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New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux

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Re: New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux

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Why say Paul Solotshi instead of Paul Le Roux, a name everyone is far more familiar with? None of the evidence presented was compelling. It was circumstantial at best. Save yourself the five minutes it takes to read this article.

Seriously. The author apparently considers "both are familiar with payments" evidence.

What is the "new evidence" mentioned in the headline?

Re: New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux

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So sincere question...does this matter? What is added to the social value of bitcoin or cryptocurrency in general? I'm not asking to just dismiss it...just why we are perpetually having/focusing on this discussion is intriguing to me

It matters as much as the new royal baby. People have a fixation with these things.

Re: New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux

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So sincere question...does this matter? What is added to the social value of bitcoin or cryptocurrency in general? I'm not asking to just dismiss it...just why we are perpetually having/focusing on this discussion is intriguing to me

He would reach mythical status if he were found to have upended both the cryptographic industry and financial industry as well as run a multi-continental crime empire.

Re: New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux

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post #7

So sincere question...does this matter? What is added to the social value of bitcoin or cryptocurrency in general? I'm not asking to just dismiss it...just why we are perpetually having/focusing on this discussion is intriguing to me

It matters for some because whoever Satoshi is, is in control of a whole lot of Bitcoins.

Re: New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux

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Why say Paul Solotshi instead of Paul Le Roux, a name everyone is far more familiar with? None of the evidence presented was compelling. It was circumstantial at best. Save yourself the five minutes it takes to read this article.

"Circumstantial" does not mean "weak".

Circumstantial evidence is often strong enough and compelling enough to determine court cases. Circumstantial evidence is often better than direct evidence.

Circumstantial evidence: Stuff like DNA, fingerprints

Direct evidence: Bob's memory of the event.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumstantial_evidence

But please, continue using "the evidence is circumstantial" as if it means that it's not good enough.

Re: New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux

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After 7 years in the crypto space, I'm still not convinced of any particular Satoshi theory. That being said, Nick Szabo, Hal Finney, and Paul Le Roux all have decent evidence pointing to them.

I vaguely recall reading about Bitcoin development in ~darknet forums, during 2010-2012. But only vaguely, and I retained no logs. There were hints, I think, that developers were Australian.

Edit: OK, maybe it was earlier. I did say vaguely.

Re: New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux

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He is probably not Satoshi because Bitcoin was meant to be everything opposite of a currency for money laundering hence triple ledger accounting aka blockchain. After all see Bitcoin whitepaper and read carefully each sentence and you will realize it was meant for internet commerce and last thing you want in ecommerce is fraud and money laundering.

On the other hand Craig Wright is the most possible candidate for Satoshi by far. There are too many clues leading to him for example like this one https://seclists.org/basics/2006/Mar/270 or a small detail like word "bloody" which Satoshi used and it is usual for people using British vocab which Craig being Australian uses, I heard it in his presentations. And btw Craig said he was involved in cracking of TrueCrypt with law enforcement that explains why creator of TrueCrypt is mentioned in court documents.

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