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Remind me why we dropped Paul Le Roux as Satoshi. I thought it fit rather well: he had the motivation, the knowledge and the disappearance of Satoshi also fit.
by chx 3y ago
Remind me why we dropped Paul Le Roux as Satoshi. I thought it fit rather well: he had the motivation, the knowledge and the disappearance of Satoshi also fit.
- automatic6131 3y agoWell, if any of Satoshi's wallets move after Paul Le Roux is released in 2045 or so, we'll have a smoking gun ;)
- mirzap 3y agoHe was arrested in 2012 and sentenced in 2020. If time spent in jail counts, he'll get out much earlier than 2045.
- qingcharles 3y agoTime spent in pre-trial detention almost always counts in the USA.
- rurban 3y agoWe didn't drop him, we just will not know for a some more decades
- sireat 3y agoI asked this question about a year ago. Paul Le Roux had the motivation, the knowledge, the multitude of projects, the ability/drive to take on different persona. Plus Le Roux coded crypto projects in C++ on Windows unlike most of his peers. The timelines also fit with Le Roux going into custody when Satoshi dissappeared. Also with 100Ms in USD sitting in laundry baskets around his apartment, Le Roux would not have needed to worry about BTC until it was too late. I had someone reply that Satoshi and Le Roux coding styles were too different: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33127079 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33127079
- kjkjadksj 3y agoIf you are anonymously building on something like this, then I think you for sure would obfuscate both your code style and your writing style. Code style I’d guess takes less work to obfuscate. E.g. if you typically use tabs instead of spaces, thats a single line of sed to remove that identifier from the entire codebase.