Nope. The technology was just not there yet. This isn't something you create out of the blue. It takes iterations, experiments and a truly private coin was hard to develop.

You're talking like its some bible with words written on a gospel. This was little more than 16 years ago, you are still on time to understand the facts rather than biblical dogmas. 

 If you are so big into privacy, why don't you keep your comments private?  Is it dogmatic to quote the bitcoin white papers?  It is Satoshi's blueprint to his creation, how is that dogmatic?  I think I lost what little intelligence I had reading your post. 
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