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privacy/2026-06-17
The Ghost Who Built Private MoneyFILE 00112K

The Ghost Who Built Private Money

The most important ancestor in Monero's lineage is not a founder anyone can interview. He is a signature block, a timezone offset, an email address, and a protocol that survived the wreckage around its first implementation. Nicolas van Saberhagen may never resolve into a person. The uncertainty is where the story begins.

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