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"Father" Bitcoin is a drug lord: the world of cryptocurrencies is excited by a new hypothesis

ByStanislav Kozhemyakin 

news.obozrevatel.com

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December 17, 2022

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Former criminal cartel leader Paul Le Roux, serving a sentence for drug trafficking, may be the creator of the Bitcoin cryptocurrency. This is allegedly evidenced by data from the first transaction in the history of Bitcoin.

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This blog was reported by the former CEO of the biotech startup Turing Pharmaceuticals (now Vyera Pharmaceuticals) Martin Shkreli. He claims to have decrypted the signature for the first cryptocurrency transaction.

“This transaction was made by Paul Le Roux to Hal Finney on January 12, 2009,” Shkreli is quoted as saying in the comment.

Cryptographer Hal Finney was indeed the recipient of the first ever transaction on the Bitcoin network from Satoshi Nakamoto (therefore, there were rumors that he himself might be the mysterious “father” of cryptocurrency). He actively worked on the early code of Bitcoin and became the first person after Nakamoto to take up mining. However, on August 28, 2014, he died as a result of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

It is worth noting that Shkreli is not the first to call Paul Le Roux the creator of Bitcoin. However, he is primarily known not for this, but for the creation of an international drug cartel - in the 1990s, the sale of painkillers on the darknet brought him $300 million.

But in 2012, he was arrested while trying to import drugs into the United States and seven years later he was sentenced to 25 years in prison. But the punishment was reduced after Le Roux became a DEA informant.

Back in 2019, Wired admitted that Bitcoin was created by this drug lord for money laundering. This version is supported by the fact that Le Roux actually has extensive knowledge of cryptography and is also well acquainted with the C++ programming language.

However, the crypto community was skeptical about Martin Shkreli’s version. For example, Bitcoin Core developer Peter Wille admitted that someone with access to Hal Finney's private key (but not Satoshi) simply signed the transaction.

Another well-known developer, Greg Maxwell, recalled that the type of digital signature that Satoshi allegedly left appeared only after Finney's death. This also indicates that someone else has taken possession of his private key.

OBOZREVATEL previously reported onthe most common versions of "fathers" bitcoin. Even Elon Musk and the founder of cryptography Nick Szabo are credited with creating the first cryptocurrency.

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