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Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by retrac »

Hal Finney passed away in 2014. But the address has been active since: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwx...

I see four possibilities:

* An absurdly elaborate conspiracy. (This is always a possibility.)

* Ghosts can do cryptography.

* ECDSA is cracked.

* Someone else has a copy Finney's key.

Occam's razor: spectral signatures!

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by maherbeg »

anigbrowl wrote: post #6

Can someone independently verify the decryption claim here? Should I interpret this to mean that either bitcoin signatures can be attacked via hash collisions, or that they're not actually cryptographically secure, given enough time and computing resources? Either seems bad.

I think it would be highly unlikely to create a hash collision that is so specific like this.

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by [deleted] »

kvathupo wrote: post #9
ggm wrote: post #4

Does this make all his historic bitcoins property of the state for crimes committed? That's a lot of public debt to retire.

Assuming no shenanigans, there is a layer of deniability since the message was made from Hal Finney's address and private key, i.e. Finney is lying.

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Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by ratg13 »

sschueller wrote: post #7

Would also explain why Satoshi went silent since the guy is sitting in federal prison. When is he getting out? I would sell my BTC before he can move all those coins. It would be in the interest of the Bitcoin community to agree on a fork to start burning those large wallets that are know to belong to Satoshi ensuring future stability.

I don’t think administratively destroying wallets on the blockchain is going to add any trust into the system .. quite the opposite.

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by _blz2 »

sschueller wrote: post #7

Would also explain why Satoshi went silent since the guy is sitting in federal prison. When is he getting out? I would sell my BTC before he can move all those coins. It would be in the interest of the Bitcoin community to agree on a fork to start burning those large wallets that are know to belong to Satoshi ensuring future stability.

Martin has been out for a few months now.

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by ratg13 »

orangepurple wrote: post #12

Satoshi is a German or Swiss. Nobody in the world has GMX email addresses except the Germans and the Swiss.

I do this sort of thing to mask my identity.

GMX, yandex, I’ve used them all without living in the countries they call home.

In the early 2000s I was probably the primary user of britneyspearsemail.com despite not caring about this celebrity at all.

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by simplyinfinity »

After some digging I found this:

1) The address that was used to send this message is not the first address that the genesis(the first "mined") block sent money to.

2) The "genesis"/Satoshi address has been used through the years a lot

3) The "Paul le Roux" address is far less active

4) this transaction was made 9 days after the first block was mined

My conclusion here is: Paul le Roux _MIGHT_ be Satoshi, but unlikely, more like very early adopter who either knew Finney, Satoshi or both. But neither can be said with 100% certainty.

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