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by RandomBacon 2428 days ago
The first sentence of reference [0] is incorrect.

> Many, including Satoshi, believed cryptocurrencies provided privacy for payments.

(emphasis mine)

Satoshi's writings indicated that he understood the public ledger he was creating was not anonymous. He even talked about ring signatures as a possible method to add obfuscation.

(Ring signatures is one aspect combined with others that Monero uses to achieve financial privacy. Anonymity requires extra steps taken by the user. Financial privacy ≠ anonymity.)