Paul Le Roux is Satoshi? • Hacker News Board

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by frank_bb » Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 10:06 PM UTC

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Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by qeternity » Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 10:06 PM UTC

_blz2 wrote: post #18

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.

GP is talking about Le Roux, who is in prison.

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by akeck » Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 10:07 PM UTC

_blz2 wrote: post #18

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.

Not Martin, Le Roux. I think he's still being held by the U.S. Feds.

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by matthoiland » Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 10:07 PM UTC

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.

"Le Roux was sentenced to 25 years in prison in June 2020" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 10:08 PM UTC

jshchnz wrote: post #16

I'm honestly not sure there could be a more unreliable source for this

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Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by raingrove » Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 10:08 PM UTC

1. The signature was created using a private key that corresponds to the address "1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3".

2. 1Q2TWHE3GMdB6BZKafqwxXtWAWgFt5Jvm3 is Hal Finney's (Not Satoshi's) address.

3. Hal Finney passed away in 2014.

4. Some coins that belonged to that address were spent in 2017. [1]

It appears that someone else (definitely not Hal) has the private key to that address.

[1] https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/70ec308460a38f6de25f89c6ed...

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by ElijahLynn » Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 10:08 PM UTC

smoldesu wrote: post #5

Craig Wright is pulling his hair out rn

For those who don't know:

> Craig Steven Wright (born October 1970)[1] is an Australian computer scientist and businessman. He has publicly claimed to be the main part of the team that created bitcoin, and the identity behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. These claims are regarded as false by much of the media and the cryptocurrency community.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Steven_Wright

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by sph » Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 10:09 PM UTC

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'm pretty sure created a gmx.de account around the turn of the Millennium and I'm not from a German speaking country. They had an email service and I needed an email.

The problem with absolute statements is that they always get it wrong.

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by paulpauper » Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 10:09 PM UTC

why would it take so long to discover this?

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by 323 » Tue, Dec 13, 2022, 10:09 PM UTC

Anyone know where he got this info? Is there a previous source?