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Have you considered Le Roux? Someone who had a real motive to create Bitcoin, and who had actually written Windows based crypto software before.
by bottlepalm 3y ago
Have you considered Le Roux? Someone who had a real motive to create Bitcoin, and who had actually written Windows based crypto software before.
- IncreasePosts 3y agoGiven his past it's hard to imagine Le Roux sitting on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of bitcoins, even from inside a federal prison.
- bottlepalm 3y agoPretty good incentive to say nothing isn't it?
- IncreasePosts 3y agoNot really. He's already in his fifties and faces 20 years in US prison, and then he will probably be deported to the Philippines to spend the rest of his life in prison. I imagine if he had access to billions he would he would be paying mercenaries to bust him out.
- bottlepalm 3y agoYou think mercenaries can be bought to 'bust' someone out of an American prison? That is such a ridiculous statement in so so many ways.
- IncreasePosts 3y agoADX Florence? Probably not. Fort Dix? Almost certainly if the price is right. It's more like a glorified summer camp than a prison.
- astoor 3y agoGiven his past it is easy to imagine his keys got misplaced while on the run or met with some kind of "unfortunate accident".
- dogman144 3y agoI’ve read the various write ups, and iirc the New Yorker piece and who/the group they pointed and a write up on Len seemed to make the most sense. Fun area, been a while since I dug into it.
- bottlepalm 3y agoVery few projects are created truly anonymously. I believe the Bitcoin creator had a real motive to stay anonymous, and a practical use case that was driving him to make Bitcoin eg transferring large amounts of illegitimate wealth internationally and outside of the banking system.
- dogman144 3y agothere’s pretty clear documentation on the motivations for why it was made, but I suppose it could be duplicitous and hard to ever verify one way or the other unless SN wallets became active again.
- bottlepalm 3y agoEh, you could say everyone involved with Bitcoin was 'duplicitous' then because everyone knew the potential criminal use cases from the beginning.
- ClickedUp 3y agoInterestingly, Le Roux added "Solotshi" to his name on his 2008 passport: https://i.imgur.com/44I9wlL.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/44I9wlL.jpeg Solotshi/Satoshi.
- Biganon 3y agoGotta love that the embassy stamp is in Comic Sans, it conveys a sense of true professionalism