Looking at some of the linked examples, I did not feel convinced at the style similarity. For example:

> In the spirit of building something in the public domain, Mr. Back and Satoshi also both created internet mailing lists dedicated to their creations — the Hashcash list and the Bitcoin-dev list — where they posted software updates listing new features and bug fixes in a format and style that looked strikingly similar.

That paragraph links two release notes: https://www.freelists.org/post/hashcash/hashcash113-released... https://web.archive.org/web/20130401141714/http://sourceforg...

They do have a similar "release notes rendered with Markdown" feel, but the actual text has some obvious capitalization and tone differences.