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Comment by chx | Hacker News Reader

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.

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Well, if any of Satoshi's wallets move after Paul Le Roux is released in 2045 or so, we'll have a smoking gun ;)

He was arrested in 2012 and sentenced in 2020. If time spent in jail counts, he'll get out much earlier than 2045.

Time spent in pre-trial detention almost always counts in the USA.

I 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

If 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.

We didn't drop him, we just will not know for a some more decades

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