On the same day that I introduced Natasha (Satoshi) and Anastasia (Nakamoto) to my brother’s Lightning Network protocol on Facebook in 2013. I went on to introduce both of them, along with Ricardo Spagni, to a cryptocurrency concept that I called Monero. I had incorporated the CryptoNote technology that the girls published using the pseudonym […]

At the beginning of 2013, I ran into Natasha (Satoshi) and Anastasia (Nakamoto) on Facebook. They told me they were having problems with Bitcoin, the protocol we had invented together in July 2008. They said they and the other early enthusiasts were concerned that the protocol wouldn’t scale. […]

After my brother introduced me to his Lightning Network protocol and I literally laughed him to pieces, he went on to explain why he thought Bitcoin had a flaw that made it unsustainable. What he explained to me was more or less what I had explained to Natasha and Anastasia back in July of 2008 […]