Which he obviously isn't; Le Roux was nothing more than a crime boss, thought to be more technically adept than what a sober look at things would suggest (E4M's source code was stolen from his earlier employer).
I am really curious why Le Roux has been ruled out even by the author of the book about him "The Mastermind" by Evan Ratliff - quite a good read.
Le Roux seemed like a good candidate to be Satoshi -
a Windows C++ programmer with serious crypto knowledge(most other crypto oldschoolers were on Linux/BSD),
as the book states he liked adopt other persona on forums,
he obviously had a strong anti-government bent,
so far that is not much but more importantly he was dealing with his real life crime empire and had baskets of money laying around the house.
it is hard to imagine Satoshi not spending some money once BTC got over $1 - unless he was really really not worried about money.
Of course he could have just lost the keys...
There has to be some crucial detail which book does not mention why Le Roux is ruled out so conclusively.
I'd be curious if any code similarity analysis has been done on old LeRoux codebases and original Bitcoin code.
pen2l|3 years ago
sireat|3 years ago
I am really curious why Le Roux has been ruled out even by the author of the book about him "The Mastermind" by Evan Ratliff - quite a good read.
Le Roux seemed like a good candidate to be Satoshi - a Windows C++ programmer with serious crypto knowledge(most other crypto oldschoolers were on Linux/BSD), as the book states he liked adopt other persona on forums, he obviously had a strong anti-government bent,
so far that is not much but more importantly he was dealing with his real life crime empire and had baskets of money laying around the house.
it is hard to imagine Satoshi not spending some money once BTC got over $1 - unless he was really really not worried about money. Of course he could have just lost the keys...
There has to be some crucial detail which book does not mention why Le Roux is ruled out so conclusively.
I'd be curious if any code similarity analysis has been done on old LeRoux codebases and original Bitcoin code.