As the crypto community just finishes recovering form the Faketoshi Dr Craig Wright controversy and attempts at copyrighting the Bitcoin White Paper released by the original Satoshi, another story has emerged regarding who the founder and writer of the Bitcoin code might be.
A character has emerged by the name of Paul Solotshi Calder Le Roux, and he is from my country of South Africa (or possibly Rhodesia/Zimbabwe next door according to wikipedia). He was adopted after birth so Le Roux is an adopted name presumably, and no one really knows his parents, although Wikipedia mentions a rumor that his maternal grandmother was married to a US senator. He was the founder of encryption software E4M as well as TrueCrypt. All this is very new and highly speculative information unfolding today and I wouldn’t take it as legit just yet, if at all, but the coincidences have a ring to them, like the middle name of Paul Le Roux, that sounds awfully close to Satoshi, although it also sounds African.
It sounds absurd but there is a Reddit post from three weeks ago that goes into this saga like a plot from a Hollywood movie. The interesting fact is that this guy is part of the circle of Dr Craig Wright. You can check it out here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/bnzxi6/paul_solotshi_calder_le_roux_the_real_satoshi/
What is also interesting is that his second wife had an Asian name - Lilian Cheung Yuen Pui – though it’s not a Japanese name, like Nakamoto, more from Hong Kong. Also he did live in Hong Kong before moving to Rotterdam, where he married her. Le Roux ran a multinational illegal drug trafficking syndicate there, with Israeli ex-military as his bodyguards.
Le Roux is a popular South African name (not Rhodesian, they have British names) and apparently this Paul Le Roux is described in a document from the court case of Dr Craig Wright – the original wannabe Satoshi, who has been telling the world for years that he is the famous unknown originator of Bitcoin. Apparently this Paul Le Roux was a criminal genius who some speculate devised the Bitcoin code to launder money. He was captured soon after the original Satoshi went quiet on the internet and has been in jail ever since, and may be there for life.
This may explain why the fabled Satoshi wallet full of 1 million Bitcoins has never been accessed. He might be in jail. Anyway, it’s a real detective mystery and this could just be another red herring. Dr Craig Wright was apparently an employee of Le Roux and thus aware of the Bitcoin project, and may have even been an informant who helped in the capture of Le Roux. This could be why he feels so safe claiming he is Satoshi today. He knows the real Satoshi is in jail.
The plot thickens and Wright apparently was able to get hold of the Satoshi wallets with the 1 million Bitcoin, via Dave Kleinman (deceased now but another possible candidate for Satoshi), but they are all encrypted. That’s why their Bitcoin have never moved, despite Wright trying for years to access them. Another famous name, Calvin Ayre, who became a billionaire trough his online gambling enterprise, has allegedly set up warehouses full of computers, disguised as Bitcoin miners, that are actually all being used to attempt to crack the encryption on the wallets. All of these guys knew each other at the time the Bitcoin White paper was released, and they may know the truth. But if Le Roux is a major drug dealer and actually a self-confessed murderer of maybe seven people, it makes you wonder about the credentials of Dr Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre, to be associating with this murdering drug smuggler.
Anyone who has made his billions through gambling, like Calvin Ayre, is to be considered very suspect in my opinion, like Donald Trump for example. Gambling means Mafia, criminal elements and conmen, in my opinion, particularly if you are running a gambling business. It is a low class, underworld-type industry, like prostitution... and politics (Trump again).
By the look of the comments on the Reddit post, not many people buy this story of Paul Le Roux being Satoshi, but rather link Dr Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre with this underworld crime boss and make them all out to be gangster criminals, trying to set CSW up as the great Satoshi himself so that when they crack the security and break into the wallets with a million Bitcoin, they can then legitimately sell it. Keep trying guys, you won’t do it for another decade if at all, but by then Bitcoin will be worth $1 million so you could be the richest guys on earth.
These BCash Faketoshi conmen are a cause for concern in the cryptocurrency industry, but then wherever there is a mass accumulation of money, you will find criminals and opportunists. That is just human nature. Who in the crypto industry actually has the moral amnesia to still invest in or trade in BCash, any of the two of them? They are a scam and a fraud, stealing the Bitcoin logo and name and trying to literally be the inventor Satoshi himself. What a scam. But I should be careful, I might just land up with a court case as they try to sue me. Well, we South Africans are known to be good villains ourselves. Ask Paul Le Roux, or Oscar Pistorius (Olympic medal paraplegic runner who shot and killed his girlfriend with a shotgun), or Jacob Zuma (ex President of the country).
Whether this Paul Le Roux is the actual Satoshi remains to be seen. It’s unlikely and it may just be a scam by Dr Wright yet again, with his henchmen. It does also tarnish the reputation of Satoshi somewhat, and thereby Bitcoin, to make it appear as if the inventor is a criminal genius of murderous intent who invented Bitcoin for money laundering. Apparently Dr Wright revealed the info on Le Roux in secret in court, for fear of his life, and hoped it would be redacted, but the court clerk forgot to do a proper job. The irony.
To conclude, Bitcoin is an entity unto itself now so it doesn’t mater if we ever find the real Satoshi or not. Bitcoin will carry on. There are some reservations about Le Roux, a mastermind drug dealer and conman, being Satoshi. But there are also some coincidences. Like his skill in C++ coding language, and his identical South African (British) spelling and phrasing to the original Satoshi’s written posts. That however, is not enough evidence at this point so this Le Roux who is in jail for life now, will probably just go on to the list of Satoshi candidates, while his fellow criminals run BCash like a manipulated scam that it is.
Your opinions in the comments section will be appreciated.
Further reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux
