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The birth certificate says, "Paul Calder Le Roux", but the diplomatic passport names him, "Paul SOLOTSHI Calder Le Roux". What's with the SOLOTSHI? Was that a
by cantrevealname 11y ago
The birth certificate says, "Paul Calder Le Roux", but the diplomatic passport names him, "Paul SOLOTSHI Calder Le Roux".
What's with the SOLOTSHI? Was that a nickname, an additional real name, or just a false name he threw in to the mix?
- neilk 11y agoSolotshi appears to be a very uncommon Congolese name. Le Roux's story starts in Africa, and the author alleges he was an arms dealer - maybe there's some connection there. http://forebears.io/surnames/solotshi http://forebears.io/surnames/solotshi Or maybe, as the above website shows, it's an alternative spelling for a similar Moldovan or Georgian name? I have no idea.
- svenfaw 11y agoAm I the only one who first read it as "Satoshi"?
- distracted_boy 11y agoYou are not.
- jonquark 11y agoNo - I read it like that too - before a double take. Now that would be a story :)
- droffel 11y agoSatoshi Nakamoto: Arms Dealer Coming to a theater near you, this Summer.
- myrbergs_army 11y agoAlso read it that way the first time and lost my mind for a second.
- jron 11y agoThere are some interesting circumstantial connections to Satoshi: Considered to be a "brilliant" programmer with a strong C++ background - Most people would call you crazy if you attempted to put a 6 billion dollar prize behind an internet facing application without memory safety Author of crypto/privacy software - E4M and possibly TrueCrypt written in C++ Experience hiding identity both online and off Millionaire - Satoshi never converted any of his btc fortune Anti-authoritarian Understands the benefits of digital currency - Has millions of dollars stacked in boxes Understands the payment problem - Illegal prescription drug marketplaces Has an interest in internet gambling software - The first version of btc actually had some code for a marketplace and poker: http://imgur.com/a/NPiIs http://imgur.com/a/NPiIs Multifocal - Satoshi vanished around April 23 2011 to "move on to other things" South African spelling/phrasing - analyse, colour, defence, bloody hard
- sitharus 11y ago> South African spelling/phrasing - analyse, colour, defence, bloody hard That's common across all of the Commonwealth countries. Could easily be Australia or NZ. If he calls traffic lights 'robots' you could be certain.
- ralusek 11y agoI was analysing the robot and this zef prawn offered me a sweetie. Fook prawns.
- Natanael_L 11y agoSatoshis original code wasn't considered brilliant, though. Not crap, but more in the style of an academic that understood programming than that of an experienced programmer. The code was written as a basic proof of concept, not with long term maintainability in mind, and the code for the wallet client was not well separated from the code for parsing the blockchain, or from the networking code or from the mining code, etc... No brilliant programmer would have been willing to publish such a rudimentary proof of concept when interoperability and network effects are such important parts of its main idea.