25 years in prison for 7 murders, could LeRoux, who developed the Bitcoin mining machine, be Satoshi Nakamoto himself?

Sentenced to 25 years in prison, drug dealer, murderer, developer of the world's most advanced ASIC mining machine, Satoshi Nakamoto's true identity...

Anyone who intends to soften these facts and unify them into a single person will sound like a scam anyway, but this is what happened to Paul Calder LeRoux, a drug dealer sentenced to 25 years in prison in New York, USA. Recently, he wrote to New York District Judge Ronnie Abrams that he knew how to develop the best ASIC mining machine in order to reduce his sentence.

In the United States, if a criminal obtains a patent for a technological invention while in prison, he or she may be able to receive a reduced sentence.

The most advanced mining machine on the market is Bitmain's Antminer S19 Pro, which has a hashrate of 110Th/s and an energy efficiency ratio of 29.5J/Th. So what is the identity of Paul Calder LeRoux? Is he a liar or is he really capable of developing a mining machine more advanced than the S19 Pro? Is it possible that he is related to Satoshi Nakamoto?

1. About Paul Calder LeRoux

Paul Calder LeRoux's full name is Paul Solotshi Calder LeRoux (hereinafter referred to as LeRoux), 47 years old this year. He was once the leader of a large corporate alliance organization, specializing in **** and arms smuggling. He also served as an informant for the US Drug Enforcement Administration and a programming genius.

If you search for his information on Wikipedia, you can see his rich life experience.

LeRoux has been involved in gold smuggling, precious metal mining, money laundering, logging, assassinations and encryption software development.

While in U.S. custody from 2012 to mid-2020, LeRoux agreed to cooperate with authorities in exchange for a lighter sentence and was granted immunity for his most serious crimes.

Wikipedia's description of LeRoux's crimes is: He was arrested on September 26, 2012, for conspiracy to import narcotics into the United States. He subsequently admitted to participating or participating in seven murders as part of his numerous illegal activities.

Regarding LeRoux, if you have read "Criminal Master" serialized on the Atavist platform, you will definitely be impressed by the high-level summary of LeRoux on the cover of the serialized work - he is a talented computer engineer and a vicious criminal leader, but later he received special attention from the US government.

It is not difficult to understand why LeRoux was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a US court.

Apart from being a criminal, LeRoux is also an excellent programmer. As early as 1999, LeRoux designed the free disk encryption software E4M for Windows. In addition, he may have participated in the development of the open source True Crypt disk encryption technology software based on E4M.

All this is enough to show that LeRoux is an experienced software engineer. There is even a lot of information speculating that LeRoux himself is Satoshi Nakamoto - the name Solotshi in LeRoux's passport is very similar to Satoshi Nakamoto, which is one example.

So it’s not surprising that LeRoux wrote to the Southern District Court of New York, requesting the development of high-performance mining chips in the hope of obtaining a reduced sentence.

So the question is: How did such a genius file this application? And what does he think about the development of mining chips?

2. LeRoux wrote to the U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York

In early June 2020, LeRoux was sentenced to 25 years in prison. In order to avoid imprisonment, LeRoux wrote a letter to Ronnie Abrams, a district court judge in the Southern District of New York, explaining his ideas on mining machine design in the hope of obtaining a reduced sentence later.

Currently, LeRoux can appeal the verdict, but the problem is that even if LeRoux wins the appeal, he will still be wanted for murder in the Philippines and may be extradited to the Philippines by the police to continue to serve his sentence.

“I plan to start buying, selling and hosting bitcoin mining machines,” he wrote in a letter submitted to the judge on June 11.

In the letter, LeRoux provided some background on Bitcoin and how it works, including how it is mined through the use of ASIC chips (powerful chips designed for the task). Le Roux claimed to have worked for the British Signal Intelligence Agency (GCHQ) and had expertise in Bitcoin mining.

"I have a custom design for an ASIC chip that incorporates special optimizations in the base code or SHA algorithm," LeRoux wrote. "My knowledge of the mathematical properties of SHA was acquired while working as a programmer for the British intelligence agency GCHQ in the early 2000s."

“These optimizations allowed me to design ASIC chips, and thus ASIC miners, that are an order of magnitude faster at mining Bitcoin than any current miner design,” LeRoux said.

The most advanced mining machine on the market is Bitmain's Antminer S19 Pro, which has a computing power of 110Th/s and an energy efficiency ratio of 29.5J/Th. If the mining machine designed by LeRoux can be an order of magnitude faster, it means that its energy efficiency ratio will be reduced to about 3J/Th, which will be a huge improvement and have a huge impact on the Bitcoin mining industry.

"To that end, I intend to put my learning and skills to better and legal use," LeRoux wrote.

In addition to developing Bitcoin mining machines, in recent years, LeRoux's identity has been more closely linked to that of Satoshi Nakamoto. So could this drug dealer, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison and linked to seven murders, be Satoshi Nakamoto himself?

3. Ratliff: Le Roux has the power to invent Bitcoin

In 2019, journalist Evan Ratliff published an article exploring LeRoux’s connection to the Satoshi identity based on documents filed in court by Ira Kleiman against self-proclaimed Satoshi Craig Wright.

“I have come to the conclusion for the first time that Le Roux had the wherewithal to create Bitcoin,” Ratliff wrote.

However, Ratliff did not conclusively identify Le Roux as Satoshi Nakamoto, noting that there are many other programmers who have the potential to be Satoshi Nakamoto.

However, many people think that this inference is completely nonsense and that Le Roux cannot be Satoshi Nakamoto himself.

4. No, LeRoux is not Satoshi Nakamoto

“The consensus is, no, he is not Satoshi.”

In the reddit discussion area, a registered user u/unrequited discussed with Elaine Shannon, the author of "Hunting LeRoux", whether LeRoux was Satoshi Nakamoto. Shannon came to this conclusion, completely denying that LeRoux was Satoshi Nakamoto.

The book "Hunting LeRoux" provides an in-depth exploration of LeRoux's life and his connection to Satoshi Nakamoto.

Shannon said, I agree that LeRoux is a talented person who is very proficient and professional in how to use cryptocurrency, the dark web, and various technical crimes.

But if you’ve read my book “The Hunt for LeRoux,” you know that I’ve been exploring his character as they’ve seen him up close. Since the theory that LeRoux is Satoshi came out, I’ve interviewed nearly everyone associated with it and concluded that LeRoux is not Satoshi.

As I mentioned on my Twitter feed, LeRoux didn’t have enough time to work on Bitcoin.

LeRoux invented E4M in 1998 as a way to market his skills, but he also sought IT work on multiple continents and hoped to get married again. From 1999 to 2002, he served as CTO of SecurStar, a cybersecurity business founded by LeRoux's mentor, Wilfried Hafner. Hafner and LeRoux were close, but in 2002, Hafner fired LeRoux when he discovered that he had stolen and sold strings of the company's code for operating security devices called "crypto tokens."

LeRoux struck it rich and founded RX in 2004, a company that became highly profitable, generating $300 million in sales between 2007 and 2011, according to the DEA.

Shannon said that according to the investigation, he never asked for payment in Bitcoin. Instead, credit cards were used to pay for drugs. In order to conduct more underground transactions, LeRoux used cash and gold bars. Iran once bought a formula for explosives from him for gold bars worth $5 million.

Shannon said that in 2009, when Bitcoin emerged, he was busy running multiple joint ventures and conducting illegal businesses, as I detailed in Hunting for Le Roux, including small arms sales, hard-core drug dealing, smuggled gold trading, building submarines, and designing new missile guidance systems for Iran and the United States.

Moreover, LeRoux also established a new base in Somalia, where he planned to turn himself into a white warlord and expand his arms business beyond measure, with his own militia, military camps, weapons warehouses, airports, seaports, etc. Importantly, he discovered oil on the land under his control, but LeRoux did not drill for it, arguing that it would take too long to make a profit.

All in all, Shannon said several of his colleagues believed that LeRoux might have the intellectual skills to participate in the invention of a cryptocurrency, but he lacked the determination, patience and enthusiasm for the kind of secrecy or collaboration necessary to achieve such a feat.

Shannon believes that LeRoux is a man who is eager to guarantee results and quickly abandons a series of ideas that do not bring rich returns. He is a loner with no real friends and business partners. There is a reason why he demands to be called the boss and often threatens to kill his men.

But at present, no one can deny that he is considering the possibility of designing new mining machines, using new methods to mine cryptocurrencies, and transforming the mining ecosystem. Although LeRoux is currently imprisoned in a federal prison, this just gives him enough time and patience.

refer to:

1 https://www.coindesk.com/drug-dealer-just-sentenced-to-25-years-hoped-to-build-a-better-bitcoin-miner

2 https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/bp3uug/the_unanimous_opinion_is_no_hes_not_satoshi/

3 http://www.myzaker.com/article/5dd4ddd08e9f09753773e9da/