradbrooke
Jul 7, 2022
https://coingeek.com/how-bitcoin-was-saved/