Did Satoshi run a drug cartel: The Paul Le Roux Story (feat. Evan Ratliff) - Episode 104

[@statisticserinokripperino]

"If someone has your number, if someone has the information, if someone could really convince you to get on board, you would be surprised what you can fall for" - that's the main reason why I have never tried to put shame on those who have been scammed, regardless of how they had treated me. We all have our vulnerabilities, and there are a lot of people who know what buttons to push. Our duty as a society should not be to laugh at or be dismissive of those who have been scammed, but to actually be supportive of them. I mean, we have managed to stop smoking ads just so that we could protect those who are vulnerable, I don't see why we can't do that with financial scams too.

[@sammyanga3436]

Why didnt yall cover the fact that Paul Le Roux was arrested around the same time that Satoshi disappeared?

[@drewskeez1156]

its likely coincidental. As soon as Le Roux was arrested he began flipping and working for the government trying to reduce his sentence or get released. Le Roux would have done anything he could to stay out of jail, like he always did, including and up to leveraging the fact that he was satoshi to do it. He never attempted to do so because hes not satoshi. And there is no concrete evidence tying him to it. The guy who wrote Mastermind even admitted this himself many times. It's Adam Back. Barely sociable has a 3 part series about this and creates an extremely convincing case. Watch that, and then watch the interviews with Adam back where he is asked about Satoshi. Hes clearly nervous, untruthful, and uncomfortable when asked.

[@MenwithHill]

That was absolutely fascinating. Dudes like Le Roux fascinate me, great talk.

[@CryptoCriticPod]

Thank you!

[@LeoPaulHelmar]

Wow I loved the Wired piece on disappearing your guest did. It's really fun putting that together when you start talking about it a few minutes in. This is wildly engrossing to listen to. Great get guys. Also it's really interesting that the Wired piece came out in 2009 around the time that Bitcoin was being developed. Definitely ordering Mr. Ratliff's book.

[@CryptoCriticPod]

Thank you and it is an excellent book

[@sergioruocco6181]

You should get the very first version of Bitcoin source code and make a deep analysis and comparison with any of the code written by Paul. Programmers tend to have a personal "handwriting" in picking files, functions and variable names, the code layout, the indentation, the structure of the sources directories etc.

[@mchu7371]

has anyone does this yet?

[@YouTube_username.]

Makes sense

[@alainportant6412]

should feed some code to GPT its the perfect tool for that

[@mickgi]

𝕏 is great.

[@drewskeez1156]

Thats part of the reason why we know it's Adam Back.

[@kozmikoztrich8524]

Just the video headline has me hooked! Let’s go!

[@stage6fan475]

Wonderful enchanting session. Great guest. Thanks, guy.

[@mattsmith8497]

Great show guys, really enjoy the content you two put out

[@CryptoCriticPod]

Thank you!

[@ZKtheMAN]

Wow, that's the most buckwild title for a podcast episode I've seen in a while. This should be good!

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

Well it is classic click bait. The ties to Satoshi are stupidly weak.

[@alexamadams]

Great episode!!

[@CryptoCriticPod]

Thank you!

[@badcampa2641]

Its an intriguing thing kudos gents

[@Hyppotalamus]

That bank lady who fell for the scam had clearly never seen True Lies.

[@gonzalotoscano3310]

The videos from Barely Sociable on who Satoshi is are pretty good. One day we may know who Satoshi is, for now it's kind of interesting so see all the theories.

[@chrissolutions]

​@@Zero46610😅😅😅😅😅

[@Simonjose7258]

24:45 No. Affinity fraud is a type of investment fraud in which a con artist targets members of an identifiable group based on things such as RACE, AGE, RELIGION, etc. The fraudster either is or pretends to be, a member of the group.

[@jneville23]

There needs to be a full blown movie on this guy

[@jneville23]

I watched a Nat Geo documentary featuring this guy and he had his fingers into everything dirty

[@yanicyoda4762]

"Bait "movie by jamie fox and Doug hutchIson is close enough.The gold and high tech sysyems the vilan uses is close enough

[@LinQme1]

Shocked to see he got mixed up. David was a straight up, honest guy until this that ended his life! I still can’t believe his end! 😢

[@sgill4833]

As soon as Le Roux is released from prison he will be deported to Philippines to face trial for murder and illegal arms sales. If he is Satoshi he should be thinking of an El Chapo escape. Much easier to bribe his way out in the Phillipines.

[@MichaelAuerswald]

Super interesting and a great guest! Got to read The Mastermind....

[@CryptoCriticPod]

It’s a great book!

[@gigitrix]

Fascinating stuff. The early blocks thing is interesting in terms of the timings - how many actors (known or unknown) existed with the competence to not just run the software but do signing etc (which if I recall was not trivial with that first GUI/CLI) within the timeframe of the first blocks? All circumstantial stuff but yknow.

[@CryptoCriticPod]

The point Evan was making is that they could have been (and probably are) signed recently

[@gigitrix]

@@CryptoCriticPod ah this makes sense, obvious oversight on my part. So still limited to whomever could plausibly have mined those early blocks (or passed/taken control of those relevant wallet-keys to other actors) but signing not time-bounded (unless making a unverifiable assumption that the signed messages are legitimately contemparaneous and not forged)

[@CryptoCriticPod]

Specifically the problem here is that Hal Finney’s estate seems to have sold some early keys

[@LinQme1]

Keep the event short and sweet with the rain! Conscientious!

[@Telencephelon]

49:01 Guys what are the chances Paul still has acces or even remembers where he has backup keys after 10 years. I also doubt he will get back his confiscated accounts and computers. EVER. Like too important. And why would he care. If he can get a few of his assets back he is set for life. And then Evan Ratcliff mentioned that only Paul had access to the encryption on his computers. So he could have wiped something but certainly not in a selective manner. Like delete all operation files but leave all keys and hide them

[@marcthenarc868]

A question to Mr Ratcliff: Did the Atavist publish the whole book on their site or was it just a digest ?

[@5urg3x]

“Solochi“ sounds like a stretch…I wouldn’t even consider that as evidence, lol. Forums were very popular back in the day before discord, as well as IRC, and as far as emailing people asking them if you can use their code and how to credit them, that’s standard practice for FOSS. GitHub wasn’t around back then, you couldn’t just fork someone’s repo. This all sounds highly dubious. As far as the libertarian right wing racism stuff that fits literally cajilions of people.

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

Basically he was a criminal that could code and was libertarian. I could probably find a thousand similar cases, but as he demonstrated the passport is the gateway to even remotely tie him to Satoshi.

[@5urg3x]

@@JohnSmith-ox3gy Exactly. Might as well just say it’s Ross Ulbricht or Mark Karpeles lol.

[@sammyanga3436]

Has anyone tried contacting Paul in prison?

[@LinQme1]

No matter where I was without connectivity, David found me and showed up at my door! Unexpectedly! Wow! Too shocking still!

[@Indytelevision]

Most people don't know who Paul Larouche is

[@trevortawandamaliro3865]

As a person from Zimbabwe, I think Le roux was involved composed of a group of masterminds.

[@LinQme1]

He did! I was told by David himself when he got the job as head of security. He told me he got a job offer from the man who created bitcoin. I Didn’t know what bitcoin was but the boss was important!

[@danh5637]

It’s spooky how much he sounds like Elizabeth Holmes fake voice.

[@johntrollston2911]

Evan has done some great work, I firmly believe Paul la roux is in part Satoshi the timmings the previous history in cryption there is so much circumstantial evidence and crossed with time lines is just astounding, from his belives to his tech abilities he is the only one who makes sense E4M true crypt the love of gold on and on Satoshi Nakamoto wallets are encrypted with true crypt just one exa ple anyway the rabbit hole is deep with guy great show.

[@stephenxboxxone]

social engineering is a real thing plz listen to these people they are helping all of us i worked for shogun gaming and i did see the big scam in gamming back then and how MLG was scamming win,s Esports full of scams as coin base support big cash gen

[@jaskaasi]

fun fact, extradition treatys don't really matter for US goverment. look up roman selanev

[@susan_beaver]

46:16 Of course it's not a libelous statement! It's spoken, that makes it slander!

[@rbslammed6163]

“Satoshi” is the US government, how stupid do you have to be to not know this by now?

[@stephenxboxxone]

and uk are doing it not just usa sorry usa are not the leaders in this they are apart of the start

[@ApAp-r7g]

Did Richard Heart work for him?

[@wisdomafoolweakness3391]

Money to and money can be undetectable if you use cash only

[@stephenxboxxone]

thank you for helping the public we need it plz help stop pyramid scam of Tate

[@1980futureclone]

If anyone ever asks you for money that you don't know personally... probably a scam.

[@sgill4833]

Supposedly Craig Wright has Paul Le Rioux encrypted drive and he is using his Bitcoin mining farm as cover to try to decrypt the excrypted drives of which he thinks he will have the compute power to crack it within 12 years whihc is why he saying he is satoshi now. So he can liquidate it with a legitimate claim.

[@CryptoCriticPod]

Weirdly different than Craig’s original story don’t you think?

[@blockchainbreakdown2009]

I love your guys content! I even love this specific discussion...but I am a ride or die true believer that it was 100% Adam Back that was Satoshi, with help from Hal after releasing the white paper. Paul Le Roux just doesnt seem to really line up for me but I have not really given it any critical thought till this podcast. So I'm open to looking into it. But if he gets out in about 15 years from now and early blocks start moving...then we know whats up....or Adam Back is just waiting to move genesis coins for when Paul gets out to throw people off. On a final note... I would like it to be Notice that Paul Le Roux admitted on legal documents to being involved with or help set up 7 different murders (on top of his drug charges) and got 25 years.... Ross U got life for running a website and then rumor of a murder to hire with no real evidence of it presented in the court room. Something to think about...

[@rolandnelson6722]

He thought starting a Bitcoin business was being a productive member of society?!

[@yanicyoda4762]

Nope.He Started it to launder money.His gold stash was getting ripped off by the israeli merceneries

[@drewskeez1156]

​@@yanicyoda4762 completely inconsistent with all of the information we have on satoshi and all of the cypherpunks, lol. There is zero evidence tying Le Roux to being satoshi, and even the author of this book has admitted it repeatedly.

[@EtherealAriel]

So many improperly compared assumptions about persons and their traits. 🙄

[@vincerefund384]

Way to make Le Roux eminently likeable 😃

[@stephenxboxxone]

jim browning sir and more of us in uk help we do things that lost do not no sir respect your work but its taken years to get the states to help

[@3aeren]

Huh?

[@NotMe-wh5vb]

No, Paul Le Roux did not invent Bitcoin. Sorry, you are wrong.

[@ayalapagelson7259]

Regarding Israel and extradition- not saying its right or wrong, but there is something you are missing. There is very strong historical trauma about the Holocaust, a view of the world as a place that persecutes Jews, and of the State of Israel as a place that should protect them. Its not that fraud is "not serious". Its that murder is serious enough to break these principals. Not defending this, but pointing out a world view that you may not understand.

[@JaradWrld999]

Why is the person grinning so smugly throughout the entire video and looking as if he had to suppress his laughter. This triggers me to the moon

[@carlovincetti4538]

Yes Satoshi must have:)

[@LinQme1]

I have emails from David still!

[@allie9157]

🤣🤣🤣 Just another South African

[@roc7880]

what if Satoshi is an AI that (who?) needs a currency for expandig?

[@mlbonfox8199]

lol

[@robert_nyc]

I’m portraying LeRoux in a new documentary being filmed here in New York.

[@oldfishermanplus]

Love it!!! When can Evan do an interview with Joe Rogan??? @joerogan

[@Rakibrown111]

It's totally him, he had the biggest incentive and not just ability, he needed to shift massive amounts of money secretly.

[@drewskeez1156]

there are many people that fit this description. Le Roux was not close to people working on bitcoin. Its known at this point who it is (still alive and in the public eye), and its not Le Roux.

[@trevortawandamaliro3865]

That's whom I suspect satoshi is. Paul Le roux maybe one man of an organization. Libertarian white south African seems to fit w/ this ideology.

[@drewskeez1156]

inconsistent with all factual information we have about satoshi (writing styles, spelling and grammar - satoshi used British English, locations, time zones, etc.)

[@trevortawandamaliro3865]

Who colonized South Africa and Zimbabwe btw. If you didn't know it's the British. Some have stated they speak the Queens/Kings English better than actual Brits. So your point is rendered mute

[@drewskeez1156]

@@trevortawandamaliro3865 dude its Adam Back and everyone knows it, except you I guess.

[@liz8343]

These vlogs would go so much farther if prefaced w why should the avg person care who the hell satoshi is…

[@itsme-nt2lj]

Why would Putin do this?

[@marconiandcheese7258]

I think Satoshi was a CIA or NSA employee to create a crypto currency that the government could use its computers to mine crypto it could use to pay government and other groups abroad without tracing it back to the US

[@jmitterii2]

I've heard about that, but think that it's sort of BS.... but who knows.

[@slomnim]

Possible. There are groups and software that can do linguistic analysis on forum posts to determine if the writing style is one person or several. Even then, since it's a distributed system, couldn't any government mine it? China has a few very large pool, and subsidize the mining to a degree

[@AlmonteList]

Likely Satoshi #1 Adam Back #2 Le Roux #3 Hal Finney Keeping in mind many people helped and worked on Bitcoin to make it what it is.

[@drewskeez1156]

lol at putting le roux anywhere near the top, especially above people who are much more likely other than Adam back like Hal finny, nick szabo, Len sassman, etc.

[@menjolno]

If he was satoshi, he would 51 percent his own creation.

[@drewskeez1156]

Thats not possible even for the actual satoshi.

[@sydomb107]

Satoshi was a construct to clearly and concisely talk about Bitcoin on a web forum. A multi-person edited collaboration, the leader being CRAIG WRIGHT, who is the creator of Bitcoin.

[@harrickvharrick3957]

Tramadol IS NOT 'highly addictive'!

[@Frazec_Atsjenkov]

This video was pure torture. Please don't do that to us again... Please!

[@JamesMullarneyIsAFraud]

Chico Crypto thinks satoshi is Elon Musk 🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@agenericaccount3935]

Lol. Settling in for a nice show, hit in the face with muh libertarian racisms signalling. Pass.

[@gigitrix]

Back to your bubble then buddy

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

I think I missed that. What did they say?

[@MarkT]

Some of your vids are good. Here you ignore the huge amount of evidence CSW = = SATOSHI. For your clickbait title. Childish. Adolescent at best.

[@vvvictoriav5958]

L

[@gigitrix]

🤡

[@slomnim]

Lol this has to be a troll xD

[@MarkT]

@@slomnim Nope not troll. Have been to Trollstigen. Seen them. Excluding evidence is childish. You know better. I'm a subscriber to the channel.

[@hereigoagain3974]

Such a shame that Crypto Critics Corner and others like Coffeezilla aren't covering the VAST evidence that Craig S Wright created Bitcoin. I don't get what the big taboo is...

[@felipelopes7976]

Nick Szabo is the real Satoshi Nakamoto, he started the development of blockchain in the 1990's

[@JewishBanker911]

Great interview