We know from the history of TrueCrypt that Paul Le Roux was the rare human being in 2008 who had both the skills as well as the anti-government zealotry to attempt something like Bitcoin. But I’m sure he wasn’t the only one - privacy zealots and cryptographers are an ornery bunch with lots of ideas weirder than libertarianism. So let’s discuss the final piece: motive.

Most of the other Satoshi candidates are computer science professors with cushy jobs at fancy universities - not exactly the kind of background that would push someone into devoting their life to building a reserve currency for the global criminal underworld and (hopefully) overthrowing The Government.

https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/by-the-claw-satoshi-is-revealed