No they didn't, Satoshi invented Bitcoin, not Monero.
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We moved to Monero. Same as most of the underground years ago.
If you didn't understood nor mined bitcoin 10 years ago, the probability is that you still don't understand nor mine monero now.
Ask yourself why western governments are forbidding monero to be listed on exchanges, and at the same time are buying/promoting that fedcoin.
Really, just ask yourself.
You move to underground for transactions, but as till keep bitcoin. Got it.
We wouldn't know for sure if Satoshi did. They were both nyms. But it's definitely plausible.
Likelihood of a common identity can probably be ascertained through stylometry & other methods of behavioral analysisβ I'd be surprised if it hasn't been done already, to be frank
Plausible for sure.
hal finney wrote both the bitcoin whitepaper and the cryptonote whitepaper. they'll prove it someday when they remove him from the freezer.