New Report links Satoshi Nakamoto with the Monero Whitepaper

According to new research by Monero Outreach, the privacy-focused digital asset may also be the creator of Bitcoin. The organization’s main argument explains that Nakamoto had intended to release the whitepaper for CryptoNote – a technology that forms the backbone of most privacy-focused digital assets to this day and which laid out the Monero concept.

This same concept showed up in Monero’s whitepaper The organization also pointed out that Nakamoto had seen some of Bitcoin’s flaws by the time Monero came out. As explained at the time, Bitcoin remains the favorite digital asset for these criminals to get paid for their activities and services – understandable, since it’s still the most valuable cryptocurrency.

Timeline of Bitcoin, Monero