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Let's not speculate:

https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/quotes/privacy/

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=770

It seems like satoshi thought pseudo-anonyminity was sufficient. The integration of zero-knowlege proofs into cryptocurrencies was not really well understood at the time.

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Quit it with this revisionist history nonsense, your second link contains where Satoshi specifically mentioned that a ZK-based version of bitcoin would be better, he just didn't know how to do it: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=770.msg8637#msg8637

I wouldn't call it revisionist, he's referencing the source.

Thanks, I knew there were discussions of it back then on bitcointalk and probably bitcoin wizards irc, just not where to find them. The bitcointalk thread seems to confirm #1 - it was just technically difficult to do back then.

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