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My money is on Paul Le Roux.. most hackers are too uppity to write windows software. Le Roux was a pragmatist with a real practical need to move dirty money wit
by trixie_ 5y ago
My money is on Paul Le Roux.. most hackers are too uppity to write windows software. Le Roux was a pragmatist with a real practical need to move dirty money without banks.
- lottin 5y agoI don't know that creating an whole new currency can be considered a "practical solution" to the need of having to move dirty money around. Surely there must be easier ways to achieve that goal and with a higher chance of success as well.
- trixie_ 5y agoFor him an encryption/programming expert it might of been. There were posts back in 2005 about how to design a 'bit gold' and he was already jumping through hoops to launder money to gold bars through hong kong with all kinds of problems. The motivation was there.
- dereg 5y agoI went deep into the PLR rabbit hole because I too believed that PLR could have been Satoshi. The one dagger to the heart of the theory is that PLR lived in the Philippines at the time. If you line up Satoshi’s posting times with PLR’s local time zone, you’d have to assume that PLR was posting from 4-9ish in the Philippines.
- mdoms 5y ago> you’d have to assume that PLR was posting from 4-9ish in the Philippines. Ok? Why is that a dagger in the heart? My most active posting times are 4-9 and I don't even know if you're talking AM or PM because both work for me.
- russianbandit 5y agoYou mostly sleep between 9pm and 4am?
- mdoms 5y agoYes. Pretty normal sleeping hours.
- RealityVoid 5y agoYes, but, really, the very pragmatical nature of Le Roux somehow makes me doubt he would have left the initial wallets untouched all these years. He is an interesting character, for sure, but does not seem the kind to not use a big lever at his disposal.
- ari__ 5y agoMost hackers I know write software for pretty much any other OS because of how much easier it is than writing software for Windows, not because they're uppity. Some may be ideological purists, sure, but I think you'd be very hard pressed to find a hacker that says the developer experience on Windows is easier/nicer/better than the developer experience on Linux or MacOS.
- lostmsu 5y agoIt is 50/50 for me between Carmack and Torvalds. 2/1 if you add Satoshi.
- simonh 5y agoNeither of them have demonstrated any significant knowledge of the extremely sophisticated, cutting edge crypto and anonymisation tech involved.
- trixie_ 5y agoPeople who write open source windows software are looked down upon. Your typical hacker especially in the 90s/00s - Microsoft was the evil empire.
- sigg3 5y ago
- kevinmchugh 5y agoIs there evidence that Le Roux used Bitcoin? Certainly he had a use for it. But the author of the Mastermind looked into this idea and didn't find any evidence for it
- trixie_ 5y agoHow could he? In 2012 Bitcoin was very niche and everyone was still very skeptical about it.