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CryptoNote v 2.0

The public design paper behind unlinkable payments. Monero adopted the construction and then replaced pieces of it. The historic library only has a third-party review of CryptoNote, not this document.

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Authors: Nicolas van Saberhagen
Date: 2013
Publisher: Nicolas van Saberhagen
Version: Source cited by the 2013 study. The study is the reading. This page does not add a second essay.
Document ID: BLC-STUDY-0001
DOI: None recorded
Last reviewed: 1 October 2026
Licence: No licence recorded. Rights status under review.

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Official source — cryptonote.org
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Author–date

Saberhagen, N. V. (2013). CryptoNote v 2.0. Nicolas van Saberhagen. https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf

BibTeX

@techreport{cryptonote2013,
  title = {CryptoNote v 2.0},
  author = {Nicolas van Saberhagen},
  year = {2013},
  institution = {Nicolas van Saberhagen},
  url = {https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf},
  note = {Rights status: Official external source only. Blockchain Lab record: https://blockchainlab.com/research/corpus/papers/cryptonote}
}

RIS

TY  - RPRT
TI  - CryptoNote v 2.0
AU  - Nicolas van Saberhagen
PY  - 2013
PB  - Nicolas van Saberhagen
UR  - https://cryptonote.org/whitepaper.pdf
N1  - Rights status: Official external source only
ER  -

CSL-JSON

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Source status: Official source
Use status: Metadata and commentary only. The reading is the study page.
Rights: Official external source only
Training and retrieval: Not permitted from this site. There is no rights-cleared full text to retrieve or to train on.

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