Bitcoin Creator

Researcher Finds an Old Twitter Profile May Have Been Satoshi Nakamoto’s Account

22/02/2021 by Idelto Editor

On February 22, 2021, an author published a post on substack.com about an anonymous Twitter account that may have belonged to the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto. The researcher discovered a Twitter account dubbed ‘Goldlover,’ and found some interesting coincidences with the account’s tweets and Bitcoin’s creator.

The Curious Goldlover Tweets

An author called Varun published an interesting analysis of a specific Twitter account that may or may not belong to Bitcoin’s creator. Varun said in his research analysis that he stumbled upon the Twitter account called ‘Goldlover,’ and noticed that the account was quite “chatty” for a period of time.

Running bitcoin

— halfin (@halfin) January 11, 2009

The researcher also said that Satoshi Nakamoto was the same way up until the inventor left the community for good. The Goldlover account (@fafcffacfff) was created in May 2008 and Varun says that a script was written. The Goldlover tweets mentioned gold quite often, and Varun’s findings suggest that the ‘gold’ terminology may be in reference to “Bit Gold.”

“The Wall of Interesting Tweets” compiled in Varun’s blog post. (Image credit: Varun – offthetrack.substack.com)

“On September 17th, 2008, this account made a reference to Digital Gold Currency,” Varun’s post highlights. “In between an incredible amount of nonsensical tweets about gold, sometimes there would be tweets which referenced decentralization, financial crisis, people losing their homes, fiat currency, criticism of the Federal Reserve,” Varun says. “These are all hallmarks of talking points used by Satoshi in his emails and forum posts which are well known, post-Bitcoin announcement.”

For instance, on December 19, 2008, Goldlover said:

The Great Stock Panic of 2008 was so mercilessly brutal that no sector escaped its ravages.

What is also quite interesting is that no other Twitter accounts back in January 2009, except for Hal Finney, tweeted about Bitcoin. “Based on all of this, this is good enough for me to feel quite confident that this indeed was Satoshi’s original anonymous Twitter account,” Varun notes.

On January 11, 2009, Hal Finney tweeted about the crypto asset and not too long after that Goldlover wrote: “From: Satoshi Nakamoto – 2009-01-11 22:32 Bitcoin v0.1.2 is now available for d.”

The very same day on January 29, 2009, Goldlover also said:

It’s completely decentralized with no server or trusted parties.

Exploring the Limitless Depths of Satoshi’s Mind

Ever since Varun published his post about the alleged Satoshi Nakamoto Twitter account, people have been interacting with Goldlover’s 12-year-old tweets.

“Thanks for changing the world Satoshi,” an individual wrote on Monday.

If you know where there are oranges in the sky in Winter Garden, you are on the right track for locating a treasure box.

— GoldLover (@fafcffacfff) February 11, 2009

“Feeling sufficiently anonymous with this cryptic account run since May 2008, this might have been a slip to now start linking up and showing up as the 2nd tweet ever to mention Bitcoin,” Varun’s substack.com blog post states. “If Hal was Satoshi, then why continue tweeting from this unknown account, which barely had any followers?” Varun asks. The researcher said that he could have slept in every Saturday morning, but this Twitter account had him on the hunt for Nakamoto.

The report concludes:

Having concluded this was Satoshi – we don’t know who, the rest of the tweets now provide an insight into his mindset, and each tweet here needs to be branched out and explored in limitless depths.

At the end of Varun’s theory, he left a mysterious tweet from Goldlover which talks about a treasure box with oranges in the sky.

“If you know where there are oranges in the sky in Winter Garden, you are on the right track for locating a treasure box,” Goldlover tweeted.

Just recently, a group of armchair sleuths have been on the hunt for Satoshi’s stash of bitcoins, because they believe Nakamoto left the coins to be the greatest treasure hunt ever. Despite the coincidences and the extremely old and cryptic tweets from Goldlover, we don’t know for sure if the Twitter account actually belonged to Satoshi, but today many people are speculating.

What do you think about the Goldlover Twitter account that may belong to Satoshi Nakamoto? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

The Many Facts Pointing to Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov Being Satoshi Nakamoto

10/02/2021 by Idelto Editor

During the last few years, smart contracts and blockchain oracles have transformed the crypto industry, and one specific project called Chainlink is the most widely used oracle network to-date. Another interesting thing about Chainlink is the project’s creator, Sergey Nazarov has been a Satoshi Nakamoto suspect in recent times. Last year, a number of reports attempted to prove that Nazarov could be Bitcoin’s creator by leveraging circumstantial evidence and speculation.

Chainlink Founder Sergey Nazarov Deemed a Satoshi Suspect

Over the last few years, news.Bitcoin.com has written extensively on what some people believe is the greatest mystery of all within the cryptocurrency space. A great number of sleuths are hunting for Satoshi Nakamoto and the whereabouts of all the bitcoins the creator mined while kick-starting the network.

Our newsdesk has also created a comprehensive list of all the Satoshi Nakamoto suspects and the most recent on our list is a present-day theory. Last year, a couple of reports and a Youtube video outlined the possibility that the creator of Chainlink (LINK), Sergey Nazarov, could be Bitcoin’s inventor.

One report written by UX Sequence (uxsequence.io) gives a comprehensive look at all the evidence that allegedly ties Nazarov to the creation of Bitcoin. The following is the tenth installment of news.Bitcoin.com’s “The Many Facts” Satoshi Nakamoto series.

At the very least, speculators think that Sergey Nazarov was at least around during Satoshi’s incubation period. Nazarov is currently 32-years-old and his parents are Russian immigrants who migrated to New York.

Chainlink is a popular asset, as it currently holds the ninth largest market valuation at the time of writing. Basically, the project is a decentralized oracle network and the protocol connects smart contracts to a number of external elements and APIs. The project launched in 2017, but purportedly it was originally founded in 2014 by Steve Ellis and Nazarov. Chainlink is leveraged by many organizations including Open Law, Web3 Foundation, Google, SWIFT, Zeppelin, and a myriad of others.

Smartcontract.com Registered 6 Days Before the Bitcoin White Paper Published

The first piece of evidence that links Nazarov to the creation of Bitcoin is the fact that the Chainlink creator purchased the domain smartcontract.com six days before Satoshi’s white paper was published on Halloween 2008. Right now the website is tethered to the Chainlink (LINK) web portal, and in order to get a look at the history of it, one has to leverage archive.org.

The web portal’s creation days prior is hardly a smoking gun that points to Nazarov being Satoshi, but it is interesting circumstantial evidence. Hypothesizers, however, believe it is also odd that Sergey Nazarov and Satoshi Nakamoto also share the same initials.

Furthermore, in October 2020, Nazarov appeared in a video with Chainlink’s Ben Chan that shows him explaining how long he has been involved with blockchain. During the video, Nazarov says he’s been in the blockchain space for ten years and then corrects himself. If that’s the case, Nazarov would have been working on bitcoin at age 21-22 during the same time period Nakamoto was around.

QED Capital and the Russian Proxy

Nazarov also owns a number of blockchain-related domains that were registered in the early days. While smartcontract.com was registered on October 25, 2008, a site called trustedoracles.com was registered in April 2016. Other website domains show that Nazarov has a strong connection with a Russian firm called QED Capital.

Nazarov registered a few QED Capital websites in 2012, and the company was behind two of his past projects Secure Asset Exchange (SAE) and Crypto Mail. Believers in the present-day Nazarov-Nakamoto theory, have pointed to the recent discovery which shows Satoshi Nakamoto allegedly used a Russian proxy to hide his location and identity.

QED Capital’s web page details that Nazarov serves as the managing director and the firm is also mentioned in Nazarov’s original smartcontract.com Whois filing.

The Tale of Kokichi Mikimoto and the Perfectly Spherical Cultured Pearls

In addition to the connections with QED Capital, speculators also refer to a unique metaphor Nazarov published in 2013 about a person called “Kokichi Mikimoto.”

According to the tale, Mikimoto created super spherical pearls or pearls that are smoother than they are today. Mikimoto Pearls were also farmed and the entire metaphor is eerily similar to Satoshi Nakamoto’s story.

“In 1878, Kokichi Mikimoto discovered how to make superior pearls through man-made pearl farming, his pearls/product turned out to be better than the majority of the best pearls found in all-natural conditions,” Nazarov wrote at the time. “He made this discovery with no education in the ‘natural sciences’ and basically came to his innovative results through costly trial and error.” Nazarov story further said:

Before his discovery the vast majority of pearls did not even appear spherical to the naked eye, today 90% of all pearls sold are made using his method to create what appear to be perfectly spherical ‘cultured pearls.’

Chainlink’s Sergey Nazarov is not the only cryptocurrency developer who has been accused of being Satoshi Nakamoto. Reports have said Hal Finney was the mysterious creator, and one stylometry study also pointed the finger at Gavin Andresen. The creator of the first proof-of-stake cryptocurrency and the Peercoin network Sunny King has been a suspect. Moreover, the pseudonymous Grin founder Ignotus Peverell was also a candidate in the summer of 2019.

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The Many Facts Pointing to Paul Le Roux Being Satoshi Nakamoto

14/10/2020 by Idelto Editor

The 48-year old former programmer and criminal cartel boss, Paul Calder Le Roux, was deemed a Satoshi Nakamoto suspect in the spring of 2019. The suspicion caused a few people to believe Le Roux is the most credible Satoshi yet, and to this day individuals still think it is him. The following editorial is the eighth installment of news.Bitcoin.com’s “the many facts” series, with a comprehensive look at the circumstantial evidence that is tethered to Paul Le Roux and Bitcoin’s mysterious creator.

Paul Le Roux is a former cartel boss, DEA informant, and software programmer who resides in jail after he was arrested for various crimes in 2012. There are a number of reasons why people believe Le Roux may have created Bitcoin and the first circumstantial evidence appeared during the Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit.

During the discovery period in the lawsuit, Craig Wright filed a motion for a protective order and the filing had a significant number of redactions. However, there was one unredacted footnote in Wright’s filing called “Document 187,” which was the URL to Paul Le Roux’s Wikipedia page.

As soon as this unredacted footnote was made public it went viral on cryptocurrency forums and social media platforms like Twitter. People began to suggest that Le Roux was possibly Bitcoin’s creator and somehow Wright obtained access to the criminal’s hard drives.

Individuals also suggested that Le Roux being a former software engineer shows he had the technical expertise to create the cryptocurrency. For instance, Le Roux is responsible for creating an open-source disk encryption platform called E4M. Additionally, a fork of E4M called “Truecrypt” was also released but Le Roux denies involvement with the project.

When he was arrested in 2012, people believe this may be why Satoshi Nakamoto dipped out of the public’s eye in December 2010. U.S. law enforcement arrested Le Roux on September 26, 2012, for narcotics charges, seven murders, and operating a criminal cartel.

Then after the Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit redaction leak, an anonymous individual posted a screenshot of Le Roux’s Congo Republic ID card on 4chan. The card’s description notes Le Roux calls himself “Paul Solotshi Calder Le Roux.” Moreover, the anon writer on 4chan’s messageboard wrote:

Bitcoin was a project of an evil genius … Paul Solotshi Calder Le Roux. He intended it simply for the purpose of money laundering … Unfortunately, soon after he went quiet with the Satoshi identity, he was captured by law enforcement, and he’s going to spend the rest of his life rotting in a jail cell.

Furthermore, another piece of circumstantial evidence tied to Le Roux is his E4M Manifesto which bolsters ideas of a “strong Encryption is the mechanism.” Then after the rumors of Le Roux being Satoshi settled in the spring of 2019, in July investigative journalist Evan Ratliff explained in a Bitcoin.com podcast archive that he thinks Le Roux is “the most credible Satoshi yet.” Ratliff also explained in a Wired article that he believes the criminal mastermind Le Roux created the Bitcoin network.

Then in a surprise plot twist in 2020, Paul Le Roux told the Manhattan Federal Judge, Ronnie Abrams, he was going to “start a business selling and hosting bitcoin miners.” Le Roux said in great detail that he created a custom application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) with “special optimizations.”

“These optimizations have allowed me to create an ASIC chip design, and therefore ASIC miners, that have an order of magnitude faster at bitcoin mining than any current design, to this end I plan to pub my knowledge and skills to a better and legal use,” Le Roux stressed to the judge.

There is some circumstantial evidence that Le Roux could be Satoshi Nakamoto but the evidence is quite weak. There’s really no smoking guns that suggest Le Roux is Bitcoin’s creator except for the possibility of technical expertise and the coincidental disappearance timeframe.

In addition, the circumstantial evidence and speculation stemming from the Kleiman v. Wright lawsuit, which is loaded with discrepancies too. So far, no one has been able to substantially connect Paul Le Roux with Satoshi Nakamoto and clues lead to a number of dead ends.

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Satoshi Nakamoto Kidnapped, Tortured by NSA to Destroy Crypto in New Movie ‘Decrypted’

21/06/2020 by Idelto Editor

Decrypted, a new crypto movie about Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, is in production. In this “outrageous and provocative dark comedy,” Satoshi Nakamoto is kidnapped by the NSA and tortured for information that could help the government destroy cryptocurrency.

Satoshi Nakamoto in New Crypto Movie

A new movie about cryptocurrency and Bitcoin’s creator, the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto, is in production. Categorized as a comedy on IMDB, the movie “Decrypted” is written by Mick Sands and directed by Tom Sands. The movie’s description on IMDB reads:

An outrageous and provocative dark comedy about a mismatched NSA team who kidnap the creator of Bitcoin ⁠— Satoshi Nakamoto ⁠— and attempt to torture him for the information they need to destroy crypto-currencies.

The role of the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, is portrayed by Akie Kotabe, who played a leading role opposite Oscar-nominated actress Salma Hayek in the 2014 action thriller Everly. Decrypted also stars Sophia Myles from Transformers: Age of Extinction, David Hoflin from Z: The Beginning of Everything, Emilia Fox from Silent Witness, Don Gilet from The Stranger, and Kevin McNally from Pirates of the Caribbean.

The making of the crypto movie “Decrypted,” courtesy of Substantial Films. This crypto movie is described as an “outrageous and provocative” dark comedy about the Bitcoin creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, being kidnapped by the NSA whose mission is to destroy cryptocurrency.

Talisa Garcia (left) reportedly plays Satoshi Nakamoto’s love interest in the movie Decrypted, and Akie Kotabe plays Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of the creator of Bitcoin. Images courtesy of IMDB and Decrypted.

The movie is being produced by Substantial Films, a small independent film company based in the U.K. Twenty-one titles are listed under this company on IMDB. Substantial Films’ website states: “We are currently in production on a new film called Decrypted, a dark comedy set in the world of the intelligence agencies.” However, the production of the film is delayed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Substantial Films notes on its website, “Unfortunately, we were forced to suspend the production of Decrypted at the end of March due to covid-19,” elaborating:

We have about 70% of the film in the can, and we’re very happy with everything we’ve got.

“As soon as is practical, we will resume shooting of the remaining scenes … Meanwhile, we’re going to start editing what we’ve got, so the film will be moving forward even though the production has temporarily stalled,” the film company clarified.

In an interview with Cointelegraph (CT), Decrypted producer Phil Harris said: “we’re editing away. I think as a film producer and a keen crypto fan, I wanted to explore the emerging crypto space within the industry as a whole.” Pointing out that the movie is not just about Satoshi Nakamoto, he affirmed that a lot of research went into the film to ensure that Bitcoin-related elements look authentic. The publication adds that actress Talisa Garcia plays Sofia Perez, Satoshi Nakamoto’s love interest and his accomplice in the movie.

The movie’s screenwriter, Mick Sands, is also a crypto enthusiast, Harris continued, adding that the fact that the mere existence of Bitcoin is a threat to the U.S. government is fascinating to him. “Mick, our writer, he’s a bit of a rebel, he has always been fascinated with the crypto world and already wanted to write a film involving it in some way,” Harris was quoted by CT as saying. “Especially how the American security services see it as a major threat to their stranglehold over the world economy and how they’re trying to desperately dismantle it or regulate it.”

Harris further told the publication that the movie is also funded using cryptocurrency. According to him, the film will be initially released through crypto native video platforms. “We wanted this film to be part of the crypto revolution within the film industry. So we will be releasing it to some crypto video-on-demand platforms,” he revealed, noting that some examples are Livetree, Breaker, Movieschain, and Cinezen. However, the filmmaker aims to eventually sell the film’s rights to a major platform such as Netflix or Amazon Prime, Harris said, adding that he expects the film to be released by the end of 2020.

Another crypto movie is in the works. Deadline reported earlier this month that the Winklevoss twins will help produce a feature film adaptation of Bitcoin Billionaires, the bestselling non-fiction book by Ben Mezrich.

What do you think about the plot of the crypto movie Decrypted? Let us know in the comments section below.

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Satoshi Nakamoto Candidate Paul Le Roux to Start Bitcoin Mining Business After Prison Time

16/06/2020 by Idelto Editor

A possible Satoshi Nakamoto, the mysterious creator of Bitcoin, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Criminal mastermind Paul Le Roux told the judge that upon his release he plans to “start a business selling and hosting bitcoin miners,” claiming that his ASIC chip design will “have an order of magnitude faster at bitcoin mining than any current design.”

Satoshi Candidate to Start Bitcoin Business

Paul Le Roux, a criminal mastermind whose biography made him a possible candidate for Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym of the Bitcoin creator, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison by Manhattan Federal Judge Ronnie Abrams. Having been in U.S. custody for almost eight years, he pleaded “guilty to crimes ranging from methamphetamine trafficking to selling weapons technology to Iran,” Wired described, adding that he “will be credited with his seven-plus years in custody.”

“The scope and severity of Mr. Le Roux’s criminal conduct is nothing short of breathtaking. I have before me a man who has engaged in conduct in keeping with the villain in a James Bond movie,” Judge Abrahms said.

In a letter sent to the judge prior to his sentencing, Le Roux revealed his future plans. “If I am released by this court, and by the court in the Philippines,” he informed the judge:

I plan to start a business selling and hosting bitcoin miners.

He added: “I have a custom design for an ASIC chip that utilizes special opitimizations in the underlying computer code or algorithm known as (‘SHA’). I obtained this knowledge about the mathematical properties of SHA, while working as a contract programmer at GCHQ in London in the early 2000’s.” Le Roux continued:

These optimizations have allowed me to create an ASIC chip design, and therefore ASIC miners, that have an order of magnitude faster at bitcoin mining than any current design, to this end I plan to pub my knowledge and skills to a better and legal use.

The criminal mastermind was born on Dec. 24, 1972, in Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia, but was raised in South Africa. With minimal formal education, he dedicated himself to studying computer programming and electronic integrated circuit design (chip design), his letter to the judge explains. He added that as a contract programmer for GCHQ, the U.K. equivalent of the NSA, he assisted law enforcement in creating tools and disk encryption products to help the police and field agents secure their files and computers. He designed disk encryption software called Encryption for the Masses (E4M); its code formed the foundation for Truecrypt, one of the most secure and widely used encryption programs until it was abandoned by it anonymous creators it in 2014. The book entitled “The Mastermind” details that “Le Roux’s career was marked by technical brilliance and almost surreal levels of criminality,” author Evan Ratliff commented.

“In approximately 2004, I started a criminal U.S. online pharmacy business Rx Limited, and that is what brought me to the attention of federal agents,” Le Roux wrote. He was arrested in a sting operation orchestrated by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in 2012. His online pharmacy was “a global criminal empire, trafficking in drugs, arms, and violence,” Wired described.

“As part of his cooperation agreement, Le Roux admitted to ordering at least seven murders in the Philippines, including the kidnap and execution of a real estate agent named Catherine Lee,” the publication noted. Upon his release, he is expected to be deported to the Philippines, where he faces charges related to an arms shipment intercepted by the government in 2009.

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