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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 »

nkzd wrote: post #37
retrac wrote: post #13

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!

I am not sure I understand, how could this be a conspiracy?

Sorry, I was being somewhat sarcastic and it misfired. The only real option is the last one. The key is most likely compromised.

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by rOOb85 »

If this is true, wow.

I've read about Paul Le Roux before as he is likely the person behind Trucrypt.

While he's a criminal, if he really created Truecrypt and Bitcoin and also ran an international drug/gun running operation...I'm impressed. I think this dude's story could make a awesome book/movie some day...

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by Lutzb »

sph wrote: post #28
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.

The interesting thing is that satoshi was using a gmx.com address, emphasis on the .com. Those were only available to paying customers of GMX.de.

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by [deleted] »

raingrove wrote: post #26

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/b…

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Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by cocacola1 »

rOOb85 wrote: post #44

If this is true, wow. I've read about Paul Le Roux before as he is likely the person behind Trucrypt. While he's a criminal, if he really created Truecrypt and Bitcoin and also ran an international drug/gun running operation...I'm impressed. I think this dude's story could make a awesome book/movie some day...

Here's at least one book on him: The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. by Evan Ratliff.

Another is: Hunting LeRoux: The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire by Elaine Shannon.

Michael Mann has the rights to turn Hunting LeRoux into a film. He did Heat, Ali and Collateral (probably one of my favorite movies). Unfortunately, he also did Blackhat.

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by blueside »

jshchnz wrote: post #16

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

Shkreli is live streaming this right now and somebody on his voice chat just said to him "No offense Martin, but you're probably the last person I would go to if I had incontrovertible evidence of Satoshi's identity"

For all the horrendous shit that this Shkreli guy is known for, I always think of his Microsoft Excel skills first.

Re: Paul Le Roux is Satoshi?

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Post by nothrowaways »

rOOb85 wrote: post #44

If this is true, wow. I've read about Paul Le Roux before as he is likely the person behind Trucrypt. While he's a criminal, if he really created Truecrypt and Bitcoin and also ran an international drug/gun running operation...I'm impressed. I think this dude's story could make a awesome book/movie some day...

Maybe he killed Satoshi and extorted the keys, in reverse order.
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