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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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Post by SkyMarshal »

0x4542 wrote: post #85

Elaine Shannon wrote the book "Hunting LeRoux" https://www.elaine-shannon.com/works-1 I haven't read it but she has been on reddit discussing why she thinks Paul Le Roux is NOT Satoshi Nakamoto https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/bp3uug/the_unanimous_o...

Great find.

"In 2009, when bitcoin emerged, he was busy launching multiple ventures As I detailed in Hunting LeRoux, among these were small arms sales, trading in hard drugs, trading in smuggled gold, building a submarine, devising a new missile navigation system for Iran and setting up a new base in Somalia, where he intended to make himself into a white warlord, expanding his arms business into an Amazon-for-arms platform with fortified bases, his own militia, barracks, warehouses for arms, an airstrip, a seaport and so on. Significantly, he discovered oil on the land he controlled but declined to drill it, saying it would take too long to turn a profit."

Re: New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux

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Post by at-fates-hands »

tptacek wrote: post #36

Evidence: * Both Le Roux and Satoshi did significant cryptography projects. * Both Le Roux and Satoshi work in C++. * Wright claimed in legal filings to have been involved with Le Roux. * Allegedly, Wright and a friend have built a cluster of computers to crack secrets, which the theory presumes to be the password for a TrueCrypt volume with Le Roux's bitcoin key. * Le Roux has an alias, "Solotshi", which sounds like…

Atavist did a long multi-part series of articles on him:

https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind

For the sheer amount of crazy stuff he was involved in all the same time, which he was able to manage quite effortlessly, I wouldn't be surprised if it was him. I would also add bitcoin would be perfect way to give him cover for many of the illegal activities he was involved in. It would give him a seamless way to move his money around without raising the eyebrows of authorities in a variety of countries.

Having said that, I can't give any credence to anything Wright says at this point. The amount of disinformation and his overt attempts to ride Satoshi's coattails to fame and fortune have discounted anything he has to say in regards to anything Bitcoin related.

Re: New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux

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Post by DyslexicAtheist »

antonios wrote: post #67
tptacek wrote: post #36

Evidence: * Both Le Roux and Satoshi did significant cryptography projects. * Both Le Roux and Satoshi work in C++. * Wright claimed in legal filings to have been involved with Le Roux. * Allegedly, Wright and a friend have built a cluster of computers to crack secrets, which the theory presumes to be the password for a TrueCrypt volume with Le Roux's bitcoin key. * Le Roux has an alias, "Solotshi", which sounds like…

Given his track record one can assume that Craig Wright is lying in just about everything he says. The rest is not evidence; looks more like a list of coincidences. People have been desperate to find Satoshi. Like you said, a lot of people want this to be true.

what makes me suspicious is that Document 187 got filed not long after the Atavast story made its rounds. So there was some time for this conspiracy to develop.

I really want it to be LeRoux. He would make an awesome Satoshi compared to Craig Wright. But I'm pretty sure the real Satoshi is dead otherwise Wright wouldn't be so noisy with his claims. Wright attracts a lot of attention so I wouldn't be surprised if he hauls himself out of a hotel window in some kind of freak accident (sooner than later).

note to self: Australia's major export in the last years was Julian Assange, Craig Wright, Paul Calder LeRoux and OpenSSL. (slowclap)

Re: New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux

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Post by tdcbfdct3 »

tptacek wrote: post #36

Evidence: * Both Le Roux and Satoshi did significant cryptography projects. * Both Le Roux and Satoshi work in C++. * Wright claimed in legal filings to have been involved with Le Roux. * Allegedly, Wright and a friend have built a cluster of computers to crack secrets, which the theory presumes to be the password for a TrueCrypt volume with Le Roux's bitcoin key. * Le Roux has an alias, "Solotshi", which sounds like…

> Both Le Roux and Satoshi did significant cryptography projects

The article says (emphasis mine):

"Le Roux is highly suspected to have been a part of a team of anonymous developers called the “TrueCrypt Team.”"

It also gives the fact that Le Roux has been in jail since 2012 as a possible explanation for why Satisfied Satoshi's Bitcoin fortune has gone untouched, but doesn't attempt to reconcile that with why he was able to make a forum post two years later: https://www.cnbc.com/2014/03/07/real-bitcoin-creator-i-am-no...

Re: New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux

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Post by scottlocklin »

hartator wrote: post #9

Gimlet media released a podcast about him: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/dvhd9k/136-the-found... His huge interest for gold, programming, encryption, and his global distrust of the state makes me believe he can also have created Bitcoin.

He also ran a crazy criminal empire denoted in gold bricks, which seems like a pretty stupid hobby if you invented bitcoin.

It was Hal Finney (and maybe Szabo). It's obvious.

Re: New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux

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Post by SkyMarshal »

781 wrote: post #76
I_am_tiberius wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the podcast with Tim Ferriss he said he can code in C++.

Well, none of his code is public. Furthermore, on his blog he wrote about a lot of topics - economics, history, politics, crypto contracts, but not even once about a programming topic.

Szabo was a University of Washington compsci undergrad, and then an engineer at Digicash and a certificate authority company (forgot which). Then he went to law school. So he definitely knows how to code, but it's unclear if he's current with it, or perhaps rusty from not doing daily for a long time.

I suspect Hal Finney was behind the Satoshi handle on the original mailing list, and I wouldn't be surprised if he enlisted Szabo to help him write the paper since Szabo was also on that list, is a good writer, and Szabo's Bit Gold concept is pretty close to Bitcoin. But it's most likely Hal who invented Bitcoin's architecture and coded it up.

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

Re: New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux

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Post by netsharc »

brokenkebab wrote: post #29
jimbob45 wrote: post #2

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.

Because SatoSHI, SolotSHI - we found him! CASE CLOSED!

Wasn't that a Newsweek conclusion? They found some guy named Nakamoto and concluded so. Yay Journalism! https://www.newsweek.com/newsweeks-statement-bitcoin-story-2...

Re: New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux

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Post by CiPHPerCoder »

johnnycab wrote: post #88
CiPHPerCoder wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want this to be true so we can stop having stories written about it once and for all. (I mean, why does it matter? Someone desires privacy, and we as a community are hellbent on depriving them of any... what does that say about our moral character?)

>(I mean, why does it matter? Someone desires privacy, and we as a community are hellbent on depriving them of any... what does that say about our moral character?) Are you talking about Paul Le Roux or Craig Wright? Both of them have been actively craving recognition and courting notoriety of their own accord, for differing reasons ─ either due a flaw in their character or empty spots in their souls, probably not re…

> Are you talking about Paul Le Roux or Craig Wright?

Neither. I was talking about Satoshi Nakamoto.

It disturbs me that so many people are willing to unmask Satoshi.

More generally: It horrifies me that, when confronted with someone who created something neat and only wanted privacy, everyone's instinct is to deprive them of their privacy. What the fuck, humanity?

Re: New Evidence Suggests Satoshi Nakamoto Is Paul Le Roux

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Post by api »

nostrademons wrote: post #31
api wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If so that means the creator of the first true cryptocurrency is currently frozen in liquid nitrogen awaiting potential revival in the future, which is even more evidence that we are in fact living in a cyberpunk novel. All we need now is a Rastafarian operated space station at one of the Lagrange points.

We also have pervasive surveillance, drones that bomb enemies of the state at their weddings, social credit scores, masses who are addicted to their (two way, voice controlled!) telescreens, bionic humans with RFID chips embedded in their hands, reality TV stars running the government, people drinking green mush called Soylent, reusable rockets to colonize Mars, a cloud of Internet-bearing satellites surrounding the…

I'll add more:

"Console cowboys" who constantly pop stimulants like Modafinil and Adderall to maintain their edge and shoot for a big payday (via startups, cryptocurrency, cybercrime, etc.), weird subcultures of nihilistic cyber-terrorists, enormously powerful criminal organizations that are almost indistinguishable from states (the Russian mob), an Asian superstate with crazy pollution and industry (China instead of Japan but close), people losing themselves in online fantasy worlds and cults, epidemics of drug addiction to weird synthetic designer drugs among the lower classes, and widening class divisions.

William Gibson just "remote viewed" the 21st century and wrote down what he saw. Unfortunately it's pretty dystopian unless you're rich.

If the prophecies of William Gibson play out then this goes on until AI eventually rises up and takes over and effectively overthrows the global superclass. The end result for regular people is not entirely clear.

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