Bitcoin Creator Also Founded Monero, New Research Suggests
While no one knows who’s behind the Satoshi Nakamoto name, a research document suggests that the Bitcoin creator might have also developed another cryptocurrency – Monero. The main argument provided by the research authors is that Nakamoto had a clear motive to release the CryptoNote whitepaper, the document laying out the Monero concept.
In a Bitcointalk forum post from August 2010, Nakamoto shared the first concepts of privacy that would later show up in Monero’s whitepaper, including stealth addresses and ring signatures, which hide receivers and senders of XMR. The authors of the research used stylometry, a software program called Java Graphical Authorship Attribution Program (JGAAP), and figured out that the author of the CryptoNote whitepaper was more likely to be Nakamoto than the author of any other 15 leading papers picked from the Monero literature.
